Q: I’m a 21-year-old female and have been with my husband ever since I was 16 going on 17. Ever since we got married in 2007 we have been living with my mother-in-law. Last year we briefly rented an apartment, but we had to move out because we were laid off, so now we are [...]

Q: My 22-year-old daughter refuses to spend time with me and rarely calls me. She will neither accept invitations to do things with me nor will she invite me to do things with her. She lives within an hour of me and attends college. When we do speak, she shows no interest in what is [...]

Q: My son is 14 years old. He is stealing and lying. He started this behavior a few years ago, first with family only and later with outsiders, schoolmates, and now friends, too. He mainly steals money. I want to say that he is usually a good kid; he understands it is wrong and that [...]

Q: I have a situation in which I am uncertain what my responsibility might be. I am presently separated and struggling through a divorce from a sociopathic man not formally diagnosed but whom I firmly believe is a sociopath. He is without empathy and without a conscience. His main drive is to out-game whoever he [...]

Q: I am 23 years old and have been having some trouble. I realized about a year ago that my childhood was an abusive one. My father physically and verbally abused my brothers and me and is a pathological liar. He was abusive to my mother too, although I don’t recall it ever getting physical [...]

Q: I found this site when I was looking up information on blame and victim roles as well as on manipulation — because I have been very good at that in my life and have hurt a lot of people, including myself as a result. I now understand the things I did and the unhealthy [...]

Q: My next door neighbors have been driving us crazy with their horrendously irresponsible behavior. Here are some things they’ve done which are actually just the tip of the iceberg: They’ve been cruel to animals by locking a young dog in a kitchen day after day with perpetual whining until its distress caused it to [...]