Alone: A Love Story
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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.
Episoade Recente
33 episoade
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 expl...

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 L...

Chapter 28: Love after Love
Spiderman, a sexy cowboy, and making my way out of the wild, wild wood.

Chapter 27: Blow Away
Cloud 9, flight school, flying high. Then a sudden change of altitude.

Chapter 26: Caution
Carpenter ants, cotton candy and a passionate declaration from The Man With the White Shirt.


Chapter 24: Falling
The edge of despair, The Husband becomes a dandy, and the trouble with truth and trust.



Chapter 21: Courage
The first episode of the third season. A frightening encounter, a beautiful road trip and a new chapter in my life.

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.

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.

Bonus: Fireworks & So Many Maybes
Explosive love, beef brisket and "f--k yes!" Michelle Parise shares two scenes from the cutting room floor.

Chapter 20: Someone Good
Tarot cards, Lou Reed's bookend and a serpent eating its own tail...

Chapter 19: So It Goes
U2, unicorns, a journey to the red hills and the curse of Drew Barrymore...

Chapter 18: He Exists
Begging God for a boyfriend, a man in a white shirt, floating on Cloud 9 and Destiny's Child...

Chapter 17: The Lonely
Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...

Chapter 16: Sidelines
A favourite lover, the divorce office, a crazy request and a (not so sure) sure thing...

Chapter 15: The New World
Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...

Chapter 14: Adrift
Springsteen, breaking the one and done policy, The Bad Ones and an orphan Christmas...

Chapter 13: The Saddest Optimist
Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...

Chapter 12: Half-Life
Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...

Chapter 11: Hold It Together
Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...

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...

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...

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 fro...

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 kindnes...

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...

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 find...

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...

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,...

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 ye...

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 199...