Debunking MythsAbout Estrangement New research challenges the deeply held notionthat family relationships can’t be dissolved andsuggests that estrangement is not all that uncommon.Article by Catherine St. Louis, Dec. 20, 2017
For Adult Kids
University of Cambridge Study on Family Estrangement in Adulthood
Hidden Voices, University of Cambridge Study on Family Estrangement in Adulthood by Lucy Blake in collaboration with Becca Bland, Chief Executive of Stand Alone and Professor Susan Golombok, Director of the Center for Family Research at the University of Cambridge.
For estrangers who have cut off from “toxic” mothers
I don't usually post links to articles that are of a certain hostile and angry spirit. Today I am making an exception for the link posted below. I was surprised to find this article. In the comments in response, I can see that there are a lot of people who related to it. Me not…
Huffington Post Articles on Estrangement
After writing the previous post I went back and read Katie Naum's post on Mother's Day Cards again. Noticing the subject tags listed with the post, I clicked one of them, the "Estrangement" one. That brought up a list of posts on the subject, including two written in 2014 by Katie Naum that gave some…
May 9, 2015 Keyword search: “Mother’s Day” & “Estrangement”
The following four links are the result of an internet search using keywords: "Mother's Day" and "Estrangement". The links are to articles recently posted and to articles that didn't have those annoying popups that appear all too often these days. Mother’s Day Cards I Could Use As An Estranged Daughter by Katie Naum, writer, blogger,…
Is your Estranged one a professional diagnostician in their own mind?
A common experience that is talked about in a lot of groups where family estrangement is discussed is the one of being labeled with a pathological condition by the person from whom you are estranged. With their only qualifications being that they are related to you and that they knew you once upon a time,…
Online memoir by a daughter of a mother “erased” by PAS
It is rare to see an account of the experience of Parental Alienation Syndrome given from the perspective of the child. This link is to an online memoir by the child, now grown up, and writing about her experience. Her descriptions of events as she remembers them are riveting. Mother Erased: a memoir written by…
Slate staff writer Katy Waldman’s article on Narcissism: Link
Are you a Narcissist? by Slate staff writer Katy Waldman, August 2014 If you’re new to being estranged and to online discussions of the condition, you might not have experienced the word Narcissistic (with a capital N in the context of Narcissistic Personality Disorder) occurring frequently in discussions of family estrangement. If you are a…
Baggage, baggage, and more baggage
I've been thinking a lot lately about the baggage that people carry and how people interpret who and what other people are. The series of posts I wrote about Being Wrong were motivated by my desire to get through to those who believe they are right no matter what, no matter if there is evidence…
How do you know if you’re getting better?
When does recovery occur? When do you get over a serious loss? Some things you never "get over" but you can heal. It is possible for life to go on. You know you're getting better when you make better choices. As described in the poem below. The poem is from There's a Hole in My…