Laura Kennedy

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254 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Women's Podcast · Best of The Women's Podcast: Grieving an estranged parent · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

You know, a bunch of different things.

emotional and kind of psychological and other experiences that don't go together.

And you are handed these in a big, heavy bucket and you have to sort them out for yourself.

I suppose it's been confusing, I'll say that.

I think it might be like a sort of estrangement and that experience is so common and so many people have these ruptures that kind of separate them from somebody who either does deeply matter to them or should deeply matter to them.

And there's a level of tragedy to that.

But estrangement also, I think it always happens invariably when something is irreparable and cannot be transcended.

And when it's kind of volitional, usually it is a very carefully considered decision that somebody has made.

So I think there's a level of grief that just comes with that, with that kind of lack of relationship.

What it feels like to lose someone you haven't lost because you didn't have.

I don't really know.

I mean, asking people around me, like if you ask my husband, he'll tell you I am pissed off lately.

Like I am snappy.

I am less patient than usual.

And I think as I thought about it, I've kind of realised that over the last few weeks, it's abating a bit now, but it took me a little while to realise that I've been angry with my father.

I think for reminding me of that youthful anger that I felt

I had sort of left behind and contextualised and intellectualised away, you know, that because he was a person of the past, I didn't have any current big feelings about him.

So I sort of resented him for coming back into my life once again and making fresh ones that, again, are my problem to deal with and change how my life looks, but don't affect him.

So I think it's been confusing.

It's been obviously, as these things will be, I think it's been a sort of

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