Case 454
I am a single mother with a two-year old child. The father of my son abandoned me when I needed him the most. After a year he came back and said that he wanted to help me... so he now gives me some help each month.... The problem is that he has a wife and two children, one older and one younger than my child. I don’t know what to do. I’m not working now, [...]
Case 453
I am a forty-six-year-old woman with a twelve-year-old daughter and a ten-year-old son. For the past seven months I have been separated from their father... because I discovered that he was cheating on me for years with a thirty-five-year-old woman.... I feel badly because I listen to a radio station every day on which they constantly talk about family issues and forgiveness. I don’t want to go back to my husband because... I can’t forgive [...]
Case 452
I am almost thirty-five years old. I am currently living with my mother because I haven’t been able to find a job. My mother suffers from depression.... For as long as I can remember, she has never supported me in anything.... When I look for a job and an opportunity presents itself, she always makes negative comments.... She has never approved of any girlfriend that I have had, and she wants to run my life.... [...]
Case 451
The side mirror of my car on the passenger side hit the side mirror of a parked car, but I kept on driving because I didn’t think that any real damage had been done. When I got to work I looked at my mirror and saw that there were shards of glass and a scratch that made it clear to me that I had done at least minor damage to the other car’s side mirror.... [...]
Case 450
A year ago I fell in love with a man who is forty-two years older than I am. He is sixty-three, and I am twenty-one. He says that he loves me very much, but he doesn’t talk to me about any plans for the future.... I have not had intimate relations with him because I was raped and he doesn’t know about it. My family doesn’t want me to break up with him, because he [...]
Case 449
This year has been very difficult for me. I am doing poorly in school and I have problems with depression and bipolar disorder.... I am twelve years old and have too much pain for my age. I have tried to kill myself many times because I am a disappointment to all my family, my friends, and my loved ones. During the second semester, I asked God to help me to pass the year. I did [...]
Case 448
My question is whether I should make a legal claim against my father so that he will have to pay for my studies. According to the law, if a child lives separately from his father, he can make a legal claim for payment of schooling until the child is a certain age. I feel badly about doing it, but he refuses to help me and leaves me no other choice, and I know he has [...]
Case 447
I was very young when I got married, and my marriage has not been what I had expected due to lack of attention, a lot of arguments, blaming, and violence. So I began a simultaneous relationship that I started with meetings just to talk, in which I felt I was having my needs met by being supported and understood, leading all the way to intimacy. That obviously secret relationship lasted for two years. A year [...]
Case 446
After fifteen years, I have begun to see my ex-girlfriend again. We are now both married. For the last three years she has been going to my mother’s house and taking gifts.... A year ago we saw each other in church. We greeted one another, and I met her husband and son.... Last month she called me, and... we then met in a coffee shop, where she confided that she still misses me and wants [...]