Jennifer Aniston recently reconciled with her mother, Nancy Aniston, after a 9 year estrangement. Jennifer will be on Larry King tonight. I am hoping that she talks about her estrangement and reconciliation during the interview. Years ago after the estrangement began, her mother wrote a book: Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir. Some of…
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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…
A Walk Down Memory Lane: On the family that I once knew …
What inspired me to write a list of the things that I like about being estranged is that I woke up yesterday thinking about some stranger’s belief that my taking down estrangements.com would make it more likely that my daughter would reconcile with me. Along with thinking about how clueless that stranger was, I was…
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…
Open letter to some unknown person out there on the internet
Hello Out There On The Internet, Somewhere out there you exist. I don’t know who you are. I only know that you emailed my ex-daughter to let her know about Estrangements.com. You, of course, know who you are. I have wondered about your motivations and whether I know you and you know me. Or maybe…
The dream I had last night …
Last night I dreamt about Ed. He was a high school friend to whom I once felt very close. The relationship was always a platonic one because I kept it that way. Ed would have liked it if I had been interested in something more. But I was always wary of that. Ed was a…
In Memoriam
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….