Your adult child has gone quiet. Not busy — silent. Calls go unanswered. Cards get returned. You watch other parents with their grown children and feel a grief that has no name. This book does not promise to bring your child back, and it will not tell you that reconciliation is the only healthy ending. Instead, it helps you understand what may have happened, hold your own behaviour without taking every scrap of blame, and find a way to live well in the meantime. Drawing on common patterns of family estrangement and the quiet wisdom of parents who have been where you are, this guide shows you how to recognise the shock and shame, answer intrusive questions, decide whether and how to reach out, and handle complicated territory like estranged grandchildren and difficult ex-partners. It also names the moments when contact is unsafe and encourages you to protect your boundaries. Written with warmth and no sides taken, this book is general information, not therapy, and never tries to diagnose the child you love. Part of The Estrangement Library.
About the author
Marielle Ashcroft Bevington writes for The Estrangement Library.
