HeyJaredUnbroken Bond
Navigating the silence of parental alienation with dignity, integrity, and the refusal to let the bond break.
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The Question After ‘Why?’ (opens the original)
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TL;DRA September 15 study of five older Finnish parents separates making sense of an estrangement from the broader question of whether life still feels meaningful.A larger 2025 study found estrangement was associated with lower sense of purpose among older parents, but it didn’t establish that estrangement caused that difference.I still care why this happened. I’m less certain that an answer to why can carry everything I once expected from it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="ht
I Sent Them My Side. I Didn't Ask Them to Agree. (opens the original)
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TL;DRI sent both of my adult sons a link to the Unbroken Bond archive. I wanted them to have my account of what happened, but I did not ask them to agree with it or respond.A study in the September 2026 issue of Imagination, Cognition and Personality found different patterns in how 374 estranged adult children explained what they believed caused the estrangement.My archive is a record from my side. I can’t control whether someone reads the outreach as sincere or performative. I can control what
What Therapy Can Know About the Parent Who Isn't There (opens the original)
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TL;DRA new book and recent reporting ask whether therapists are causing family estrangement. A study of 209 estranged people found that participants valued therapists who understood estrangement without steering them toward reconciliation or estrangement. They described pressure in either direction as unhelpful.Therapy can support the person in the room. It can’t independently verify the full history of someone who was never there.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substa
The Second Estrangement (opens the original)
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TL;DRResearchers interviewed 39 adults who were no-contact with a sibling. Thirty-eight described family dynamics as part of what happened. Thirty-three also described problems inside the sibling relationship itself. Thirty-two described both.The authors call that overlap “layered estrangement.” It describes these interviews, not 82% of sibling estrangements. This was a small, highly selected group already carrying a lot of estrangement elsewhere in the family.<a class="image-link image2 is-view
An Epidemic Needs a Trend Line (opens the original)
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TL;DRKarl Pillemer’s national survey found 27% of U.S. adults reported estrangement from a relative. Rin Reczek and colleagues found periods of estrangement from fathers in 26% of respondents and mothers in 6%.Those studies show estrangement is fairly common. They don’t establish that its rate is rising.The experience may still have changed as families got smaller and smartphones made constant contact easier to expect.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/ima
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