[Jay ReidKeymaster]

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[AmandaParticipant]

I was able to go no contact with my parents and make new friends about 10 years ago and met some great people. My family didn’t even try to call me. They knew what they had done to me and why I wasn’t calling them anymore. They are the sort of people that wait for you to contact them. So I just didn’t contact them. Then they sent me a letter during covid because they didn’t have anyone to torment anymore because of lockdown, so they tormented me for a while but luckily I found these videos that really helped especially when it came to my mom. Cause I’m obviously going to stay away from my dad but I didn’t know what to do with my mom.

[AmandaParticipant]

I told my mom I’d meet with her under certain conditions and she didn’t want to do that, probably because dad told her not to do it, so I haven’t seen her either. So I feel good that I tried to work things out. They ended up cancelling our meetings 3 times. Because they couldn’t control it anymore.