HeyJaredEstranged and Deranged
Estranged and Deranged is the podcast for parents who were cut off, shut out, rewritten, and then told to “work on themselves.”Hosted by Chris Workman and Candi Morris, we talk about adult child estrangement the way no one else will, blunt, honest, darkly funny, and done…
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What Are You Protecting When Accountability Gets Too Close (opens the original)
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There is a sentence people hear before they hear anything else. Sometimes you say, “This hurt me,” and what they hear is, “You attacked me.” Sometimes you say, “I need you to understand the impact,” and what they hear is, “You’re blaming me for everything.” Sometimes accountability gets translated into attack before the real sentence ever has a chance to land. In this episode of Laugh Cry Scream , Chris Workman talks about what happens when accountability gets too close, why defensiveness rewrit
I’m Calling Out the Estranged Parent Excuse Machine (opens the original)
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I’m tired of estranged parent videos that look like grief but function like avoidance. This episode is not polite. I’m calling out the excuse machine: the videos, the language, the soft packaging, the “parents matter too” speeches, the “parents have feelings too” redirects, and the “I gave you everything” invoices that keep showing up in estrangement content. Parents can hurt. Parents can grieve. Parents can be devastated. But pain does not erase impact. Grief does not cancel accountability. Sac
Are You Living In An Estrangement Echo Chamber? (opens the original)
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Are you actually getting support or are you sitting in an echo chamber that keeps you angry, certain, and convinced the other person is the problem? I’ve spent a lot of time watching estrangement content from both sides: estranged parents, adult sons and daughters, grandparents, podcasts, TikTok creators, support groups, and the comment sections that form around them. And I think some of it has a serious problem. Too much estrangement content rewards certainty. It gives us a villain. It tells us
Your Comments Are Telling On You (opens the original)
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Some estranged parents genuinely don’t know what happened. Some are asking hard questions, taking responsibility, and trying to understand. And some people are explaining a whole lot in the comment section. In this episode of Laugh, Cry, Scream , I’m talking openly about what I’ve been seeing from BOTH sides of family estrangement. Parents and adult sons and daughters. We’re talking about echo chambers, accountability, victimhood, careless labels, the difference between understanding and vindica
Estranged Parents vs. Adult Children: Same Rules or Double Standards? (opens the original)
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What happens when we apply the same rule to both sides of family estrangement? Can an adult child choose no contact and still expect emergency help, money, childcare, or immediate availability from a parent? Can a parent say, “I’ll always be here,” and later decide that being permanently available is hurting them too much? If a parent genuinely apologizes and changes, does an adult child have to acknowledge that growth—even if they still choose not to reconcile? And can parents have boundaries a
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