The following questions are related to ‘Abuse and Trauma’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: I can’t imagine I’m the only one facing this type of challenge, but I’ve never seen a question like this asked on this site before. My mother was abusive to me. She was mostly mentally abusive, but the abuse escalated to physical abuse during my senior year of high school. When I was struggling […]
Q: I have a relationship with a physically abusive partner. We are involved (and met through) an alternative sexuality interest called BDSM. He would be considered dominant, while I am considered submissive. Rough sex and physical play is a given in our sexual life, and we enjoy it, but the abuse comes from anger and […]
Q: I am a 22-year-old female who has been in a long distance relationship with a 28-year-old guy for the past 10 months. I was going to be with my boyfriend in two months but he broke up with me today because he says he cannot stand my being around other guys. I have a […]
Q: I am 22 years old and in a four-year relationship. My girlfriend is two years younger, and at one point she had been living with my dad, step-mom, and brother when her mother and she were fighting. During this time (about three months), I later found out that my dad had raped her one […]
Q: I can remember snippets of my childhood, but don’t seem to recall a lot of it. That doesn’t really concern me — it looks like that’s quite common. What does concern me is this: I recently reconnected with a childhood friend who mentioned her wedding and that I was her maid of honor. Not […]
Q: My boyfriend and I have lived together for nearly five years. He doesn’t seem to fit the accepted profile of an “abuser.” He isn’t jealous and doesn’t seek to isolate me or control money. Still, he is verbally abusive, and his temper is genuinely terrifying: he throws/smashes things. He has hit me once, after […]
Q: My mother-in-law is very near death, perhaps within weeks. We have had a very combative relationship from the first day my husband brought me to meet her over 28 years ago. She has never accepted me. What I have had the most difficult time with is accepting my husband’s complacency about the friction between […]
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