“I am freed from a weight that was suffocating me”: they have definitely cut ties with their family

Louane, 29, has just taken a step forward with her companion: she told him that she cut ties with her family four years ago.

“This separation was a long-considered, considered decision.

I don't regret anything, but accepting it in the eyes of everyone, even the man I love, remains difficult, ”she breathes.

After an awkward silence, the financial analyst goes back to the origins of the breakup and recounts his childhood in a family of the upper middle class of Finistère.

An alcoholic parent, another absentee, a family circle that turns a blind eye to acts of neglect, repeated over and over again.

“I lost count of the times my parents forgot me at school… I saw the teachers trying to reach them by phone, without success.

I heard their low masses,” she recalls, pulling a thread from her sweater.

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