I am eleven years old and my sister is twelve. For more than three years my dad and mom have argued. They fight about silly things, like that the water is dripping or that my mom leaves a wrinkle when ironing. I feel badly that my dad insults my mom, and I don’t know how [...]
I am about seventy‑five pounds overweight. My life is a disaster. I don’t go out of the house. My children beg me to take them out, and I tell them no, that they are crazy if they think I’m going out looking like this. I don’t pick them up at school because I don’t want [...]
My husband and I are a young couple. He is twenty-six years old and I am twenty-three. We have been married for six years and have two daughters. The problem that we have in our marriage is my father. He won’t let us make our own decisions. Instead, he ends up making them for us. [...]
After ten years, my daughters (ages ten and fifteen) and I left our homeland to live together with my husband (their father). My husband and I had agreed that it was best to live apart during those ten years so he could work in a foreign country, losing our family unity as a result.... Now [...]
I am the daughter of a single mom. When I was three, my mother married a man who is not my father. Now I am married and pregnant. There are problems in my marriage, and my mother says that I will pay tears of blood with my child, the same as she had to do [...]
I am a twelve‑year‑old boy. I have felt very badly ever since my father abandoned us about eight years ago. I am sad to not have him here with me. When I ask my mother why he left us, she says that he went to [another country] to work so he could send us money; [...]
The relationship between a mother and her children should be the best that any person can ever expect to have. In spite of this, during my whole life my relationship with my mother has not even been good, and it started to deteriorate to a greater extent during my teenage years, when I was between [...]
