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What a fantastic podcast! The estrangement we’re enduring has hit my husband differently than it has me. He’s still in the process (after years of trying to save her) of trying to figure out what we did and why she, her ex husband, and current husband have texted horrific things to him. (And honestly, they blame him for not protecting our BD from me. The narcissist.) For me? The GRANDCHILDREN! This podcast spoke to me in all ways possible. I wrote this on your Facebook page, but I’ll put it here as well. I made a photo album for all 3 of our estranged grandchildren. They have pictures from birth up to the last photograph we have of them.
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Thank you for the grandparent episode. It was very informative and has given me ideas for new ways to cope. Candi, I appreciate you so much. You make this awful situation just a little more bearable. I hope that some day my granddaughter does come looking for me. She will be 5 this coming October. I have never met her little brother. He will be 2 in October. You are right that we can’t keep holding on to the rage. I will never show that side to my granddaughter, but I will say that I don’t think I will ever forgive my daughter for what she has done. We should have gotten past our differences and had an adult conversation. Instead, she made a mountain out of a mole hill.
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Yikes. No thank you.
After listening, my impression is that this podcast comes from a place of entitlement rather than self-reflection. It feels like the host believes parents are owed a relationship with their adult children simply because they’re the parent, instead of recognizing that healthy relationships require mutual respect, accountability, and trust.
Rather than encouraging parents to honestly examine their own role in an estrangement, the podcast seems to create an echo chamber where estranged parents are reassured that they’re the victims and their adult children are simply wrong. That’s disappointing, because genuine healing usually requires looking inward, even when it’s painful.
Very few relationships break down with one person bearing all the responsibility. Yet I heard very little discussion about accountability or the possibility that a parent’s actions may have contributed to the estrangement. Instead, there seemed to be a consistent effort to invalidate the reasons adult children choose to go no contact.
Going no contact with a parent is rarely an easy or impulsive decision. For many people, it comes after years of trying to communicate, set boundaries, and repair the relationship. A podcast that dismisses that reality isn’t helping estranged families heal—it’s reinforcing one side while discouraging the self-reflection that’s often necessary for reconciliation.
If the goal is truly to help families, there needs to be empathy and accountability for everyone involved, not just validation for one side.
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