Dr. Joshua Coleman

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727 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Good Life Project · Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say. · 9 Jul 2026 podcast
And parents have to kind of take the high road, first of all, because they're parents.
And from my perspective, you know, the book stops with us as parents.
So if anybody's going to take the high road, it should be us.
I mean, ideally, I want everybody to take the high road.
But in a family therapy reconciliation environment...
I tell parents, particularly if we're doing family therapy with the adult child, that this isn't marriage therapy, where you get an equal claim about what the relationship is going to look like, how much time you get to see your kid, how much time you get to be with your grandkids.
It's more like you were married and your spouse left, and they're willing to give you another chance.
It means it's going to have to be much more on their terms, and you're going to have to be able to be sensitive and open and responsive to what feels good to them or what they want in a relationship.
And no, it's not.
It isn't fair.
I'll just say I get why that doesn't feel fair to you.
It sounds like you were a dedicated parent.
Your kid may disagree with you or me, but it sounds like you were a dedicated parent.
A dedicated parent.
And in a fair world, yeah, you'd be able to, you know, negotiate a kind of relationship that you really want.
But once somebody has estranged themselves, you know, all bets are off.
It's going to be much more on their terms as a kind of a cost of reentry.
Yeah.
Well, the answer is because your child's not going to do it.
I mean, it goes back to this fundamental principle that nothing's compelling your child to be back in contact with you.
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