Case 195
I am reaching my limit. I have been married for three years, and the problem is that my wife has a bad attitude and gets upset about things I don’t even know about. I am not the kind of man who argues, and I really do love my wife; but she seems to try to find whatever way she can to provoke me so that I will tell her to leave.... I want to hear [...]
Case 194
Many years ago I got pregnant (I was seventeen at the time) and had a daughter, whom I love very much. Four years later, I got pregnant again with another man, but that time I had an abortion.... Not a day goes by that I don’t remember and cry... and repent of having made that decision. Now I am seven-months pregnant and, thank God, my baby is healthy and growing normally. Every day I [...]
Case 193
I am twenty-nine, and have known my boyfriend since I was twenty-four.... We have plans to get married, because we get along very well. But recently my mother heard that my boyfriend is very aggressive, which is not true; that his maternal grandmother died from schizophrenia; and that his biological father beat his own sister to death, which I didn’t know and my boyfriend didn’t even know about. Now I really don’t know what to [...]
Case 192
I am a thirty-year-old man in love. A few years ago, I found out from an uncle that my girlfriend was raped when she was a child. About the time I told her that I love her, she confessed to me herself that a family member had molested her for a period of four years and, when she became a teenager, she ended up pregnant and her family took her to have an abortion. I [...]
Case 191
I am a twenty-two-year-old girl.... It all started where I work. I fell in love with a wonderful person, who is thirty-two years old. We started to talk, then go out, and then he asked me to have sex with him. I knew that I shouldn’t, because I dreamed of getting married; and yet I did: I lost my virginity to him. A year and a half passed during which we had sex two or [...]
Case 190
Seven months ago I married a man who had respected me while I was his girlfriend, but four months before the wedding, he began to act very aggressively and violently. He hurts me with offensive words and insults, and he also hits me when he is depressed or tired. He takes out all his anger on me, and then asks me to forgive him when he sees what he has done to me and that [...]
Case 189
I got divorced. I marked my children for life. I threw away eleven years of marriage, and all because of being selfish.... Now my ex-wife says that I abandoned them and ruined her life (even though technically the divorce was by mutual consent), and that I marked and ruined the lives of my children. I don’t respond; I just keep quiet.... I got married again two years after my divorce. I have now been married [...]
Case 188
When I was six years old, my parents argued a lot. My mother tried to kill herself many times right in front of my little sister and me. She wanted to die because my father had another woman and another daughter that was hers. We have gotten past those bad times, but we haven’t totally recovered. I don’t like it when my father flirts with young girls.... And... I don’t like it that my mother [...]
Case 187
We have now been married for seven years and have a six-year-old daughter.... For years... my husband and I were in an abusive relationship and our daughter was witness to all of it. When she was just three years old, she would sometimes beg us to stop fighting, but we just yelled at her and told her to be quiet while we continued fighting. Two years ago, God transformed our lives and we have tried [...]