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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of young adults cutting their parents off for perceived mistreatment these days. The parents are destroyed. The young adults don't care. They will care, one day, when they realize they aren't perfect parents either.
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Not true. Children don’t cut off their parents without good reason.

“perceived mistreatment” is often abuse that the parents refuse to acknowledge or own.

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np This isn't true in all cases.  My sister cut off my mom and then my sib and I and we did nothing to her.    Sometimes there is mental illness at play here.  We feel sorry for her children who will not know us but, otherwise what can we do?[/quote]

How do you know your sister doesn’t have good reason? You’ve already pre judged and predetermined that she has no good reason.

What can you do? Have you tried asking her what her reasons are and then believing her when she tells you? Have you tried supporting her instead of just taking your mother’s side?

I know mental illness can be at play here. I also know that it’s possoble for one sibling to have been abused and for the others not to have known about it.[/quote]

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