The following questions are related to ‘Boundaries’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: I have a friend who I think has histrionic personality disorder. We’ve been friends for several years. However, we live far away, so it was hard to spot a problem at first. She’s extremely clingy and even creepy sometimes. She makes random, hurtful comments towards me. She constantly tries to undermine my intelligence in […]
Q: My boyfriend has been spending a lot of money lately on an online poker game. Right now he’s broke, and he only told me now because he was so ashamed. I’m glad he told me. I told him I would help him, and I didn’t get mad but WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? […]
Q: I have been in a common-law marriage for five and a half years. My fiancé is widowed, and I found out approximately a year ago that he has been keeping in touch with an ex-girlfriend that he cheated on his wife with (he dated her before he married his deceased wife, and I believe […]
Q: I have recently become engaged to my partner of 5 years and moved to a different country for an excellent job opportunity for my fiancé. Recently we visited my family and stayed with my parents, and we ended up having arguments before the holiday was up. My fiancé and I have no intentions to […]
Q: My father and I get into arguments occasionally. He always brings up irrelevant things like “I do nothing around the house,” and “I don’t appreciate the things he does.” Yet I do do a lot around the house. They may not be big things, but they help. He always tells me after I take […]
Q: My boyfriend and I have been together for 16 months, and I love him more than anything. (We are both only 17.) I have never told him a lie that would hurt him, not like the one he told me. He was in Mexico this past summer for two months and he had a […]
Q: My girlfriend of two and a half years just left me over the phone. Three days after we broke up, she found a guy who “makes her feel like I used to”. I know I’m not perfect, but I tried my best to make her happy in every way that I could. I know […]
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