The following questions are related to ‘Parenting and Children’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: My boyfriend of five years has a child with an ex-girlfriend. She was actually pregnant when we started dating but I didn’t know it. I wasn’t even aware she existed or aware of her pregnancy until about four months into our relationship.
I broke off my relationship with him when I found out about the [...]
Q: I am a young stay at home mom, and my husband works at a very high pressure job. As we have a young baby, there are times when we both are tired and stressed out and so we do have fights, which I suppose is normal. We get over them fairly quickly.
However, when my [...]
Q: I am from India. I have a friend who has been married for 10 years. She has one child nearly 3 years old. Her family runs a business, and they are well-to-do people.
The problem is that my friend’s husband mentally abuses her. He will use coarse language when talking to her; and despite the [...]
Q: The 37-year-old daughter of some friends of mine was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder a year ago. She was given this diagnosis following an episode of prolonged, severely abusive behavior toward her parents and some physical destruction of their home. The episode was set off by a recent break-up with a boyfriend, and most of [...]
Q: I want to know if my husband is a “controller” or not. We have been married a little over 1 year. He tries to tell me everything to do. He has 3 small children, and when they come to visit us he tries to tell them every bite of food they need to [...]
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