Relationships Articles

Trusting My Boyfriend

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
My boyfriend & I have a 9-year past. We both have very horrible drinking partying sleeping around pasts. We have currently been together for 14 months no breakups and only some fights. I have caught him lying to me twice once he was super drunk ...

Overly Controlling Family

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, May 20th, 2013
Good afternoon, I am 21 years old youngest of three. My mother had two children before she met my dad. Then she fell in love with my dad then I came along. I come from a very strict Hispanic family. My older siblings ...

Toxic Friend

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Hi, one of my friends that I have is becoming very toxic to me and I don't know what to do. She and I met over a decade ago when we worked in the same place. She is on the one hand, tries to be ...

Fiance Sets Too Many Boundaries

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, May 18th, 2013
My fiance and I are in a long distance relationship. We were dating and engaged for 4 years before I broke up with him and relocated across county. We have now been back together a year but the demons from the past ...

I Believe That My Girlfriend Raped Me

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Today while we were both in respective dark depressed moods, my girlfriend jumped on me and started kissing me very forcefully. I told her I really did not want to and pushed her aside. I got up and she came up to me, pulled down ...

Dealing with My Partner’s Depression

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Friday, May 17th, 2013
My current boyfriend and I have been dating for about 3 1/2 years and living together for about 3 years. We are in a band together and rely on this for most of our income. Since I've known him, he has dealt with minor depression. ...

Troublesome Roommate

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, May 17th, 2013
My roommate has been exhibiting concerning behavior lately. He is a very private person, and it seems like he has a lot of social anxiety. I don't know him any better now then when he moved in 7 months ago. ...

What’s Wrong with My Wife?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
My wife's erratic behavior has gotten me tied in knots. She's acting like she did before we got married, like she did when she was 15-18. She lives like two people. We had an "intervention" a couple of weeks ago. I have three children all ...

Emotionally Detached

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, May 9th, 2013
Hello! Between age 21-25 I went through 3 very bad relationships ended in rejection, on the last one I had to be hospitalized, I couldn`t eat for days huge stomach pains from stress but I recovered and moved on. I noticed now in my 30+ ...

Fear of Intimacy

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Every so often, i dont know why, but i get extremely sad and everything i hate about myself, everything i worry about and all my fears and thoughts I surface themselves and I can't get them out of my brain. Recently, I was in this ...

Abusive Relationship

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Monday, May 6th, 2013
My boyfriend has an anger issue n I have been the victim for a long time. We both live together and he finds silly reasons to get angry on me or hit me even. He is mean in every way he can be but when ...

Mother is Deteriorating and I Need Help

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Hello my name is luke, my mother is going down hill fast including anti social and chucking items away and not eating she has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and other things in life and it is getting to the point where i'm ripping my hair ...