My husband wants to visit his brother abroad again and I’ll be left at home with our small children. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My husband and I are in our 30s with a young child and a baby. We have a good, loving relationship and my husband…
My father wants to be buried with my mother in their garden, but the neighbours object. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My mother died in 2009. She intended her body to be used for medical science, but an unexpected problem made this impossible and funeral…
My parents-in-law have gone back on a promise to give us their house. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa We are a lovely and mostly happy family of four renting a smallish two-bed flat with no garden in London. Last summer we were…
Why don’t I appreciate what I have? The Guardian.
Well, why don’t you, you ungrateful wretch? Appreciation seems such a half-hearted emotion, the sort of declaration you’d expect to see on a barrel-scraping greeting card:…
My mother is driving me to tears because she disapproves of the man I love. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa I am a 25-year-old European girl. I came to the UK to study and at university I met my partner, who also came to…
How do I stop my dad telling me intimate details of his sex life? The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa How do I tell my father in a way he will understand that I don’t want to know the details of his love life?…
My daughter’s mood swings exhaust me. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My daughter moved from Vancouver to Britain some years ago to go to university; eventually marrying another student. She found stable employment and recently…
My mother has secret children from her first marriage. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My mother was 18 when she married her first husband. She got married to get away from her parents, who were loving, but rather…
My partner is angry and abusive. If I say I’m going to leave he threatens to kill me. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa I have been with the same partner for 10 years and we have a young child. I am feeling absolutely desperate and don’t know…
My teenage son can’t talk to girls. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My eldest son is 13 and becoming a confident, happy teenager. There is, though, one side of life that I can see him struggling…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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