When Fatherhood and Marriage Collide

The Dilemma A 27-year-old man married his wife of six years only to learn, a short time later, that he had fathered a daughter with a forme...

When a Loved One Can't See Their Own Decline

  The Dilemma A 32-year-old woman is struggling to find the right way to tell her older brother , age 40, that his cognitive abilities appea...

When Trauma and Family Loyalty Collide

The Dilemma A 21-year-old man is grappling with a reconciliation request from his parents , now both 60, after ten years of complete estrang...

When a Coworker Proposes to Your Girlfriend

  The Dilemma A 24-year-old man has been dating his girlfriend of three months, though the two were best friends for two years before that, ...

You're Not the Villain, But You Won't Tell Me Why

  The Dilemma A 34-year-old woman and her boyfriend of eight months, 35, had been traveling with a group of his longtime friends. The trip ...

My Girlfriend Keeps Asking Me For Money

The Dilemma A 21 year old man has been dating his girlfriend, a 19 year old woman, for a few months. Early in the relationship, she began as...

When Self-Defense Goes Too Far

  The Dilemma A father of two, already stretched thin from months of shuttling his ailing mother between the hospital and a nursing home, fo...

When a Mother's Silence Costs a Son Three Decades

The Dilemma A 48-year-old man recently discovered that his late father had quietly set aside roughly 10 percent of his base military pay eve...

When "I Don't Know If I Love You" Follows a Number on a Scale

The Dilemma A 33-year-old woman has been with her boyfriend, 39, for five years. Recently, he told her he no longer knows if he is still in ...

My Mother Abandoned Me Twice:Now She's Angry I Won't Embrace Her New Family

The Dilemma A 22-year-old woman has spent the better part of her life building a stable identity in the shadow of a mother who chose absence...