Gary Direnfeld
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Their parents are big into the internet and how things are perceived and forever posting things and looking for product placement or whatever you call that stuff.
And so that was a large part of the meddling that the parents were concerned with how they would look throughout.
It was a narcissistic meddling.
I have separated.
I have individuated.
Yes, I love that word, individuated.
You've become an individual.
You have moved away from the family collective and you're setting out and setting the terms of your own life.
You're living you.
Yeah, and hey, I've got a son.
I've been through a wedding.
So let me first start about what Brooklyn is apparently doing or being accused of doing, and that is estrangement.
He's estranged from his parents.
You know, I've done so much work in the context of separated parents and family law.
And so sometimes we have situations where one blames the other of undermining the relationships to the kids.
That we refer to as alienation.
In this case, it's the actual behavior of that parent that
that is causing the kids to realistically and reasonably withdraw from the parents.
That is estrangement.
Now, it doesn't have to be all or none, David.