Case of the Week

Case 61

2023-03-22T21:21:44-07:00

I am a thirty‑four‑year‑old man with a girlfriend. Things have not gone well for her. She was married to her first husband for only one year because he was unfaithful to her. Then she met another guy she fell in love with, but he was unfaithful to her as well. She has been very hurt [...]

Case 612023-03-22T21:21:44-07:00

Case 60

2024-04-12T14:25:54-07:00

A few years ago I divorced my husband because he is an alcoholic.... For two years we didn’t see each other, but then I agreed to allow him to exercise his legal right to visit our small daughter in the house where she and I live. I work very hard to support her because he [...]

Case 602024-04-12T14:25:54-07:00

Case 59

2024-04-12T14:26:42-07:00

I have a six‑year-old son who is very bright and extroverted.... He always asks me for money, but I hardly ever give him any (only when I can). He recently came home from school eating some ice cream, and I knew I hadn’t given him any money to buy it.... I checked his pockets and, [...]

Case 592024-04-12T14:26:42-07:00

Case 58

2024-04-12T14:27:31-07:00

About eight months ago I got a new job. I am the bookkeeper for a small business. The owner orders me to do things that are illegal, like change the amount of taxes that he owes and falsify the hours of the employees. Ever since I have been doing this, I have not had any [...]

Case 582024-04-12T14:27:31-07:00

Case 57

2023-03-22T21:19:12-07:00

A woman came to my house and gave me her three‑day‑old baby. My husband and I accepted the baby with high hopes, because until then we had not been able to have any biological children. Six months later, I became pregnant and was very happy... but when our daughter was born, my in‑laws began to [...]

Case 572023-03-22T21:19:12-07:00

Case 56

2024-04-12T14:28:45-07:00

I am about seventy‑five pounds overweight. My life is a disaster. I don’t go out of the house. My children beg me to take them out, and I tell them no, that they are crazy if they think I’m going out looking like this. I don’t pick them up at school because I don’t want [...]

Case 562024-04-12T14:28:45-07:00

Case 55

2024-04-12T14:29:35-07:00

My husband and I are a young couple. He is twenty-six years old and I am twenty-three. We have been married for six years and have two daughters. The problem that we have in our marriage is my father. He won’t let us make our own decisions. Instead, he ends up making them for us. [...]

Case 552024-04-12T14:29:35-07:00

Case 54

2024-04-12T14:33:47-07:00

My wife and I have been married for eighteen months and I am very confused.... I don’t understand why my wife has absolute control of the money that we both earn.... It bothers me a lot because we both work. Sometimes I think it was a mistake to have gotten married. The truth is that [...]

Case 542024-04-12T14:33:47-07:00

Case 53

2023-06-05T19:20:50-07:00

After ten years, my daughters (ages ten and fifteen) and I left our homeland to live together with my husband (their father). My husband and I had agreed that it was best to live apart during those ten years so he could work in a foreign country, losing our family unity as a result.... Now [...]

Case 532023-06-05T19:20:50-07:00

Case 52

2024-04-12T14:34:49-07:00

Ever since I had my daughter, I have felt a lot of anxiety. Sometimes I get up in the morning ready to do a million things, other times I don’t want to do anything; but the worst thing I feel is a lot of fear of what is going on and of dying.... I know [...]

Case 522024-04-12T14:34:49-07:00
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