Case 258

Family, Lying|

My older brother and his wife have three sons and two daughters.... My brother constantly asks his children for money, even though he is not destitute, for he has two houses that he owns and rents out while he lives in the house that our mother left when she died.... The second-oldest son has gotten into legal problems for driving while intoxicated as well as for other crimes, such as selling guns and drugs so [...]

Case 257

Adoption of Children, Small children (Discipline/Instruction/Care), Step-parents|

I met a single mother who has a beautiful little two-year-old son.... We have now been together for three years. I love her son very much.... I treat him as if I were his biological father... but my fear is this: He doesn’t know anything about this, so how can I tell him that I am not his biological father? ... I am afraid he is going to reject me in spite of all the [...]

Case 256

Romantic Relationships/Courtship (Uncertainty/Doubt)|

I want to break up with my girlfriend. I have tried to do it three times, but each time she has suffered a lot. I am confused because I don’t know what to do: whether to keep going out with her so she won’t be hurt, or break up with her because in my heart I just don’t feel the same love for her as before.... What is the right thing for me to do? [...]

Case 255

Abortion, Forgiveness, Repentance|

I am twenty years old. When I was seventeen, I got pregnant with my first boyfriend and I had an abortion. I fell into a deep depression, blaming myself for my moral failure and my cowardice. A year later... I asked for forgiveness from God, my child, my ex-boyfriend, his mother and my mother, and I forgave myself. But I still dream about my child and imagine him or her at my side, I think [...]

Case 254

Adolescents (Discipline/Instruction/Care), Robbery / Fraud|

I am very worried, and I don’t know how to face or resolve this situation. I have a thirteen-year-old son, and a few days ago he stole a credit card from my husband’s niece to order parts for a skateboard on the Internet. He has lied to us about it from the start, swearing that he would never do such a foolish thing. He said we could call the police, for there was nothing to [...]

Case 253

Romantic Relationships/Courtship (Uncertainty/Doubt)|

I am twenty-seven years old. I have had a boyfriend for the past year and we are planning to get married. I love him a lot, and he says he loves me too, but when we fight it is because he doesn’t call me or communicate with me.... He says he is always thinking about me, but he doesn’t call me to make plans for seeing each other. I have to call him. Sometimes when [...]

Case 252

Divorce, Marriage (Spousal Abuse)|

I urgently need help! I filed for divorce from my husband... because of sexual abuse, infidelity, violation of human dignity, abuse, cruelty, lies, abandonment, and other reasons. A year and a half ago I moved in with my parents along with my three sons who are fifteen, seventeen, and nineteen years of age due to the continual abuse that we were subjected to, and the truth is that I feel more peace without my husband, [...]

Case 251

Absentee Parents, Parental Responsibility|

My case is full of mistakes that tend to get worse and worse. A year ago I found out that I was going to be a father.... But before my girlfriend gave me the news, we had a big fight and were separated for five months.... Because I was distraught, I found another woman to be with who helped me get through it. I promised to take care of her [and her daughter], and... we [...]

Case 250

Infatuation/Falling in Love, Singleness / Solitude|

I am thirty-five years old and single. I met a man who was recently separated from his wife. According to him, he was treated badly in the marriage... but the week that I met him, I overheard him asking another girl for her phone number. He asked me to forgive him, but not long afterward he gave a rose to another girl. I told him that I didn’t want to see him anymore, and to [...]