After twenty years of marriage, I got divorced as a result of the physical and psychological abuse. Consequently... I moved away with my fifteen-year-old son.... Then I fell in love with another man, but my son and my new partner have not gotten along and that has caused countless problems. My son decided to go [...]
I left my country to study, but because I was so lonely, I had sex with a girl from the country I’m living in and she became pregnant. For fear of her family and of not knowing the laws of this country, I agreed, “without feeling it,” to marry her because I felt her [...]
My daughter is fourteen and very intelligent. She does well in school, but has told me that she thinks she is in love with a young man. It scares me to let her have a boyfriend when she is still so young. It could cut short her studies. Besides, for me dating is a step [...]
I have a problem and I don’t know what to do. I am a woman who will soon be thirty-six years old, married, and with one seven-year-old son. My husband and son beg me for another child, but really I don’t know what to do. On the one hand I would like to be able [...]
I have a friend who asked me to tell you her case so that you can help her. She is a woman with four children. The oldest is a thirteen-year-old daughter who has a different father from the man she is living with now (they are not married). The problem is that she found her [...]
My mother gave birth to me when she was an unmarried teenager. I grew up in a household with a grandfather and uncles who are alcoholics.... In spite of the fact that my mother never hit me, she caused a gaping wound that is difficult to heal. She is also an alcoholic and, even though [...]
My boyfriend and I are very different. He made the proposition to me that we live together and, if we stayed together for a year, then would get married. But... I want to get married before we live together because it makes the most sense. He says that he loves me. I love him, but [...]
I started drinking with my friends, and on Fridays we got into the habit of going out drinking. What I want to tell you is that nothing works out well for me. I think that I have bad luck.... In the last few months I have lost a lot of things.... When I buy something [...]
My son went to live with his uncle and, three months later, I found out that he had stolen money from their store. We resolved the situation between the two parties calmly, but the news spread to all the family. Now no one wants anything to do with us, and we are estranged from the [...]
I am a twenty-five-year-old young woman. A year ago I fell in love with a twenty-five-year-old guy, and he indicated that he felt the same way about me. Two months went by without him telling me that he had a girlfriend that he has been together with for two-and-a-half years. When I found out, he [...]
