In my story, I had to learn that my children’s alienation from me could never be commensurate with any mistake I ever made with them. I had to learn about the retrospective guilt that every parent can feel when evaluating our history of parenting our children. I had to learn that who I am is…
Stories of Estrangement
“Done with the Crying” Author Sheri McGregor Estrangements Article
October 27, 2017 article: "Estrangement Doesn't Just Happen to "Bad" Moms — It Happened to Me Too" on Goodhousekeeping.com by Sheri McGregor, author of Done with the Crying. Sheri has a website on the subject of family estrangement: RejectedParents.net and a Facebook Page on estrangement. The description of her Facebook Page, "Help and Healing for…
Long Division by m.nicole.r.wilhood: Book of Poems of Sibling / Family Estrangement
Long Division is a book of poetry written by m.nicole.r.wilhood. It is about family estrangement and specifically about sibling estrangement. She has experienced an estrangement from her younger sister. Her manuscript has been accepted by Finishing Line Press. The link is the pre-sale link for the book. The author writes: Long Division is a short…
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…
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…
A blog written by a grandmother denied access to her grandchildren
A mother and grandmother who posts on her own blog about family estrangement and the loss of relationships with her son and grandchildren wrote to me this week. She sent me a link to her blog for inclusion here. I took a look and like her writing so much that I am happy to provide…
Christopher Hitchens Article on Estrangement, Vanity Fair, 2005
The writer Christopher Hitchens has died. I've spent much of my day so far reading obituaries about him and watching videos of him on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Among the many words written by and about him, I found an article by Hitchens on the estrangements that occur between siblings. It is titled:…
Stories of Family Estrangement on the Experience Project
I Am Estranged From Family Members Stories and Experiences Experience Project – a site that describes itself as the largest living collection of life's experiences.
Personal stories of loss through estrangement and death
The link below goes to a story by a son on the death of his father from whom he was estranged. They were estranged because of the father's deterioration due to Alzheimer's. It is a poignant story that is accompanied below on that page by links to the stories of others who were estranged from…
Link to Comments on Today Show interview w/Coleman & Debby
What happens when children cut off their parents? After the interview with the Debby, an estranged mom, and author and psychologist Joshua Coleman, on the Today Show on July 6, 2010, there has been a discussion set up on the topic of the interview. The link above is to a page with the video of…