Belle Burden

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818 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 30 Apr

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Marginalia · Belle Burden on her memoir 'Strangers' · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

So I thought, what is it about the women in my family where this

this is a pattern and how do I stop that pattern?

So that required going back and talking about my childhood, my mother, my grandmother.

What it means to me is actually talking about it.

So talking about it with friends, talking about it with my children, talking about it publicly.

And that does not mean bad mouthing my ex.

It actually means just saying what happened.

I think as women and as mothers in particular, we are taught that when something like this happens, we feel

need to just clean it up, sweep it under the rug and pretend like it didn't happen.

And I think that doing that does not serve us.

It actually protects men.

It demeans us.

And I think it actually leads to, at least in my family, the behavior being repeated across generations.

And I hope

that by talking about it in a factual way that I can stop that pattern for my children.

There were a couple of parts that were challenging.

It was painful at the time to write about falling in love with my husband because I honestly was still in love with him.

When someone walks out and you have had no lead up to it, it's very hard to catch up to that.

And your heart is hurting.

It's hard to write about that.

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