I am married to a good, hard-working man. We have a son, and four years ago we decided to live close to my husband’s mother. But now, for education and work reasons, we decided to move to another location in the city, and my husband’s mother and his sister tell him that I’m taking him [...]
I have been separated from my husband for three years. I had to ask him to leave the house because he physically abused me while I was pregnant. A few months ago we began talking again, even though he has never provided economically for our two children.... He told me that he would attend a [...]
I have been married for four-and-a-half years, and we have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. For the past year my wife has been coming home late from work. I started drinking, and I was feeling lonely. Soon I began to distrust her, so one day I spied on her and found her kissing another man. I returned [...]
My husband and I are both thirty-eight years old. I recently found out that seven years ago he inappropriately touched my sister, who was then twelve-years-old. My sister says it only happened one time. I don’t know what to do. Dear Friend, Anyone would be confused in your situation. Most wives want to believe that [...]
I am a twenty-five-year-old man. When I was twenty-three I began to feel attracted to men. That gave me a deep sense of guilt and extreme depression. I even began considering suicide. I have never had sexual relations with men. The Bible has helped me a lot, though I have not become a follower of [...]
Up to what point do you have to keep obeying the commandment to honor your father and mother? My father has a business and, because of his poor life choices, he ended up owing back taxes.... He started another business, and put it in my name without even consulting me.... The same issues began once [...]
I am a young man who had a problem with pornography for seven years. It made me feel as if my life were garbage.... I told my father about my problem, and he said that when I made mistakes in life, I didn’t have to keep on repeating those mistakes, and that God would forgive [...]
When I was a little girl I was sexually abused by a cousin and by an uncle.... Now the actions of my degenerate uncle have caught up with him, and the mothers of some girls have reported him to the authorities for molesting them.... My dilemma is whether I should tell my mother. She [...]
My father is addicted to drugs and alcohol, and is very aggressive and violent. We have put up with his abuse and violence toward our mother for many years. Every time she has put him out of the house, it has only lasted a few months. Every spiritual leader that my mother has consulted has [...]
I am a single woman in my thirties.... I have had some romantic relationships, but none leading to marriage. I would love to have a home and children, but I have not yet gotten the opportunity. I have been in love many times, but I always suffer because there is not a happy ending. I [...]
