The other siblings/s don't have a problem, there's no real history of trauma or abuse, but boom! - they're gone. It happened with my exes brother, for one. She grieved him for years. We suspect it was his partner/guru (same person) that encouraged him to cut ties.
That's awful, the poor family. It really is a grief and I think it's impossible to understand, as a child cutting off their parents (unless you are a parent yourself).
"real history of trauma or abuse" - exactly. Much as everyone needs to process their own story and have it heard, I still think we need to retain such distinctions between really fucked up, abusive, maniacal parents and parents who were just okay. Who tried but maybe could've done better.
Stop making your life complicated.
Thank your physicist friend for me. :D
You know, my husband is also a physicist (he teaches it, and maths, but at his heart he is quantum physics and definitely made entirely of atoms) and his relationships are also simple.
He's incredibly tolerant and doesn't get caught up in grudges or retributions. Sure, some people are beneath him and he finds them intolerable, but drama, no. He doesn't get into a tizz over things.
Me and my Cancer moon and Libran sense of justice though - oof.
Starting to think hard science in the ticket. Who woulda thought...