RE: My Estranged Brother Turned 40 - Spending Time With Family
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Thanks for sharing this with us, I know it must have been tough to do so, to open up about this topic.
This situation actually reminds me of a Polish film that I watched a couple of months ago and blogged about.
Let me look it up...
It's a drama, in all honesty, about an estranged family.
A beautiful and powerful film but I'm not sure how it would make you feel.
You could say that it's written/ shown mostly from the perspective of the estranged son
but, in this case, his father and sister ( the mother has left a long time ago and only writes letters ) still live together in a big house that is literally breaking apart and they are the weird/ crazy ones.
Anyhow, I don't mean to make any comparison, it just popped up in my mind.
We don't 'choose' our family, we are born into one, but it's hard not to be confronted with them and family dynamics on an almost daily basis, especially if you live close to each other
Sending you a big hug,
Vincent
Hi Vincent, thank you for your comment 🙂
Not sure I want to watch that movie, haha. But that's more because of the fact that a rarely watch movies at all (as you might be aware of, I think I have shared that)?
And it's not like my whole family is estranged, I have a very close and great relationship with my mom and now I'm also very happy to be able to see my youngest brother on a regular basis. (And I was also close to my dad). What I'm trying to say is more that it's my brother Martin that has distanced himself from the rest of the family. I hope that came across in this post.
I got that. Happy to hear that! And yes, it sure came across that your 40 year old brother is the 'estranged' one, it's just that my 'movie mind' thought of that film and I always think in parallels.
Probably better not to watch that film though, if you ever find it. It might be traumatic ;<)
Big hug!
Haha, I guess you're right. It's a rather common theme in films though, family. Hard to avoid it altogether 🙂
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Exactly :<)
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