I have been married for one year.... I knew that my husband had a six‑year‑old daughter whose mother had abandoned her when she was eleven months old.... I started using the past against my husband. We did a lot of arguing. I threw dishes around in front of the little girl.... Things have gotten better [...]
About a year ago, my boyfriend broke up with me. Two months later he told me he wanted us to get back together. But during that time, he met another girl and got her pregnant. He asked for my forgiveness and to give him another chance, and I did. Two months ago the baby was [...]
I have cancer, and it has crossed my mind that I should introduce my husband to one of my friends. She has a daughter who is ill, and she has told me that her income is not adequate to take care of her child. Since I am dying, I think my husband would be the [...]
[One day] when I was fourteen... we went to my grandmother’s house, and my father left me in charge of taking care of my brother, who was only four years old.... My dad said he would come back and pick us up, but he didn’t because he was tired [and fell asleep at home]. I [...]
I was eight years old when a boy of about seventeen sexually abused me. I didn’t tell anyone, not even my mother. Since that time I cannot trust men. I am now twenty‑one years old. I have a lot of male friends, but I can’t stop distrusting them, for I have a lot of fear, [...]
I have a twelve-year-old daughter with very bad behavior. Since I work and she has to stay at home alone, I worry that she is allowing other children to come into the house without my permission. She has been seen kissing a boy I don’t know, and she is seeing things that are not appropriate [...]
I have been married to an alcoholic for eight years.... A while back I met a man my own age on the Internet, and I thought I was madly in love with him. He took advantage of the situation and asked me for money, and on many occasions I gave him what he wanted. But [...]
I have a thirty-year-old daughter who was widowed and left alone with two daughters. After her husband passed away, her father and I asked her to move into our house... because we wanted to help her out. Four years have passed, and my daughter is still living at home with us. Although she is no [...]
I am a thirty‑six‑year‑old single woman with no children.... I am extremely timid and insecure. It embarrasses me to speak to others and, when I do, I think they are going to laugh at me. I have tried to be more self‑confident and to not be distrusting of others, but I can’t. At times I [...]
I have a six‑year‑old niece who doesn’t like to stay at home with her parents and hates to sleep there. The girl’s father is my brother, who is three years older than I am, and the truth is that he harassed me sexually from the time that I was a very young child until just [...]
