My niece and I grew up together, and I think of her as a sister. We still live in the same home. Lately I have felt that she is annoyed and resentful towards me. A few days ago, I went to apologize to her in case I had offended or hurt her in any way. [...]
I have a brother whose wife left him because of physical and emotional abuse.... Now he’s living with another woman.... He is a macho manipulator.... Right now, both my brother and I live with my parents. All my life he has verbally abused me.... The last time he assaulted me physically. I have chosen [...]
I have had arguments with the father of my daughter because I haven’t been able to forgive him for doubting, when I was pregnant, that he was the biological father of my child. Now he has started seeing our daughter again, but... even though everything is all right, those memories plague me day after day. [...]
When I was five years old, my mother got together with a man that she met at her workplace. As the months went by, he began to sexually abuse me. I told my mother twice, but she never did anything about it. Instead, she married the man and had a child with him. Now I [...]
My father sexually abused me when I was a child.... Because I am a follower of Christ, I know that we are supposed to forgive. I have done everything I can to forgive, to the extent of attending family gatherings and still treat him as my father. But very often I can’t help but feel [...]
When I was barely fourteen years old, my stepfather would get my mother drunk and then come into my room to touch me inappropriately and convince me to do indecent things. As a result, I got married before turning fifteen. I am now twenty-five years old, and I still hate my stepfather the same as [...]
I was married for fourteen years.... After five years of marriage, my husband was unfaithful to me, and became an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. Even so, I stayed with him until the day that he touched my older daughter inappropriately. That day I left him for good. I didn’t want to know anything about [...]
When I was twelve years old, my parents got divorced because my father abused my mother so badly that a judge issued a restraining order preventing my father from coming to our house or seeing us. About three years ago, my father contacted me saying that he wanted to talk to me and meet my [...]
During my childhood I was sexually abused by various members of my family on numerous occasions. Every time I would tell my mother, she would tell me that I deserved it because I was a dirty girl and a liar. She would always make me think that I had imagined what had happened, as [...]
I have felt the need to change religions, and the family is opposed.... I have come to know Christ in a personal way, and I am happy about it, but my in-laws are judging me for my decision.... I don’t know how to respond to their attacks because I love them, but they hurt me [...]
