‘Our daughter is almost 40 and moving out soon, but she has told her son that he can stay with us’
Tell Me About It: ‘We think she does not want the responsibility of having him around’
‘I am really struggling with the drinking culture among my friends’
Tell Me About It: ‘My family tell me to go and make new friends, but it is not easy in my mid-30s’
‘I think my brother might be controlling his wife and daughter’
Tell Me About It: ‘He and his wife never engage in any larger family events’
‘My son is in his 20s, but still lives like a teenager – staying in his room playing video games’
Tell Me About It: When he finished college, he told me he was earning enough money from gaming-related activity, but now he is asking me for loans more often
‘I’m 50 this year and feel a bit like a teenager with my problem. My best friend has fallen in love’
Tell Me About It: 'It’s like my whole life and future has been torn away. I really did not know how lonely life can be without her'
I’ve been given an opportunity to go to Europe, but I’m scared of being alone
Tell Me About It: I’ve never been strong socially and there was a time in my 20s when I felt that I would always be alone
‘If I don’t go to Australia, I feel my relationship will break up and my whole world will collapse’
Tell Me About It: I feel resentful that I have spent my whole childhood parenting my mum and I was so looking forward to not having to do this
After an ancestry DNA test, I discovered my 80-year-old brother has a daughter. Can I let my other siblings know?
Tell Me About It: My brother has decided not to contact his daughter. Do our siblings have a right to know about their niece?
‘I’ve been blind to the fact that my partner is actually married to his mother’
Tell Me About It: ‘I am furious and feel that I have been walking around blind to the fact that my partner is actually married to his mother’
‘My sister’s boyfriend never left us alone at Christmas. Should I confront her?’
Tell Me About It: Should I confront my sister, tell her what I really think about her boyfriend? I worry about losing her, too
‘I think my cousin may be manipulating my grandmother into putting her into her will’
Tell Me About It: Your parents or others are not raising the same concern flags that you are and this is worth considering
‘I don’t know what I am supposed to feel, but surely life needs to have more to it than this’
Tell Me About It: ‘I have all the usual accoutrements of car, house and holidays, and no fears about future finance, but it is not enough’
‘Everyone expects us to get married and it feels like an unstoppable train’
Tell Me About It: I moved to a far-flung place to be with the woman I fell in love with online, but now I’m wondering, ‘What have I done?’
‘I am back in the workplace full-time and it is unbearable. Managers have become mistrustful’
Tell Me About It: ‘I never thought I’d be a person who would work just for the money and it feels against my principles’
‘I am 38, living at home, with my mother doing my washing and cooking my meals. I feel like a child most of the time’
Tell Me About It: ‘Smoking dope gave me some peace, and I suppose I withdrew from life in general’