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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]In all the cases of estrangement I’ve encountered[/b] there’s never been one that happened for no reason. There’s usually a reason, one that the party who is cut off dismisses or ignores as not important enough.

“Coinciding with a happy event in my life” makes me wonder how the younger sibling was treated in this happy event— my younger SIL barely exchanged three words with my older SIL in the year after her wedding because older SIL was *so awful*. Of course older SIL would say younger was “jealous” she wasn’t married yet…[/quote]

Interesting.  In many cases of enstrangement I've encountered, someone thinks they are the "victim" but in reality it's never that simple, there are always two sides to every story.  For example, my MIL is estranged from multiple people in her family and it's far from some simple case of everyone trating her poorly, it's more like she gets upset with someone and holds a grudge but doesn't tell them why and the other family members give up.  e.g., when her sister passed away she didn't think her BIL and nephews mourned her death enough, but my understanding is that she never told them directly how she felt, she stopped talking to them.

Since we don't know the sister's side here, I'm inclined to take OP's story at face value that she doesn't know the reason and can only speculate.  [/quote]

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