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Spiritual business

My wife and I have built a thriving business enterprise that employs 30 people. When we were a smaller company, it was easy to maintain…


Psycho chick no more

Whenever a guy rejects me after we’ve been going out—whether it was a serious relationship or a brief one—I get angry and lash out at…




Prodigal script

My younger brother, an alcoholic and former drug user, has seldom done anything right. I took care of his two children. In December 1999, sibling…


Just ask!

I’ve been a single mom for five years. Several times a week for the last two years, I have chatted with a wonderful man while…


Stop the argument

I am engaged to marry a man who is five years older than me. My problem is that whenever we argue, he talks down to…


Healthy Marriage 101

My fiancé and I plan to be married in July. I was excited until my aunt and uncle, who have been married for 31 years,…


How far is too far?

Why is it so scary for adults to think that people our age (15 and 16 years old) are having sex? Why is it such…


Step out of the story

My daughter and I have had a strained relationship since she was 4. Her father and I divorced after I learned he molested her. Eventually,…


Ask Joey

Going hermit My last boyfriend lied and cheated. I fell for him, I now realize, because I was lonely. I was also fired from a…


Cheating with porn?

My one long-term relationship ended bitterly when my then-boyfriend cheated. Since then, I have dated cautiously, so I am surprised that I met the man…


New Age fundamentalist

I was having a purely social conversation with my sister’s friend and it seemed that she responded to everything I said with a self-help book…


Basic courtesy

As a nurse, I have “crossed the line” by giving patients rides or buying them food. I befriended a former patient with a terminal illness…


Too young to flirt

I have twins, a boy and a girl, who are in the fourth grade. I am concerned about my son because the girls in his…


Absentee parenting

My brother is a lousy dad to his 14-year-old daughter. He divorced her mother about 10 years ago and married a woman with three young…