The following questions are related to ‘Maturity’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: My 32-year-old boyfriend lost his mother at age 18 and was a marine for 8 years. He is a wonderful man when he is not drunk, but that is his favorite pastime. He comes home and drinks 8 to 18 Bud Lights, sometimes staying up til 1 or 2 am during the week when [...]
Q: My husband’s first wife of 23 years abused him verbally, emotionally and sexually (through long periods of refusal). They had three token children, though, now ages 28, 26, and 18. The pecking order in the family was the mom as boss; then the most-favored golden-boy son, 28; then the preferred youngest daughter, 18; then [...]
Q: I have divorced my husband after 25 years of marriage. My ex-husband fits all the criteria of a psychopath. My son (20) is very attached to the country house we lived in and decided to stay there with his father. From brief conversations with my ex-husband I sense that emotional abuse continues.
My son tries [...]
Q: My boyfriend married his high school sweetheart. They had a daughter. Although he could not see it, there were problems in the marriage. When the daughter was in her senior year of high school his wife moved out, divorced him and has since remarried. She is a very sweet woman. She is very happy [...]
Q: I have read about you and would like to share my problem with you. Actually I am suffering from a strange problem. It is a past memory that makes me tense and hopeless. I am a 23-year-old male virgin. It all happened when we were on a tourist trip in a group. One night [...]
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