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.
Bonus · Thu, September 07, 2023
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
Bonus · Wed, November 30, 2022
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
Wed, January 19, 2022
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 that define us. Hosted by Alex McKinnon. Produced with Mira Burt-Wintonick (WireTap, Love Me). More episodes are available at hyperurl.co/sorryaboutthekid
Bonus · Sun, April 26, 2020
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.
Bonus · Thu, March 12, 2020
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
S3 E28 · Mon, February 11, 2019
Chapter 28: Love after Love
Spiderman, a sexy cowboy, and making my way out of the wild, wild wood.
S3 E27 · Sun, February 10, 2019
Chapter 27: Blow Away
Cloud 9, flight school, flying high. Then a sudden change of altitude.
S3 E26 · Sat, February 09, 2019
Chapter 26: Caution
Carpenter ants, cotton candy and a passionate declaration from The Man With the White Shirt.
S3 E25 · Fri, February 08, 2019
Chapter 25: Lost
Cold legs, wanderlust and living by the tides.
S3 E24 · Thu, February 07, 2019
Chapter 24: Falling
The edge of despair, The Husband becomes a dandy, and the trouble with truth and trust.
S3 E23 · Wed, February 06, 2019
Chapter 23: In Dreams
PDA in NYC, running in circles and sex as ceasefire.
S3 E22 · Tue, February 05, 2019
Chapter 22: Variations
Marking time, my territory and my biological clock.
S3 E21 · Mon, February 04, 2019
Chapter 21: Courage
The first episode of the third season. A frightening encounter, a beautiful road trip and a new chapter in my life.
Trailer · Wed, January 30, 2019
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.
S3 Enull · Fri, January 18, 2019
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.
S3 Enull · Thu, December 20, 2018
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.
Tue, November 27, 2018
Bonus: Fireworks & So Many Maybes
Explosive love, beef brisket and "f--k yes!" Michelle Parise shares two scenes from the cutting room floor.
Bonus · Tue, October 30, 2018
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.
Trailer · Thu, October 11, 2018
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.
S2 E20 · Fri, April 13, 2018
Chapter 20: Someone Good
Tarot cards, Lou Reed's bookend and a serpent eating its own tail...
S2 E19 · Thu, April 12, 2018
Chapter 19: So It Goes
U2, unicorns, a journey to the red hills and the curse of Drew Barrymore...
S2 E18 · Wed, April 11, 2018
Chapter 18: He Exists
Begging God for a boyfriend, a man in a white shirt, floating on Cloud 9 and Destiny's Child...
S2 E17 · Tue, April 10, 2018
Chapter 17: The Lonely
Bob Dylan's curse, what lonely feels like and a visit with the matchmaker...
S2 E16 · Mon, April 09, 2018
Chapter 16: Sidelines
A favourite lover, the divorce office, a crazy request and a (not so sure) sure thing...
S2 E15 · Sun, April 08, 2018
Chapter 15: The New World
Dancing, being Italian, a man in the kitchen and advice from an ex-husband...
S2 E14 · Sat, April 07, 2018
Chapter 14: Adrift
Springsteen, breaking the one and done policy, The Bad Ones and an orphan Christmas...
S2 E13 · Fri, April 06, 2018
Chapter 13: The Saddest Optimist
Princess Leia, part-time parenting, the invisible thread and music in the MRI...
S2 E12 · Thu, April 05, 2018
Chapter 12: Half-Life
Hookup culture, the paradox of choice, a cute/crazy guy and love off the coast of Newfoundland...
S2 E11 · Wed, April 04, 2018
Chapter 11: Hold It Together
Sex, sailboats and a Dark 'n Stormy. Season 2 kicks off with first times and quantum leaps...
Trailer · Wed, February 14, 2018
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.
S1 E10 · Sat, September 30, 2017
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.
S1 E9 · Fri, September 29, 2017
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.
S1 E8 · Thu, September 28, 2017
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.
S1 E7 · Wed, September 27, 2017
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.
S1 E6 · Sun, September 24, 2017
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.
S1 E5 · Sat, September 23, 2017
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.
S1 E4 · Fri, September 22, 2017
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.
S1 E3 · Thu, September 21, 2017
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.
S1 E2 · Wed, September 20, 2017
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.
S1 E1 · Tue, September 19, 2017
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.
Trailer · Tue, August 29, 2017
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.
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