Families going ‘no contact’ doesn’t always mean the end

Two of Liza Ginette’s kids don’t speak to her, and she is proud of them for it.

From the outside, it might have looked like they had fairly normal parent-child issues, she said. She had a tumultuous marriage to their father and difficult divorce. She feels that she forced a new romantic relationship on her kids while tending to dismiss their feelings and sometimes having emotional outbursts, she said.

By 2021, her elder daughter had had enough and went “no contact.” Two years later, her younger daughter cut off communication as well, said Liza Ginette, who lives near Raleigh, North Carolina.

She does not want to use her last name to protect her children’s privacy but uses her first and middle name online. She makes social media content to coach other families who have gone no contact.

“For everything that I might have done wrong, I kind of feel like I did something right, because I always taught them not to take bull from anybody,” Liza Ginette said.