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 [...]
My mom and dad fight a lot because my mom thinks that my dad has another woman, and my dad insults my mom. I don’t know what to do. I think that you can help me know what I have to do or what I should say to my parents. Dear Friend, Thank you for [...]
I am a professional.... For the past three months, my relationship with my father has been almost unbearable. I made the decision to pull away from him somewhat, because ever since childhood he has abused me verbally and physically. Now, instead of helping me grow as a person, professionally and even spiritually, he keeps criticizing [...]
I am a sixteen-year-old girl, and for as long as I can remember, my family has had a lot of problems because of my father.... He was unfaithful to my mother..., he insults me using very foul language, and he is very selfish. My mother takes care of all of us. She basically is both [...]
I am twenty-four years old, and this year I met my father for the first time. He abandoned my mother and me by moving to another country before I was even born. I can’t deny that I grew up with resentment toward him, but I had forgiven him. When I met him, I hugged him [...]
I am a thirty-two-year-old woman. Ever since I was a child, I have hated the man who says he is my father. I don’t know him and I’ve never seen him. From what my mother told me, he didn’t want me to be born. He asked her to have an abortion because he didn’t intend [...]
My mom has been a widow for the past twenty-five years. She has three daughters, including me. I helped her economically even before she was widowed, although I can no longer work because of a chronic disease.... A few days ago my husband lost his job... and now I can’t offer my mother any monetary [...]
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 [...]
My parents got divorced when I was young, and each of them began a new life. But my mother became very materialistic and authoritarian with her children, to the extent that if we don’t give her money or work to take care of her, she gets angry with us and treats us with contempt. It [...]
My mother gave birth to me when she was an unmarried teenager. I grew up in a household with a grandfather and uncles who are alcoholics.... In spite of the fact that my mother never hit me, she caused a gaping wound that is difficult to heal. She is also an alcoholic and, even though [...]
