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Rules of Estrangement:
Parents don’t talk about estrangement to their friends, coworkers, even their own family, because they fear judgment.
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001 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
Studies show that divorce is sometimes less hard on children than their parents’ remarriage.
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005 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
…estrangement – unlike most of the terrible things that can happen to us – is still a largely closeted problem.
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008 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
In marriage, people have to sometimes use their power to get what they need. And estrangements from adult children sometimes force a spouse to use that power.
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010 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
The fragile nature of male identity also means that most men are only one shameful comment away from feeling emasculated.
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052 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
…sometimes families have to break up before they can get back together.
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056 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
…most parents want to have as much contact as possible with their adult child.
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065 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
Parent and child become strangers to each other in the absence of shared life experiences.
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071 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
…time and distance are frequently enemies, not allies. They can allow a kind of ossification to occur.
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071 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
…individual child therapy does little to penetrate the powerful way that one parent can negatively influence a child against the other parent.
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071 |
