Role Reboot

Dear Dana: I’m Pregnant With My First Child. Should I Reconnect With My Estranged Mother?

Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, This past Mother’s Day was rough for me because I really don’t get along with my mother […]

We’re Supposed To Love Our Mothers, But What If They Don’t Really Love Us?

I don’t call myself estranged. I didn’t turn away from my mother’s love. It is her love itself that is estranged, twisted, wrong. In the end, it took something as big as a terrorist attack to help me to see clearly that I was at an endgame with my mother. I was living paycheck to paycheck and […]

Why I Finally Ended My Relationship With My Mother

The fear of causing pain is not a reason to stay in someone’s life. It is a reason to run.  Divorcing my mother is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. Even though we had been mostly estranged for four years, the decision to end contact with her was difficult, and it […]