I lived with my children’s father for eight years, but we never got married.... One day he left us for another woman.... For the past two years he has been living with the other woman and me at the same time.... Three times he has come back and then left again. Now he wants to [...]
I am a thirty-seven-year-old woman. I have been living with my boyfriend for three months. At first, everything was working out; but since then I have faced reality, and it seems like he has two personalities. When he’s angry, he yells at me, insults me, and humiliates me. It feels like he doesn’t love me, [...]
I have a two-month-old baby and I live with my mother. My baby’s father also lived with us, but three days ago he left. Now he wants me to go and live with him at his sister-in-law’s house, but I don’t want to because I don’t get along with her, and my mother is very [...]
I am a thirty-three-year-old single woman. I made an agreement with my partner that we would get married at the beginning of next year. However, just a month ago he was in an accident and the doctor said that it is possible he is now sterile, as well as other complications.... Now that he is [...]
I separated from my girlfriend two years ago. We had two children together. I still love her, but she lies to me all the time and her mother backs her up.... All they care about is what I have to contribute financially. She knows that I love her, and that’s why she taunts me. But [...]
I am twenty-five years old and I live with my boyfriend. He works far from here and comes back every couple of weeks. When he arrives, he spends the day doing favors for his siblings and, when he’s finished, he goes drinking with his friends and comes home in the wee hours of the morning [...]
I am in a relationship with a woman who already has two children with a former boyfriend. I too have three daughters from my previous relationship. We want to get married and buy a house where only the two of us would live. The house where my daughters live belongs to their mother, and my [...]
I am twenty-five years old and have a five-year-old son. About four years ago I met a man who was wonderful to me. He treated me very well, and promised me that he would be the father that my son did not have. Now everything has changed. He pays the utility bills and makes the [...]
I am a thirty-four-year old professional who is also a single mother of an eleven-year-old son. Three years ago I met a man who is now a forty-seven-year-old widower. He always says that he loves me, but he only seeks me out when he needs me to help him with his work, or when he [...]
I have an eight-year-old daughter. I never lived with her father.... I still love him, and that is why I have always told him that I want to live with him, but I am aware that he doesn’t love me and he has no desire to live together. That’s why I’ve never required anything of him. [...]
