Tell Me About It: Plan to emigrate and open cafe in Spain with lover hinges on trust PROBLEM: I am a woman in my late 50s and I have one son in his mid-20s. I have always found it hard to trust people and the only long-standing relationship that I ever had was with my son’s father. […]
Tell Me About It: My bosses gave me no sympathy when my alcoholic husband died, leaving me in a lot of debt PROBLEM: I am a middle-aged woman. Three years ago my husband passed away suddenly leaving me in a lot of debt. On reflection now, I can see that he was an alcoholic and had […]
Tell Me About It: He was never really there for us as children and he regrets it now but my mother and siblings are still very angry PROBLEM: My parents separated when I was a small child and my mother worked very hard to bring up the children on her own. My father’s job meant he travelled […]
Tell Me About It: I find myself staying in a relationship that is impacting on my emotional health and I feel so desperate PROBLEM: I believe I am stuck in a cycle of being hurt and ignored in my marriage and I just feel the timing is never quite right to leave. I worry I won’t cope […]
Tell Me About It: Because of my partner’s behaviour I’m crabby, a roaring banshee PROBLEM: I am caught in a vicious and unhealthy relationship cycle. We have two children, but the relationship behaviours that I would deem abusive continue each cycle and I am not prepared to expose my children to this type of home life. […]