More Than One Thing Can Be True

More Than One Thing Can Be True

Rethinking What We Know About Family Estrangement

Family estrangement is often discussed as though there must be one correct version of what happened. One person was harmed. One person caused the harm. One account is accurate, and the other is not.

More Than One Thing Can Be True questions that certainty. It looks at memory, boundaries, intent, impact, accountability, grief, and the stories people build around relationships that have broken down.

This isn't an argument for reconciliation, and it isn't an argument for estrangement. It's an examination of what we can know about another person's experience, what we can't know, and what changes when we become a little less certain that our version of the relationship is the only one that can be true.