Posts Tagged ‘ Family ’

Families and how to survive them

January 13, 2012
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This book has been a favorite of mine for more than a decade. So much so that when I realized I had lost it, I bought it again. It now resides safely in my kindle, this time immune to a future move. Families and how to survive them has been written in a dialogue form between a shrink (Robin Skynner), and an actor (John Cleese, yes the Monthy Python one). It’s mainly about, well, families. From how – and why – people fall in love, to how love relationships work – or not -, and what happens when the children...

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I want to feel better

January 7, 2012
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The festive season is a time for celebration, love, family gatherings, and sharing mountains of food we later regret. I am no exception. Especially for the food part. Christmas is also the moment of the year I chose to see my father. He abused me for most of my childhood, ignored me since I’m grown up. Each reunion teaches me the profound sense of the word “ambivalence”: I feel a mixture of love, pity, anger, fear, and flat out revulsion. I know the guy is insane, and that it’s probably not his fault. But it does not change my...

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