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Dear Sheila, I'm struggling with getting over a man that I thought was the love of my life. I met him three years ago, and I have never experienced such a connection. He and I had the same lifestyle, the same sense of humor, and connected on an intimate level that I had never experienced. [...]

Dear Sheila, Throughout my life, I have dealt with loved ones who have struggled with addictions: Alcohol, drugs, pornography, and gambling. I frequently felt that I needed to be a helping hand. I found out later that I have, at times, enabled those behaviors. What troubles me is that my son is a drug addict. [...]

Dear Sheila, I have a beautiful son with a giving spirit. He has suffered from emotional challenges since his teens. Although he is now a young adult, he still struggles at times with over­giving to his friends. I struggle with setting boundaries. In the past, our relationship became strained because I didn’t agree with his [...]

Dear Sheila, I'm a single mom with three adult children. I have put my career and financial goals and my personal needs on hold for most of my life. I've always been the one everyone relies on to get things done or the one that people come to for advice. I returned to school later [...]

Dear Sheila, I'm a single lady in my early 50s. I never thought I would be at this season in my life and not be married or in a committed relationship. I have had failed relationships where I’ve kept dating the same type of man over and over again, so I decided to take time [...]

Dear Sheila, I have been a caregiver of my father for close to 10 years. He is a disabled veteran. I'm a single woman with three adult children, and I'm the only one who is able to care for him. I am so incredibly honored to get to care for my father. In the daily [...]

Dear Sheila, It's the holidays, and I'm dealing with an overwhelming sense of grief that is secondary to the loss of my family members that occurred during the holiday season almost two years ago. I'm attempting to resume my family traditions with a smile on my face, but my heart is troubled and sad. I'm [...]

Dear Sheila, I have a father who is an alcoholic as well as an marijuana addict. My dad sometimes acts out, or is hateful and mean to my loved ones and I when he is high. I want to be a good daughter and love him through this issue, yet I am not sure how [...]

Dear Sheila, I am thirty-three years old and the mother of a two-year-old daughter. Married for four years, I recently found out that my husband was contacting a mutual friend named Chris.  When I inquired as to whom he was speaking with, he told me a work colleague; yet it was a mutual friend, Christina, [...]

Dear Sheila, I am a forty-one-year-old divorced mother of a happy pit bull named Freckles. I feel like I have hit a bit of a financial rock bottom. For the past few years, I have been spending a little more than I earn regularly, and recently I found out I have a judgment from a [...]