Q: I was married for 3 years to a man I dated for 8 years. He was extremely verbally abusive and would have anger outbursts at home and break things. He would also drink, and then lecture me for hours on how I did this and that wrong, and how I wronged him in this [...]

Q: I am a 27-year-old female that comes from a family where my parents were married for 20 plus years, ending in my dad leaving my mom for a younger woman. My father has been diagnosed as a sex addict and has had many sexual affairs while being married to my mother. My parents went [...]

Q: I’m dating a guy who has been separated from his wife for 7 or 8 years and together they have 5 kids. He and I just had twins this year. I have two kids by another person. She recently moved down the street from us and it’s a problem for me because we (the [...]

Q: My husband and I have been married 16 years and have one child together. Five years ago I confronted him with (what I deemed to be) an inappropriate relationship with a male co-worker. He emotionally admitted that he was bi-sexual and had known about it since he was a young boy. At this point [...]

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 was deeply in love with a girl when I was 16-18 years old. The family moved away and I was never able to finish the relationship. She got pregnant and was married and I went on with my life. After 32 years of marriage I had a dream of her. I was unhappy [...]

Q: I have been married to my third husband for almost 15 years now. I had fallen in love with him when I was just 14. We both married others, more than once, before we got together. He had been married 4 times before (twice to the same woman) and I had been married twice [...]