My sister who hasn’t spoken to me in over two years finally texted me to congratulate my son on a college acceptance. She knows because she heard it from my mother.

I replied politely, even sent one additional response to show I do not have a chip on my shoulder (but I do).

It’ll never be the same with her again, but it’s cordial. I hate that this ever happened with her. If I had been able to realize at the time it happened, that she was going to treat me like that, I wish I’d have been able to just laugh it off and not get angry at her. But I couldn’t. It hurt too much.

So now all is moved on from and swept under the rug. Those relationships have changed, but they are not estranged thank God, because that was too much for me to bear.