Q: At the age of 37 I am the youngest of six children in our family. Our parents are still together and recently celebrated their 50 year wedding anniversary. To outsiders we look like a normal happy family but nothing could be further from the truth. Our father has always been abusive to our Mother [...]

Q: My wife’s drinking has gotten out of hand and she blames everyone but herself. The issue is it is getting worse: I found hard liquor under her bed, and she has been arrested for DUI. The real problem is she is refusing help. We have two daughters (12 and 19) that it effects. We [...]

Q: Ever since I had a baby (3 years ago) my husband and I lost our intimacy. I was too tired and sex went out the window. Now my husband feels lonely and left out. He even thinks that I don’t love him anymore. I really do love him and try to make some time [...]

Q: I have a boyfriend whom I love very much. We plan on getting engaged next summer and getting married a couple years afterwards. He recently just had a son with another woman who he had a relationship with before we knew each other. This is really hard for me to deal with. I don’t [...]

Q: My daughter is 19 (will be 20 in a month). She met a man online this past January and has been talking to him every day by telephone and computer. She now says she loves him and he loves her. He lives 3 hours away from us (we are in NY) and lives in [...]

Q: I know it is common for people not to get on with their Mother-in-Law, but I believe mine to be a spiteful, hate-filled, manipulative, evil bully of a woman, but to my wife, she makes out to be a victim, with the world against her and my wife is so under the thumb, that [...]

Q: My boyfriend of 13 years and I hit a snag in our relationship, both emotionally and physically, about 3 years ago. We stayed together and it was only within the past 6 months that I found out he had been seeing another woman and having an affair with her — I confronted him and [...]