Q: I am a 23-year-old male who is often described as calm, laid back and very social by friends, family and coworkers. I’m usually very difficult to upset and am mostly logical about conflict. I recently purchased a pair of guinea pigs, and have spent a lot of time and effort to house them and [...]

Q: Today was a bad day! My mom sent me to cut onions, and I went to do it. Anyway, while I was doing it my dad started shouting at me because he noticed that I was not “smiling” while I was doing the work. I got angry and talked back to him saying that [...]

Q: Can you help me please? Growing up as a child from the age of 10 onwards, I was told on a regular basis that I was useless, worthless, fat, and disgusting. I was also told that I was breathing air that I didn’t deserve. No matter what I tried to do — whether it [...]

Q: I am getting progressively confused about my common law marriage of 5 years. We come from different backgrounds. I’m a quiet non-violent female who’s been abused by my father but managed to rebel against it, detach myself by moving away, and keep my identity and dignity relatively intact. My partner is from a family [...]

Q: My husband tends to throw fits and cuss and yell when when he is having troubles with something. He has never actually cussed and yelled at me or our son, but I still really don’t like it. It always seems to make the situation worse. It’s usually when we are working in the shop [...]

Q: My boyfriend and I have been together for three years. We’ve always had a long distance relationship, except for a short three month span over the summer where we lived in the same city but not in the same house. It seems that when he calls me every day I just seem to feel [...]

Q: I have a very close friend that even says he regards me as a brother, but recently we’ve been falling out a lot. I tend to do a lot of favors for him, such as simple ones like lending him money, to stuff like going back into town late at night to lend him [...]