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Dear Carla: My husband and I have been married for a few years and we have a child together. He has two children from a previous marriage. My in-laws, who I am not very close with, but do not have a negative relationship, sent an invite to their annu...

Dear Carla, I am 14 years old and I think that I want to have sex. I have a boyfriend who I get to see on the weekends. We kiss and stuff but have never done it. I want to tell my mama but I am scared that she will beat me because she has told me to ...

Steps to success Are you familiar with this story… about the woodcutter, trying to cut down a tree? He’s sawing away, sweat pouring off him. An onlooker asks, “What are you doing?” “Can’t you see, I’m sawing down this tree,” he replies. “You look e...

Dear Carla: I am in a relationship with someone who I really adore. She is all of the things that I want in a woman but there is one thing about her that bothers me. She is very insecure. She always wants to know who I talked to during the day, if I ...

I was having a lovely lunch with a friend the other day. She waved enthusiastically at a gent on another table. They’d been introduced at an exhibition a few years ago and had got talking. Not long after, at a sporting event with a friend from her Bo...

Dear Carla I was introduced to my child for the first time years after they were born. The mom says that she doesn’t need my money but wants me to spend time with child. After paternity testing confirmed that the child was indeed mine, I subsequently...

Steps to Success I had a real ‘ah-ha’ moment recently, listening to a friend recount a story she’d heard: a father, on ‘daddy-duty’ with his toddler, going to the park for the afternoon. On their way down the street, the little one kept stopping, as ...

Think. How much time do any of us take to really think? I do not mean focusing on work or personal challenges but really taking time to rest yourself and let your brain run free and create new ideas. Our habitual world often stops us from being creat...