19. Is There Such a Thing as Good Estrangement?

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  This is really fun.

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  Yay, go.

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  I'm Angela Duckworth.

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  I'm Stephen Dubner.

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  And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

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  Today on the show, when is family estrangement healthy?

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  This isn't working out.

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  Do you want this clock radio?

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  Because if you don't, I'm taking it.

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  Also, what does it mean to have a good personality?

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  You, by the way, would be called an ambivert, Stephen.

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  Sounds a lot like a pervert, which I'm not crazy about.

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  Stephen, I have a question I've been thinking about lately.

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  It's about family.

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  And it's about whether getting kind of divorced from your family, estrangement,

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  is that ever the right thing to do, the healthy thing to do?

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  So I find this question very interesting because I've thought about estrangement a lot.

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  In fact, I've been trying for... five years to do a good Freakonomics Radio episode on estrangement.

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  Why have you been trying and why have you been able to?

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  Well,

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