Have you ever been estranged from your family? Was it over something they deemed "petty or childish"?

Question

How long did it last, and how did you resolve it? I'm currently very angry with my mother. Unfortunately, I'm one of the seemingly few people whose parents are still married, so I'm also alienating my dad in the process.

Answer 1

No, but I have a strange family.

Answer 2

I would be curious to know a little more but yes and it lasted nearly 5 years... As I was not in the wrong between me and my mother I know that all I had to do was to let time pass and she is beginning to come around. I don't know what your specific issue is which would help me maybe elaborate a little further. :)

Answer 3

It's the same for me. It's like a roller-coaster ride. I am now much too emotionally drained. It's come to a stage where I cannot care how long it will last. I just take it in my stride and live by my motto - live and let live. There are some things in life that one has to let it be. This happens to be one of them for me.

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Answer 4

ya my family hates me cuz i never just give em anything i always have to sell it to em

Answer 5

My relationship with my Dad has suffered because of the woman he married - she is a very cruel and mean person.  

In the process of trying to never see her or deal with her I no longer visit my Dad anymore, but I can't see any other way.

Answer 6

It depends on what happened on how you would resolve it...

Answer 7

don't do it,i didn't speak to my dad for 6weeks once,this was years ago and i still regret it to this day,life is to short and if anything happened to her you would never forgive yourself

Answer 8

I'm afraid I consider this "petty" also.  If they invite someone that steals, lock you belongings in you car or don't take anything valuable.  Two of your boyfriends cheated on you, not the other way around.  We all have to deal with people we don't like, just be cordial, reveal nothing personal, and take everything with a "grain of salt", or "consider the source".  Why do you drive 2 hours every month to visit someone you don't like?  I have a great relationship with my parents, they live 10 miles away, and I see them 2 or 3 times a year.  My children and I also have a great relationship, and we only see each other 4 or 5 times a year, and they also live withing 20 miles.  The visits are not very long either (the TV gets turned off because we are REALLY visiting together).  I speak to them all often on the phone but not in person.  My parents have their life, my children have theirs, and I have mine.  We have a picnic in June, and a Christmas Buffet, which their invited to.  I take my Mother flowers for Mother's day, and birthday, and my father gets a card for his birthday and father's day.  If I were you, I would ask myself why I feel obligated to visit them so often.