I suffer from ludopathy. Because of the vice of gambling in casinos, I lost my job, got into debt, and gambled everything away. I still gamble with the little that I earn. I have a family, but I keep doing the same thing and can’t find a way to extricate myself from it. Dear Friend, [...]
When I was about five years old, my father sexually abused me many times. No one in my family ever found out, and this is the first time that I am telling anyone about it. I already forgave my father, but because of him I am very distrustful about having a romantic relationship. I don’t [...]
For five years I have had a girlfriend in another country. I have been saving money so that I can move there and make a life with her. However, lately my savings keep running out. It seems like there is always something that keeps me from getting ahead and reaching the monetary goal necessary to [...]
I was born when my birth mother was very young. From the beginning, I was told that my grandparents were my biological parents. It’s just that when my biological mother got married, I stayed with my grandparents and have always called them Mom and Dad. However, sometimes I feel like my grandmother treats me and [...]
I received a friend request on Facebook from my father, whom I have not heard from for the past thirty years. When I was seven, he abandoned us for another woman and the family that he made with her. I overheard him asking my mother to tell us that he was dead and that we [...]
For a while I’ve been feeling that I’m being treated unjustly at work. Several detrimental decisions have been made regarding my work, which I believe are due to my having responded honestly, and negatively, on a survey about my boss’ interaction and communication with me. I’ve been a good worker, I never miss a day, [...]
I am the mother of two beautiful children and have been married for twelve years. But I have resentment in my heart against my husband. We lived with my in-laws for ten years. They treated me very badly: my father-in-law as an alcoholic, and my mother-in-law as a gossip and troublemaker. My husband never took [...]
A few months ago, I moved to another country to live with my father. I am twenty-two years old, and my parents divorced twenty years ago.... My father is now with another woman, but he continues to loathe my mother. Ever since I moved in with him... he has become very violent. He hasn’t actually [...]
My wife and I have been separated for two years. We have a two and a half-year-old daughter. It hurts when I visit my daughter and have to leave her again to return to my own home. I have wanted God to change my heart and help me not to feel resentment and unforgiveness. But [...]
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 [...]
