It took me several hours to get WordPress installed. This is a new learning curve for me! I imported the posts from the soon-to-be defunct Typepad. It took me two tries but I got it right on the second try. Not perfectly but the over 300 posts did import. I should have chosen the option…
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Introductory Post for Estrangements, the Blog.
Estrangements, the blog, began on the website, Estrangements.com, in 2001. The purpose of that website is to collect a wide range of information about family estrangements. The blog became too lengthy to keep adding to on the website so I began a blog here on Typepad in 2005. Posts from 2001 to 2005 are on…
On Baggage
On Baggage (This post was originally written on May 25, 2007.) I receive email occasionally. Most emails come from mothers who have been estranged by their adult kids. Much less often, maybe twice a year, I get an email from someone who has estranged their mother or both parents. (I rarely get emails from men…
Estrangers & Estrangees: Two sides of the fence called Estrangement
The Problem with Discussing Estrangement Online People who have a family estrangement tend to have experienced one of two kinds of situations: they have decided to become estranged from someone or they have become estranged due to someone else’s decision. The first group I call Estrangers. The second Estrangees. The boundaries between the two situations…
Why I don’t write regularly here any more.
You might wonder why, if I went to the trouble of setting up a website and a blog, I haven’t been writing about estrangement for a long time now. I’ve been thinking of how to explain that. I have been asked that question by a few visitors and I have responded to them. If you…
Additional survey questions
At the end of May I posted a link to a survey on the topic of Family Estrangement. Some additional questions have been added to the survey in order to gather information on patterns of estrangement in families. If you have answered the questions in the original survey, it would be appreciated if you would…
Guidelines for Being Estranged
In 2005 I met with my doctor and asked him how long it would take for a treatment to take effect on a condition that I have. He told me that no one knows because each person’s body reacts in their own individual way. Estrangements are like that. There is no one-size-fits-all answer to how…
Introduction to Estrangements
Estrangements, the blog, and Estrangements.com, the website, are primarily about estrangements in families between blood relatives. They are less about the estrangements between former lovers, even though that is such a common form of estrangement. What brought me to creating the website, Estrangements.com, were the estrangements between myself and blood relatives and, secondarily, other estrangements…
Thursday, June 7 ’07: A Deere Dad’s Day is on its way!
When I was in the big candy and nut store yesterday, they had a fantastic display of John Deere stuff as ideas for Father’s Day presents. For kids whose dads are farmers, this must seem absolutely normal. The saleswoman in the store asked me if I was from around here. She thought I was a…