The following questions are related to ‘Marriage’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I was reading about guilt with an affair. I’ve been having an affair for 4 weeks now. I’ve known this man for 2 years, and he’s tried to pursue me but I never gave in until now. It was only going to happen once. We have started talking everyday and meet twice a week [...]
Q: My husband’s young and pretty boss seems to have formed a romantic attraction to him. It is obvious to me, and he enjoys the attention (of course). His boss has begun using my husband as a confidant for her private life and sharing details. My husband spends most of his free time with me [...]
Q: I lost my virginity very painfully to my first boyfriend when I was 18. Sex was always painful with him, but he never forced me. He was mentally abusive and his mother was physically abusive to him. I am married now and told my husband that my ex was physically abusive without giving him [...]
Q: My question relates to the abuser (emotional/manipulator) being the father (my ex-husband) and the victim being my 7-year-old daughter (along with myself, as I now understand it, an emotional domestic violence victim)… I left the father just over a year ago (after 7 year marriage); I had wanted to leave for a few years [...]
Q: My husband every so often thinks I have affairs with other men (which is not true). I am his second wife and I don’t know if his thoughts about his first wife cheating on him were really delusional or if they really happened. But my question is how do I get a delusional person [...]
Q: I had suspected for a long time that my dad had been cheating on my mom via internet hook-up sites. Come to find out, my mom had long suspected the same thing due to unusual charges on the credit card, etc. Last weekend he failed to adequately cover his e-tracks on my sister’s laptop [...]
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 [...]
