Q: I would like to know, in a marriage relationship is it wrong when one of the partners goes out with friends, and the other one who stays asks to be called at least once? Or if the person who stays has to call? A: What is right is what you two agree is right. [...]

Q: My husband of 3.5 years is causing me huge emotional pain. Our relationship is usually brilliant, with lots of laughter, fun, friendship, sex, cuddles, love, shared respect, shared hobbies — and then he does things which totally derail the relationship. I am on a roller coaster and my hair has started to fall out [...]

Q: This summer, I had a boyfriend. We loved each other very much, but before we created our relationship we had a talk about our past life and he was interested in knowing whether I have been in love before. I asked him the same question, and he said that he had a previous lover, [...]

Q: My husband and I were in our car after an evening out for dinner. Somehow his cell phone accidentally dialed his mother (he dropped his cell phone on the way out of the restaurant — I think that may have been when it happened). In the course of our conversation in the car we [...]

Q: My husband and I started seeing a counselor separately first, but last week was the first week we saw her together. During our first session together, the counselor asked my husband if he had ever cheated. He says, “Besides the cyber sex, no.” Then the counselor asked him to leave the room, so that [...]

Q: My husband and I have been married for a year and a half and have been fighting a lot the entire time. Almost once a month he threatens to leave or does leave. He gets very angry if I get upset at the way he talks to me in the middle of frustration. Then [...]

Q: I’m having issues with my mother. She has always been controlling and manipulative. Before, I used to do whatever she asked, even when I moved to another country to study for three years. Now I’m 21 years old and I’m getting married next summer. Since I moved back to my country I still live [...]