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There appears to be a new trend: family estrangement as a sign of personal growth.

Emotional cutoffs can create pain that ripples throughout families.

Cutoffs can also create relationship ruptures intergenerationally.

The other night, I made the mistake of watching an Oprah podcast (she films her podcasts) before I went to bed.

The topic was the current trend in our culture for people to sever relationships with family members. For the most part, the discussion centered around adult children who chose to end contact with their parents.

There were three experts: Dr. Josh Coleman, Dr. Lindsay Gibson, and Nedra Glover Tawwab, all bestselling authors, therapists, and trainers.

You might be familiar with Dr. Gibson’s book that helps people identify their parents’ flaws, diagno

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