That was me six and a half years ago, when Mishpacha ran an article titled “Rejected by My Children” (Issue 749). I constructed my rebuttal, which ran in the pages of this magazine one week later, trying to present things as logically and concisely as I could. I shared the hurt I felt when people told me to just wait it out, advice I felt was both misguided and harmful. My children knew that I was there for them, and they felt comfortable reaching out to me when they needed me. *Names have been changed(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 1079)