What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence. Edited by Michele Filgate — thehungryreader.wordpress.com

Title: What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence Edited by Michele Filgate Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 978-1982107345 Genre: Essays Pages: 288 Source: Publisher Rating: 4 stars Relationships are complex. Most relationships are not easy to navigate around. I think the one we share with our parents is most difficult. I have always had a problem expressing what I feel to my parents. I think it just stemmed from the fact that we do not speak enough or try to make ourselves heard enough. This has nothing to do with love not being there, or not being brought up in a healthy environment (at least in my case). It is just that we have not learned how to communicate with them. Perhaps that needs to change and maybe it will. Only time and effort can tell, to be honest.

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