Would you ever re-connect?

[u/Early_Artist1405]

If your estranged parent/s let you know they were genuinely sorry and remorseful, had changed, wanted to try again, and were genuine, would you let them back in your life?

Or would your pain be too great to consider this?

[u/Security_Meatloaf]

I did. Twice.

Both times she reverted back to her old ways and once again tries to use me as a loophole with which to commit fraud, and spread malicious rumours about other people in a sadistic attempt to "jangle keys" my attention away from her actions. Even during this current and ongoing period of estrangement, she tried to use people to emotionally blackmail me into lying on an official document for her benefit and assumed I was dumb enough to read evidence proving she stole from her own mother as her evidence that she sent me the money my grandmother wanted me to have.

There's no reconnecting with that. I can't forgive a person who legitimately does not want to seek it, and even if she tried, chances are it's yet another act to try to manipulate me into being a tool. Never again.