Q: Lately, I have been feeling like a failure in my relationships. I have been married twice. My first marriage ended after 2 years; I have a son from that marriage. My second marriage ended after 15 years, but most of those years were both emotionally and physically abusive. I recently broke up with the [...]

Q: My boyfriend is in the army and is now deployed in Iraq. I met him online when he was still in Germany, and we’ve been in love with each other for 3 years now. A few months into our relationship, I found out he had a girlfriend in the US. He said he didn’t [...]

Q: My mother and I were very close. In fact you could say that she was my best friend. Unfortunately, she passed away in 1995. Lately I’ve been having dreams about her being alive and doing things with me in present time like she had never died. I just want to know why Im having [...]

Q: I have been in therapy for nearly two years dealing with childhood sexual abuse (CSA) issues. My problem is I still do not feel safe enough emotionally to take the therapy to the level I need to take it. My therapist and I talk about my problem of feeling safe in nearly every session [...]

Q: My wife and I have been married for 28 years. About 8 years into the marriage, she disclosed that she was sexually abused as a child. Up to that point, our sex life had been fairly active. In the last 6 years, our sex life has become virtually non-existent. Prior to that, my wife [...]

Q: I know what I’m about to say might sound ridiculous but I really need to share this concern with someone. Ever since I was little, whenever I’m by myself in a swimming pool that is either dark-colored or in the shade, I have this terrible fear or gut feeling that there is a shark [...]

Q: I have been struggling with guilt over some childhood behaviors for a long time and really need to talk to somebody. I’m a 19-year-old female, and when I was about age 9 or 10 I used to occasionally play with a girl whose mother was a friend of my mom. This girl was a [...]