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Hara estroff marano biography of rory gilmore
Family Cut-Offs: The Darker Side
Hara Estroff Marano / Used with permission.
Earlier this year, I responded to a mother distraught that her 20-year-old daughter, with whom she had reportedly been close, had inexplicably cut off communication and moved out of state, likely with a boyfriend.
I focused on the ways that closeness itself could have played a role, how a current generation of young adults, many overprotected while growing up, often feel anxious entering adult life, retroactively blame faulty parenting, and, lacking skills to modulate distance and closeness in relationships, believe a family cut-off is warranted.
Several therapists replied, encouraging me to consider additional possibilities, notably dark influence by the boyfriend.
Indeed, family estrangement is now a silent epidemic in the U.S., with tens of millions of families affected, most feeling the deep pain of rejection, great shame, and enormous confusion.
Yet, widen the lens and estrangement appears m