Support Groups & Blogs on Family Estrangement

For Parents Estranged From Their Adult Children (When The Talking Stops)   
This group is aimed at Parents & Grandparents who have been Estranged, Deserted or Abandoned by their Adult Children.
Very active private Facebook group of about 9,000 members. Ask to join or be invited by a member.

Estranged Stories  is an online support group for those who are experiencing family estrangement. Membership in this group is over 6,000 as of September 2018. It is principally for parents are experiencing estrangements from their adult children.
Also there is a book with the same name that is connected to the group.

From the online listings of the book, "Estranged Stories”, on Amazon and on Blurb: 
"In Estranged Stories, Elizabeth Boykin Vagnoni and Mary Cay Reed have woven together a compassionate description of the succession of emotions many parents experience when they become estranged from their adult children. Using a variety of stories from EstrangedStories.com, parents talk about the common thoughts and feelings they experience when faced with estrangement. They talk about suggestions for confronting feelings, how to respond to others, finding hope, and coping with the inability to have a relationship with Grandchildren. While these stories come from a few, they represent the feelings of more than 5,000 who have joined estrangedstories and responses from over 3,000 who have completed our survey. Sometimes just understanding that you are not alone and many others share the same "stories", is helpful when trying to understand this emotionally crippling situation." 

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 On Amazon:
"Estranged Stories Understanding. Support. Peace. Hope”  by Elizabeth Vagnoni, Mary Cay Reed. Blurb 2017. ISBN-10: 0615937683, ISBN-13: 978-0615937687.

On Blurb:
There is an ebook version available on Blurb.  The ebook version is priced currently (as of September 2018) at $15.99.

"You're Not Alone: Support Group for Estranged Parents"  
For all who have suffered the loss of a child to the pain of estrangement. Closed group on Facebook. (Anyone can ask to join or be added or invited by a member.)

Parents of Estranged Adult Children: Help and Healing.
The linked website, rejectedparents.net, was created in 2013 by Sheri McGregor. Its purpose is to provide support and information for estranged parents. There is a discussion group. Sheri McGregor has written a book on estrangement, Done With The Crying Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children, which was published in May of 2016 by Sewing Creek Press. (Note: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)

Located in the United Kingdom, Stand Alone offers support for all who are suffering from estrangement from family.

From the website:
"We offer innovative advice and support services for all people experiencing estrangement. We help people of all ages who feel they have been cut off as well as those who have walked away.

We run support groups, a range of therapeutic workshops and a programme to connect people for ongoing emotional support. Our direct support services are currently focussed in London, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Brighton, Bristol and Manchester.

We have published online information and advice guides for all people experiencing estrangement or disownment who can’t reach a group or workshop. To complement our online advice, we have a podcast, where members of our community tell their story."

Out of the Fog Forum.  Out of the FOG was launched on November 1 2007 to provide information and support to the family members and loved-ones of individuals who suffer from a personality disorder. FOG stands for Fear, Obligation and Guilt.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Forum  on PsychForums.com
Pathological Narcissism is often a factor in estrangements. Those who suffer from NPD often estrange others when they feel insufficiently appreciated or when they feel criticized.
Relatives of those who suffer from NPD often estrange themselves from their difficult NPD family members out of a desire to protect themselves from abuse and to remove themselves from a chaotic situation.

National Alliance on Mental Illness, NAMI:  The nation’s largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has affiliates in every state and in more than 1,100 local communities across the country. Meetings are available in some cities.
Mental illness can be a major contributor to estrangement. Those who suffer from mental illness sometimes aren’t able to recognize the their loved one do have their best interests at heart and want to help. So they distance themselves from their family by estranging themselves.
Those who love family members who are mentally ill may decide that they can no longer help them by remaining in a relationship with them so they become estranged.
A condition called “anosognosia” can exist as one of the symptoms of a mental illness where the sufferer becomes unable to recognize that they are ill. This makes it really hard when that condition exists to have any influence in convincing the person that they need to go for therapy or need to take their medication.

Estrangements, The Blog was the companion site on Typepad to Estrangements.com with entries from 2005 to 2025.
As of September 2025 Typepad is ending its services. I have exported the posts and will decide what to do with them, if anything, in the near future.
The most frequently visited page on the blog was “Guidelines for Being Estranged” which was written with both Estrangers and Estrangees in mind. I will include that here for sure.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation Website  False memories have caused many cruel unjust estrangements as are mentioned in comments and links on the entry on the Books & Movies page under the book title: “I Thought We’d Never Speak Again”.

A blog: Jan. 3, 2005: My Father didn't call.  A woman who has a father who never failed to disappoint.

Mother, I Don't Forgive You, author Nancy Richards' blog. Nancy posts about abuse, estrangement, forgiveness, reconciliation, and related issues. Nancy is the author of Heal & Forgive: Forgiveness in the Face of Abuse and Heal and Forgive II: The Journey from Abuse and Estrangement to Reconciliation.

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Twinless Twins  A website which offers support resources for twins who have lost their twin through separation, estrangement or death.