If you can't find a support group that meets your needs and in which you feel safe, you can create an online discussion group. You can create such a group with the tools provided online by a number of companies that provide online services. Companies such as Yahoo!, Typepad, Google (Blogger), WordPress and others.
Support Groups: Part II (Online Support Groups)
Some online discussion groups have been offered on sites set up by the authors of books on the subject. Some online groups are public and anyone can read and write on the site. Others require people to become members using an email address or user name and a password but letting almost anyone join. Occasionally…
Support Groups for those coping with a family estrangement. Part I
A mother in pain over not having had any contact with her recently estranged son joined an online support group. She talked about her feelings and how grateful she was to find the group and how rare it is for a grown child to estrange themselves from their parents. I tried to say that I…
Morning Meditation in Panera Bread
I took myself out to Panera Bread this morning for a soufflé. I like their charming little soufflés with the browned top and the creamy inside, hot and a bit richer than what I should eat but oh so delicious! I needed a treat. Their coffee is passable but too acidic for my taste. I…
Moving on. Detaching. Letting go. Damn the Torpedos!
"Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!" I like to choose the right words when I am writing. If the words are not the right ones, then the message that I want to communicate isn’t clear or is inaccurate. In my previous post I said that I would write next about "moving on." As I thought…
When someone you care about thinks you suck.
Since 2006 my daughter has had a blog called my-family-sucks. I have not been reading her blog because I know that she uses it to denigrate me and others who have loved her.
Q&A: Tips for handling Mother’s Day while being estranged?
This morning I received an email from a woman who is a mother and who has been estranged by her grown children several times over 15 years. After describing the basics of the estrangement she said, "I need to move on with my life – any tips – and any help for handling Mothers Day?"…
Alice Walker & Rebecca Walker
"She writes that she has been my mother for thirty years and is no longer interested in the job."Rebecca Walker in 2007 about her mother Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
Estrangement in the News, March 8, 2008
1. Man starves himself to death in treehouseBy Harry de Quetteville in Berlin. February 26, 2008Quote from article: "By his body was a chronicle of the 24 days he spent there before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage, his estrangement from his daughter and his long-term…
The day has arrived when I have to force myself . . .
I am making myself write in this blog today. I have no inspiration to write. Nothing that I feel is helpful to share. I have no new topic. I believe I am at or very near the point where I have nothing left to write about my own estrangement or other estrangements. I may finally…