TIME
How Estrangement Has Become an Epidemic in America
An op-ed by Joshua Coleman and Will Johnson, published December 13, 2024. Read the full article here.
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Guest Post: Top Ten Steps to Prevent Political Differences from Ruining Your Family Relationships
“If you vote for Trump in the upcoming election, we are through.” Thus began a letter from a son to…
Scientific American
How Parents Can Heal Rifts with Their Adult Children
APRIL 15, 2024, Scientific American, Dr. Joshua Coleman Repairing a broken parent-adult child relationship is possible if both sides approach…
HealthDay
Adult Children Far More Likely to Be Estranged From Dad Than Mom
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Many young U.S. adults are estranged from their…
CNN
How to know when it’s time to walk away from a sibling
By Kristen Rogers, CNN Updated 3:14 AM EST, Thu January 12, 2023 CNN — As Prince Harry’s accounts of a…
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The Key to Escaping the Couple-Envy Trap
Remember that even the partnerships you admire have periods of boredom, burden, or dissatisfaction. ~By Joshua Coleman As a couples…
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When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs: Are We Helping or Harming?
by Dr Joshua Coleman Jeremy’s parents divorced when he was three. For the first two years after the divorce, Jeremy…
The New York Times
What’s Ripping American Families Apart?
by David Brooks, New York Times At least 27 percent of Americans are estranged from a member of their own…
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Radical Acceptance. The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark.
By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life. Terrible things can happen. You get diagnosed with…
The Atlantic
Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting
ATLANTIC, APRIL 18 2020 Inequality has seemingly caused many American parents to jettison friendships and activities in order to invest…
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What Makes Adult Children Cut Ties With Parents?
Summary: Mothers who report estrangement from their adult children report they often believe their ex-husbands, and the current partner of…
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Family Estrangement: Why Adults are Cutting Off Their Parents
Polarised politics and a growing awareness of how difficult relationships can impact our mental health are fuelling family estrangement, say…
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Family Estrangement: Why Rifts Happen and How Families Can Heal
Dr. Joshua Coleman, author of "The Rules of Estrangement", discusses why kids and parents become estranged, how to heal those…
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How Many American Children Have Cut Contact With Their Parents?
Unhappily married for many years, Peter (not his real name) waited until his children were grown up before he divorced…
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When an Estranged Relative Dies, Some Face Grief, Regret and Relief
Some have regrets over unfinished business. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a…
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What Helping Heal Estranged Families Taught Me About How We Might Bridge Our Political Divide
My brother and I will never agree on anything political. I won’t accept that Hillary is evil, no matter how…
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How a Child’s Mental Illness Can Have Tragic Consequences for Parents
Sometimes the most heroic efforts from parents aren’t enough… Conversations, in a family, become linguistic archaeology. They build the world…
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The Reluctant Therapist: Estrangement Between Children and Parents
Estrangement between a parent and an adult child is not uncommon, but the pain, shame, guilt, and embarrassment surrounding a…
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Why People Break Up With Their Parents
Families used to split up over inheritance and duty – and today the reasons also include boundaries, personal growth and…
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Psychologist Joshua Coleman: How to contend with estranged family members “Rules of Estrangement”
Estrangement and stigma go hand in hand. Even if we accept the contemporary parenting precept that every family is a…
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What Boomers Can Learn From Millennials About Changing The World and their relationships
March 2, 2021: By Joshua Coleman, Psychologist and Author, "Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to…