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Dear Marwa,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I'm a 21 year-old-girl living in Cairo. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n My problem is that I can't find my place at home. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n To explain further, I lived quite sheltered life since I was a little girl. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I'm an only child so I only had my parents but from young age I was independent. I enjoy doing things on my own, I'm the kind of girl who can sit at a café enjoying espresso with a book and couldn't care less about being alone. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Now my dad is open-minded to some extent but same as me but my mum is so not that. She's always judging me. Telling me that I shouldn't wear this or that because it's not appropriate and what would people say?! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n For your information, I'm so conservative when it comes to clothes but still she always finds something to argue about. It goes beyond what to wear to how I should live my life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I always feel like a huge disappointment to her since all she wants is to see me married like all girls in wherever and she doesn't understand that all I want in my life for now is to get a job and jump start a career and to even be not just independent but financially independent as well so that I could achieve my goals which don't include any guy or starting a family for the near future(I think I'm too selfish for that and don't want the responsibility and not ready for it, I'm only 21). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n She makes me feel guilty all the time because she worries too much and she then makes me feel bad. I love her so much but she can't accept the fact that I'm not the same girl in pigtails anymore. I don't know what to do and I want to make it right with her. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I tried to convince her to go out with me sometime to one of the recitals I go to at the opera since I already go alone and she sit at home worried about me but it didn't work. She doesn't like going out and I tried to go and even watch TV with her (and we have opposite taste, she's into Arabic shows\/movies\/series and I'm into English ones) but I do it for her but then she starts talking to me about who married who and stories I couldn't care about but I keep on nodding and try to focus but I end up losing interest and going back to my room and books. So, all in all I've reached a point where we only meet on meals and we argue over everything. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Sorry for being too talkative but I wanted to give you the full picture. I hope you can help me analyze all this and may be find some middle ground here. Thanks.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ———————————-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You are your mother’s mother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[1507,1508,2251,1332],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-23","tag-motherhood","tag-parenting","tag-2251","tag-1332"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n