When Your Child Uses “Boundaries” to Shut You Out
About this episode
The episode discusses the painful reality of family estrangement and the use of boundaries as a means of shutting down communication between parents and adult children.
What happens when the word boundary becomes the end of the relationship instead of the beginning of a real conversation? In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream , Chris Workman and Joe Sassman dig into one of the most painful realities of family estrangement: being cut off by an adult child with little to no conversation, often through language that feels scripted, sudden, and final. They talk about the labels parents hear over and over again like toxic , narcissistic , gaslighting , and boundary , and what it feels like when those words are used as a wall instead of a bridge. This conversation explores: adult child estrangement family boundaries toxic family language therapy and estrangement social media’s influence on family conflict grief after estrangement acceptance without agreement what parents wish their children understood before cutting contact Chris and Joe are not speaking as therapists. They’re speaking as parents trying to survive a deeply painful, complex reality while creating space for other people walking through grief and estrangement too. If you are navigating estrangement, grief, emotional loss, or complicated family dynamics, this episode is for you…
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