Reasons why children stop visiting their parents

3. The replay button on the past

Some parents can’t stop revisiting old stories, old wounds, or old grievances. The same arguments resurface, the same people get blamed, the same pain gets polished like a family heirloom.

For children, it’s draining. They leave visits feeling like they’ve been pulled back into decades-old drama they never caused. Eventually, distance becomes their way of escaping the emotional weather that never changes.

4. The missing apology

Every family has its scars, words said in anger, decisions made without understanding the cost. But healing can’t start without acknowledgment.

When a child brings up the past and the response is, “I did my best” or “That’s not how it happened,” it shuts the door on healing. They don’t want perfection — they want recognition.

Without it, the distance grows wider, filled with the weight of everything that was never said.

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