Your Estrangement Calls Answered Live

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, we bring our estrangement series to an end with a live call-in show co-hosted by Anna Sale and WNYC’s Kai Wright, host of the Notes from America podcast. Kai and Anna heard from listeners all around the country about how stark disagreements — particularly around politics and key values — led to estrangement with families, long-time friends and also long-time romantic relationships. Plus, Rebecca Martinez Fitzgerald, a therapist based in Durham, North Carolina, offered advice on how to move forward.

If you’re living with estrangement, check out some of our listener recommendations on what’s helped, and listen to Kai’s show, Notes from America, wherever you get podcasts or on WNYC's YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna.
0:01.8	And this week we are sharing something different.
0:04.6	To continue at the conversation we've been having with you about
0:07.3	a Strangement.
0:08.3	I joined a live national call in with our WNYC colleagues at this show Notes
0:13.0	from America.
0:14.9	Host Kai Wright and I heard from listeners from all over the country about how
0:18.6	stark disagreements, particularly around politics and key values, have led to a
0:24.9	Strangement with your families, longtime friends, and also in your longtime
0:30.0	romantic relationships.
0:32.4	Once again, what you listeners shared with us was more honest, layered, and more
0:38.2	unresolvable than I typically hear on radio talk shows.
0:42.5	So thank you, as always, for joining in our conversation.
0:46.1	I hope you enjoyed this one.
0:49.9	Strangement feels like I've lost a limb and I'm learning how to live without it.
0:58.6	I have been estranged from my family since I was 16.
1:03.6	I moved out and I just never saw them again.
1:06.0	I responded and told him, well, the hubris that it takes to tell somebody how
1:10.8	they should think has to be pretty high.
1:13.9	And that sort of blew it up pretty badly.
1:16.8	I had been reaching out and trying to contact her and she just wanted to tell me
1:23.0	that she just wanted me to stop trying to contact her.
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