Denis 🌏Wow. There's nothing quite like seeing one's own life situation captured so precisely in words. I'm only a chapter or so in, but wow.
(and a little encouraging, since I seem to be handling things in the recommended ways, for what it's worth🤞🏼💔)
Lindsay DouglasFrom my recent open letter to my estranged teenage daughters. From my secondary publication on Substack, Dear Two Daughters.
Please take a moment to click on the link below and give my letter a read, like, share, and comment. I'm working towards getting these letters out into the world and your support means the world to me.
This piece is titled 'Just another empty week' and it is very close and dear to my heart. In it, I highlight the ambivalent nature of the longterm and complex grief of parental alienation and domestic abuse. I also talk about how the weight of grief shifts over time.
Please read my open letter here: https://open.substack.com/pub/deartwodaughters/p/just-another-empty-week?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35z54g
#OpenLetter #Estrangement #Isolation #Grief #ParentalAlienation #Alienation #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #Divorce #CustodyCourt #FamilyCourt
Please take a moment to click on the link below and give my letter a read, like, share, and comment. I'm working towards getting these letters out into the world and your support means the world to me.
This piece is titled 'Just another empty week' and it is very close and dear to my heart. In it, I highlight the ambivalent nature of the longterm and complex grief of parental alienation and domestic abuse. I also talk about how the weight of grief shifts over time.
Please read my open letter here: https://open.substack.com/pub/deartwodaughters/p/just-another-empty-week?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=35z54g
#OpenLetter #Estrangement #Isolation #Grief #ParentalAlienation #Alienation #DomesticViolence #DomesticAbuse #Divorce #CustodyCourt #FamilyCourt
Bodhi 心Is anyone here reading what might be called 'dhammic literature', meaning literary fiction that explores dhamma-related themes - the human condition, suffering, happiness, perception.
In particular I am interested in conversations about the New Weird and how it 'estranges' us from habituated perception. Also looking for reading recommendations.
#dhamma #literary #fiction #NewWeird #ostranenie #estrangement #reading #writing
jaimedavid327Four Years Later: Connor, Silence, and the Things Addiction Leaves Behind
Before You Read: A Necessary Disclaimer I need to say something before you continue. What you’re about to read is the heaviest thing I have ever shared publicly. Not just on this blog. On any blog. On any platform. This is not a dramatic exaggeration. It is a sincere warning. I have written about difficult topics before. I have written about personal growth, loneliness, identity, frustration, politics, science, and the complexity of being human. But this piece is different. This one […]
Longreads"All the parts about me that I hate the most, I got from you. All the parts I love the most, too. The romanticism, the love of history, a deep attunement to emotion, movies, and music. My teary-eyed, lachrymose nature. My love of journalism and photography." —J.Y. Lee for Off Assignment
To the Old Man in the Cowboy Costume — Off Assignment
“You wait there in the alpine light, beneath the fluorescent glow of the Thai restaurant. Your hair is cropped and peppered with gray, grown out from a few months post-shave, I suspect. You’ve lost some weight, lean again the way you were when I was young, but you still stand tall for someone from o
Think But logicallyWilliam & Kate’s New "Harry Problem" Amid Family Nightmare
https://youtu.be/W8lFa05LcRY
#PrinceWilliam #KateMiddleton #PrinceHarry #RoyalFamily #Rift #PhoneHacking #RoyalNews #EmilyAndrews #UKNews #RoyalCourts #Estrangement
https://youtu.be/W8lFa05LcRY
#PrinceWilliam #KateMiddleton #PrinceHarry #RoyalFamily #Rift #PhoneHacking #RoyalNews #EmilyAndrews #UKNews #RoyalCourts #Estrangement
William & Kate’s New "Harry Problem" Amid Family Nightmare
🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️A beautiful piece from Kristie De Garis
"... For me, estrangement is not banishment or a refusal to forgive. I truly forgive my mother for the past. What I cannot do is continue to put up with the same behaviours in the present. This is the distinction that is often missed ..."
#estrangement https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/parental-estrangement?publication_id=5418558&post_id=185517954&isFreemail=true&r=2s1lms&triedRedirect=true
KristieA couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post in response to Philippa Perry’s advice column on parental estrangement. After many requests to share it more fully, I’ve published it at the link below.
It’s an attempt to describe my own experience, and how distance is usually reached slowly, not suddenly.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/parental-estrangement
#Estrangement #Parents #Children #UK #Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Books #Parenting
King's Sad Comment on Grandkids: The Truth About Archie & Lilibet
https://youtu.be/wpFkcVM9ymE
#KingCharles #RoyalFamily #Archie #Lilibet #Grandparents #RoyalNews #Estrangement
https://youtu.be/wpFkcVM9ymE
#KingCharles #RoyalFamily #Archie #Lilibet #Grandparents #RoyalNews #Estrangement
King's Sad Comment on Grandkids: The Truth About Archie & Lilibet
Dreaming of bogwitcheryMy mother will never meet this baby. Depending on how hard my father tries to belittle, guilt, insult, cajole, or bribe me, he may not either.
The idea of paraphrasing this quote (Andor season 2) is my husband's, for when I tell my father in my third trimester:
"You want Syril in your life, you will think before you speak...I will guarantee a level of engagement, but it will be inversely proportional to the volume of anxiety you generate in our lives.”