Picture perfect image of holiday gatherings as happy families gathered around dinner tables is in

everyone's reality. According to a Harris poll conducted last month, about 18% of those

surveyed said they had only limited or no interactions with their immediate family. When we

asked viewers if they'd be willing to share their stories of family alienation, we got more than 1,600 responses.

Here are some of them.

My name is Camilla Hudson. I live in Chicago, and I'm estranged from my son.

My name is Angela Reed. I am from Fall River, Massachusetts, and I am estranged from my mother.

I don't have a phone number for my son. I don't have an address for my son.

There were so many reasons for initiating the estrangement. Some of them even go back to

childhood and as a mother myself, things I would never do to my kids.

My name is Jonathan Simkowski, and I live in San Francisco. I grew up in Kansas

City, Missouri, and I no longer speak with my parents or my brother. My name is Francis Scott,

and I live in Missoula, Montana, and I am estranged from my adult daughter as of about eight years ago.

I'm the gay son of a Southern Baptist preacher, so the relationship was always pretty

difficult, but I would say sort of their ongoing support of Donald Trump became really

untenable for me. The conversation has just been about, like,

the extent to which his moral failings matter. They're giving Donald Trump a pass when I don't get one.

My name is Santa Leslie. I live in Richmond, Virginia. I'm estranged from my mother and my brother.

The first two or three years, I didn't cope very well at all.

With my mother, it just felt like I could never do anything right.

I would sometimes be in a store and I might see this lovely interaction going

on with a grand child and their grandparent and I would, I basically had to leave the store

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