Q: I was married for 3 years to a man I dated for 8 years. He was extremely verbally abusive and would have anger outbursts at home and break things. He would also drink, and then lecture me for hours on how I did this and that wrong, and how I wronged him in this [...]

Q: My partner was extremely abusive toward me physically, verbally, and emotionally. I left about two weeks ago and your website has been very helpful in better understanding him. I still love him and it is tearing me up. It seems like when I was with him all I could do was think about how [...]

Q: I have a question about a roommate situation. I recently let my best friend move in with me because she had been moving from house to house, nothing was working out, and the last one was a very crazy guy, who actually made both of us feel scared and threatened to be around. I [...]

Q: I’ve always been curious about the classification of mental “illnesses.” I can understand why a condition would be termed an illness if it makes someone unstable enough to commit murder or cause other types of pain, but what about those situations of “abnormality” where the individual is happy? I was reading about “abnormal” personalities [...]

Q: Have never done this, so not exactly sure what to say. I was recently in a dating relationship that ended very badly. In fact, the relationship was unhealthy most of the time, but went from bad to good, then went to mostly bad. I am dealing with some depression from the situation and have [...]

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 [...]