Alone: A Love Story
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.
Episodes
September 18, 2017 • 19 mins
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.
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September 19, 2017 • 21 mins
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.
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September 20, 2017 • 19 mins
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.
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September 21, 2017 • 29 mins
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.
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September 22, 2017 • 17 mins
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.
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September 23, 2017 • 21 mins
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.
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September 26, 2017 • 20 mins
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.
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September 27, 2017 • 22 mins
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.
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September 28, 2017 • 22 mins
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.
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September 29, 2017 • 24 mins
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.
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April 3, 2018 • 22 mins
Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...
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April 4, 2018 • 27 mins
Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...
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April 5, 2018 • 27 mins
Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...
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April 6, 2018 • 28 mins
Springsteen, breaking the one and done policy, The Bad Ones and an orphan Christmas...
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April 7, 2018 • 27 mins
Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...
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April 8, 2018 • 26 mins
A favourite lover, the divorce office, a crazy request and a (not so sure) sure thing...
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April 9, 2018 • 27 mins
Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...
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April 10, 2018 • 28 mins
Begging God for a boyfriend, a man in a white shirt, floating on Cloud 9 and Destiny's Child...
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April 12, 2018 • 22 mins
U2, unicorns, a journey to the red hills and the curse of Drew Barrymore...
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April 13, 2018 • 20 mins
Tarot cards, Lou Reed's bookend and a serpent eating its own tail...
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