Case 330
My case goes back to my childhood. When I was five years old I was raped many times, day after day, perhaps for a year. I don’t think my father ever knew, but everytime I remember, I am filled with guilt, bitterness, and the powerlessness of not being able to do anything about it.... I ask God to erase the memories from my mind, but the condemnation is always there. Help me! I have [...]
Case 329
I lost my job and had to leave the city where I was living.... I met a woman there who is twenty-five years younger than I am, and fell in love with her. I left my wife and moved in with the woman. We began a sexual relationship and now have a son who is five years old. A few years have passed, and now she tells me that she doesn’t love me anymore and [...]
Case 328
I am twenty-five years old, a medical doctor, and from a Christian home. I met my current boyfriend three years ago. The problem is that he is a Muslim from Senegal. He is a wonderful guy, respectful, affectionate, and I know that he loves me. A month ago he asked me to marry him. When I met him, I was not going to church. I don’t know what to do. I love him and would [...]
Case 327
I am twenty-three and have plans to marry a woman who is the same age. She is an only child, and her mother is not really in agreement with our marriage plans. I understand that it is rather difficult for her because of my girlfriend being her only child, but what bothers me the most is the way she tries to separate us. Yesterday she forbade me to give gifts to her daughter and to [...]
Case 326
I have an older brother who is thirty-five and I am thirty. He has been separated from his wife for two years because he is a drunk.... He doesn’t do anything for his two children and he lives off of other people.... Three years ago he got a loan, complete with a legal contract, and he is about to go to jail because of not paying. Now they are asking for me to help him [...]
Case 325
I am twenty-two years old, and I made the worst mistake of my life. I had a month-long relationship that I stopped when I found out that my boyfriend was married. But I found out too late because, as a result, I am now pregnant and he disappeared, not wanting to know anything about this. The one thing that keeps going through my head is to kill myself. I feel like trash, and I can’t [...]
Case 324
I am a thirty-six-year-old single woman. I am not married and have no children.... Two years ago I fell in love with someone who is younger than I. He is twenty-five years old.... I am concerned about the age difference. He says he loves me, that he’s very aware of the age difference, and that it doesn’t bother him at all. But it does bother me, and now he has asked me to marry him. [...]
Case 323
I got married when I was twenty-four to a young woman whom I loved deeply.... My love for her caused me to leave everything else behind and marry her. Now we have two beautiful children, whom I love more than life. But a few months ago I discovered that my wife was unfaithful to me with a man that she came to know at her job and with whom she fell so much in love [...]
Case 322
I opened a false account on a social networking site using the picture of another guy. For two years I have had a girlfriend, but before her I liked another girl who never paid attention to me. Now with the false account, I have begun a relationship with the first girl, and she has fallen for the trick. She has told me a lot about her life, and now I think I love her and [...]