Ahlan, and welcome to A Door, Not a Wall. I am Karim Mansour, I am a family therapist in Cairo, and I am also the eldest son of a woman who, until quite recently, had a key to my apartment. This show is about boundaries in families that do not really believe in boundaries. Families where love means proximity, where no is a kind of insult, and where cutting people off is unthinkable, so you need another way. Tonight I start with my own story. For two years my mother let herself into my flat while I was at work. She rearranged my kitchen. She left koshari in the fridge. She was being kind. I was going quietly mad. I tried to talk to her about it twice. The first time was a catastrophe. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Let me tell you what happened.