The following questions are related to ‘Divorce’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for over two years. He has two children with his ex-wife, whom he has been divorced from for seven years. His ex-wife constantly sends him verbally abusive texts, letters, and voicemail telling him what a loser he is, that he is an awful father, that [...]
Q: What is the success rate of a second marriage to the same person after being divorced for X years? (Keep in mind that she remarried and six months later had it annulled, while he dated regularly but deals with continuous guilt about the absence of his children.) A: The rate of success does not [...]
Q: My daughter is two and a half. Recently she completely changed. She is aggressive to my 9-month-old son to the point where I have found her trying to feed him bathroom cleaner and nail polish. She is destroying everything she possibly can. Her dad left just before Christmas and ever since things have grown [...]
Q: I have a 17-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son. My husband is verbally abusive to my daughter, and he often calls her “stupid”, “idiot”, “worthless”, and “a brat.” He has been this way since I married him. My husband and son are very close and rarely does he verbally abuse him. He mostly abuses my [...]
Q: For some time now, everything seems to have been falling apart. My father left when I was four and my mother remarried a few years later to my stepfather. My stepfather had an alcohol problem: every time he drank, he verbally and physically abused my mother, even after my mother became pregnant with his [...]
