Q: I am the 55-year-old twin sister of my brother, who still lives with mum. When we were about 17 years old he began drinking, and not a week has gone by since then that he hasn’t terrorised mum, dad and me. He has insane ramblings, his abuse is awful and he causes real terror. [...]

Q: My mother is three times divorced and currently in her seventies. She spends most of her time going to dances and pursuing ‘boyfriends’. She has never had much to do with children or grandchildren over the years. Now that I have teenaged daughters, she contacts them via e-mail and Facebook to talk about dating [...]

Q: I’m 19 years old; I was 18 when this happened. I had just broken up with my first love, whom I was with for over a year, so I was completely vulnerable and didn’t want to be alone. I met a guy right away and started dating him. About a month later, we were [...]

Q: I have met a nice man, but sometimes he has strange outbursts. I have tried to find more information on them, but I don’t know what they are called. During the outbursts he manically denies everything, lies, rationalizes — in all possible ways refusing to encounter the thing discussed. I know all of these [...]

Q: I am a 20-year-old Chinese girl studying in the Netherlands. During weekends, I work part time in a massage salon and that is where I met my boyfriend. He is 23 year older than I am and is a very decent man, but he has been living with his partner for 13 years and [...]

Q: My partner’s paternal grandfather sexually abused her as a child. For years she was the only granddaughter and kept this a secret, but when her aunt had a little girl, she didn’t want it to happen to her so she told her parents. She was twelve then. After that, she was blamed for not [...]

Q: I have been dating my boyfriend for three years now, and lived together for two years. We are both from separate small towns, around 25 minutes apart. We moved to the city, which is roughly three or four hours away. His parents are good people, they do a lot and are friendly. However, his [...]