Q: I have been married for two years, but my husband and I dated for eight years before we were married. My husband used to have the typical “alpha male” qualities such as leadership and confidence. He used to lead a club and was very respected by the members. These are the qualities that I [...]

Q: I have a problem. I over-analyze all the relationships I get into, constantly thinking that if I don’t hear from them, or they don’t respond to me the way they did at the very beginning of the relationship, they must be losing interest and don’t really see me as someone they could be with [...]

Q: I am a 25-year-old male and have a 23-year-old girlfriend. We’ve been together now for the better half of a year and things are going very, very well except for one thing. I simply cannot stand my girlfriend’s best friend. Without going into too much detail, this girl hits my every nerve. It’s the [...]

Q: I have thoughts of killing people on a daily basis. I’ve tried pushing them aside, but they won’t go away — and I feel like one day I won’t be able to hold the monster inside anymore. What’s wrong with me? A: There is not enough information contained in your question to even hazard [...]

Q: I’m a 21-year-old college student studying music, and I’ve been dating a 34-year-old man in the process of divorce for a little over two months now. It was going quite nicely up until a few weeks ago when he decided he needed space and stopped talking to me. We met online and started talking [...]

Q: Last month I broke off a long-term relationship that I had been in for two and a half years. My boyfriend was very neglectful of me and was also what I would call passive-aggressive. For some reason, I had an exceptionally hard time ending this relationship. Now that I’m out of the relationship I [...]

Q: I want to work on breaking down my emotional barriers. About eight years back, I was cheated on by my first love. He was my first boyfriend, and it took me quite some time to recover from the emotional wound he inflicted. I’ve had better long-term relationships since then, but I’ve built up emotional [...]