re: Anyone else not on speaking terms with a parent?

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What's the reason you don't speak to yours?

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They are both dead.

Inlaws too.

Jesus, this thread makes me appreciate my parents so much. The Joneses just don’t have any of this drama. My parents have always loved my wife. I’m pretty sure she’s their favorite kid at this point. We’ve never had any issues. When we moved to Huntsville, we moved to a house 2 minutes from them.

My wife’s dad is a different story. He married a lady less than a month after my MiL died. He turned on all his kids and grandkids. And now he’s got one leg living in a nursing home.

They're dead

I had a friend several years ago, who never contacted his parents. When he was about twenty, he brought his girl friend/fiancee home to visit his parents. They were rude to the young lady, so he left, married the young lady, and had not been in contact since. His kids were in HS and had never had contact with their grandparents.

It's crazy how many times the idea of an inheritance can send a loving family into complete chaos

It's terrible but happens all the time. The idea of getting money makes people turn evil

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Haven't talked to my mother in almost 2 years after she got her feelings hurt when I caught her trying to rob me of my father's inheritance.

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I am looking at my mom most likely being gone before the end of the week. It’s not worth it. I know what she did was terrible but find some way to reconcile before you no longer have a chance.

Don't talk to my mom or dad.

My dad is/was a tugboat captain and was away from the house for most of my early childhood and my mom stayed at home. Their marriage was mostly miserable and they got divorced when I was 14 after 20-ish years of marriage.

After that point, both decided that they were pretty much done being parents and checked out. The one thing they had in common is that they treated my younger brother and I like property and constantly were trying to pit us against the other parent.

I decided one day that I wasn't going to play along. Since I didn't take her side, Mom told me when I was 18 and before I moved to college that "I'm not welcome in her house anymore"

Dad basically disappeared off the face of the earth. He blocked my phone number and all social media. I learned that several years later that he moved a few states over and started a new family.

Part of me misses them, but I also recognize that both are huge POS in their own unique ways and that I'm better off without them.

Fortunately, my parents out of my entire family are still together and I speak to them almost everyday. Both are retired now. Mom was a career paramedic, Dad spent almost 50 years in the Gulf on rigs.

As for the rest of my family, that’s a big nope. They are the prime example of white trash. Dope, pills, thief, in and out of jail/prison, jobless, welfare, you name it. The sad part is we all live close. Some on the same road and next door. I ain’t got nothing for em’

I told my wife when we started dating about how I was when it come to family. She came from a really messed up situation. Basically on her own since she was 14. She found her mom dead with the needle still in her arm. Her dad is still alive, but he stays at the trap house. My daughters (adopted) know that I’m the one who’s raising and loving them. Not that POS “sperm donor”. Dude hasn’t picked up the phone or anything for them in over 5 years now. No birthdays, Christmas, nothing. I have a son from my first marriage I speak to almost everyday. I can’t stand a deadbeat parent.

Nearly every post here...
Drugs & alcohol.
Abuse.
Money issues.

Can't do a lot about the first two, but the third one is why I do not have any financial relations with family members. If they need the money and I have it, I give it to them. If they want to give money back, that is up to them. The only person I have every loaned more than a few bucks to was my mom, but I know she is one of the few people I can trust.