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Telling Your Parents It’s Over — from The Hard Days Collection

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Telling Your Parents It’s Over

Getting Through the Conversation You’ve Been Putting Off

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

Whatever your age, whatever your own independence, telling your own parents that your marriage is ending carries a particular dread unlike almost any other conversation. A short, honest guide to finding the words and getting through the day you say them.

What readers will find inside

Finding the actual words. Understanding that a parent’s reaction reflects their own relationship to the news rather than a judgement on you. And the strange, legitimate experience of briefly becoming your parents’ child again. Written plainly, for a conversation nobody rehearses well.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

Whatever your age, whatever your own independence, telling your own parents that your marriage is ending carries a particular dread unlike almost any other conversation — and it doesn’t soften much with age.

This short book covers finding the actual words, understanding that a parent’s reaction reflects their own relationship to the news rather than a judgement on you, and the strange, legitimate experience of briefly becoming your parents’ child again.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.

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