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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should tread carefully here, OP.  Once you do this, you can't take it back.  Even if you change your mind and try to patch things up, it will never be forgotten.  You should at least first have a conversation with them (without raising the estrangement issue) about their behavior, and let them know how hurt you were/are over some of the things they have said and done.  (Except for the car thing; you're being way too sensitive about that).      [/quote]

16:56 again.  I almost 100 percent guarantee that the parents will take zero responsibility and this will not help at all.  OP's parents (I have a pair like them) aren't rational, self-reflecting people.

However, OP, I do think going through this process at least once if you haven't already and trying to get through to them is an important part of the process of breaking free from them.

If you lay your truth out there and they won't hear it or they don't/can't take any responsibility or change their behavior, well you know you tried.  And then you really will feel more ready to let go of emotional ties to them.[/quote]

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