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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've never cut a family member off but have a family history of that happening at the grandparent level---both of my paternal grandparents were estranged from various siblings due to falling outs over property.  I mention the family history only because it means that I grew up with the familial expectation that if you could not be civil to your fellow family members, then don't expect to be invited to Christmas dinner.

Now I think about this issue a lot, as we have a teenager whom we adopted as an older child who has lots of oppositional defiance and anger issues.  While I am doing everything in my power as a parent to get DC needed help in the form of therapy and providing loving consistency---on my darkest days I wonder what I will feel like if DC is still so volatile and difficult as an adult---it's the counterpoint to the toxic mother scenario---what if it is your child that is the toxic one? [/quote]

OP here. My secret fear is that I'm the toxic one and I'm a nutter and I have it all wrong. Ugh. [/quote]

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