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Not sure what to do?

M. S. asks from Cambridge

My thirteen-year-old daughter has a fear of using the bathroom away from home, specifically pooping, and will give herself stomachaches to avoid doing it at school, when it's really bad and she can't hold it she tries to get me to pick her up from school, or go home when...

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My daughter and current wife don't understand I am a night owl?

M. E. asks from Kailua Kona

I love to blast music and sing in the shower at 1a.m. I need to clean and play video games at night and I tend to rage because I am passionate. I enjoy working on home improvement projects at one a m. My wife says she is leaving since I want to start fights every nig...

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How do I get my wife and teenager to give me alone? time?

M. E. asks from Kailua Kona

I have a stressful job and need to decompress. I see nothing wrong with making my wife stay in her room all night not making a sound at all. i want everyone out of the kitchen and den between 5 and 11:30. No conversations even emergency conversations. Between 11:30 and...

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Who is wrong here me or the neighbor or my uncle?

H. B. asks from Winter Park

I was seeing a therapist but my mom and dad decided I don't need therapy anymore. I do. It made me feel better. My mom is on her fifth husband. She looks like a model and buys me whatever I want. I wish I had a normal mom who didn't treat like an inconvenience. I d...

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Best advice about teenagers?

D. V. asks from Reno

I have always raised him to understand it is my job to teach him about the world and about life, as preparation for the day I am no longer here. I have always been straight about things with him. Now we are on different planes, like tectonic plates.

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