Case 267

Absentee Parents, Parental Responsibility|

A woman told me that she had a daughter but had ended the relationship with the girl’s father.... We started seeing each other more, and she ended up pregnant. She told me that she wanted to get married right away, but I said that we should give ourselves some time to think about it.... When she was about three months pregnant, she went back to live with her daughter’s father. That was devastating for me! [...]

Case 266

Family, Work|

I am thirty-three years old and up until a month ago I had an excellent job that enabled me to support my wife, my children, and my parents. But the downside of the job was that it was outside of the country and I had to go six months at a time without seeing my wife and children. That is why I decided to quit.... After having made the decision, my mother and my sister [...]

Case 265

Romantic Relationships/Courtship (Uncertainty/Doubt)|

I am a single mother with a career.... I have been in a romantic relationship for about two years. My boyfriend is good to me and to my son. He asked me to be honest with him and to tell him everything from my past.... I feel that he is a demanding person. I haven’t told him everything for fear that he will treat me badly in the future because of the mistakes that I [...]

Case 264

In-laws, Romantic Relationships/Courtship (Uncertainty/Doubt)|

I have had a girlfriend for four years. Eight months ago she left for [another country] with her mother. Knowing that we are bound by love for one another with wedding plans, she is to return for us to get married. But now she wants us to live in her mother’s house after the wedding.... I have my own house in which I intended to live with my wife. I am not comfortable with the [...]

Case 263

Adolescents (Discipline/Instruction/Care), Step-parents|

I just got married, and my husband and I are having problems. I know that it is normal to have problems in marriage, but what hurts me the most is that one of the problems is my twelve-year-old son. My husband is not my son’s father, because when we first met I was a single mother. But I feel like my husband doesn’t like my son, although he didn’t show that until after we were [...]

Case 262

Death / Grief, Widowhood|

My fifty-five-year-old husband died of a sudden heart attack after thirty-six years of marriage.... He had chest pains and called me. I told him to go see a doctor, and he said that he would just take an aspirin. I couldn’t do anything: he died in my arms. I tried to revive him and gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but he didn’t come back. I have protested to God. I got angry with my husband [...]

Case 261

Death / Grief|

A little more than three years ago I lost a nephew. He was nineteen years old and died suddenly. While at the university, he fainted, and by the time they got him to the hospital he had already passed away. That hurt me deeply. I looked for help in the Word of God, wanting to find an answer [for how this could happen], for my nephew was a medical student and was a good guy. [...]

Case 260

Cohabitation|

I am a thirty-four-year old professional who is also a single mother of an eleven-year-old son. Three years ago I met a man who is now a forty-seven-year-old widower. He always says that he loves me, but he only seeks me out when he needs me to help him with his work, or when he wants to use me sexually. But he never calls to see how I am or to ask about my son, [...]

Case 259

Infatuation/Falling in Love, Marriage (Adultery/Infidelity)|

I had a girlfriend about sixteen years ago. I was deeply in love with her, but her parents broke us up. She later was married and had four children. I made a home with a woman that I didn’t love at the time, but now I do. My ex-girlfriend reappeared... a month ago. After a little research, I found her phone number and we started talking to each other and texting. Now the love that [...]