I have a six‑year-old son who is very bright and extroverted.... He always asks me for money, but I hardly ever give him any (only when I can). He recently came home from school eating some ice cream, and I knew I hadn’t given him any money to buy it.... I checked his pockets and, [...]
About eight months ago I got a new job. I am the bookkeeper for a small business. The owner orders me to do things that are illegal, like change the amount of taxes that he owes and falsify the hours of the employees. Ever since I have been doing this, I have not had any [...]
A woman came to my house and gave me her three‑day‑old baby. My husband and I accepted the baby with high hopes, because until then we had not been able to have any biological children. Six months later, I became pregnant and was very happy... but when our daughter was born, my in‑laws began to [...]
I am about seventy‑five pounds overweight. My life is a disaster. I don’t go out of the house. My children beg me to take them out, and I tell them no, that they are crazy if they think I’m going out looking like this. I don’t pick them up at school because I don’t want [...]
My husband and I are a young couple. He is twenty-six years old and I am twenty-three. We have been married for six years and have two daughters. The problem that we have in our marriage is my father. He won’t let us make our own decisions. Instead, he ends up making them for us. [...]
My wife and I have been married for eighteen months and I am very confused.... I don’t understand why my wife has absolute control of the money that we both earn.... It bothers me a lot because we both work. Sometimes I think it was a mistake to have gotten married. The truth is that [...]
After ten years, my daughters (ages ten and fifteen) and I left our homeland to live together with my husband (their father). My husband and I had agreed that it was best to live apart during those ten years so he could work in a foreign country, losing our family unity as a result.... Now [...]
Ever since I had my daughter, I have felt a lot of anxiety. Sometimes I get up in the morning ready to do a million things, other times I don’t want to do anything; but the worst thing I feel is a lot of fear of what is going on and of dying.... I know [...]
I have been married for six years and have a five‑year‑old daughter and a two‑year‑old son. Ever since our first year of marriage, my husband has hit me for any reason at all, even once when I was pregnant. We have talked about it many times. He always tells me that he will change, but [...]
I am twenty‑eight years old and in love with a forty‑five‑year‑old man. My love for him is pure and clean. I know that he loves me too, but I am sure he will never have the nerve to tell me so. He doesn’t know I love him.... He is very respectful... but he is an [...]
