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 [...]
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 [...]
Not long ago I became the father of a beautiful baby, even though I am not married to her mother. She is the best woman that I have ever met, but I am the problem, having had a lover from a nightclub at the same time. I feel very dirty and weighted down. I fear [...]
Five years ago, I met a man that I fell deeply in love with, who was separated from his wife and had two sons. As a result of this relationship, we have a two‑year‑old daughter. In spite of the fact that we have a daughter, we go on with life as before when we fell [...]
I was married for fifteen years, with two children... before my husband abandoned me.... About five years ago, I began a new relationship. I have four grandchildren now. It turns out that my partner doesn’t like for them to come to my house, and that hurts me a lot. I have tried to talk to [...]
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 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 [...]
