The following questions are related to ‘Divorce’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: I have been dating a great man, whom I love every minute, over the last 2 months. We have spent a lot of time together and have become very close. At the beginning of this relationship he asked me if I was in it for the long haul and I said I was and [...]
Q: My niece is 17 and is having serious troubles with her mom (my sister). She is trying to be an adult and get adult questions answered but her mom always say “I know” or “I’m working on it”. My sister will often dodge the question or get mad. For example, my niece has been [...]
Q: My husband has an ex-wife who leads a secret life. We don’t care what she does, except the son is now behaving like her. She has the son involved tightly in her life. He refers to himself as “we”. Like, “we decided…”. He is 21. When asked about who we is — it is [...]
Q: I feel like something is going wrong in my head. I’m currently taking 50mg of Zoloft daily for panic attacks. I’ve been taking it for about 3 months. My family physician had me on Paxil for several months for depression and then the panic attacks started. The panic attacks seem to be among the [...]
Q: A dear friend of mine is divorced and has a ten-year-old daughter. It was a nasty divorce and the parents are still very hostile to each other. The daughter alternates weeks with each parent, and she has her own room in each home. During the past year she has begun having panic attacks, and [...]
Q: What suggestions would you have for me? I need to translate the detachment points from your article on ‘The Loser’ to my situation. I’ve been married for 30 years to a passive-aggressive manipulative loser who has suicidal tendencies and is attention-seeking, watching every facial feature while he talks, gauging reactions. When I started working [...]
