When your adult child walks away
The pain, grief and guilt are real. And yet, it is the loss no one talks about. Life coach Kandi Shand has lived through it, has helped others move forward, and she can help you.
I understand the silence. I understand the questions that keep you up at night. I wrote this guide and workbook, and the rest of the series, because I've lived through the pain of estrangement myself. You don't have to walk this path alone. Let me Help you find the peace you deserve
READ THE INTRODUCTION TO HUGS, SYMPATHY AND SUPPORT FOR THE LOSS OF YOUR LIVING CHILD
No matter how you came to be an estranged parent, the painand frustration is still the same. It still hurts. You still feel therejection. And we often also feel resentment or anger. There is a very realdesire to set the record straight, to defend ourselves, to reason against whathas happened between us.
Estrangement is confusion. You are grieving for a very realloss, but the child is still alive, so you hope for things to return to the waythey were ~ or the way you thought they were. Maybe even the way you imaginedthem to be. Estrangement is both a loss and a boundary, leaving us facing achasm that cannot be crossed. Unlike death, we can see the person we want theother side, but they can neither see nor hear us. There will be no closure.There is no finality
Why can’t they come back to us and apologize? Why can’t theyappreciate how much we love them? Why do they want to cause us pain? Why arethey rewriting their memories?
This book isn’t about how to get your estranged child back.Sometimes time heals the rift and things mend. But things will never be back to the way you imagined they would be when you embarked on parenthood. Sometimesthe rift will never heal. Sometimes the child will break with the controllingpartner and realize the truth. But not always. Remember they have spent manyyears retooling memories and that doesn’t just go away with the breakup. Andthere is hubris involved. No one wants to readily admit that they have beenmanipulated and controlled.
This book is to support you andencourage you that there is a way to move on. There is hope. You have a voice,and you are a person who is worth saving.
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