by AnnSheybani | Feb 21, 2010 | Authenticity, Codependency, Cultural Issues, Match.com, narcissism, personality disorder, Self-Esteem, Sociopathology, Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, virgin
“You know,” my Iranian boyfriend said one evening as we lay squished together on his twin bed. “I don’t think I’m the kind of man who could ever marry an American. I just wasn’t raised that way. I always believed that one day I would return home and marry one of my...
by AnnSheybani | Jan 19, 2010 | Alcoholism, Amy Tan, anorexia, Authenticity, bulimia, Codependency, Cultural Issues, culture shock, eating disorders, rage, The Joy Luck Club
When I turned thirty, I was angry and unhappy, but didn’t really know it. I figured that niggling feeling, the one I couldn’t really identify, the one that wouldn’t go away, was the natural result of having two little kids, too much time with...
by AnnSheybani | Nov 22, 2009 | Authenticity, books, Codependency, Dinah Shore, husband, Marabel Morgan, marriage, Self-Esteem, The Total Woman, the Woman's movement, wives
There are some books no twelve-year-old should read. When I was a kid, I liked to watch the Dinah Shore show on the portable TV while my Mom fixed dinner. One day, Marabel Morgan was on defending her book, The Total Woman. This was the mid-70’s, the height of...
