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Anonymous and his partner have been together for about three years. And says things were fine until he moved to another province because of work.  His partner seems to have developed a drinking problem and she is now drinking on a daily basis. He has confronted her about this, but she’s blamed her drinking on the fact that he’s now in a different province.  He doesn’t know how to deal with this especially because she’s currently breastfeeding their infant child.

Anonymous started dating her partner late last year after having a crush on her for many years.  After they decided to start dating, her partner revealed that she has a child, something anonymous wasn’t really comfortable with.  Despite this, they continued with their relationship but anonymous says her partner’s child is unruly and she doesn’t know how to deal with this as she feels like her partner is not teaching her child the right behaviour.

Anonymous met a guy late last year and they got involved in a casual relationship with each other despite the fact that they were each in relationships with other people.  Things got a bit more serious between her and this guy, while things ended between her and her partner.  She’s now pregnant with his child but says he’s ill treating her and not giving her the attention she deserves. 

Anonymous has been with his partner for about 6 years now and they have a child together.  They broke things off last year after he saw another guy post pictures of their son on Tik Tok, as though he was his own.  They eventually made up, however, he says she’s entertaining “17 guys” from her workplace. He doesn’t know how to deal with her behaviour towards his colleagues.

Anonymous and her husband have been together for 10 years but she says he has been unfaithful from early on in their relationship and has fathered multiple children while they’ve been together.  At some point she did leave him for his behaviour but she was persuaded by her family to take him back and he bought her a car as a symbol of his remorse.  About a year ago she met another man and she has been having an affair with this man, who she says has been lovely to her. She’s wondering if she should leave her marriage for this new guy. 

Anonymous called us last year and told us that he was secretly dating his best friend’s younger brother, and didn’t know whether he should tell his friend.  In any case, the brother found out, broke off their friendship, and the family kicked the little brother out of the house because he wanted to continue dating anonymous.  Months went by and while he was at a party in another city he ran into his ex friend and partner’s brother, they reconciled, ended up partying together, and shared a bed, at which point they had a sexual engagement.

Anonymous is a widow, and after grieving her late husband she met someone else and she’s now in a relationship with. He came into their relationship with two children, she had one child, and they now have two children together.  Her problem is how her husband seems to be going out of his way to give the mother of his children money. She says he claims the money is for the children but she’s struggling to believe him and thinks there might be something untoward happening between him and the mother of his other children. 

Anonymous has been dating a married for about two years and says their side relationship was going well and the man was also taking care of her and her child financially.  Late last year, she met a single man, they hit it off and started dating. She broke up with the married man, he got upset at her and now wants her to pay him back all the money he spent on her. 

Anonymous is a foreign national and says that actually caused issues in his relationship when he wanted to marry his South African partner, as her family were xenophobic towards him.  They eventually got married, and had a child together. After getting a new job, he met a lady at the workplace who he got involved with and even sponsored her life. 

Anonymous has been with his partner for over 6 years now and says their relationship was really great in the beginning despite facing challenges of being a same-sex couple. They also faced financial challenges as his partner was still in school when they started dating, he even ended up moving in with anonymous during the COVID pandemic….

Anonymous has been with his partner for five years. He supported her financially as she was unemployed when they met.  She eventually found a job in another province and moved there. He then lost his job and decided to move in with her but when he got there he realised she was cheating on him.  He forgave her and they moved on but she continued to cheat on him. He wants to leave her, but he’s financially reliant on her and he’s not sure if he can break things off with her. 

Anonymous and her husband have been together for 19 years and married for 17 of those years.  Her husband cheated on her twice with the same woman from work, and he wasn’t very remorseful at the time, but they eventually reconciled due to his change in attitude and behaviour.  He then moved to another company, however, that lady now also works at that same company and this is giving her a lot of anxiety, as she wonders if he’s still in a relationship with that other woman.

Anonymous has been married for 5 years to his current wife, they have one child together and he has one other child he had many years ago. Yesterday he found out that he has a 16-year-old daughter he didn’t know about.  He revealed this to his wife and she’s upset about this development, to a point of wanting to break up. Anonymous is confused by her behaviour and adds that his wife has been unfaithful multiple times in the past. 

Anonymous has been married for about three years now but she’s not happy in this marriage. She’s attempted to leave, but didn’t go through with it.  She’s been feeling this way since she caught him cheating on her. They moved on from this infidelity but she feels like he’s probably going to cheat again based on how terribly he treats her now.

Anonymous and her partner have been together for almost 9 years now.  She says in the early years of their relationship she ended up getting a loan for him to be able to purchase a car, on his request. He had said he’d pay it off, but he had financial struggles and she needed up paying off the loan.  They eventually got married and decided to get a house together but he didn’t qualify for a mortgage so she ended up getting the house under her name. They are married in community of property…

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