Question: Dear Luise: I’m a 21 year old college student and it seems like things have been going downhill for a while.  In high school, my mom was extremely strict; she wouldnt let me stay the night at friends houses (for god knows why) after I’d been at a party or whatever.  The first time [...]

Question: Dear Luise:  My 35 year old daughter & son in law have shut me out of their life and will not let me see my 2 granddaughters. My son in law comes from a fairly well to do family and has not accepted me or the rest of my family.  Whenever they ask for [...]

Question: Dear Luise: What should I do if I feel stuck in life? I’ve been out of high school for a year now. I enrolled for college right after I graduated but soon realized that I was only doing it for my dad and college just isn’t for me. So I dropped out before even [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I am an alcoholic. Kids -twin girls 15, son 18. I have no contact and they despise me. Very sad. Desperate. Don’t want to go on. A. Answer: Dear A.: All emotions come and go unless we focus on them and keep them in place. We all have other perceptions and experiences…positive [...]

Question: Dear Luise: My son recently graduated from high school and is now living with his girlfriend and her parents.  I don’t need to get into the details of what led up to him moving out, but after several attempts to make contact with him, he sent me an email telling me not to contact [...]