Did you, guys, feel guilty when you cut all ties? I was raised to feel guilty, I wonder how it will work when I cut all ties... My father tried to commit suicide some years ago and called me before than to tell me about his plans and make me feel guilty. I was too far away to be able to go there and stop him. Then, initially, I only felt extreme anger and injustice, I told him: "You've hurt me enough, how dare you try to make me feel guilty for having ruined your own life when you also ruined mine?" But then, after my cousin called to tell me what happened, I got this horrible feeling that there is something wrong with me, that I am carrying a curse that will always stay with me and make me less than the rest of the people around me. I felt as if the faults of my father make me worthless, like I should be aware that I am the daughter of a drunkard and accept my destiny and go there and try (for the countless time) to change him. It's hard to explain.... I feel as if I won't be worth if my parents don't change... And I sometimes feel like a fraud for being successful in the things I do, as if I am pretending to be "like the others"... Would it help to cut contact to them?