Case 231
I am a twenty-four-year-old man. I have been married for six months. My life is not going well because at times I feel good about my wife, but for days at a time I don’t. I have even asked God to separate us because I feel that she doesn’t love me. She treats me like a brother, and only what she says goes. Dear Friend, Thank you for telling us your story. Your adjustment to [...]
Case 230
I am a twenty-eight-year-old man with hopes and dreams of having a family and a wife to love and respect in the way that God has taught a man to love his wife. I have a precious girlfriend that I met a little over a year ago.... When I was a child my mother abused me a lot, and I grew up without a father because he abandoned us when I was three.... I have [...]
Case 229
My girlfriend cheated on me, and I found photos of her doing improper things with another guy. But she didn’t know that I had the photos, and I uploaded them to the Internet so that everyone, including her classmates, could see what she did. I hurt her... and now I’m sorry. Dear Friend, The Internet is a wonderful tool that has enriched our lives, but it can also be a destructive weapon capable of hurting [...]
Case 228
I married a twenty-six-year-old guy.... We planned to live in another country... and we were going to get a work visa through me.... A short while ago he left me... and then I discovered that he planned to marry me because I could get his visa. Now he is living with another woman.... How is it possible that a man can be so bad and heartless to marry only so that he can get something...? [...]
Case 227
My problem is Internet pornography. I don’t know how to put a stop to it. It really has tormented me for a long time.... I have researched and read books about sexuality so that I can conquer the habit, and I try to be consistent with the methods I apply; but I always fall back into the same old routine. I don’t know what to do. I have read the other Cases about this subject, [...]
Case 226
I have a nineteen-year-old son who smokes pot. When I found out, I worried about it a lot and thought that I could solve the problem myself by talking to him about it. However, my son has continued smoking marijuana, and has become very violent. I haven’t been able to get him to give it up, and he has even smoked it in our home. Before, my son was a different person, very thoughtful and [...]
Case 225
I am a twenty-four-year-old woman. My two brothers sexually abused me when they were thirteen and fourteen years old and I was between six and seven years old. I feel guilty because they would give me some money or a piece of candy and I never told on them. Please help me know if I am guilty, because I feel badly. But I have forgiven them. Dear Friend, I am glad that you asked about [...]
Case 224
My parents got divorced when I was young, and each of them began a new life. But my mother became very materialistic and authoritarian with her children, to the extent that if we don’t give her money or work to take care of her, she gets angry with us and treats us with contempt. It makes me very sad because I have my own home to take care of and I am unemployed at the [...]
Case 223
I am twenty-five years old and have a relationship with a girl who is twenty-one. She loves me and I know it, but she’s not good at showing it. She does things that make me very uncomfortable and, when I mention it, I’m always the bad guy. She’s too proud to admit it and expects me to be the one to give in to her. She complains because I’m not as thoughtful with her as [...]