I am twenty-four years old and have a Bachelor’s degree in public accounting. I have been going with my boyfriend for almost a year. He is doing his internship in medicine. I love him much more than I could have imagined. My problem is that he is arrogant and says things for shock value. He [...]
I got married without loving my wife. We have been married for two years. When we were dating, her companionship and friendship seemed to be sufficient for me to come to love her some day; but it hasn’t happened that way. I live frustrated because I didn’t have the courage to back out of getting [...]
I am a twenty-six year-old woman, and the only time that I saw my biological father was when I was six or seven years old. My mother and my maternal grandparents raised me. I suffered a lot over not having a father in my life.... He went to another country after the last and only [...]
I was married for two years. From the beginning of my marriage, my husband was very violent. He would hit me because of jealousy that was unwarranted.... One day he hit me and left. The same thing happened over and over again. It was a revolving door. When he would get angry, he would leave. [...]
I met a neighbor and allowed her to use my name various times to borrow money.... The issue is that she has defaulted and made me look bad. Neither she nor her husband nor her daughter will speak to me anymore, and I am left holding the bag with the moneylender. It has turned into [...]
I am thirty-one years old.... The problem in my life is the lack of money.... I got married a year ago, and I thought I would never have children; but now I am ten weeks pregnant and I want to put my baby up for adoption. I want to give my child a family that [...]
I had a good childhood, though we didn’t have much materially.... Now I am a professional, and I have a good job, a good husband, and a beautiful daughter who just turned two. We stagger our schedules so that we can take care of her. My boss commutes daily from another city, and now he [...]
My problem is that I’m thirty-nine years old, I’m single, and I don’t even have a girlfriend.... As a child I contracted polio, and my right hand and leg are affected. That’s why women don’t want me.... I can’t even get a job because I am handicapped. I am educated and have degrees, but even [...]
Seven years ago I had a lover who went on to have an intimate relationship with my oldest son. When I realized what was going on, I distanced myself from them. But after a few years, they found me and introduced me to their son, who I treated with the affection of a grandfather. Even [...]
Today I feel very badly, so very badly! I am the mother of two children, a daughter who is ten years old and a son who is two and a half. I punished and cruelly hit my daughter, and I don’t want to do it again. It was because she lied to me about her [...]
