So I didn’t really research the etymology of the word “Estrangement,” but if you ask me the word “strange” is pretty clear.  I agree with you about the “being proud,” of your mom.  I mean, I know it is human nature to think we are in the right and that others are naturally the “wrong” ones, but the fact that she hasn’t chosen to shun you seems like the appropriate decision.  If anything it, to me, seems based off of more logic than what your grandparents seem to be basing their decisions off of.

I just don’t understand it when family chooses not to speak. In my own family, my mother and my brother went over a year or two without speaking.  I kid you not when I say it started over an arguement about him helping her move furniture. While both parties will get angry with me when I choose not to take sides, I can empathize with the hurt and reasoning behind each of their behaviors.  What I can’t understand is the willingness to go without words for so long.  After my Uncle’s Wedding in May things got a bit better, but my brother still seems to hesitate with the communication.  On another note, my mom also speaks very rarely with her sister, yet when they come together they seem to have the best time ever. My cousin snapped photos of the two of them drinking strait from wine bottles together the night before my Uncle’s wedding.

It’s all just very…well…strange.