It doesn’t seem to matter how much I stress to my boyfriend that it is platonic PROBLEM: I celebrated the first anniversary with my boyfriend recently. I love him but we have been having problems lately. Over the past number of months he has tried to alienate me from the group of friends I had […]
PROBLEM: My daughter is an inveterate liar and is getting worse. She has a lovely husband and wonderful children, two of whom are teenagers. Neither I nor her siblings enjoy spending time with her as, if you ask her a question, she can never give a straight answer, and if she does you never know […]
I want to meet the right person but I am so afraid of telling anyone I get intimate with about my lack of experience PROBLEM: I am a 23-year-old man and I have never had sex. This was not some ideological or religious choice. I am in favour of casual sex but I just have never […]
One day he tells me he can’t wait to see me, another that I’m a boring person PROBLEM: I have been in a relationship for 15 years with the same person. He is not from Ireland and for work reasons he decided to spend more time in his home country in the past two years while […]
He has dropped out of education and has lost his confidence, and I’m running out of energy PROBLEM: I have a 19-year-old son who started a post-Leaving Cert course in September 2014. I was pleased for him, as I knew he had an interest and a talent connected with the course. However, I found out a […]