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[quote=Anonymous]How many of you are estranged from a parent? What happened and do you tell people? I am estranged from both of my parents. I have laid eyes on my father only three times in almost ten years and have not spoken to him in almost five years. I cut my mother off two years ago. Both are abusive, terrible people to everyone they know and life has gotten much better since I threw in the towel and accepted that they will never be even decent parents. I feel strangely ashamed that it has come to this, however. I am very embarrassed to come from such a damaged family. I find myself telling lies when people ask how my son relates to his grandparents (they have never met him) or how the holidays with my family were. Only my blood relatives know what happened. I had to come clean to my in laws about being estranged when years passed and they still had not met my parents. I have never told them anywhere close to the full story, however.[/quote]
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