Case 177
I am sixteen years old. When I was twelve, I came to live at my uncle’s house. Here there is a boy who unfortunately hates me. He says horrible things to me, and his mom backs him up. And my uncle can’t do anything about it.... I can’t go back and live at my mother’s house because a neighbor raped me when I was nine, and I’m afraid. The boy’s mother says that there is [...]
Case 176
After three years of marriage, my wife told me that she didn’t love me. Two years later, she said it again. After another four years, while she was pregnant, one afternoon she told me that she didn’t love me; but that night she was very affectionate. Then after the baby was born... we were at her parents’ house and she said she didn’t love me; but the next day she came home and has acted [...]
Case 175
I have a seventeen-year-old son. I have never felt that he loves me, but only that he needs me. He recently graduated from high school. After that, he moved in with his father’s family, who mean everything to him, even though his father took off and left us, and I have been both mother and father to him. The truth is my conscience is bothering me because maybe I was so busy working that I [...]
Case 174
I am married, and we have a beautiful baby who is two-and-a-half years old. When I get home from work, I want to spend all my time with my wife and son; but when I go to work, temptation overtakes me and I cheat on my wife with other women. I do it with the knowledge that it is wrong, and I would like to confess to my wife the damage that I am causing [...]
Case 173
In my third year of university studies, I had sexual relations with another man, and I have continued to do the same with other men since then. I don’t want to do it, and I ask God to help me; but help does not come. In 2009, my AIDS test came back positive. No one in my family... knows. I didn’t want to cause them that pain, and now that I’m going to die, even [...]
Case 172
Never in my twenty-five years have I met my father, but I have had some contact with his relatives.... A month ago I found him on a social networking site and I wrote to him, but he never responded. He has always denied being my father, and now that I have found out that he is sick I would like to meet him and find out a little about him, and at least be his [...]
Case 171
For the past eight years, I have had a pretty good relationship. We have had plans to be married for a long time. My girlfriend is the ideal person to share my life with and go together with into the future. However, I don’t know if it’s because of destiny or circumstances that we’ve had to postpone the wedding innumerable times, whether as a result of economic problems, housing, or family issues.... All of this [...]
Case 170
My relationship with my mother was very weak because she was an alcoholic.... It was so difficult that she eventually decided to move to another country. When she had been there for seven years, she got infected with AIDS and died. That was six years ago. I couldn’t go to help her, to be with her in her month and a half of suffering, or to bury her. I never saw her again. And it [...]
Case 169
My college-aged daughter has been going out with a guy. It is a secret relationship that bothers me because she has never introduced him as her boyfriend. I’m not sure if she is ashamed of him or what is going on. I don’t know how to counsel my daughter because I tend to criticize the guy, and that could hurt her feelings. I prefer to not bring it up. He would be the first boyfriend [...]