Q: I’m caught in a cycle of manipulative behavior with my mother and my brother, and I don’t know how to break it. They live close to each other. I live 1500 miles from them. Mom: “When is your vacation time this year?” (Warning lights, but I can’t find a way not to talk about [...]

Q: I am a 22-year-old undergraduate. I have been raped twice by people I loved. Since then, I have found no reason to love anyone again. I tried getting into two other relationships but they did not work out. I hate myself so badly for all that is happening to me, and I can’t seem [...]

Q: I just discovered that my partner of three years has had at least an emotional and perhaps physical relationship with someone else for the past year. AJ travels for business and has plenty of opportunity to cheat while on the road, and although I know of a past affair she had while committed to [...]

Q: When I was nine my family and I stayed with my aunt and her two daughters. I’m female as well. One cousin is my age and the other is a few years younger. We used to lock the bedroom door and role-play as abductor and victim. The abductor would pretend to feel the victim’s [...]

Q: In the past, on and off, I would look at rather violent and deviant pornography. This progressed into looking at illegal pornography. It is hard for me to even admit the things I saw but I assume you can figure it out. Needless to say it was the worst of the worst. I would [...]

Q: I am a girl from Lithuania. I am a teenager, sixteen years old. Actually, I’m turning seventeen next month. I have always been on the social sites — since I was eleven or even ten! One day I signed up on a dating site and I chatted and talked with a lot of people. [...]

Q: I am 24 years old and am doing a master’s program. Last spring I went to a psychotherapy clinic for counseling. My counselor was extraordinarily beautiful. While in session, I experienced ‘transference’ feelings and told her that I was falling in love with her. She quit my therapy suddenly. I miss her a lot [...]