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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is YES. Internet therapy and therapy speak has emboldened a whole generation of MeMeMe. It's also the precursor of the sidelining of one's parents  so as not to ever have to care for them later. Ok, yeah that's  hard, but...
That said, there will be a million people coming here with stories of actual abuse, ok, but that's not what's generally going on here. [b]So many people cut off for the dumbest of reasons, and it's pervasive. Daughter in law took a comment the wrong way, jealousy among siblings,  Geandma suggested a bottle  feeding outside of a schedule, didn't come to all the ballet recitals[/b],  on and on. [/quote]

I have never heard of a single person being cut off for these reasons alone— only when the parent refuses to apologize for, say, the comment the DiL “took that wrong way” or for uneven resources for children or for meddling in parenting.

My parents had favorites. But they are (and were) honest and emotionally mature people who didn’t try to convince us our reality was wrong. They acknowledged it and made sure in the ways these things really matter, we all received equally.

If they pretended that wasn’t the case they’d be estranged from at least one and probably all of us by now.[/quote]

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