Case 418
I am twenty-three years old and my girlfriend is a few months younger. We started going out almost nine months ago, thinking that it was the will of God and that it would end in marriage. I wasn’t very attracted to her physically, but I thought that it was only a matter of time until that problem would be resolved.... However, I have never been able to tell my girlfriend with all my heart, “I [...]
Case 417
I am twenty-five years old and I live with my boyfriend. He works far from here and comes back every couple of weeks. When he arrives, he spends the day doing favors for his siblings and, when he’s finished, he goes drinking with his friends and comes home in the wee hours of the morning or the next day. When I complain and ask him why he leaves me alone, he says he’s free [...]
Case 416
I am thirty-seven, happily married for twelve years, and have two children that I adore. A few months ago I found out that I have an eighteen-year-old daughter. She searched for me and got a court order for a paternity test, which is how my wife found out about it. I don’t feel anything for the girl because I didn’t even know that she existed: she is a complete stranger. But this has caused a [...]
Case 415
When I was a child I saw how my parents fought. Time passed, and they broke up. I grew up with very low self-esteem and insecurity. But with psychological treatment I have improved a lot to keep from making the same mistakes my parents did. I am now in love with a girl and she loves me too, but every time she says she wants to get married I make up excuses and change the [...]
Case 414
I am married to a good, hard-working man. We have a son, and four years ago we decided to live close to my husband’s mother. But now, for education and work reasons, we decided to move to another location in the city, and my husband’s mother and his sister tell him that I’m taking him away so that he won’t help them financially. I feel very badly about this situation, and I’d like his mother [...]
Case 413
I have been separated from my husband for three years. I had to ask him to leave the house because he physically abused me while I was pregnant. A few months ago we began talking again, even though he has never provided economically for our two children.... He told me that he would attend a church in order to seek help and for us to get back together, but yesterday I discovered that he chats [...]
Case 412
I have been married for four-and-a-half years, and we have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. For the past year my wife has been coming home late from work. I started drinking, and I was feeling lonely. Soon I began to distrust her, so one day I spied on her and found her kissing another man. I returned home and, when she came back, I hit her and we said a lot of things to one another. We [...]
Case 411
My husband and I are both thirty-eight years old. I recently found out that seven years ago he inappropriately touched my sister, who was then twelve-years-old. My sister says it only happened one time. I don’t know what to do. Dear Friend, Anyone would be confused in your situation. Most wives want to believe that their husbands would not do such a thing, but at the same time most women want to believe what their [...]
Case 410
I am a twenty-five-year-old man. When I was twenty-three I began to feel attracted to men. That gave me a deep sense of guilt and extreme depression. I even began considering suicide. I have never had sexual relations with men. The Bible has helped me a lot, though I have not become a follower of Christ yet. I was able to get over the depression and to decrease the homosexual desires, but they haven’t completely [...]