My wife and I have three daughters, ages fourteen, twelve, and nine, who complain that their mother physically and verbally abuses them when I’m not home. But they beg me not to say anything to her because she will take it out on them when I’m not home.... I don’t know what to do. I’ve [...]
I brought my mother, my brother, and a nephew to live with me on the condition that my brother and nephew would get a job. They were not to pay rent for awhile, but they were to be productive. My nephew goes to school..., but we discovered that... he had friends who were a bad [...]
The pain cuts through my heart like a knife. I was married in 1987, and very soon afterward found myself pregnant and made the horrible decision to abort. I grew up in a violent family in which my parents had fights and hit each other all the time. My mother would always tell me that, [...]
My husband left me for another woman, but then left her because she deceived him. I have worked hard to restore our marriage because I love him and because our son needs us to stay together, but my husband keeps rejecting me. My son needs him, but I can’t make my husband come back home. [...]
I am a young man who married a woman with two daughters. One of the biggest problems I have is that I am bad‑tempered: I get angry easily. But I have never hit her. When we go out, the youngest daughter always comes back crying, and this bothers me more than it should. I want [...]
Two years ago I received the worst news of my life. My son had a disease that is practically incurable for science: bone cancer. He was in treatment for two years, but finally my beloved son died. When I got the news, it hurt me very much. I blamed God, and then had to ask [...]
Less than a year ago I got married. I love my wife... but we have had problems, for when something upsets us and causes us to fight, I try to settle it so we won’t have to deal with it but rather will be able to have harmony in our home and sleep peacefully. My [...]
Five years ago I was going with a married man and we had a son. Four years later I met the man who is now my husband, and I love him with all my heart. He wants to adopt my son.... He says he wants us to be a family, and he wants to be [...]
Urgent My boyfriend has decided to marry me after several years of courtship.... He says that, now that we are engaged, he needs some time on his own to go a little crazy and do what he won’t be able to do once we are married. In other words, he wants to get drunk and [...]
I saw a television commercial in which they offered a gold charm that was supposed to protect me from all bad things.... So I went to see a spiritual guide and told him that a fortuneteller had told me that I was born with bad luck.... The guide listened to me and suggested that I [...]
