‘Respect’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 4

Q: I’ve been in a relationship with a 58-year-old man for two years now. He still has his teddy bears from his childhood, and they all have names. He talks to them, and he makes them answer back. He says it’s them talking. He brings them on our trips and outings…treats them like children.
I don’t [...]

Q: My son is 46 and has been living with me for the past two years. He came over and stayed with me during a traumatic breakup between myself and my former boyfriend who had been living with me for five years. My son had just ended a fifteen year live-in relationship with a woman [...]

Q: I’m a 24-year-old woman, and I can’t seem to get rid of my toxic father. My parents divorced when I was a-year-old. I did not see my father until I was maybe eight years old. I was so excited to finally have a father in my life that I did everything in my power [...]

Q: I am deeply disturbed and upset and need your responses to my question. I was dating a man for a period of five years, and we have been apart for the past 2 1/2 years now. He was dating someone when we separated and said that “he as returned to continue our relationship”. It [...]

Q: I have been married for 8 years to my wife, whom I did not know well when she got pregnant. We have a wonderful friendship, albeit with no sex or sleeping together. She has divulged to me that she suffered sexual abuse as a child. Since I work in the education field with students [...]