“I have a 17 year-old who is pregnant. She is involved with the baby’s father and has been sneaking behind my back to see him. She lies to be about where she’s going because she is seeing him. The baby’s father is on drugs, is in and out of jail and steals to get money […]
“I am 32 years old and I am married to a wonderful man. However, I find myself not wanting to have sex at all. He begs me and I just don’t want it. But if he initiates, then I get into it. Now I just don’t find myself getting aroused easily. It’s just easier for […]
“I find myself in a rough situation. My husband and I are planning to tell my daughter that the father she has known all her life is not really her father. Her real father had not been in the picture and really has not been a part of her life. However, just recently, I have […]
You can pay for Viagra and Cialis and other erectile dysfunction drugs, but your sexual difficulties may be more directly related to anxiety than any physical cause. Anxiety is sexual satisfaction’s enemy. For both men and women, anxiety can disrupt the cycle of sexual arousal to sexual fulfillment. The biggest contributing factor to anxiety and […]
There are lots of professionals who urge forgiveness, saying that forgiving helps victims heal. This is true, but knowing how to forgive a straying lover or a childhood persecutor or abuser still eludes many. Whether the damage done has to do with being physically or verbally assaulted or if someone was particularly mean to you, […]
Listen close. The secret to good sex isn’t in a little blue pill or any pill. While sex with various, sometimes random partners is the goal for some, most people just want more or better sex with their partners. This is what I’m talking about and it’s really very simple–resolve the conflicts between the two […]
K writes, “I have been divorced for five years. My adult children (32 and 24) live with their mom. I remarried and divorced since then. The problem I ran into is that my adult children were home-schooled and did not get a solid education…just recently obtaining their GED’s. I get along good with my children’s […]
A frustrated mom writes, “I have a 17 year old daughter who is every parent’s dream in most ways, but her spoiled attitude makes it hard to enjoy the better part of her. She excels in sports and all the coaches fight over who gets her, and the one that does makes her captain of […]
At the risk of being called a hypocrite, I’m advocating allowing your kids to make their own lives. Lots of high school students are furiously writing college entrance essays and making themselves sick, worrying about what they’ll do now that they’re entering adulthood. Then there are the slackers who seem more interested in partying and […]
I’m going to be really honest here about a painful subject…my kids mostly just remember my parenting failures. The moments when I screwed up. This sucks the big one, but they remember the time when I went all crazy yelling at them–never mind that the yelling moments haven’t been all that frequent. They remember the […]