I am thirty-three years old and up until a month ago I had an excellent job that enabled me to support my wife, my children, and my parents. But the downside of the job was that it was outside of the country and I had to go six months at a time without seeing my [...]
My older brother and his wife have three sons and two daughters.... My brother constantly asks his children for money, even though he is not destitute, for he has two houses that he owns and rents out while he lives in the house that our mother left when she died.... The second-oldest son has gotten [...]
I was abused when I was five years old. Growing up with alcoholic parents was a living hell. Now I am happily married.... However, my parents are still alcoholics. Now they are raising my younger sister’s daughters because she is a drug addict.... When I went to visit them today, I found my mother [...]
I am writing this message because I am very sad. My husband won’t speak to me because, without consulting with him, I co-signed a loan for my brother-in-law. I know that I should have consulted with my husband, but my sister asked me the favor because they need the money. I know that I did [...]
Two months have gone by, and I can’t find work. I have a one-year-old daughter and my wife. I feel frustrated, worried, and my wife has even said that I am a failure. I have been offered the opportunity to go illegally in search of the American Dream and leave my family. I feel so [...]
It all started when I told my mother that I was getting married. She disapproved of my marriage; but I didn’t listen to her and got married anyway.... From that moment on, my mother has been the cause of my problems because of her attitude, and I had to move away from home to live [...]
I was fifteen years old when I met my biological father. My mother got back together with him, and they got married. I accepted him, and all was going well.... But after a few weeks they had an argument, and my mother sent me to sleep at the place where my father had moved. [...]
When I was six years old, my parents argued a lot. My mother tried to kill herself many times right in front of my little sister and me. She wanted to die because my father had another woman and another daughter that was hers. We have gotten past those bad times, but we haven’t totally [...]
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 [...]
I am the oldest of nine brothers and sisters.... I always had the drive to have a successful career, but my family’s poverty put roadblocks in my way.... Many times I didn’t even have the money I needed to ride the bus [to school]. But in spite of the poverty, I kept striving toward something [...]
