Dear Sugar: I Divorced My Spouse, And My Child Divorced Me

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Divorce is always a painful process, but it's especially so when there are children in the middle. This week, the Sugars discuss situations of parental alienation caused by divorce. They answer letters from a mother and a father whose daughters have cut off all communication with them after taking the other parent's side.

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0:00.0	Dear Sugar is supported by...
0:07.2	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:11.6	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:17.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:18.5	I'm Steve Almond. This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:21.9	Oh dear, don't you please.
0:27.8	Yeah, some little sweet days will be.
0:34.8	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:42.8	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:51.8	Hi Cheryl.
0:52.8	Hi Steve.
0:54.8	So I want to tell you a story that I don't think you're going to like very well.
0:57.8	Well, no, I mean, you'll see what I mean. It was just terrifying.
1:01.8	I went out to the West Coast and visited an old friend of mine who I knew was struggling with a marriage that was failing.
1:08.8	And it turns out that they had separated and that they were sort of trying to adjust the family to this new normal.
1:14.8	He had two children, a son who's the older than my son and a daughter.
1:20.8	One day, the son essentially announced, I'm not going to visit you anymore.
1:27.8	I don't want to have any contact.
1:29.8	And it went even further than that.
1:31.8	He refused to refer to my friend as his father.
1:35.8	He refused to even call him he, he called him it and was verbally abusive.
1:40.8	And essentially was trying to say in every way that an eight or nine year old kid can say, you are dead to me.
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