My brother in law said at Thanksgiving that cutting off our parents was 'just a phase' and it got me thinking
He pulled me aside after dinner in Milwaukee and asked when I was going to 'get over it' and come back to family dinners. I tried to explain that 3 years of silence has been the most peaceful stretch of my adult life, and he looked at me like I was speaking a different language. For those of you who walked away from family, how long did it take before the people around you stopped treating it like a temporary thing?