Q: Alright, so I’m an 18-year-old female and I guess you could say I have ‘daddy issues’. I had a more or less absent father and he passed away just a few months ago. Ever since I started dating, every relationship I try and get into ends horribly because about two months into it, I [...]

Q: I am 32 and my father is 64. Recently my mom passed away and my father cries almost daily as soon as he thinks of her or remembers her. I know that this is because they were happily married for more than 38 years, but I would like my father to control himself more, [...]

Q: I’m 20 years old and I live in Chicago. My husband is away at school right now. Whenever he sees a conflict on the horizon, whether it be on the phone or elsewhere, he doesn’t speak to me for several days; runs away from his problems, if you will. This makes what could have [...]

Q: I lied about drug use to my fiancee and overall lover of 7 months. I gave her a ring and then shortly after relapsed using cocaine. I’m clean of it for 10 months. I’m entering day rehab, but she feels that our entire relationship is a lie and no matter what I say now [...]

Q: I lost my mother 4 years ago (brain cancer). I have a very cold relationship with my dad and we never actually talked about the situation. My problem is the following: once I have a girlfriend I seem to look for everything I do not have at home and look for what I lost [...]

Q: I am 34 years old. When I was 4 my half brother and half sister moved out…and never came back for years. They left me alone with him. He was the reason they left. So I was raised pretty much an only child. My mom worked 3rd shift as a nurse. She left before [...]

Q: I will try to be as brief as I can. I have barely tolerated depression for pretty much all my adult life (I will be 45 in two weeks), although looking back, it began prior to puberty. I am the third of four children and the youngest boy. To cut a long story short, [...]