NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Excerpted from Wondermind:
“The last time I saw my mom, I didn’t know that would be the last time I would see her. And no, she’s not dead. We’re just no contact.” So begins a five-minute TikTok video. In it, a woman shares exactly what went down when she decided to cut things off with her mom for good: “I was fed up,” the creator Ashley D. said. “I’m just done with it, I’m not about to stay here to take this mental and verbal abuse just because I’m scared to be by myself.”
Ashley’s story, sadly, is not unique. Going no contact—the idea of having limited to zero communication or interactions with a person—is the subject of hundreds of thousands of videos on TikTok. Whether it’s adult children talking about cutting off their parents after years of mistreatment, therapists weighing in on why it happens and how to navigate it, or parents grieving their children’s estrangement, the anecdotes keep rolling in.
It’s fairly taboo in most cultures to just cut ties with your family...
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