He is 30 years old, not a teenager who didn’t know what he was doing PROBLEM: I am a foreign woman, 30 years old, in a relationship with an Irish guy for almost a year. I just discovered that I am six weeks pregnant and he is freaking out. First he got scared but said that […]
I just pushed the memories down. If they got too much for me, I self-harmed until the physical pain distracted me from the emotional pain PROBLEM: Just over 10 years ago my father passed away very suddenly. In the space of just over an hour he went from sitting on an armchair watching television to lying […]
After I was hospitalised in a psychiatric hospital, I did not return to nursing, as I did not like how I was treated as a patient. Now I do nothing all day but watch TV, eat and sleep PROBLEM: I’m wondering if you can help me. I’m 33, live at home with my parents and do […]
He responds with one-word answers, grudgingly obliges if I ask for a kiss, and some mornings leaves for work without a goodbye PROBLEM: I’m struggling with my relationship with my long-term partner. When things are good, I feel like we really connect. Other times, I find him very closed-off emotionally. I don’t know what to do […]