Case 294
For the last three years I have been a student in the university, far from my hometown. I had the misfortune of falling prey to the addiction of playing video games on the Internet, which has caused me to lose two years of study and to make little headway in my career. Over this past year I have been trying to change, but the addiction consumes me. I feel very badly about this; I need [...]
Case 293
I don’t know why I’m not able to trust in God. I think that maybe He won’t answer me. At times I have even doubted His existence, and haven’t been able to grasp that what the Bible says is also true for my life.... My lack of confidence in God, my fears, and the thought that I might not measure up to the standards that Christ requires of me in order to inherit eternal [...]
Case 292
I have been married for twenty years, and almost all that time I was unfaithful to my wife with different women. I have several children as a result of those relationships. Of those that I am in contact with, one is sixteen and another is fifteen years old. Should I look out for them? Should I try to find them and have a relationship with them and help them financially? I urgently need an answer. [...]
Case 291
I am a thirty-two-year-old woman. Ever since I was a child, I have hated the man who says he is my father. I don’t know him and I’ve never seen him. From what my mother told me, he didn’t want me to be born. He asked her to have an abortion because he didn’t intend to become financially responsible for me. Knowing this has been difficult to accept. I have lived in constant torment from [...]
Case 290
I was married for twenty-four years to a man in whom I believed and whom I loved more than anything. We have a nineteen-year-old daughter and a sixteen-year-old son. Although through the years we faced many difficult situations and marital conflicts, I still valued keeping the family together.... A year ago, my daughter confessed to me that her father had been sexually abusing her throughout her adolescence. I confronted him, and he confessed that [...]
Case 289
I work outside the city where I live with my wife and two children. I found work outside the city because I can make more money. All was going well until I went out one night. I met a guy who seemed to be trustworthy. We started out drinking, and ended up with prostitutes. I drank alcohol, I used drugs, and I spent all the money that I had set aside for my family. Now [...]
Case 288
I feel frustrated because I haven’t been able to conquer a habit that I’ve had since I was fifteen. I am now twenty-three, and I am addicted to pornography. I can’t avoid it.... I am a university student with very good grades. I have overheard parents setting me up as an example for their children; but only I know how I live, and I am fighting day after day to avoid this shameful habit. Dear [...]
Case 287
I’m a twenty-eight-year-old woman, and I had a boyfriend for five years. However, after that, he tricked me, and less than a month later he was already with another girl. He is still with her. I have fought to let him go in my heart, but I have a lot of fear that, because of my age, I will never have the chance to get married. About a month ago, my ex-boyfriend called me, saying [...]
Case 286
I have been married for more than two years, after five years of going together. We love each other deeply, and a year ago we decided to have our first child. Our baby girl was born three months ago, and we’ve really fallen in love with her, but our relationship as a couple has suffered. We almost never talk about us anymore, and no matter how much I want to get close to my wife [...]