Season Two of the podcast is coming!

We are excited to announce that Season Two of the When Love Hurts Podcast is coming soon! And here is the really exciting part: you can help shape what this season will look like.

Jill and I would like to gather questions from practitioners and survivors, and those questions will help frame what we explore and discuss. Part of what sparked this idea was a question that came up during a recent online training.

Who gets served when we gender-neutralize this issue?

Good question! And one we could dig into for some time.

If you have worked in this field for any length of time, you are familiar with the pushback that often comes.

“Aren’t women abusive too?”

“Why don’t you have services for abused men?”

Sadly, sometimes agencies adopt aspects of the dominant discourse, suggesting that women are just as abusive as men or that “mutual abuse” is what is happening. What follows is devastating for women and children. So it is a very important question: Who gets served?

What are your questions?

What would you like to hear Jill and me explore and analyze? What are the questions you have? We would like to hear them. Please send them to info (at) whenlovehurts (dot) ca. We will do our best to weave them into Season Two.

We touched on many key ideas in Season One, but we know there is still so much more to say. Some of the topics we already know we want to explore include litigation abuse, post-separation abuse, and the ways abusive men are using “parental alienation” allegations as a weapon to keep women entangled in the nightmare that is family court.

Episode 7: Mothering, post separation abuse, and the legal system

We are particularly interested in examining who is being served by the “reconciliation counselling” that is being forced on many women and children, as well as the growing use of “reconciliation camps.” Sheesh! Who is being served by these new and atrocious entities? The abuser is benefiting, and we know the system is supporting and encouraging him. Additionally, and most distressing, many, many people and agencies are making a lot of money on the backs of women and children. 

This issue needs far more public attention if change is going to happen and if the safety of women and children is ever going to take precedence over men’s entitlement to “equal” parenting time.

In homes across the country, children are crying and begging not to be sent to their fathers, while mothers have been effectively silenced and stripped of the power to protect their children.

We want to hear from you

We are planning to do some research in this area. This would involve gathering 20–30 women who have experience with parenting coaches, parenting coordinators, parent evaluators, reconciliation counsellors, and the like.

If you have had these experiences, we want to hear from you. What has been the cost emotionally and financially? What has been the impact on you and their children?

This is just one area that we believe needs more airtime. What would you like to hear us talk about? Let us know.

We are also guessing there are other questions that loop around in your brain and life.

“Why did I stay so long?”

“Will it always be this hard?”

We are hoping that some people will be willing to record their questions. However, if you would like to contribute a question but worry about having your voice recognized, we can work with that. 

Stay tuned for Season Two!

Jill and I will be recording throughout the summer, and the new season will be released in the fall. We can’t wait to share it with you!

As you can probably tell, we are excited. We hope you are, too, and we hope you will reach out with your questions, ideas, and suggestions. All are welcome.

May you have a wonderful summer. We hope there is time to enjoy family and friends, spend time outdoors, and perhaps move just a little more slowly.

Warmly, 

Karen (and Jill)