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Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier.
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2Explosive love, beef brisket and "f--k yes!" Michelle Parise shares two scenes from the cutting room floor.
It's okay to grieve when things are beyond our control. Michelle Parise shares words of wisdom for these uncertain times. Plus, some news! "Alone: A Love Story" is now a book.
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On the cusp of her 39th birthday, recently divorced Michelle struggles with a complicated new romance. A drunken tarot card reading returns her to 1999, when she first met The Scientist (soon to be The Husband) and all was filled with promise.
The relationship with The Scientist proves harder than expected, and yet he surprise-proposes right when a huge world tragedy occurs. Michelle says yes, starting a chain of compromises as they plan a wedding and get married.
The first four years of marriage are a happy, love-drunk time until The Husband delivers an ultimatum. Michelle reluctantly (at first) gets pregnant, and everything starts to change in her — physically and mentally.
Michelle struggles with the isolation of maternity leave and emptiness sets in as she feels less and less like herself. Just as she's about to return to work, there's a surprising event and everything changes again.
By the time the baby is four, The Husband has become a stranger in his own home. There are arguments and few answers as to why. One day, Michelle finds a tell-tale umbrella and soon after, she's hit with the bomb called Affair.
In the wake of The Bomb, Michelle becomes a shell of her former self, and slowly spirals down, deeper and deeper into grief and straight into the arms of the monster, Loneliness.
In the first weeks after The Bomb, friends, family, co-workers and strangers show kindness and support, and The Husband has a revelation about kindness too.
Michelle and The Husband pack up their house together, dismantling 12 years in two months. They move out and into two apartments across the street from one another, committed to raising their daughter together.
Michelle looks to superconnector friends to help her re-enter the world as a single person. Late nights and spontaneity reawaken parts of her she didn't realize were dormant.
Michelle goes to Italy to be with the people that are, and the place that is, her anchor. The sea, soil and family ground her, and a new bond is made with her father. She returns to Canada with her life a big question mark.
Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...
Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...
Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...
Springsteen, breaking the one and done policy, The Bad Ones and an orphan Christmas...
Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...
A favourite lover, the divorce office, a crazy request and a (not so sure) sure thing...
Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...
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Absolutely loved listening to your story Michelle ❤️ and totally love your voice! 💕
I like this podcast. Very interesting.
a wholatropic challenge on the basic tenets of life that is honesty,authenticity. integrity. truth. love the music. Broken Social Scene? it's tests my filters
What the heck I wrote a comment and it sent it the guy personally🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ My comment was meant for the thread. Being this: stop being a victim women. Shit happens to everyone. Men are not bad.
I so needed to hear your beautiful story today, as I enjoyed my quiet solitude and pondered my loves and losses. Well done!
great story. thank you
What happened to season 3? I don't see it on here 😭
Im learning english & i love this channel sucha nice accent
are these podcast true or fiction?
This became a pathetic self indulgent feminist bullshit. Typical woman. All about her. Total irrationality. Dates a guy who only wants her part time and turns down the ones who want her full time. But whines. And whines. I hope she ends up alone for good.
I have listened to this podcast so many times I love it cant wait for season 3
it's like reliving the shit show i've been through but in a different mindset, hopeful and knowing that i got through it and i'm fine and i'm better off.
the person one marry's, is a soulmate for life. Their union is a means to a purpose. sometimes, one party or the other refuses to accept their own souls' personal need. marriage is not dependent on a person first feeling ready or self- fulfilled. picture instead, a ""BROKEN"" heart. the symbol of two halves with the zig-zag in the middle.
I’m really enjoying this series it’s so intriguing
I love this story, so brutally honest. But I hate the static sound, maybe the more soothing sound of a album sound??? Anyway, you are so smart!!!
I love your honesty, especially when it comes to having a baby.
My mind literally exploded.
Ok you lost me as a listener. That moment in episode 14 when victimhood mentality rage comes out and you tell men to "shut up and listen" in a demonic voice, I immediately thought "ok no more of this." You sleep around with dudes 10-15 yrs younger than yourself, are drunk with strangers in their homes, complain and whine non stop, then blame OTHER men for what some guy did to you. Poor poor victim you, when you toy around with guys and call them PG 24 and other disrespectful misandrist terms that demean and objectify men, (this is how petty feminists get), it's just you having fun. But when something bad happens to you somehow it isn't even your responsibility to report it (coward) but your responsibility to yell and guys who haven't been laid in 10 years listening to your program to better understand women. F$) k off will ya?
Michelle Parise I am loving Alone A Love Story. Your voice perfectly delivers the emotional and raw side of this story. The story is so real I have cried.
I am finding so much of this story so relatable. You've got me in tears but listening to Alone has made me feel less... alone.