‘Stockholm Syndrome’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 3

Q: I am getting progressively confused about my common law marriage of 5 years. We come from different backgrounds. I’m a quiet non-violent female who’s been abused by my father but managed to rebel against it, detach myself by moving away, and keep my identity and dignity relatively intact. My partner is from a family [...]

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 know a woman who wants to control her dad. It’s been three years since her mother passed away. She is not a happy person and it seems like she doesn’t want him to be happy. She tries to keep everybody away from him. He had a girlfriend and had been so happy until [...]

Q: My friend is dating a guy who has been engaged twice. From the beginning he told her how great she was and immediately moved in with her after 2 weeks of dating. They have now purchased a home and have now been dating for a year. The problem is that the guy obsesses on [...]

Q: My married 27-year-old son texted me three days ago to say he was “hurt about what I said about him” in a letter to his mother-in-law. He will not respond to my question about what I said in the letter that hurt his feelings. Why would someone say that and then not respond with [...]