“IT NEVER STOPS HURTING”: LIVING IN A RIFT I am 100 percent confident that being estranged from my daughter has knocked ten or twenty years off my life. I would tell people going through this that they should not underestimate how much stress they’re under. It’s really, really difficult. Emotionally, I’m a wreck. There is hardly a day that goes by that I don’t cry. I continue to go to work, I continue to try to do what I have to do, but it’s very hard. The holidays are lonely, birthdays are lonely. I find I don’t particularly want to be around other families. When I see other people my age and
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