I have a daughter with my girlfriend. We don’t live together. I have asked her to marry me, but she hasn’t accepted because she is afraid that her family won’t approve of me as her husband. She says that she loves me and would marry me... but she’s afraid that her family would look down [...]
I work in a hardware store that my dad owns. I like this kind of work, but there are some things that make me very uncomfortable, since there have been occasions when my dad has bought stolen merchandise.... And he doesn’t pay all the taxes that are required for his sales.... I feel like [...]
I have a thirteen-year-old daughter who came to live with me about twenty days ago. She has always lived with her mother, but her mom spends too much time at work and my daughter has always felt lonely.... She wants to live with me in order to have someone to take care of her and [...]
I had illicit relations with a married man and ended up pregnant, and had an abortion because I didn’t want my family to find out. From then until now I have continued to have remorse.... What I did is heavy on my conscience, and I am experiencing anxiety and distress.... I need your help because [...]
I have been married for fourteen years. During thirteen of those years I was faithful to my husband, but in the last year I was unfaithful with two individuals at the same time.... During this time I have been very anxious because I know that the punishment for sin is death.... My husband now knows [...]
I have started attending a Christian church, and I like the teaching and the activities. However, I have long-time friends who do things that the church does not approve of.... I don’t believe that those friends are bad people. As a matter of fact, I think highly of them, as they and their families have [...]
My father’s aggressive behavior during my childhood harmed me to such a great extent that now I have problems with my speech and in my nervous system. He treated my siblings, my mother, and me very badly. Now that I’m a teenager, I’m supporting him, with no hard feelings for the harm that he did [...]
Two months ago I started having sexual relations with my girlfriend. However, I am tempted to pay for pleasure anyway. I know that neither of those things is good, because we are not married, but I don’t know what to do. I want to stop this impulse that controls me. I feel like it is [...]
During the last four years of separation, the father of my daughters has not been faithful in giving me child support for my girls.... For that reason my parents and I made the decision to not let him see the girls. But I don’t know if I am doing the right thing. There are times [...]
I am devastated. I am thirty-five now, but I had a great childhood and was taught well, to the extent that I had never even touched a cigarette or any alcohol. I worked hard, as my parents taught me, so that at thirty, I already owned four businesses.... Two years ago I unexpectedly encountered the [...]
