Tag: Estrangement

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  Paternal: New Beginnings

  This is the final episode of a 3-part series titled, ‘Paternal’. It is honest, funny and heartfelt. If you haven’t listened to the previous episodes, then I’d recommend you click the links below to do so now: Last year I wrote a blog post titled Am I Enough… It was my attempt to articulate more…

  10th Nov 2020

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  Paternal: The Beginning of the End

  This is the second episode of a 3-part series titled, ‘Paternal’. It is honest, funny and heartfelt. If you haven’t listened to part 1, In the Beginning, then I’d recommend you click the link to do so now. When I was 9 years old, I had a teacher called Miss Bryant. In class one day,…

  27th Oct 2020

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  Paternal: In The Beginning

  My parents split up when I was about 10 years old. The last eighteen months of their relationship was, as I perceived it, a traumatic, disruptive and chaotic mess. In the years that followed, my relationship with my father broke down. There were many reasons for this, but it mainly boiled down to the fact…

  13th Oct 2020

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  My Dad Is Stronger Than Yours

  Dads play a pivotal role in our lives. Children learn how to temper their emotions and physicality through rough play with dad, and they learn how to form secure and healthy relationships through the influence of their dads. Children often idealise their dads, but as we get older, we realise their fallibility and their humanity.…

  2nd Jun 2020

• Am I enough?

  What is it like becoming a dad? A question I used to get asked all the time when the Halfling was born. I didn’t really know how to answer it then, and to some degree even now I still don’t. I think maybe a reason for that is that my role as a father in…

  14th May 2019