Q: I need advice on how to handle my mother. My husband and I are having financial difficulties and had to borrow money from my parents. I thanked my mother. That was not good enough. She was upset and called my husband an “ungrateful @?!&hole” the day before I was to appear in court to [...]

Q: I have a 19-year-old daughter who lies about everything and steals from us. She has a boyfriend that is not very nice. Where do we begin with her? Her boyfriend is leaving for boot camp is just a few days. A: When we have a young adult who lies and steals from the family, [...]

Q: I’ve recently been promoted into a new position, but instead of being able to enjoy my recent success, I’m eternally feeling like a I’m going to be found out as a fraud…that I didn’t really deserve the promotion. This time, like many times in the past, I went into the position knowing I’d have [...]

Q: I have a 3 1/2-year-old son that loves to put all his toys and every toy in the house in a large pile and then crash/trash them all over the place. He doesn’t really play with toys on his own very much, he just throws them around, really. Then when we tell him to [...]

Q: A few months ago my husband, of 21 years, confessed to me that at a trade show in another state, 7 months prior, he had made out with the woman in charge of everything. The woman that everyone wanted but was too hard to get. He claims that he “just needed to find out [...]

Q: My beautiful 3-year-old grand daughter is such a handful! Her mother and dad are exhausted, and I can’t watch her for more than 2 hours without feeling somewhat trapped! My daughter says she will eat her own stools! I’ve not witnessed that but what she has done is strip in public, and holler “I’m [...]

Q: I have this feeling of a dream-like state. I always feel like I am dreaming or drunk. I went to my regular doctor and she ran a bunch of tests on me, but all came up fine. She sent me to a psychiatrist and she said I have some social anxiety. I don’t really [...]