I have a girlfriend (I’m 19 years old). But I don’t dare to ask my parents if I can meet up with her. This applies to any person I know, actually. I don’t dare to ask my parents anything, even though they are not bad people.

I’ve been hating my stepdaughter for years. Now she’s allowed to study at her grandmother’s, my mother-in-law’s because a dorm is too expensive. Recently, we found out that my husband doesn’t have to pay for a dorm.

I want her to leave there. After everything she’s done to us, I don’t want her staying, eating, etc., at my mother-in-law’s. She was always allowed to stay because my husband couldn’t afford a dorm. And now that we know he can refuse, nothing has changed, and she’s still there.

Now I even hate my mother-in-law. That stepdaughter filed a complaint against me for sending angry texts. I hate her even more. No one sees my suffering and my depression.

My mother suffers from depression and severe panic disorders (since she was 30) and leans heavily on me in her bad moments. I listen, advise, comfort, think along, and worry terribly about her at such moments. She has therapy and medication, so is always in treatment, but it always comes back to me. I can now see the signals of an attack coming miles away. I live abroad, so I’m also far away, I feel guilty about that. My mother is always very busy with herself, always has been. I need a mother, but sometimes I feel that I am her mother. The last attack from her was a few days ago and I find myself angry at her for the first time and wanting to distance myself. I would like some advice on how to proceed with this situation. Mainly because I find it increasingly difficult to let go and it has an effect on my daily life.

Hi, I am experiencing stress at the moment because I have to put my personal choices above my work. I am very loyal to my job as a teacher and enjoy my work a lot. My family recently asked if I could arrange time off for a surprise party. I think the surprise party is an incredibly nice idea but I feel incredibly bad if it means missing a class. Sometimes my family gives me the impression that I don’t try hard enough to arrange time off and are quick to say that I just can’t make it. This too makes me feel annoyed. I am not sure how to handle this better in the future.

I’m a 24-year-old male and I’m having a sexual relationship with my two years younger sister. Recently, our aunt caught us. She gave us the choice to either end it or tell our parents. That’s why we’re trying to quit. But we just can’t do it. I don’t know what to do.