I am depressed and I don’t know how to get over it. I have no desire to go on. I don’t want to live anymore. I want to die. I’ve tried to commit suicide, but something always stops me. I feel that I have a miserable life. Dear Friend, We are very thankful to hear [...]
I have a younger sister who has always had a strange attitude toward me. She constantly boasts about her intelligence and memory while subtly denigrating mine. She doesn’t just do this with me, but also with others who are family or friends of hers. As I get older, I feel less tolerant of her and, [...]
I am thirty-nine years old. I love my boyfriend a lot, but he treats me very badly. He calls me the worst names that you can imagine. He shakes me violently... and never apologizes. I love him so much that I make up with him instead. I’ve tried to break up with him, but I [...]
I am twenty-one years old and a law student. Since childhood I have always been timid.... I have not had a girlfriend because I am not very sociable. I don’t like to fight or argue, and I always try to overlook others’ offenses.... Ever since the fifth semester of my program they began to require [...]
I have lived outside my country for twelve years, and during that time I have been sending money to my parents to help support them. The first few years I was sending almost all that I earned because my mother has always had a lot of debts.... Then I sent some savings for her to [...]
I am twenty-nine years old.... I became good friends with a woman... and then I decided to let her know that I love her and ask her to do me the honor of becoming my fiancée and then my wife. She answered that she needed some time to think about it and get counseling. However, [...]
I am twenty-four years old and I have been married for four years. For the past year my husband has been unfaithful. These have been very difficult times, and I have become depressed. My husband has distanced himself from me. We still live together, but in separate rooms. I feel like he’s being unfaithful for [...]
I have been married for twelve years. Recently I started communicating in writing with three young women. Nothing sexual happened, but we did have affectionate conversations. It felt like they were with me. I had lunch with one of the young women and helped her to move. My wife found out and wants us to [...]
I am fifty-six years old. I got married when I was seventeen and we had four children.... My husband was always unfaithful to me. My children grew up, and I got a divorce when they were teenagers. I worked very hard at up to four jobs at a time so that my children could become [...]
Not long ago I decided to let Christ take control of my life, but since then I have experienced an avalanche of confrontations in my home. My wife discovered that I had been unfaithful, and she is now distant. I love my home. I have left the other woman, but she won’t leave me in [...]
