Case 670
For five years I have had a girlfriend in another country. I have been saving money so that I can move there and make a life with her. However, lately my savings keep running out. It seems like there is always something that keeps me from getting ahead and reaching the monetary goal necessary to make the move as I want to. I always have very mediocre jobs, so I never earn a good salary.... [...]
Case 669
I was born when my birth mother was very young. From the beginning, I was told that my grandparents were my biological parents. It’s just that when my biological mother got married, I stayed with my grandparents and have always called them Mom and Dad. However, sometimes I feel like my grandmother treats me and my sister (who is biologically my aunt) differently. My grandmother encourages her to further her education, but not me. These [...]
Case 668
I received a friend request on Facebook from my father, whom I have not heard from for the past thirty years. When I was seven, he abandoned us for another woman and the family that he made with her. I overheard him asking my mother to tell us that he was dead and that we should forget him. We never searched for him, and I have already forgiven him; but I’m not the least bit [...]
Case 667
For a while I’ve been feeling that I’m being treated unjustly at work. Several detrimental decisions have been made regarding my work, which I believe are due to my having responded honestly, and negatively, on a survey about my boss’ interaction and communication with me. I’ve been a good worker, I never miss a day, and I’ve even stopped reporting overtime after working extra hours. I have always done my job with painstaking care and [...]
Case 666
I am the mother of two beautiful children and have been married for twelve years. But I have resentment in my heart against my husband. We lived with my in-laws for ten years. They treated me very badly: my father-in-law as an alcoholic, and my mother-in-law as a gossip and troublemaker. My husband never took up for me, and never did a thing to get us out of there.... Now we live on our own, [...]
Case 665
A few months ago, I moved to another country to live with my father. I am twenty-two years old, and my parents divorced twenty years ago.... My father is now with another woman, but he continues to loathe my mother. Ever since I moved in with him... he has become very violent. He hasn’t actually hit me, because my stepmother has intervened; but he has said that, if he wants to, just like he brought [...]
Case 664
My wife and I have been separated for two years. We have a two and a half-year-old daughter. It hurts when I visit my daughter and have to leave her again to return to my own home. I have wanted God to change my heart and help me not to feel resentment and unforgiveness. But I realize that even though I read the Bible, meditate on it, and pray, there is no change in me.... [...]
Case 663
When I was five years old, my mother got together with a man that she met at her workplace. As the months went by, he began to sexually abuse me. I told my mother twice, but she never did anything about it. Instead, she married the man and had a child with him. Now I am twenty-six years old and I feel an enormous amount of resentment in my heart. I know that she’s my [...]
Case 662
Caso 662 My childhood was not a good one. I was sexually abused by my father when I was eight years old. Now, tragically, I followed in his footsteps and did the same thing to my daughter. I am now serving a sentence for what I did. I feel guilty and hate myself for what happened. Is it true that God won’t forgive a sexual offender? Why did I relive that shamefulness? Why did the [...]