How To Repair a Broken Relationship Before It's Too Late
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It's painful for Barbara to think back on her son Ethan's childhood. For years Ethan was caught between feuding parents until, one day, Ethan went to live with his dad and never came back. Barbara regrets not fighting harder for her son or at least communicating better. Now she wants to ask for a second chance before it's too late—but isn't sure how to go about it. On this episode of How To!, the second in a two-part series, we continue with Amy Baker, a developmental psychologist who specializes in restoring family connections between parents and adult children. Amy helps Barbara recall specific memories as she writes a letter of amends, paragraph by paragraph, in an attempt to open Ethan's heart.
If you liked this episode, check out "How To Reconnect with Your Kid After a Nasty Divorce," the first in our two-part series.
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| 0:52.0 | I got to tell you this was one of the hardest things I ever did and I almost just |
| 0:57.0 | threw in the towel. It was brutal. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to How To. I'm Sciencewriter David Epstein. |
| 1:04.0 | On last week's show we met Barbara, a woman in her late 70s who's desperate to repair her relationship with her grown son. |
| 1:11.0 | This comes decades after Barbara's husband had an affair which led to a really messy divorce that fractured the family. |
| 1:18.0 | Barbara had to pick up the pieces of her life and she often wasn't there for her son Ethan like she wanted to be. |
| 1:24.0 | If you haven't already, you might want to go back and listen to last week's episode to understand more of Barbara's backstory. |
| 1:30.0 | My feeling is that maybe too late, too much time has gone by. |
| 1:35.0 | I hope I'm wrong, but that nags at me that this should have been done years and years ago. |
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