Case 400
I am twenty-nine years old and have a nine-year-old daughter.... Eight years ago my mother died of cancer, and I was left responsible for my eleven-year-old sister and my sixteen-year-old brother.... We were not doing well financially, and I decided to start a business, but I made the mistake of mortgaging the house that my mother had left to all three of us. My business failed. I fought hard to pay off the mortgage, but [...]
Case 399
I live with my fifty-five-year-old widowed mother. I am thirty, and I have supported the household for the past five years because my mother has been ill... so she can’t work. Four months ago I met my girlfriend... and we want to live together, but my girlfriend doesn’t want to have anything to do with my mother because my mother has cats and she would interfere in our lives. I want my mother to have [...]
Case 398
I am very worried. Two girls that were preaching... convinced me that I should be baptized that same day.... I let them baptize me in a bathtub, so later I wanted to find out more about their congregation. It turns out that I made a serious mistake, because they had not told me the whole story, since I later found out that they serve a mother god. I felt so let down for that misstep [...]
Case 397
My husband and I have been married for three years, and he is the one who manages our household finances. I work, and have to give him the money that I earn, and if I need something, I have to ask him for it and tell him why I need it.... I’d like to sometimes keep some of the money that I earn, but he gets angry and makes me give all of it to [...]
Case 396
I’m twenty-six years old, and I met a girl who lives in another city. We started going out, and she ended up pregnant. Now she demands that I come and live with her... threatening me that if I don’t, I’ll never see her again. I would guess that she doesn’t love me and that her desperation has more to do with her own family conflicts and her loneliness. I am right in my last year [...]
Case 395
I am thirty years old and single.... For the past year I have been in a romantic relationship with a woman... who has a positive attitude. She is compassionate, helpful, and a single mother, but I have come to realize that I don’t love her. In order to be completely honest with her, I have told her how I feel, but she has gotten so attached to me that she cries when I remind her, [...]
Case 394
A year ago I had an affair with a married woman. I ended it because I knew it was wrong, but we kept in touch through conversations and meals together with our group of friends. My wife found out about the affair about six months later, and we were on the verge of divorce; but she forgave me, and I abruptly cut off my relationships with the woman and with the group of friends we had.... [...]
Case 393
I have been having panic attacks and phobias since the year 2000.... Two of those years I was fine without antidepressants, but now I don’t know what happened that has made my anxiety worse than before. I am on edge. For example, one time I drove a different car and got so nervous and anxious that I had to stay home that afternoon. I had to take anti-anxiety medication to return to normal.... Likewise, everything [...]
Case 392
I have been married for two years. Ten months ago, my husband started verbally and psychologically abusing me. Four months ago I left him. We have a five-month-old child. Recently my husband has been contacting me to say that he has changed.... He has been treating me differently, and during our time apart he has not neglected our child. He says that we should get back together, that everything will be different, that he loves [...]