as one of the (jewish) 27-30 year olds that had to have these conversations, it's fair to say it comes out mealy-mouthed on our end LOL the difference is, when you talk about it with *anyone else*, you both know exactly what 'unfriendly' looked like at the event in question. it's not an unknown..

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My mother said this to me the night before my wedding. Today my wife and I celebrate our 40th anniversary.

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I'm not gonna say every kid going no-contact has a rock-solid case but it's very dubious when an article only features quotes from one side in a social spat.

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Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

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One thing you learn from reading the academic literature on parental estrangement is that it's rarely *just* about events from childhood. Most adults are willing to reconcile with their problematic parents as long as they can acknowledge their mistakes and own up to them. A lot of them refuse.

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