Judgement doesn't necessarily lead to estrangement, it depends on the ethos of the family when faced with disagreements.
I had a friend with a big family and almost any disagreement led to huge rows and estrangement. Her mother didn't speak to one of her own sisters for 30 years after a row, reconciled just before she died, but in the intervening year fell out with another sister who was then banned from the funeral.
My friend lost many friends that way. She tried it on me after a car journey where she demanded that I gave her instructions, a bit like a human sat nav and then chose to ignore them so that we got lost. She shouted and abused me, but I refused to respond until I asked her whether the cause of the row was sufficient to destroy a 25 year friendship. It wasn't, It didn't ,
But our family didn't have rows over opinons, or judgements, we might try to see someone less, or avoid certain subjects or grit our teeth and put up with a difficult relative, but rows and estraangement weren't in our repertoire, while for my friend they were hard wired in. The causes of the disagreements were irrelevant.
