‘I’m dating a previously married man but I feel sad that I will always come second to his children’
Tell Me About It: I knew what I was signing myself up for, but I wish almost every day that things were different
‘I care for my elderly parents, but my efforts are taken for granted. I think I might be going mad’
Tell Me About It: When I ask for help from family members, the response from some is wholly unsupportive
‘I am working with a very difficult person and it is having a huge effect on my life’
Tell Me About It: ‘I’ve worked hard to get where I am, but now I feel like leaving and forgetting about my career’
‘My daughter has been in a relationship with a horrible bully for more than eight years’
Tell Me About It: The relationship has ended over two years ago and he refuses to leave the house. He has taken over the main bedroom and it has become his den
‘I’m 55 and have huge shame around sex’
Tell Me About It: The problem here is that the concept of sex for pleasure is being missed, which is what you want to achieve: the retraining of your body to expect and receive pleasure
‘He’d love to build a house in the countryside, but I wouldn’t live there if someone paid me’
Tell Me About It: Is love sometimes not enough when we both want different locations to settle down in?
‘My brother is meeting fabulous women, but they leave because he does not want more children’
Tell Me About It: As with all our familial relationships, we need to move from our childhood patterns into more adult connections and this usually only happens when we are forced to do so
‘My partner will not give up meeting people for sex. I feel enormous rejection’
I found history on my partner’s laptop that tells me she has been having sex with other people. I’m traumatised
‘A primary school teacher shook a child in class, according to my granddaughter. What should I do?’
Tell Me About It: The school your granddaughter attends should have a complaints procedure
‘A stranger entered our family and turned them all against us’
Tell Me About It: There is a saying that resentment is like ‘taking poison and expecting the other person to die’
‘I have not had contact with my siblings for many decades, nor did I attend my parents’ funerals’
Tell Me About It: I have no friends nor any acquaintances, no one ever contacts me, nor vice versa, and I never socialise
‘I’m alone pretty much all the time. The older I become, the less hopeful I am this will change’
Tell Me About It: Loneliness is a fundamental human emotion and one reason it may be so intense is in order to push us into breaking out of our safety zones and taking the risk of connecting with another person
‘I am 39 and feel like I have not managed to make much of my life’
Tell Me About It: 'Some friends say that I have it all, but I feel my life is boring and unfulfilled'
‘My wife wants another child, but I would be in my 80s when they go to college’
Tell Me About It: Take responsibility for creating a life that takes everyone’s needs into account
‘A few months ago my wife left the country. The last six months have been the most traumatic of my life’
Tell Me About It: The love of my life told me she was not coming back. I keep switching from feeling normal, sometimes even positive about my future, to feeling profound despair