Tell Me About It: ‘When I put a picture on social media nobody makes nice comments’ PROBLEM: I am 21 years of age and while I don’t have a fear of relationships, I just can’t get into one. As I was growing up boys never tried to chat me up, they always moved very quickly to […]
Tell Me About It: ‘Since her death, I’ve revisited incidents and feelings I had as a child’ PROBLEM: My mother, who passed away some years ago, was very demanding and difficult to get on with. I was never good enough. Any problems I shared were turned around and I was accused of hurting her – creating […]
Tell Me About It: ‘Life in a family with a disability is a never-ending struggle for support’ PROBLEM: My son is 20, non-verbal with autism and intellectual disability. My siblings are long gone and not part of our lives. For a while there was an odd phone call, where I was supposed to listen to their […]
Tell Me About It: Even though she cannot articulate it, I think she is jealous of his new baby boy PROBLEM: I am married with three children. My first child, a daughter, was from a relationship I had when I was in university. The relationship was over by the time she was born. However, her father […]