Case 815
Recently my husband has become very irritable. Everything bothers him. Not long ago I was with my family, and I stayed overnight with my children. He was working, but when we returned the next day, he was furious, saying that he wasn’t the least bit important to us, as if we had abandoned him.... Now it upsets him for me to leave the house.... It seems unfair to me that I have to stay in [...]
Case 814
My brother... left home to start living with his girlfriend. I have told him that he should get married because having sexual relations outside of marriage is fornication, but he says that... if a document alone constitutes a marriage, why didn’t God make Adam and Eve sign a document? Besides, he prayed for God to bless their union, and since he is having sexual relations only with his girlfriend, that makes her his wife. Dear [...]
Case 813
For the past four months my girlfriend has been unfaithful. We’ve been together for seventeen years and have three children. She wants to leave us, and we are very hurt by this. We don’t know what else to do about it. All I want is to repair the relationship with her so that we can be a happy family again like we were before. Dear Friend, From what you say, your girlfriend wants to abandon [...]
Case 812
I have been married for forty-four years. But ever since my father died twenty-two years ago, my relationship with my husband changed because I dedicated body and soul to the care of my mother, who is now eighty-two years old. I am her only child. I stopped taking care of my husband because my mother doesn’t like for him to be around. I even had to tell him to move out to keep her from [...]
Case 811
Some time back I prayed that God would help me not to be obsessed with a girl and that I would not continue to sin by viewing pornography, but then I would end up sinning by doing those very things.... I have sinned so much against God, as a follower of Christ, that lately I feel that God won’t forgive me anymore.... Now I feel condemned and afflicted with a lot of fear because I [...]
Case 810
I met a man... and over the next days and months a relationship developed.... One day he confessed to me that he was in the process of getting a divorce. He said that he loved me, but that he needed some time. As the days passed, everything changed. I started having mental and psychological struggles. Someone told me that I should get help from psychics, so I did. I gave them personal information and they [...]
Case 809
I have not been able to get pregnant, even though that is my deepest longing. Sometimes I cry [in frustration], and other times I believe that God can [give me a child].... I’ve often wanted to tell my husband to leave me and find another woman who can give him a child[, as did Sarah, the wife of Abraham, who was the father of all Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Sarah gave Abraham a son, Ishmael, [...]
Case 808
A little over two years ago my two eldest daughters and I took my ninety-plus-year-old grandmother back to her house in another state. I was driving that day when a truck plowed into the back of my car, crushing my two princesses and my grandmother. I was hospitalized for more than a month of physical therapy. How could this happen, leaving me with such an intolerable level of pain in my soul? Is God just? [...]
Case 807
For fifteen years I have been married to a man who is respectful, responsible, cultured, a hard worker, faithful, and for the past five years a good father. However, in spite of the fact that he says he loves me, he hasn’t shown support when I’ve need it the most. He has never been very expressive.... But what bothers me the most is that, when he gets really angry, he begins to break things. He [...]