The following questions are related to ‘Relationships’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I grew up as an only child with a mother who very likely has some sort of personality disorder. Her behavior put me under constant distress, which I dealt with by cutting as a teenager. There were very few friends I felt I could let in on my “big secret.” Now that I’m a [...]
Q: My brother has cheated on his wife numerous times, with numerous women including coworkers, strangers, one night stands, etc. He seems to enjoy sharing these stories with me, likely because he wants to brag about it, and he thinks I won’t spill the beans. What he doesn’t realize is that I pray he gets [...]
Q: My boyfriend and I have been together for 1 year now. We have known each other since we were in high school. After 17 years of not seeing each other after high school we reunited and fell in love. We do live together, but our sexual relationship has ceased. We don’t really make love [...]
Q: I have a question I’ve always wanted to ask a psychologist. Back in the late ’80s, I worked for a large animal clinic with a staff of veterinarians equally split between men and women. We had a client, a woman in her late 60s or early 70s, who apparently believed that women were inferior [...]
Q: I am 24 years old. I’ve just recently landed an amazing job and moved into a lovely house with my boyfriend, who is a great person, and treats me like a princess. I’ve achieved all this in the last year, since I stopped seeing my parents. Up until last year, I was constantly sabotaging [...]
Q: I believe my Mother has a personality disorder, and over the last year I haven’t been in contact with her or seen her. This has been great, as every time I see her or speak to her I revert to a childlike state. She is controlling and manipulative. She played my sister and I [...]
Q: My mother-in-law is self centered, manipulative, extremely lazy and feels it’s everyone’s responsibility to take care of her…except her own. When I met my husband he still lived with his mother and it seemed as if their roles were reversed, or that he had become a surrogate spouse to his mother. His mother and [...]
