The following questions are related to ‘Bereavement’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My mother-in-law is very near death, perhaps within weeks. We have had a very combative relationship from the first day my husband brought me to meet her over 28 years ago. She has never accepted me. What I have had the most difficult time with is accepting my husband’s complacency about the friction between [...]
Q: I am a 49-year-old man, twice married, twice divorced. I am presently living in a long-term relationship, a marriage in all but paperwork. Both marriages ended after my spouse had an affair, and I struggled to lose my feelings of love for my second wife in particular, whom I will call ‘Rose’. I have [...]
Q: Over the past few months, I have found myself either submerged in depression or consumed with anger over issues that would appear inane to most people. For instance, I got irritated when a friend who learned that I was jogging again suddenly decided to take it up, too. And my painstakingly-planned holiday became the [...]
Q: My husband and I are having a difficult time with his mother. Four years ago, his parents divorced. They always had a very volatile and abusive relationship and finally broke up when his mother left his father for the neighbor across the street. There was a lot of lying and blaming about things, and [...]
