estrangement

Nora can’t believe he has the temerity to ask her to star in his next work after many years of estrangement.

This makes sense to me, that when estrangement is a pressing necessity it should not be stigmatized or judged.

From this episode unfolds a tragedy of estrangement, rejection and self-recrimination that ultimately tears a family apart.

Over the years Turner had commented a number of times on his estrangement from his mother since his parents’ divorce.

“There was an estrangement between the two of us,” Bourne said, adding they don’t talk anymore because of her work as an activist.