My thirty-six-year-old son was admitted to the police academy, and asked my other children not to tell me, but I found out through my granddaughters.... Today was his graduation, and he wanted me to tell him why I never ask him anything about his work. I answered that I didn’t know he was in the [...]
When I was in kindergarten, one day a little girl in my class didn’t make it to the bathroom in time and wet her clothes. She started crying and I laughed and made fun of her... I was extremely cruel to her. Now... I’m an adult college graduate. When I think about what I did [...]
During my childhood, I suffered serious physical abuse from my mother. Several times I went to the hospital with severe injuries.... When my father abandoned us... my mother, in an act of desperation, asked me to take some pills to pretend that I wanted to commit suicide.... I was only eleven years old, so out [...]
Three years ago I lost a friend to suicide. She had fought for years with depression, cutting, and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.... I always [told her that the only One who could help her was God, and that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to bring salvation to her]. She never stopped me [...]
I find myself at a crossroads, unable to make the decision of who will be my wife. Right now there are two girls in my life, one an ex-girlfriend, and the other one a young woman that I met recently. There are two things about my ex that I don’t like: first, I don’t think [...]
When I was twenty-seven years old, I met the girl who is now my girlfriend and my future wife. But there’s something about me that she doesn’t know. At work I met a girl, and we ended up going too far sexually several times, until I realized that what we were doing was wrong.... I [...]
I am twenty-six years old, and for two years I have been in a secret romantic relationship with a man who is eleven years older than I am. My mother... in her effort to protect me, won’t allow me to make my own decisions.... She doesn’t accept that I want to be independent and have [...]
I am twenty-four years old. About two and a half years ago I began to follow Christ, but I have not been able to stop sinning. I feel very sad because I no longer want to be an inconsistent person. I feel depressed, and I don’t know what to do because every time I sin [...]
I’ve been married for almost four years. My husband has two daughters from a previous relationship. His mother helped him with the older girl and, before we were married, he left the younger one with the girl’s mother. But when we got married, he brought the younger one to live with us. She was nine [...]
I had always hoped that my future wife would love my parents, and she did before we were married. But ever since the day of wedding preparation, relationships went south. My parents had disagreements with my in-laws, causing my wife to start harboring resentment toward my parents... and things went from bad to worse on [...]
