Case 348
I have an eleven-year-old daughter, and I am eight months pregnant. Tired of the fact that my daughter has been lying to me about her homework and tests for the entire year, I had a talk with her and told her that she has to do better. But two days ago I got fed up and punished her, pulling her hair and hitting her on her head, her shoulders, and her backside. I didn’t even [...]
Case 347
After thirty-six years of marriage, my husband left me for another woman, even though I had cared for his mother, who has Alzheimer’s, for five years, and I had just gone through successful treatment for hip cancer. He left to live in the other woman’s house, and put his mother in a home. I’ve spent six years without him.... It is very hard to forget, because I was very much in love when we got [...]
Case 346
I’ve begun an online relationship with a girl from another country. She pursued me and won my love, telling me that we were perfect for each other. I responded by telling her that it’s impossible to know such a thing because we’ve never met, but I finally accepted her. We have never laid eyes on each other, not even by video.... The problem is that we go days without talking to each other. She doesn’t [...]
Case 345
I have been married for nineteen years. I am a professional, and eight years ago my husband quit his job so that he could dedicate himself to a personal project.... I leave for my office, and he stays at home, supposedly working. He always complains that I work a lot and that I don’t dedicate time to our home. But that doesn’t seem fair to me, and we argue about it a lot. A month [...]
Case 344
I am twenty-two years old. When I was a little girl, I was the victim of sexual abuse for several years. My abuser was my parent’s best friend, who would threaten me so that I wouldn’t tell anyone. The abuse made me feel dirty and worthless. I asked God to help me to forgive and to take all those thoughts out of my mind. I have had a boyfriend for about a year, but [...]
Case 343
When my older daughter was fourteen, she started a relationship with an eighteen-year-old. I did not approve, but in order to keep them from sneaking around, I let them see each other in my home with strict guidelines. Three years have passed, and now my daughter is no longer that guy’s girlfriend. Recently I noticed that my daughter was acting strangely, and she told me that she was getting back together with the guy. I [...]
Case 342
I am in a relationship with a woman who already has two children with a former boyfriend. I too have three daughters from my previous relationship. We want to get married and buy a house where only the two of us would live. The house where my daughters live belongs to their mother, and my girlfriend would leave her children with their grandmother, since they are opposed to their mother having an intimate relationship with [...]
Case 341
More than two months ago I went out with some friends to celebrate the birthday of one of them. We ended up going to dance in a discotheque. All was going well until a guy that I didn’t know asked me to dance and, since I had been drinking, I danced indecently. What I did has been tormenting me ever since, and I don’t know who to talk to about it because I feel very [...]
Case 340
I am a professional.... For the past three months, my relationship with my father has been almost unbearable. I made the decision to pull away from him somewhat, because ever since childhood he has abused me verbally and physically. Now, instead of helping me grow as a person, professionally and even spiritually, he keeps criticizing me and my profession.... I am certainly grateful to my father for putting me through school, but I don’t think [...]