I have a glass of wine at lunch and my Mam doesn’t approve
Tell Me About It: ‘I moved back in with my folks who think I have dependency issues’ PROBLEM: I’m a woman in […]
Author: MurphyTrish
My elderly, diabetic, sexually lacking fiance wants a quick wedding. What should I do?
Tell Me About It: ‘I wonder why he wants to meet my mother before marriage’ PROBLEM: I met a man online a year […]
I have lost all my friends because of my mental illness
Tell Me About It: ‘Should I try to reconnect with old friends, or just try and find new people’ PROBLEM: I am a […]
I am getting an insight into toxic laddish behaviour – and it’s making me sick
Tell Me About It: ‘My ex is dating a friend of a friend who openly talks about their sex life’ PROBLEM: I had […]
After 35 years in an unhappy marriage, debt is all that’s keeping us together
Tell Me About It: ‘I don’t ever remember a time when we were truly happy. It’s the hostility I find difficult’ PROBLEM: I’m […]
I’ve turned into a violent person since my man cheated on me
Tell Me About It: ‘I feel he is planning to cheat on me again and my feelings are very hurt’ PROBLEM: I […]
I’m a health worker who has switched to a junior office post to avoid exposure to diseases
Tell Me About It: ‘My husband is angry with me, as he believes I have not thought this through’ PROBLEM: I am a […]
My brother has moved into the family home and won’t buy out my share
Tell Me About It: He has a free house when I have to struggle to keep a roof over my head PROBLEM: My […]
I fantasise all the time – and almost committed fraud as a result. How can I stop myself?
I fantasise all the time – and almost committed fraud as a result. How can I stop myself? PROBLEM: I would describe myself […]
Our mother is volatile and is causing rifts in our family
Tell Me About It: ‘It is obvious that she is suffering deeply. What can we do?’ PROBLEM: Our mother is in her early […]
I want to move home, but it could be dangerous for us as a gay couple to live there
Tell Me About It: ‘I have a job opportunity I’d like to accept, but it would mean hiding who I am PROBLEM: […]
Will my ex-husband ever regret leaving me and my two kids for his younger co-worker?
Tell me about it: This was something I had never seen coming. I thought we were happy PROBLEM: Will my ex-husband ever regret […]
I lost my job because I was accused of being a bully
Tell Me About It: ‘I’m afraid to look for a new job. I fear that I’m a bad person’ PROBLEM: Recently, I […]
How do we disinvite my future husband’s family from our wedding?
Tell Me About It: I can’t have them at our wedding, but the ramifications will be permanent PROBLEM: The question sounds a bit […]
Since my illness, my marriage has ended, I’ve lost out on work, and my appearance has changed
Tell Me About It: ‘I feel down and hopeless since surviving cancer. I fear I am not living’ PROBLEM: I was diagnosed with […]
My husband is unemployed. Where will he go if I leave him for my business partner?
Tell Me About It: ‘He’s not the man I married: he lacks ambition and takes money from me’ PROBLEM: My husband is a […]
The type of pornography that my partner watches upsets me
Tell Me About It: ‘The frequency at which he views porn while in work is also worrying’ PROBLEM: Both myself and my partner, […]
I have realised during lockdown that I don’t like my wife
Tell Me About It: I find her cynicism obnoxious, and we have little in common except our children PROBLEM: I have been in […]
How am I going to meet someone who does not want to have sex?
Tell Me About It: I’d like a relationship with a male or female, but I’d prefer it without sex PROBLEM: I am concerned […]
I can hear the next-door neighbours shouting vicious abuse at each other
Tell Me About It: The level of aggression has risen to an almost unbearable level PROBLEM: I think the possibility of domestic violence […]