I have had the desire to kill myself for the past three years, because my life has been very difficult ever since I was a child. I started working away from home when I was seven, where they treated me like an animal. At age ten, I went somewhere else. They tried to abuse me [...]
My wife and I have three daughters, ages fourteen, twelve, and nine, who complain that their mother physically and verbally abuses them when I’m not home. But they beg me not to say anything to her because she will take it out on them when I’m not home.... I don’t know what to do. I’ve [...]
I am in a relationship with a man who is fifteen years older than I am.... The problem is that when he gets angry, he insults me, screams at me, and if I continue complaining about what he has done, he hits me.... I don’t know what to do. We have a daughter who is [...]
I have bitterness in my heart toward my stepfather and toward my mother, and this weighs on my conscience. Since I was a child, I grew up believing that my mother paid more attention, and gave more care and love, to my stepfather than to my sister and me. I truly believe that she neglected [...]
I have been married for one year.... I knew that my husband had a six‑year‑old daughter whose mother had abandoned her when she was eleven months old.... I started using the past against my husband. We did a lot of arguing. I threw dishes around in front of the little girl.... Things have gotten better [...]
I was eight years old when a boy of about seventeen sexually abused me. I didn’t tell anyone, not even my mother. Since that time I cannot trust men. I am now twenty‑one years old. I have a lot of male friends, but I can’t stop distrusting them, for I have a lot of fear, [...]
Two years ago I began a relationship with a guy from my school. My parents did not approve of him, but I continued seeing him secretly. In this last year, he has been angry a lot and he takes his anger out on me.... Two and a half months ago, I found out that I [...]
I want to ask your advice as to how to solve my problem. I've been living with my partner for four years, but it's been very hard for me to accept how he acts, mostly his bad habit of using vulgar language all the time. It's as if he doesn't realize how much he does [...]
I am now twenty‑eight years old. Twenty years ago my father sexually abused me. It went on until I was ten years old, when my younger brother told my mother what was going on. (My father threatened to kill himself if I told anyone.) When my mother found out about the abuse, I thought she [...]
I suffer from rage, and I brutally beat my three-year-old son. I am sorry; but when I am angry, I can't control myself. Help me! I don't know what to do. I always promise myself that I won't do it again, but then I fall back into the same pattern. Dear Friend, King Solomon, one [...]
