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Estrangement Ideology – Part 44. Estrangement Forums as Cult-like Communities
How online communities reinforce ideological rigidity, emotional amplification and barriers to reconciliation.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 43. The Rewards and Traps of Online Estrangement Communities
What Estranged Adult Children gain from online communities and how mutual validation reinforces ideological entrenchment.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 42. Alienation
Examining the role of some therapists and online forums as alienating influences.
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Estrangement Ideology: An Introduction to the Series
A series of articles aimed at broadening understanding the shift in family estrangement for parents and others involved.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 41. Can Estrangement Ever Be the Right Choice?
When is estrangement a justified and necessary response to serious harm, rather than being substantially ideologically or socially driven—and is this even a thing?
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 40. Do Adult Children Truly Know Their Parents?
Exploring the limits of adult child perception, the illusion they truly understand their parents and solidifying impact of estrangement.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 38. The Grandparents
The consequential cut-off of grandparents: A self-perpetuating cycle of disconnection.
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Estrangement Ideology — Part 37. Sibling Relationships
How Estrangement Ideology shapes sibling dynamics.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 35. estrangement vs Estrangement Ideology
A personal reflection illustrating the distinction between estrangement fact and Estrangement Ideology framework.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 34. Online Forum Psychological Profile
Estranged adult child online forums have a psychological profile of their own—how is this manifested?
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 32. The Unfillable Void
How the demand for unachievable and ill-defined "accountability" and a "full apology" creates a void that may never be filled.
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Estrangement Ideology – Part 31. Rewriting History
Differing versions of history become a weapon wielded on both sides of the estrangement divide.