The stories here are so simple because mine is worse. I have just come from prison after our group of friends
decided to loot a shop for fun. I got caught and simply I could not grass my friends, so I have served 4 months. I am now out and do not know what to do.

I failed my GCSE as I was in the cool crowd and now with my criminal record no one wants to see me. I have
failed my paros big time and now they do not want to see me. I hate the world, I hate myself and I am contemplating just stealing money, pay a one way ticket to my grandparents in Africa and live in the village. They are the only people who seem to love me.  My life is shit! My once friends see me as a loser. I went in for them and any therapy I try fail cos I am so bitter. I am 19 and I cannot see the rest of my life being this shitty! I always get money I drink or smoke it all. When is it going to end
 


Andy,


Lewisham


 

I was born in a family of history of sickle cell. Two of my siblings had the condition, one died at an early age and the other is still alive but in a wheelchair as it has affected his spine. As for me I have no symptoms but i could be a carrier. My girlfrind want us to be married but I do not want to have disabled children knowingly. I also dont know how to tell her because she might leave me. This has destroyed alot of my relationships. When i was 25, my girlfriend got pregnant and i made her have an abortion and that killed our relationships.
I want to make it work, but how can i when i know i am not in control of my genes , should i tell her?

I am in dire shock! my 15 year old daugter has sex with her boyfriend who we have never met. Her dad went ballistic and i was uncosolable. We have grounded her for a whole month, took her phone and internet out but thats does not even come close to making me feel OK. I have spoken to her before about sex but she had said she would not even try it. Now I am worried she could be pregnat but she says they used a condom. Its a very disturbing convestation but what i am i suppossed to do? what if she keeps doing it?
Disgusted mum

I am married to a beutiful Kenyan woman. She is the mother of my two boys. Its only that with the family keeps asking her for money so most of the time her salary is finished doing this. I know that they are poor than us but we cannot help them all. Thats not the end, she only let us do investment in Kenya not in UK. We have a house here in UK but I am the one that pay the morgage. I am just worried that she is planning to move to Kenya or something. If i start the converstion, she thinks I am just being paranoid and distrusting. I m just a worried that one day she will just take my kids and go to Kenya as the investment do not even have my name on it while the house has both our names. How can i make my marriage work? Is this common with Kenyan women?

Confused Husband

I was born in Kisumu, Kenya and I am currently enrolled in college. My boyfriend came into to this country 6 years ago. He is now naturalizing and we want to settle down. I am scared as I feel that he has changed.  In 2004, when we met, he was tender Loving and gentle but now he seems very angry, unbothered and he is
really a heavy drinker.  I owe him so much because he brought me here. He must love me for him to pay all that. I love him too but I am concerned about settling down with him at his state. If I leave him, it’s going to kill him. I am in such a dilemma and I do not know how to cope. What can I do?

Jannie from croydon.