PinnedJen Maher·Feb 18The Wrong Questions. The Wrong Person.How estrangement discourse functions to obscure parental accountabilityA response icon8A response icon8
PinnedJen Maher·Jul 26What the Wall Street Journal article about therapists and estrangement ACTUALLY revealsHow credibility brokering transforms one-sided narratives into accepted expertise.A response icon4A response icon4
PinnedJen Maher·Dec 7, 2025The Oprah Estrangement Episode Revealed Far More Than It IntendedA conversation that exposed more than it claimed to exploreA response icon57A response icon57
PinnedInFourth WavebyJen Maher·May 9, 2025Grieving the Mother I Never HadAn exploration in “mother hunger” and disenfranchised griefA response icon26A response icon26
PinnedJen Maher·Nov 7, 2024What a penny can revealand how much that revelation can cost: a vignette of family dysfunctionA response icon13A response icon13
Jen Maher·1d agoWhat Disinheritance Reveals About Estranged ParentsWhen inheritance is intended as the final wordA response icon4A response icon4
InAge of EmpathybyJen Maher·Oct 30Are Estranged Adult Children “Weaponizing” Their Own Children?Examining the cultural discourse on grandparent accessA response icon8A response icon8
Jen Maher·Oct 23Estrangement and the “Good Parent”The beliefs we protect at the expense of relationshipA response icon9A response icon9
InFourth WavebyJen Maher·Oct 16The Family Dynamics That Couldn’t Help But Show Up in the CommentsWhen an estranged sibling’s anonymous comments illustrate the very patterns you’ve been writing aboutA response icon10A response icon10
InThe MemoiristbyJen Maher·Sep 28My Little LeafA psychic predicted children. I was determined not to have them.A response icon4A response icon4