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.
Weblogs
The Pitfalls of Online Communication
This is a link to a New York Times article on the pitfalls of online communication through email. (There is some chance you might have to register with the NY Times to read it. But if you do, registration is free and the NY Times has a lot of cool stuff to read!)
Proof that you are not alone.
I am provided with data by the server provider (ISP) of my website, Estrangements.com, and by SiteMeter and Typepad for the Estrangements blog. The data is information about how visitors access and use my sites, information such as the number of visitors by day, week and month to each site, the number of pages viewed,…
New to my bookshelves
I am reading two books: "Bad" Mothers The politics of blame in twentieth-century America, edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky. Published 1998 by New York University Press. A book of 26 essays. Why Good Things Happen to Good People by Stephen Post, Ph.D. and Jill Neimark. Published 2007 by Broadway Books. and have ordered…
Do you want to discuss your estrangement online?
If you would be interested in participating in a private online discussion group on estrangement, please email me at imajgin@yahoo.com. If I receive at least ten emails of interest in being invited to a discussion group by November 15, I will set up one or two private groups for discussion.
Site changes
The Diary of an Ordinary Woman has been moved to a separate blog which is linked to in the sidebar.
No Freakin’ Baggage!
On Baggage
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 who are fathers or sons. I may have received two emails…
Father’s Day & Estrangement II
On FayObserver.com (The Fayetteville Observer), May 17, 2007: Celebrate Parents’ Day by Steven R. Edelman Written by a father for his son, Shane, from whom he had been estranged for a time. Posted on June 18, 1995: Father’s Day In the archive of This American Life, Chicago Public Radio: 26: Father’s Day ’96. Available for…
Father’s Day & Estrangement
On AskMetafilter: How to be kind but firm with an estranged parent who wants more than I am willing to give, March 15, 2007 On top40: The Story Behind "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" Go On, Make Peace with Dad by Will Kern. Originally published on June 17, 2001. On FindArticles.com: Healing…