Q: I’m a sophomore university student. It’s known that university students love hanging out with their friends and meeting up with new people and interacting with different types of people. But I’m not one of those students. I try my best to stay away from my friends and colleagues. I don’t try to interact with [...]

Q: Please help. How do you deal with a manipulative sister-in-law who has unrealistic expectations of sisters who have no natural children but do have children by marriage? Here is the situation. My brother and his wife have one child who has been spoiled beyond belief. He is now 28 years old, still lives at [...]

Q: I have a brother who is two years older: I am 56 and he is 58. He is single and has never had children. As a young teen and up to a few years ago, he was a rampant alcoholic. Now, he isn’t drinking, but his personality is very difficult to deal with. He [...]

Q: My older sister seems to enjoy embarrassing me in front of family and friends. She randomly brings up stories from the past and makes remarks about me. For example, she often tells people about the time I left the front door open and the dog got out or how I accidentally forgot to open [...]

Q: I am 13 years old, and I have dyspraxia; so has my 4-year-old brother. I always get bullied at school, and it stresses me out. At home I’m normally talking to my online friend who gets bullied too. A few years ago my mum decided to adopt my brother, and it was up to [...]

Q: I suffered abuse at the hands of my brother, including a three-year period of sexual abuse from the age of about six to age nine. All other abuse was verbal, emotional and physical, which lasted until he moved out of the house. I am 34 now and he is 40. We do not live [...]

Q: I have some things going on in my life that cause me distress but which I just can’t seem to control. The main thing has to do with my parents, specifically my mom. My mom has big mood swings and will go from being nice to totally catastrophic. I mean every couple of weeks [...]