Case 763
I am eighteen years old... and have a girlfriend.... We both attend the university.... I want our relationship to have a purpose: to end in marriage. I don’t want to play with her feelings, but I also don’t want to do things that are immoral. My question is: What should I as a man do to avoid any temptation that could lead us to sin? We talked about meeting in a place where we [...]
Case 762
Since his teenage years, my husband has had problems with drugs, alcohol, and delinquency.... After our daughter was born, he went into rehab and got clean. However, after our son was born, he started using drugs again and had a daughter with another woman.... He came back repentant, and I forgave him. Until some time ago he was doing well, but then he started using again and, even though he said he was going to [...]
Case 761
I am forty years old. Almost three years ago I started to get sick. Many doctors examined me and ordered many tests. But all the test results came back normal and nothing changed. That led to me falling into a depression and undergoing a horrific treatment by a psychiatrist. In great desperation, and because of bad advice from others, I then resorted to consulting a witch doctor. But it was just a scam. Nothing changed. [...]
Case 760
My mother died a few months ago, and I’m not sure if I grieved for her. Since that time, I have noticed a significant change in my personality. My behavior and actions have changed so much that I have come to the point of not showing respect to my family.... I am afraid, sad, and furious because I don’t know how to change or get rid of these attitudes that have caused me to lose [...]
Case 759
A little more than a year ago, a sixty-five-year-old man that I know invited me to have coffee with him, and I thought that it was a friendly gesture.... But as we were walking to the coffee shop, he forced me into his car.... He took me to his house, where he drugged me and raped me.... In view of this situation, I filed rape charges against him.... But I have received insulting phone [...]
Case 758
I have been married for seven years... but I’ve felt tempted many times by other women... and have become an adulterer. No matter how hard I try, I can’t manage to desire my wife exclusively, and that keeps me from being right with God. Help me! Dear Friend, It is good that you are asking for help. But you don’t say if your wife knows about your adultery. If she doesn’t know yet, it’s [...]
Case 757
I have been in a relationship with a guy for seven years. (Before I was with this man, I was married to another.) He is a good man and a good father, but frequently he brings up my past and insinuates that I committed questionable acts.... I feel offended, so I defend myself; but he says that, if it’s not true, I shouldn’t be offended.... That makes me wonder if he really does value, [...]
Case 756
I have a wife and a five-year-old son.... My wife is pregnant with our second child. Also living with us are three girls whose parents abandoned them. We provide food and shelter for the girls.... One of them got pregnant, but she doesn’t love and hardly knows the boy with whom she conceived the baby. She doesn’t want to give birth to the child, and he will not take responsibility as the biological father. [...]
Case 755
Three years ago my only child was born.... Everything was great until my daughter’s mother decided to live in another country, claiming that nothing would change in terms of my relationship with my daughter. After a few months the problems began. She was always too busy to allow me to communicate with my daughter.... But she would say that it didn’t really matter because she was sending me photos and videos. Even so, I [...]