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🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Brian is on the fence. On the one hand, he no longer believes in the religion he was raised in, “It’s high control,” he told us, “rules on everything from what to watch on TV," and "what you do in the bedroom.” But leaving would mean losing contact with his parents and wife.
In our first episode of Estrangement, we talk through the stakes—what could you gain by cutting ties, and what feels impossible to lose?
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0:00.0 | My job is up for grabs, my marriage is up for grabs. |
0:05.0 | I mean, if I told my mom and my dad where I was, |
0:08.0 | the phone would simply go dead. |
0:10.0 | This is Death, Sex, and Money. |
0:17.0 | The show from W and My Seed about the things we think about a lot |
0:23.0 | and need to talk about more. |
0:26.0 | I am a salesman. |
0:33.0 | In our longest relationships, there are ebbs and flows of closeness, |
0:38.0 | sometimes intentional, sometimes not, depending on what's going on in your life |
0:42.0 | or whether it's easy to be together. |
0:44.0 | And then sometimes, no matter how entangled you are, |
0:48.0 | there's a rupture, a break. |
0:50.0 | You become estranged from the people you come from, |
0:53.0 | or from the communities that once felt like home. |
0:56.0 | I have been estranged from my family since I was 16. |
1:01.0 | I moved out and I just never saw them again. |
1:04.0 | I'm in a 13-year-old journey of trying to, like, |
1:08.0 | estranged myself and my sister from our mom. |
1:11.0 | And I haven't spoken to them for the last 129 days. |
1:16.0 | I don't even know that I'd recognize him on the street if I saw him |
1:19.0 | or recognize his voice. |
1:22.0 | When we asked you our listeners earlier this year about your experiences |
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