Not every parent estranged from an adult has received a request for no contact. If you have, then the most appropriate response might be to acknowledge the request and take a step back for a while. But if your adult child just seems less interested in the relationship and won’t tell you why, or hasn’t indicated that you shouldn’t reach out now and then, you can engage in thoughtful contact without making the estrangement worse, by applying some of Tina’s 10 rules of thumb for communicating with estranged adult children.

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