I am the father of a beautiful two-year-old girl. I lived with my wife in her mother’s house. I was willing to live there because my mother-in-law is alone. Her husband left her, and her other child died.... My wife is now an only child, and her mother was very excited about my daughter’s birth. [...]
Two years ago, my husband was unfaithful. I forgave him and thought that would be the end of it, but there is a seven-month-old baby as a result.... I believe he’s continuing to communicate with her using the excuse of the baby. I feel let down by my husband. And I feel hate, bitterness and [...]
I have a son whose father left me for a younger woman at the time the child was born. Since then, even though I have a strong temperament and personality, I haven’t been the same again. I have struggled to be happy, not with another man but with my son and those around me, but [...]
My partner hits me all the time for no reason. Yesterday he slapped me because I was at my friend’s house. He is embarrassed of me in front of other people, and he even had a relationship with another woman for a while. I don’t have any relative to confide in, and my mother died. [...]
I fear what life has to offer. I see my parents get up each morning at five and return home each night at eight.... I see them worn out almost always and with no time for anything. That’s what I’m afraid of: having to live that kind of life. Every day when I wake up [...]
I am a twenty-five-year-old woman. Ever since I was a little girl, my parents brought me up in an atmosphere of lies.... Five and a half years ago I began a relationship with a guy... but he eventually broke it off because I lied to him... and I am very sorry for my attitude. Will [...]
I work in the maintenance of vehicles for a non-profit organization. I’ve been doing this for seven years, but recently I’ve felt powerless when the vehicles are authorized for use by people who damage them. When I don’t give authorization, these people go to my superior to get permission to use them. I have thought [...]
A year ago, my father passed away. He was a good father, though with many weaknesses.... My older brother invited me to go to the cemetery to take flowers to his gravesite, but my mother and younger sister do not think that we should do that. They interpret it as revering the dead. Would it [...]
I am twenty-five, and am in a relationship with a twenty-three-year-old man.... We love each other and have plans to get married; but I feel like it’s not yet time to do so, because we have always had problems in our relationship. He gets upset about things that I think are insignificant. For example, he [...]
I met a girl two years ago, and we started to date.... Now that we have plans to get married, she says that each of us should go to the church of our own religion and practice what we learn, respecting the beliefs of the other.... She feels like I don’t respect her beliefs and [...]
