Case 519
I have been married for twenty-two years.... My husband tells me all the time that, in order to be intimate with me, he has to make me... and that I am frigid. I made the decision to love him unconditionally, but I am not intimate with him every day, and that is what he complains about each time.... Everything else that I do for him and for my children is invisible to him.... It seems [...]
Case 518
When I was twelve years old, my parents got divorced because my father abused my mother so badly that a judge issued a restraining order preventing my father from coming to our house or seeing us. About three years ago, my father contacted me saying that he wanted to talk to me and meet my children.... Our meeting was like a stranger asking me to forgive him.... The truth is that I don’t feel comfortable [...]
Case 517
I lived with my children’s father for eight years, but we never got married.... One day he left us for another woman.... For the past two years he has been living with the other woman and me at the same time.... Three times he has come back and then left again. Now he wants to come back for the fourth and last time, and I don’t know what to do. I haven’t been able to [...]
Case 516
My wife is very jealous and always thinks the worst about me. She threw a photo album of my baby pictures into the trash, along with my clothes. She is very strong-willed and has been unfaithful to me, but I stay with her anyway.... I have forgiven her for everything, but she doesn’t let me have friends, especially women because she believes that I cheat on her all the time with women and that every [...]
Case 515
I am married and have two children. I fell in love with a girl who is twenty years younger than I am. Both of us study in the same university. In the beginning everything was great, as I had problems with my wife and the new relationship was comforting to me. But now, two years later, it seems like my girlfriend doesn’t want to have relations with me. She is always giving excuses to keep [...]
Case 514
During my childhood I was sexually abused by various members of my family on numerous occasions. Every time I would tell my mother, she would tell me that I deserved it because I was a dirty girl and a liar. She would always make me think that I had imagined what had happened, as if I were a bit crazy. Many years have passed. I am now a grandmother, and I feel like a [...]
Case 513
I have felt the need to change religions, and the family is opposed.... I have come to know Christ in a personal way, and I am happy about it, but my in-laws are judging me for my decision.... I don’t know how to respond to their attacks because I love them, but they hurt me with their words.... My husband doesn’t say anything; he just gets quiet. Dear Friend, Your husband must be a wise [...]
Case 512
I am forty years old, but I have never felt fear like I do now.... I can’t explain it.... It builds up in my chest and makes me feel desperate, sad, and sometimes even want to cry. It’s something that really makes me uncomfortable, and I don’t understand it. I have prayed to God, but I keep having this problem. When I feel uncomfortable is when I get home from work at about eight o’clock [...]
Case 511
Ever since my childhood, my mother and stepfather have fought incessantly with each other. Their arguments are about my stepfather’s infidelity.... My mother is very jealous because she has found him talking to a lot of women. From that, she always believes that he is being unfaithful to her. They got married two years ago. I am desperate! Can you give me some advice? What I can do to help them? Dear Friend, We are [...]