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.

Carry It Differently

Some relationships end without providing the answers or closure we hoped for. The feelings they leave behind can be difficult to reconcile, especially when love, grief, anger, and the need for distance continue to exist together.

Carry It Differently explores the emotional complexity of family estrangement, including the possibility of reconciliation, the uncertainty that can follow its failure, and what it means to live with a relationship that remains unresolved.

It considers how we can acknowledge what a relationship meant without denying what happened, and how moving forward does not always require forgetting, forgiving, or finding a satisfying ending.