Encore: I Divorced My Spouse, And My Child Divorced Me

Dear Sugars

WBUR

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

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Divorce is always a painful process, but it's especially so when there are children in the middle. In this favorite episode from the archives, 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.

This episode was originally released October 14th, 2016.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:13.5	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.3	Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.
0:23.3	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:24.7	I'm Steve Almond.
0:25.9	This is Dear Sugar Radio.
0:28.1	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:35.1	Share some little sweet days with me.
0:43.1	I check my bell by every day.
0:50.1	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:57.1	Hi Cheryl.
0:59.1	Hi Steve.
1:00.1	So I want to tell you a story that I don't think you're going to like very well.
1:04.1	Well, no, I mean, you'll see what I mean.
1:06.1	It was just terrifying.
1:08.1	I went out to the West Coast and visited an old friend of mine who I knew was struggling with
1:13.1	a marriage that was failing.
1:15.1	And it turns out that they had separated and that they were sort of trying to adjust the
1:19.7	family to this new normal.
1:21.3	He had two children, a son who's the older than my son and a daughter, and one day the
1:29.0	son essentially announced, I'm not going to visit you anymore.
1:33.4	I'm not, I don't want to have any contact.
	...

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