Emotional Distancing in a Family: Why Does It Happen?

  Emotional distancing in a family doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, in general, it gradually accumulates in an excess of disappointments, silent grudges, harsh words, and silences. These kinds of dynamics can occur in any family member, leaving behind festering wounds. Parents, children, brothers, uncles, cousins, grandparents… you can experience these kinds of problems with any one of them. Furthermore, emotional distance occurs more often than you probably think. Indeed, many households have a family member who no longer comes to visit or doesn’t even call on the phone to find out how everything’s going. For many, this is natural….