The following questions are related to ‘Boundaries’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: Recently, my husband and I visited my my husband’s parents and told them that because of unexplained infertility, we were going to adopt a child. My mother-in-law flew off the handle. She lost a baby 45 years ago, and when we tried to reason with her, she wouldn’t listen and challenged us to walk [...]
Q: I’ve been with my boyfriend for 6 years and know I should leave him. I do care for him but he seems to depend on me all the time to manage the responsibilities of life. I work two jobs. I also have a son to care for. My boyfriend seems to care about my [...]
Q: My mother was raised poor and in an emotionally and physically abusive family. As a result, she has little real self-assurance, is quick to hostility, and is very, very manipulative. She married my father when she was 17 to escape her family situation. She had a difficult time adjusting to married life and often [...]
Q: I’m at my wits’ end. My 18-year old son just got his grades today from his 2nd semester at Community College. He got 2 F’s and 2 Withdrawals. I had no idea this was happening. I asked every day how classes were going, whether he had any homework tonight, any papers, was studying for [...]
Q: I read with much interest your article on the Stockholm Syndrome. I was married to a controlling and manipulative man for 17 years, during the last 7 of which he was openly cheating on me with his present wife. The divorce didn’t stop his interference and control in my life. His intrusiveness, either directly [...]
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