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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the person who doesn’t go out of their way to air their side of a personal relationship publicly. There’s something wrong with a person who does that. [/quote]
They do that out of the same heartache as a death.
Millennials need to understand how relationships work and how to communicate. Estrangement is epic in this generation and it is usually a daughter or son in law that draws a line in the sand. I've heard a ton of stories as to why someone thinks  their MIL is toxic. They don't know what toxic means.  Any comment is misconstrued,  ever thought,  and taken personally...and then the family is cut off.[/quote]

Way to go with overgeneralizations and blanket statements, i am sure this level of nuanced empathy has served you well in life. I am a gen Xer and i know a number of people estranged from family in my age group. [/quote]

DP.  I was born in 1965 and in my grandfather's family, there were several a number of estrangements (my grandfather was the youngest of 13).  Anyone who thinks this is a generational phenomena is willfully ignorant. [/quote]

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Estrangements are nothing new.  I know plenty of Gen-Xers and Boomers who are estranged from family members.  Heck, my grandmother's generation of our family had some epic conflicts that led to estrangements.  Some estrangements may not be "justified," but many are.  Some are probably the result of the mental health or other issues of the person doing the cutting off, some due to the conduct of the people being cut off.  I suspect that in many cases, the two sides would have very different versions of events, and neither might be 100 percent right.  It's too complicated for me to generalize about an entire generation.  [/quote]

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