Q: I am worried sick about my daughter and 2 yr old granddaughter. She is in an abusive marriage but will not leave for good. They have been separated many times — the last time after she found him in a bar with a woman. Last week she called the police after he came home [...]

Q: Can you help me understand what is happening with my best friend? She can’t seem to get over her past relationship. She started dating that guy 4 years ago. It lasted for 2 years, but in reality it was healthy for only 3 months; the rest of the time the guy would just avoid [...]

Q: I’m a university student who has been tentatively diagnosed with C-PTSD for some time now. The therapist I originally went to had said that she’d just call it that because it’s nice to have a name for something and, frankly, she couldn’t find anything better — a working diagnosis. I switched therapists some time [...]

Q: I was recently reading through Joe Carver’s ‘Are you dating a loser?’ document. I have been in a relationship on and off with a woman for about 1.5 years. We both love each other very much but often have conflicts, some of which are often very toxic. I realize that my history and behavior [...]

Q: I am desperately concerned about my 19-year-old daughter. She has been dating a 17-year-old boy for a little over a year and a half. I never liked, but rather tolerated him during most of that time. There were many incidents with him involving drug use on his part. He was selling drugs, he is [...]

Q: I have a major problem. My mother and stepfather got married when I was 6 years old. My dad abused me from the age of 6 until I was 15. He also abused my mother physically, and most of the times they were drunk and jolling and sleeping around with other people. I left [...]

Q: Why am I so concerned with the fact that my ex husband is dating a divorced mother of two children? He was abusive to me and my two children, but not with the child he and I had together. I feel sorry for this new woman. I want to contact her to say stay [...]