Estranged relative
A family member with whom contact has been broken — kin held at a deliberate distance.
An estranged relative in a dream is the dream's image of a family member held at a deliberate distance. The relation is real and the contact has been chosen to be absent. The dream brings the estranged relative when something in your life — an old grievance, a kept silence, an unresolved fight — is currently being carried by the practice of not seeing the other person. An estranged relative met in the dream with quiet calm is the dream telling you the distance has done its work and the question of contact may be reopened. An estranged relative encountered with the old anger still present is the dream noting that the time has not done the work the silence was supposed to do, and the original wound is intact under the cover of no-contact.