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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When a family member fades out and goes no contact, it's speaking a very loud truth to the family member(s). Nobody does this on a whim, nobody wakes up and wedges going no contact with family between a grocery run and a manicure. It is a very long, deliberative process over many years (decades, even) where the family member(s) are offering many chances to change their behavior, admit past wrongdoings, and become better, kinder people. But they do not, they continue in the same, old patterns that become intolerable. The person who goes no contact was treated badly for decades and when she complained about this treatment was told to be the bigger person. But there comes a day when you stop trying to be the bigger person and it's better for you to move on and go no contact. There isn't an explanation as to why forthcoming because the family member going no contact knows these family members will never change. Any explanation is wasted breath.[/quote]

And the other large cluster of family members who “fade out” are mentally ill and their family see right through them and cease to enable them. Then they self-estrange and find new people to blame.

So 50/50. [/quote]

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