I just wanted to update. i cut off family ties with my cult family. Our relationship became mutually toxic. It's been 6 months, and it's not been without bumps. I changed my phone number, changed my cell phone number. They wrote me letters, not personal ones. Instead, the letters were filled with cult "cut and paste" from the religion's materials. I didn't respond, but burned the letters. The letters have finally stopped (I hope), as of last month. By 'mutually toxic', I mean that EVERY interaction with me was either trying to recruit me, guilt me, judge me, or insult me. And, I couldn't reach them outside of their cult personality, so I cringed in every cell of my body to talk with them or be around them. That's when I cut them off.