I live with my fifty-five-year-old widowed mother. I am thirty, and I have supported the household for the past five years because my mother has been ill... so she can’t work. Four months ago I met my girlfriend... and we want to live together, but my girlfriend doesn’t want to have anything to do with [...]
I am very worried. Two girls that were preaching... convinced me that I should be baptized that same day.... I let them baptize me in a bathtub, so later I wanted to find out more about their congregation. It turns out that I made a serious mistake, because they had not told me the whole [...]
My husband and I have been married for three years, and he is the one who manages our household finances. I work, and have to give him the money that I earn, and if I need something, I have to ask him for it and tell him why I need it.... I’d like to sometimes [...]
I’m twenty-six years old, and I met a girl who lives in another city. We started going out, and she ended up pregnant. Now she demands that I come and live with her... threatening me that if I don’t, I’ll never see her again. I would guess that she doesn’t love me and that her [...]
I am thirty years old and single.... For the past year I have been in a romantic relationship with a woman... who has a positive attitude. She is compassionate, helpful, and a single mother, but I have come to realize that I don’t love her. In order to be completely honest with her, I have [...]
A year ago I had an affair with a married woman. I ended it because I knew it was wrong, but we kept in touch through conversations and meals together with our group of friends. My wife found out about the affair about six months later, and we were on the verge of divorce; but she [...]
I have been having panic attacks and phobias since the year 2000.... Two of those years I was fine without antidepressants, but now I don’t know what happened that has made my anxiety worse than before. I am on edge. For example, one time I drove a different car and got so nervous and anxious [...]
I have been married for two years. Ten months ago, my husband started verbally and psychologically abusing me. Four months ago I left him. We have a five-month-old child. Recently my husband has been contacting me to say that he has changed.... He has been treating me differently, and during our time apart he has [...]
I am thirty years old. This year has been very difficult. Actually, my whole life has been difficult.... I was abused from a very early age, the sexual abuse by a family member until I was fifteen. As long as I can remember, I have lived a bad and dirty life.... I feel like [...]
I have a fifteen-year-old daughter. Her father died when she was seven, and since then she has been disrespectful and rebellious. She now has a twenty-one-year-old boyfriend. Not long ago she secretly went off with him, and the next day came home drunk, having had sex with him. Her paternal grandmother and paternal uncles say [...]
