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Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century......

‘We haven’t heard from our son in five years. We thought, with the pandemic and all, that he’d finally reach out with just a “Hey, wanted...

Remember that even the partnerships you admire have periods of boredom, burden, or dissatisfaction. ~By Joshua Coleman As a couples...

by Dr Joshua Coleman Jeremy’s parents divorced when he was three. For the first two years after the divorce, Jeremy saw his father every...

by David Brooks, New York Times At least 27 percent of Americans are estranged from a member of their own family, and research suggests...

By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life. Terrible things can happen. You get diagnosed with an incurable...

ATLANTIC, APRIL 18 2020 Inequality has seemingly caused many American parents to jettison friendships and activities in order to invest...

Summary: Mothers who report estrangement from their adult children report they often believe their ex-husbands, and the current partner...

Polarised politics and a growing awareness of how difficult relationships can impact our mental health are fuelling family estrangement,...

Dr. Joshua Coleman, author of "The Rules of Estrangement", discusses why kids and parents become estranged, how to heal those...

Unhappily married for many years, Peter (not his real name) waited until his children were grown up before he divorced their mother. He...

Some have regrets over unfinished business. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a relief. When...

My brother and I will never agree on anything political. I won’t accept that Hillary is evil, no matter how many videos he sends me, and...

Sometimes the most heroic efforts from parents aren’t enough... Conversations, in a family, become linguistic archaeology. They build the...

Estrangement between a parent and an adult child is not uncommon, but the pain, shame, guilt, and embarrassment surrounding a rift in a...

Families used to split up over inheritance and duty – and today the reasons also include boundaries, personal growth and happiness....

Estrangement and stigma go hand in hand. Even if we accept the contemporary parenting precept that every family is a dysfunctional...

March 2, 2021: By Joshua Coleman, Psychologist and Author, "Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the...

What can Dr. Joshua Coleman teach us about healing our relationships with our teens? In our interview, he talks about how part of the...

By Jen Rose Smith, CNN Wed February 24, 2021 (CNN) Each week, Sheri McGregor gets hundreds of emails from parents shut out of their...