I Just Don’t Miss Them

An update on going no contact with both my parents

Amber Fraley
4 min readMar 31

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Photo by Sydney Sims on Unsplash

Quick background: My parents divorced in 1980, when I was 8 years old. My parents’ marriage was dysfunctional from the beginning, because they’re both immature and narcissistic.

When they separated, they made no attempt to soften the blow for my brother and me. After the divorce, they were at each other’s throats…

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Amber Fraley

1Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.