Bad Childhood

My mother passed away unexpectedly, and I sank into a deep depression. I broke down, and told my husband how growing up, my brother was my mom’s favorite, and although I was a “daddy’s...

Bad Childhood

The older she gets, the more Erika wishes she had a better relationship with her mother.                              

Bad Childhood

Joann wonders if her current problems stem from the attempted molestation she experienced as a child. 

Bad Childhood

Why is Renee still trying to maintain a relationship with the parents who physically abused her?                   

Bad Childhood

Colleen believes the neglect she experienced as a child has caused her to be a compulsive accumulator of things.

Bad Childhood

Even though Maurice was adopted as a teen by a loving and supportive family, he finds himself acting more like his biological parents and jeopardizing his future. 

Bad Childhood

Is it wrong of Sharon to hide from her stepbrother the truth about why her mom divorced his father?       

Bad Childhood

When I was in my late teens and early twenties, my mother used me as a counselor over her marital woes with my father. She’d unload on me about my dad’s workaholism, his neglect of her,...

Bad Childhood

Kay is in her 60s and is still trying to find a way to earn her mother's love.