Q: I am an 18-year-old girl heading off to college in a few months. To be honest, this is a moment I have looked forward to most of my life, mostly because it means I will no longer have to live with my critical mother. I feel like the way she acts isn’t aceptable, but [...]

Q: My mom moved to Arizona and stopped talking to me. But she continued to talk to a friend of mine, and now the girl talks to my mother all the time and calls her mom. My mom refuses to even say she loves me, but she tells the other girl she loves her all [...]

Q: My name is Rana, and I’m 17. I’m having trouble with my family. My dad doesn’t live with me, and my mum always beats me — really hard. She treats me like a 7-year-old, and I hardly leave the house. I’m just wondering: how can I build a better relationship with my mum so [...]

Q: I have recently become engaged to my partner of 5 years and moved to a different country for an excellent job opportunity for my fiancé. Recently we visited my family and stayed with my parents, and we ended up having arguments before the holiday was up. My fiancé and I have no intentions to [...]

Q: Please help. My son is almost 7 years old and has always been a very healthy, happy little boy. In fact he was the child that every book was ever written about. Until about a week ago… He came running into the house telling me about the story of Bloody Mary” and how they [...]

Q: My father and I get into arguments occasionally. He always brings up irrelevant things like “I do nothing around the house,” and “I don’t appreciate the things he does.” Yet I do do a lot around the house. They may not be big things, but they help. He always tells me after I take [...]

Q: I believe my father has Narcissistic Personality Disorder and am hoping to get advice on whether I should try to re-initiate a relationship with him, and if so, how. I figured out that my dad probably has NPD while I was in therapy about him — the therapist suggested that it fit, and from [...]