Your Relationship Type: Detached / Estranged
🛑 "You May Feel Estranged or Emotionally Detached from Your Parent(s)" 🛑
📍 Summary:
Your relationship with your parent(s) may be extremely strained or completely absent. Whether due to past harm, unresolved conflict, or differing values, you may have chosen (or been forced into) distance. While reconnection is one path, healing can also mean finding peace within yourself—whether or not your relationship changes.
📍 Key Takeaways:
✅ Your emotional safety is the top priority.
✅ You may feel anger, grief, numbness, or relief—all of which are valid.
✅ Your healing journey is yours to define (reconnection is not the only goal).
✅ If you do want change, it will require boundaries and intentional steps.
📍 Areas to Explore:
💡 What emotions arise when you think about your parent(s)? (Anger, sadness, longing, guilt?)
💡 Have you explored forgiveness—not for them, but for your own peace?
💡 What do you need to feel emotionally whole with or without their presence?
📍 Resources & Next Steps:
🗣️ Take It Further: Join our Adult Child Online Course, specially designed for adult children to develop their capacities and skills to engage their parents
👉 “Want to deepen your relationship even more? Sign up for our email course on Practical Steps to Transform Your Relationship with Your Parents