‘Social Skills’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 5

Q: I have a boyfriend whom I met on the internet. We haven’t met in real life. I think we have a serious problem that I created, and I don’t know what to do.
I could say that I cannot trust this boyfriend all that much. Maybe it’s because I don’t really know him yet. I’m [...]

Q: I was pretty outgoing when I was really young, but after moving around a whole bunch and never getting to feel comfortable around one group of people (my father was in the military and later my parents divorced and my single mother moved around with us kids), I found myself becoming increasingly withdrawn and [...]

Q: I have been running away from my spouse and two adult children. My spouse has to work all the time to pay the bills, and I don’t like it. I also quit my job, but instead of spending more time at home I go other places to avoid my family. My sons treat me [...]

Q: I am a 27-year-old woman truly, madly, and deeply in love with a 24-year-old man. When we met, I never thought our relationship would go anywhere because of cultural and age differences. But day by day we are more compatible than we thought, and we have now been together 4 months. We almost have [...]

Q: I have always been a straight-A student but never too good at making friends. My friends were always few in number, and I never really got too close to any. I didn’t really care about it much until I changed schools in 8th grade. I was a total misfit in my new school. Most [...]