I have a younger sister who has always had a strange attitude toward me. She constantly boasts about her intelligence and memory while subtly denigrating mine. She doesn’t just do this with me, but also with others who are family or friends of hers. As I get older, I feel less tolerant of her and, [...]
I’ve lived my whole life walking on a tightrope with regard to my family of origin. In my house there has always been verbal abuse and sometimes even physical violence for as far back as I can remember. That’s why I’ve not yet decided to start my own family. I don’t think I’m ready, and [...]
I am thirty-six years old, and I decided to have a relationship with a single mother of three daughters. The big problem is that she is very permissive with the girls, and they don’t know how to do household chores. I have to do the washing, the cooking, and other things. Also, my girlfriend has [...]
Ever since my childhood, my mother and stepfather have fought incessantly with each other. Their arguments are about my stepfather’s infidelity.... My mother is very jealous because she has found him talking to a lot of women. From that, she always believes that he is being unfaithful to her. They got married two years ago. [...]
I am a fifteen-year-old girl.... My mother left me when I was two years old. She moved to another country, supposedly to give me a better life. However, a few months ago in a conversation with her she confessed that I was an accident, not wanted by my mother nor my father. They say that [...]
My father, because of bad behavior, is a prisoner at sixty years of age.... I visit him every couple of weeks with my children. We take him money and food, and some aunts also visit him and take him food. One of those aunts just told me that my dad has revealed embarrassing secrets about [...]
I am a twenty-eight-year-old divorced woman with a nine-year-old son. I have lived with my parents since the break up of my marriage, but it won’t be long before I will be out on my own, which is what I want the most. For some reason I feel like I don’t fit in with anyone, [...]
I am sixteen years old and just graduated from high school.... I come from a low-income family who are smothering me with their constant advice that I should work, even though they know that I can’t; but they also want me to study what they prefer, and not what I am passionate about, which is [...]
I have a wife and a son.... I think I am an alcoholic because every week I drink, and then I feel sad and disconsolate, and beg God to deliver me from alcohol. I think that it is not good for my son to grow up watching me drink. Right now I work far away, [...]
I am nineteen years old. When I was eighteen I began to work at a business where my parents are shareholders. To all my family I am “the hope to be president of the company” someday, so there are many expectations placed upon me. But this past year, working, studying at the university, and trying [...]
