Alone: A Love Story

Alone: A Love Story

CBC

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.

Alone: A Love Story in Spanish & French

Alone: A Love Story in Spanish & French

Michelle is back to share some exciting news ... season one of Alone: A Love Story is now available in French and Spanish! Check out the translations through the links below, or search "Seule" and "Sola" in your podcast app. Seule : une histoire d’amour — https://link.chtbl.com/O0A5Rtd9 Sola: Una historia de amor — https://link.chtbl.com/CwH5xvKC

Sep 7, 2023 • 1:33

Alone: A Love Story Introduces: Helluva Story

Alone: A Love Story Introduces: Helluva Story

Helluva Story is an intimate and illuminating weekly half-hour featuring the best in audio documentary. Listen along with host Duncan McCue as he explores the beauty and messiness of real life with storytellers and their subjects. More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/4604aDti

Nov 30, 2022 • 31:09

Alone: A Love Story Introduces: Sorry About The Kid

Alone: A Love Story Introduces: Sorry About The Kid

How do you forget your favourite person in the world? Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his brother. But his brother, alive? Those memories are lost. And now, 30 years later, Alex wants them back. In this emotional four-part series, Alex unearths his childhood grief — with help from family, friends, and a therapist who witnessed his brother’s death. What happens when trauma and memory collide? Sorry About The Kid is a deeply personal meditation on the losses th

Jan 19, 2022 • 30:27

Bonus: Forza, coraggio and an update

Bonus: Forza, coraggio and an update

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.

Apr 27, 2020 • 4:52

Introducing Asking For It

Introducing Asking For It

From CBC Podcasts and Mermaid Palace, Asking For It is a queer contemporary take of the Goldilocks tale: about love, music, and breaking the cycle of abuse. Goldie escapes a chaotic childhood only to go from a partner who starves her of love to a partner who nearly drowns her in it, before learning to be just right on her own. Subscribe to Asking For It at hyperurl.co/askingforit

Mar 12, 2020 • 0:00

Chapter 28: Love after Love

Chapter 28: Love after Love

Spiderman, a sexy cowboy, and making my way out of the wild, wild wood.

Feb 11, 2019 • 35:11

Chapter 27: Blow Away

Chapter 27: Blow Away

Cloud 9, flight school, flying high. Then a sudden change of altitude.

Feb 10, 2019 • 27:07

Chapter 26: Caution

Chapter 26: Caution

Carpenter ants, cotton candy and a passionate declaration from The Man With the White Shirt.

Feb 9, 2019 • 22:13

Chapter 25: Lost

Chapter 25: Lost

Cold legs, wanderlust and living by the tides.

Feb 8, 2019 • 25:59

Chapter 24: Falling

Chapter 24: Falling

The edge of despair, The Husband becomes a dandy, and the trouble with truth and trust.

Feb 7, 2019 • 30:20

Chapter 23: In Dreams

Chapter 23: In Dreams

PDA in NYC, running in circles and sex as ceasefire.

Feb 6, 2019 • 25:56

Chapter 22: Variations

Chapter 22: Variations

Marking time, my territory and my biological clock.

Feb 5, 2019 • 27:28

Chapter 21: Courage

Chapter 21: Courage

The first episode of the third season. A frightening encounter, a beautiful road trip and a new chapter in my life.

Feb 4, 2019 • 27:27

Get hygge with the final season of Alone: A Love Story

Get hygge with the final season of Alone: A Love Story

Michelle Parise invites you to get cozy with the final season of Alone: A Love Story on February 5th.

Jan 30, 2019 • 0:00

Bonus: I Should Sleep But I Don't Sleep

Bonus: I Should Sleep But I Don't Sleep

A drifter in her own life: Michelle Parise shares a poignant scene that was cut from Season 3.

Jan 18, 2019 • 4:58

Bonus: The Thing About the Heart & Maps

Bonus: The Thing About the Heart & Maps

A rundown heart and a road map for life: Michelle Parise shares two more scenes from the Season 3 cutting room floor.

Dec 20, 2018 • 5:12

Bonus: Fireworks & So Many Maybes

Bonus: Fireworks & So Many Maybes

Explosive love, beef brisket and "f--k yes!" Michelle Parise shares two scenes from the cutting room floor.

Nov 27, 2018 • 5:47

Introducing The Horror of Dolores Roach, a new scripted fiction podcast from Gimlet

Introducing The Horror of Dolores Roach, a new scripted fiction podcast from Gimlet

A macabre urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest. Listen to the first episode of Gimlet's new scripted fiction podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale.

Oct 30, 2018 • 0:00

Coming Soon, Season 3 of Alone: A Love Story

Coming Soon, Season 3 of Alone: A Love Story

The final season of Alone: A Love Story by Michelle Parise arrives February 2019. Until then, here's a tease of what's to come.

Oct 11, 2018 • 0:00

Chapter 20: Someone Good

Chapter 20: Someone Good

Tarot cards, Lou Reed's bookend and a serpent eating its own tail...

Apr 13, 2018 • 20:42

Chapter 19: So It Goes

Chapter 19: So It Goes

U2, unicorns, a journey to the red hills and the curse of Drew Barrymore...

Apr 12, 2018 • 22:21

Chapter 18: He Exists

Chapter 18: He Exists

Begging God for a boyfriend, a man in a white shirt, floating on Cloud 9 and Destiny's Child...

Apr 11, 2018 • 28:48

Chapter 17: The Lonely

Chapter 17: The Lonely

Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...

Apr 10, 2018 • 27:10

Chapter 16: Sidelines

Chapter 16: Sidelines

A favourite lover, the divorce office, a crazy request and a (not so sure) sure thing...

Apr 9, 2018 • 26:19

Chapter 15: The New World

Chapter 15: The New World

Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...

Apr 8, 2018 • 27:51

Chapter 14: Adrift

Chapter 14: Adrift

Springsteen, breaking the one and done policy, The Bad Ones and an orphan Christmas...

Apr 7, 2018 • 28:42

Chapter 13: The Saddest Optimist

Chapter 13: The Saddest Optimist

Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...

Apr 6, 2018 • 27:53

Chapter 12: Half-Life

Chapter 12: Half-Life

Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...

Apr 5, 2018 • 27:43

Chapter 11: Hold It Together

Chapter 11: Hold It Together

Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...

Apr 4, 2018 • 22:33

Alone: A Love Story Season 2

Alone: A Love Story Season 2

No matter how many times love kicks her in the shins, Michelle won’t give up hope. Stick with her. Season 2 of Alone: A Love Story launches April 4.

Feb 14, 2018 • 0:00

Chapter 10: Forza

Chapter 10: Forza

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.

Sep 30, 2017 • 24:06

Chapter 9: Freedom

Chapter 9: Freedom

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.

Sep 29, 2017 • 22:12

Chapter 8: Left and leaving

Chapter 8: Left and leaving

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.

Sep 28, 2017 • 22:43

Chapter 7: Protection

Chapter 7: Protection

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.

Sep 27, 2017 • 20:41

Chapter 6: Fallout

Chapter 6: Fallout

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.

Sep 24, 2017 • 21:52

Chapter 5: The bomb

Chapter 5: The bomb

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.

Sep 23, 2017 • 17:26

Chapter 4: Impossible to see

Chapter 4: Impossible to see

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.

Sep 22, 2017 • 29:19

Chapter 3: The feelings I don't feel

Chapter 3: The feelings I don't feel

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.

Sep 21, 2017 • 19:10

Chapter 2: Why not?

Chapter 2: Why not?

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.

Sep 20, 2017 • 21:50

Chapter 1: Not if, how

Chapter 1: Not if, how

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.

Sep 19, 2017 • 19:46

Coming September 19

Coming September 19

With raw honesty, Michelle Parise takes you along on her winding journey from lust to heartbreak, through loneliness and despair, to eventually finding the courage to face the question mark of life, alone. The series is available Sept. 19.

Aug 29, 2017 • 0:00

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