I remember what a friend said to me back in 1997. She said that you can’t "logic it". We had been talking about the behavior of people who had decided to estrange themselves from us and would not reconcile. The behavior made no sense to either of us, neither the decision to estrange nor the…
For Parents
Greeting Cards for People Who Are Estranged
When I stopped in a drugstore the other day to look at greeting cards, I saw some new categories of cards I hadn’t seen before. There was a category of cards that was titled something like: Cards for Troubled Relationships. And then there was a category similarly titled but a separate category called something like…
Article in today’s Slate.com on children and divorce.
Online article in today’s Slate.com about a book on children and divorce: Putting the Duh Into Divorce The Times and Post mistake the platitudinous for the profound. By Jack Shafer Posted Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 Book Club Entry written in 2000 in Slate.com archives referenced in Shafer’s article of today linked above: A Selection of…
The Mother Theresa of Estrangements
This is funny. My daughter said that I am the Mother Theresa of Estrangements. There might be some truth to this although I am not Roman Catholic, I am pro-choice, and I am not celibate. However writing on Estrangements.com has gotten to be a habit. Did I just hear a groan? 🙂 Snicks
John Nash of “A Beautiful Mind” was estranged from one son.
I found this online article written in 2001 in the archives of Slate.com on the brilliant and troubled mathematician who was the subject of the movie, A Beautiful Mind. A Real Number: A Beautiful Mind’s John Nash is nowhere near as complicated as the real one. By Chris Suellentrop, Posted Friday, Dec. 21, 2001, at…
What I like about being estranged:
1. I don’t have to spend time with people who insult me, call me names, and think I am a horrible rotten worthless person. 2. I don’t have to spend time with people who dislike me. 3. I don’t have to spend time with people who are bored when they spend time with me. 4….
Art, Websites, Criticism, Unsolicited Advice, Decisions
I am an artist. In real life I am an artist. I create stuff that people look at. I usually work in a medium that is other than what you are looking at right now. But I have created a few websites. This is one of them. The others are commercial or for a nonprofit…
Angry. Way over a ten on a one to ten scale.
My husband asked me how angry I felt. I responded that it was about a 1,025 on a one to ten scale. I am so angry that I have been mourning the loss of a relationship where the other person was no more capable of loving me than a rock is capable of loving me….
My ex-daughter
Sometimes we get what we wish for. Robin wishes for permanent estrangement. I have read enough of her writing this week to welcome a permanent estrangement. My daughter is no longer my daughter. She is my ex-daughter. We are divorced. She is welcome to post that on her website. One day I will no longer…
Having searched through my estrangements.com blog …
I have searched through my estrangements.com blog and can’t find any place where I even speculate about my ex or my son-in-law influencing my daughter negatively. I’m not saying it’s not there but I can’t find it. It may be on the discussion board where my daughter searched out my old posts. There is no…