Category: Estrangement

I wrote this post in August 2016 and just rediscovered it. The board is long dead and the member has moved on to a locked group, but the

Just came across this poster on an estranged parents’ forum and had to share. This is her first post, from March 2018: Its been over 8 months since

A recent post on an estranged parents’ forum ran down a list of things the member’s son had done to her and her husband since his wedding. It

A new member of an estranged parents’ forum writes: Why can’t an adult child who is having issues with a parent(s) communicate to the parent something like this

A picture is worth a thousand words, and every one of those words is true. You can see happiness in someone’s eyes, in their smile. If they look

One of the classic scenarios that lead to Missing Missing Reasons estrangements: Person A is happy. Person B has a problem with person A. B tells A, “I

This is what happens when you don’t check your email: You miss the hilarity. objection to your quoting me From: Sharon Wildey To: Issendai Date: 2017-04-10 09:49 Your

I’d like you to listen to a phone call. There’s a ton of background information here, and it’s vastly entertaining and horrifying by turns, like so much of

An interesting cognitive distortion just popped up on an estranged parents’ board in response to an article on getting along with your adult children. The article is a

Yesterday and today have been Days of Boggling. Someone mentioned House Rules, Rachel Sontag’s memoir about growing up under a control-freak father. Someone else mentioned that the father