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 [...]
When I was seven, an evil man paid me to have sexual relations with him. At that age, I did not have a clear understanding of what I was doing. My parents didn't know anything about it. It happened a few times until one day my father found out and tried to kill the [...]
“As a young girl, I was the victim of sexual abuse by both my father and my stepfather. As a result, I have had low self-esteem and suffered from depression, to the extent of having attempted suicide, and have had the tendency to hurt myself physically since I was a child.... I feel dirty on [...]
