My daughter is a compulsive liar and she is getting worseTell Me About It: If you need advice or if you have some for the person with this problem email tellmeaboutit@irishtimes.comWed Jul 22 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: I’m a 23-year-old man and my virginity is a burdenI want to meet the right person but I am so afraid of telling anyone I get intimate with about my lack of experienceWed Jul 15 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: My partner plays me like an emotional accordionOne day he tells me he can’t wait to see me, another that I’m a boring personWed Jul 08 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: Worrying about my ADHD son is burning me outHe has dropped out of education and has lost his confidence, and I’m running out of energyWed Jul 01 2015 - 06:00
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Tell Me About It: My friend has become aggressive towards womenI wonder whether he could ever commit rape and that is a scary thought to have about someone you call a friendWed Jun 24 2015 - 16:03
Tell Me About It: My wife is bipolar and I long for female companyI have thought about leaving her, but I know she would be unable to copeWed Jun 17 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: My separated mother has become an embarrassmentI ran into my mother in a Dublin night club and saw her flirting with men. I didn't think it was appropriateWed Jun 10 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: I work with my husband and all we do is bickerThere have been times I’ve been crying into my dinner and he just hides behind the newspaperWed Jun 03 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: My husband’s daughter is making my life miserableShe will be caustic and unco-operative with me but all sweetness and light to her dadWed May 27 2015 - 14:23
Tell Me About It: I returned to Ireland for solace but I feel friendless and trappedMy sister has drawn a rota for looking after our sick parents. On top of that, I’m struggling with the work culture and am finding it hard to make friendsWed May 20 2015 - 04:00
Tell Me About It: I hate that my girlfriend is friends with her ex-loversIt’s getting me down and I am thinking about it a lot. I am becoming needy and clingy, which I never was beforeWed May 13 2015 - 21:39
Tell Me About It: Should I be friends with this guy or just move on?We got to know each other, and he kissed me. But then he said he doesn’t want to be tied downWed May 06 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: My wife won’t let my parents see their grandchildrenThe atmosphere in our home is horrible and my wife constantly gives out to meWed Apr 29 2015 - 19:12
Tell Me About It: My husband has beaten and raped me in his sleepI don’t have the finances to move and I’m terrified of the impact it will have on our childrenWed Apr 22 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: I am married but have been seeing escorts for 21 yearsMy wife is not interested in a physical relationship and I don’t want a sexless lifeWed Apr 15 2015 - 05:00
Tell Me About It: I’m a depressed virgin and I can’t get a girlfriendI’m beginning to accept that I’ll just always be alone and I have contemplated hurting myself and ending my lifeWed Apr 08 2015 - 15:14
Tell Me About It: My mother-in-law is causing problems in my marriageMy wife is beginning to treat me in the same way. She has become dismissive of meWed Apr 01 2015 - 05:11
Tell Me About It: My partner isn’t pulling his weight and I am going crazyChores, childcare and financial management of any household have to be negotiated consistently over a lifetime togetherTue Mar 24 2015 - 12:30
Tell Me About It: I cross-dress and I’m worried I’ll end up aloneI am sexually attracted to and date women who are fascinated by me, but it goes nowhere because they are just getting their kink onTue Mar 17 2015 - 17:26
Tell Me About It: I want to leave my partner but fear he might harm himselfHe is a good, kind man but more and more I realise our relationship is not goodTue Mar 10 2015 - 21:50
Tell Me About It: I am depressed and my family don’t seem to understandI’m in my 20s, living at home, and feeling more and more angry in this house with every passing dayTue Mar 03 2015 - 08:00
Tell Me About It: I am worried about my retired husband being at home full-timeAfter years of a long-distance relationship, I fear that when my husband retires he will resent my voluntary work and find his family life less perfect than he expectsTue Feb 24 2015 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: A complaint has been made against me at workPeople are taking sides and the conversation stops when I walk into a room. I’m wondering if I should leaveTue Feb 17 2015 - 09:50
Tell Me About It: My marriage is over and I’m struggling with the dating gameI’ve had no luck meeting anyone so far and I am nervous about internet datingTue Feb 10 2015 - 20:39
Tell Me About It: I am feeling low and lonely even though I’m just marriedOn the run-up to our wedding, things did not go as I had expected. It was almost as if the plans were being made within my family without me being presentTue Feb 03 2015 - 16:06
Tell Me About It: Financial woes are causing problems in my marriageMy husband has been unemployed for the past six months and I don’t feel as though he’s meeting me halfwayTue Jan 27 2015 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I’m back living with my parents and losing self-confidenceI am grateful to them for their help but I feel like I have no privacy any moreTue Jan 20 2015 - 15:04
Tell Me About It: I am gay and have been living a terrible lieI have been married to a beautiful woman for the past 30 years and I can’t bring myself to tell herTue Jan 13 2015 - 08:00
Tell Me About It: I really love my partner but I’m not in love with himWe still have sex but not very often and I don’t have that kind of desire for him that was there at the beginningTue Jan 06 2015 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I’m a non-EU citizen, pregnant, and my Irish partner is scaredHe is 30 years old, not a teenager who didn’t know what he was doingTue Dec 30 2014 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: Dad died in front of me 10 years ago and I’ve never recoveredI just pushed the memories down. If they got too much for me, I self-harmed until the physical pain distracted me from the emotional painTue Dec 23 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I qualified as a psychiatric nurse but now I’m in despairAfter I was hospitalised in a psychiatric hospital, I did not return to nursing, as I did not like how I was treated as a patient. Now I do nothing all day but watch TV, eat and sleepTue Dec 16 2014 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: My partner is closed off emotionallyHe responds with one-word answers, grudgingly obliges if I ask for a kiss, and some mornings leaves for work without a goodbyeTue Dec 09 2014 - 08:00
Tell Me About It: I’m worried about my sexual performanceHas porn habit affected my ability to maintain an erection?Tue Nov 25 2014 - 06:58
Tell Me About It: A casual friend has become too dependent on meI don’t feel it’s fair that she treats me like her best friend or counsellor when I don’t feel that close to herTue Nov 18 2014 - 06:00
Tell Me About It: I don’t want my mentally ill husband back in the houseI feel really bad for thinking this, but looking after him as well as working and looking after our child feels like too muchTue Nov 11 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: My family is fighting over my mother’s willI can’t bear to think of Christmas and all the events that I thought I would celebrate with my siblingsTue Nov 04 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I’m excluded at college and I hate itI have started to dread going on to the campus because I don’t fit in with most of my peersTue Oct 28 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: My awful first sexual experience killed my confidenceI was 18, really drunk and I couldn’t ejaculate. The girl ignored me afterwards and I was mortified, and I have struggled with sex sinceTue Oct 21 2014 - 11:12
Tell Me About It: I’m being snubbed at the school gates by other mothersIt’s outrageous that these women think they can write me out of the equation while continuing to say hello to my husband and sending their kids to my houseTue Oct 14 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: My depression is affecting my workShould I tell my boss about my mental-health issues?Tue Oct 07 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: My husband and I are being kept apart from our grandchildWe have hinted at how we would like to be more helpful but are always rebuffedTue Sept 30 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I feel isolated as an immigrant in IrelandAfter 12 years here, I have never managed to find meaningful work and have struggled to find my place in societyTue Sept 23 2014 - 01:00
Tell me about it: My son doesn’t like his Dad at the momentYour husband might undertake a serious look at his philosophy on lifeTue Sept 16 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: My narcissistic mother has ruined my self-esteemI am 50, and it has taken me all these years to work out why I feel so bad about myselfTue Sept 09 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I’ve changed my mind about not wanting childrenMy partner and I agreed early on that we would not add to the population, but now I am doubting the decisionTue Sept 02 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I can’t choose between my lover and my partnerI feel unable to let either woman downTue Aug 26 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I have fallen in love but I can’t have sexI think I picked up my mother’s fear of pregnancy, and my body just won’t let any penetration happenTue Aug 19 2014 - 01:00
Tell Me About It: I’m worn out by my adult son with ADDMy son is now 25, but the struggle to keep him going continuesTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:00
