Joshua Coleman

Does it bum you out that your daughter isn't going to know your mom?

I love that. You make it sound patriotic.

I love that. You make it sound patriotic.

I love that. You make it sound patriotic.

Let's say in like 15 years, you know, God forbid, I'm not wishing this upon you, but I'm just asking, if your daughter maybe now has this idea that estrangement is kind of normal because you did it, if she decided, for example, she didn't want to talk to you anymore, how would you react? Do you think because you've had this experience, you'd try to understand it?

Let's say in like 15 years, you know, God forbid, I'm not wishing this upon you, but I'm just asking, if your daughter maybe now has this idea that estrangement is kind of normal because you did it, if she decided, for example, she didn't want to talk to you anymore, how would you react? Do you think because you've had this experience, you'd try to understand it?

Let's say in like 15 years, you know, God forbid, I'm not wishing this upon you, but I'm just asking, if your daughter maybe now has this idea that estrangement is kind of normal because you did it, if she decided, for example, she didn't want to talk to you anymore, how would you react? Do you think because you've had this experience, you'd try to understand it?

Today explains Sean Rahm's firm, but enough about me. Dr. Joshua Coleman is a clinical psychologist and the author of multiple books about parental estrangement. It's an area of expertise he was forced into.

Today explains Sean Rahm's firm, but enough about me. Dr. Joshua Coleman is a clinical psychologist and the author of multiple books about parental estrangement. It's an area of expertise he was forced into.

Today explains Sean Rahm's firm, but enough about me. Dr. Joshua Coleman is a clinical psychologist and the author of multiple books about parental estrangement. It's an area of expertise he was forced into.

I was married and divorced in my 20s and have an adult daughter who I'm very close to. But there was a period of time in her early life.

I was married and divorced in my 20s and have an adult daughter who I'm very close to. But there was a period of time in her early life.

I was married and divorced in my 20s and have an adult daughter who I'm very close to. But there was a period of time in her early life.

where she cut off contact with me for several years, largely as a result of my becoming remarried and having children in my second, which is my current marriage, and her feeling in some ways displaced, that she felt kind of pushed to the side in certain ways, that she got in some ways a worse quality of life and childhood and family life than my

where she cut off contact with me for several years, largely as a result of my becoming remarried and having children in my second, which is my current marriage, and her feeling in some ways displaced, that she felt kind of pushed to the side in certain ways, that she got in some ways a worse quality of life and childhood and family life than my

where she cut off contact with me for several years, largely as a result of my becoming remarried and having children in my second, which is my current marriage, and her feeling in some ways displaced, that she felt kind of pushed to the side in certain ways, that she got in some ways a worse quality of life and childhood and family life than my

twins from my current marriage got, which, you know, in many ways is a fairly, it's a kind of a reasonable assessment. But at the time when she raised it, I wasn't really prepared to hear it, how hurt she was or how displaced she felt or in certain ways neglected. And I responded defensively and maybe even angrily at the time. And, you know, of course that made it worse as it often does.

twins from my current marriage got, which, you know, in many ways is a fairly, it's a kind of a reasonable assessment. But at the time when she raised it, I wasn't really prepared to hear it, how hurt she was or how displaced she felt or in certain ways neglected. And I responded defensively and maybe even angrily at the time. And, you know, of course that made it worse as it often does.

twins from my current marriage got, which, you know, in many ways is a fairly, it's a kind of a reasonable assessment. But at the time when she raised it, I wasn't really prepared to hear it, how hurt she was or how displaced she felt or in certain ways neglected. And I responded defensively and maybe even angrily at the time. And, you know, of course that made it worse as it often does.

And so she eventually shut down contact for a while until I You know, kind of learn to just be quiet and be, more importantly, not to just be quiet, but to learn how to be empathic and take responsibility and find, you know, listen to her perspective and hear her out and be able to tolerate the mistakes that I had made and empathize with her rather than to defend myself.