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 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 single grandparent raising a granddaughter. She is 13 years old and it has been just the two of us all of her life. I have met a great guy online and we have been e-mailing and talking on the phone for a couple of months. My granddaughter is very rude to [...]
Q: My daughter is 19, and most of her friends have gone on to college. She has no interest in that right now so she’s working. Her new boyfriend is also 19 and has two children already, was fired from his minimum wage job, lives at home and just got his car repossessed. My daughter [...]
Q: I have a problem trying to understand my wife. She had a long affair, before we met, with a man that she knew molested his daughter from age 12 through her late teenage years. Finally the daughter got free from him. My wife insists this was a “very special relationship”. I call it sick [...]
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 [...]
Q: I am overwhelmed with the burdens and responsibilities of our household and I feel that if I didn’t take care of these day-to-day matters myself, we would have huge problems. Our bills are drowning us and the financial obligations keep coming. I pay all the bills, make sure our obligations are taken care of [...]
Q: I’m a psychology major at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, and I have some questions to ask about psychology. Before Valentine’s day, I received a e-mail from a friend, who said in the e-mail that he loves me dearly. But unfortunately, I had a boyfriend at that time and could not break the relationship [...]
