Q: I would be grateful if you could answer a question that has been puzzling me for some time. Almost without exception, with every person I know that suffered abuse in childhood, when they talk to their parents about it as adults, their parents deny it ever took place. Why? In the case of my [...]

Q: “As an adult they [people with a personality disorder] now know only know how to relate to others with intimidation, threat, anger, manipulation, and dishonesty. This defective social style continues, even when those around them are socially skilled, concerned, accepting, and loving.” (Understanding Personality Disorders in Relationships, page 3) This quote from your article [...]

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: 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: 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: Several of my brothers and sisters, including myself, feel our mother (89 years old) is suffering from severe undue influence…perhaps even Stockholm Syndrome…at the hands of our oldest sibling, a sister who is 68. This feeling has been around for many years although it has gotten stronger since our oldest sibling (female and single, [...]