Broken Chains: Forgotten Love in the Elder Community

Broken Chains: Forgotten Love in the Elder Community exposes a hidden crisis unfolding inside families where love, guilt, and silence quietly transform into enablement, alienation, and elder neglect. Through lived experience, participant narratives, documented Adult Protective Services cases, and professional advocacy, author Simmer Breeze reveals how unresolved trauma and misplaced compassion create generational patterns that leave aging parents vulnerable, unheard, and abandoned.

This book confronts the uncomfortable realities many families avoid: adult children who never develop accountability, parents trapped by fear of rejection, and a system that fails elders when family dynamics collapse. Readers are taken deep into real stories of dependency, emotional manipulation, and neglect alongside clear explanations of parental alienation, negative enablement, and the legal and moral responsibilities surrounding elder care. The result is a sobering examination of how harm develops gradually, not suddenly, when boundaries are never enforced and accountability is replaced with sacrifice.

Broken Chains is not about blame it is about awareness, truth, and breaking cycles before they become irreversible. Written with clarity, empathy, and conviction, this book challenges readers to redefine love, responsibility, and protection across generations. It is a call to courage for parents, adult children, caregivers, advocates, and anyone who believes that preparing someone for life rather than rescuing them from it is the greatest act of love.