Dear Troubleshooter: I am a self-employed man in my 60s. My wife and I don’t really talk and she has been avoiding me. The situation began a few years ago, when my wife asked to spend more time t...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a woman in my 70s. While I was hospitalized, I developed a crush on my physical therapist, who is a young man. I was married to my husband for over 30 years, but he passed...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a woman in my 40s, and I have been married for over 10 years. Recently I found out that my husband went to an onsen hot spring resort with another woman. I knew that I sho...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female full-time employee in my 20s who works as a restaurant manager. I need some advice regarding a cook who’s a contract employee. I’ve been a manager for thre...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female college student in my 20s, and I need some advice regarding my meddlesome mother. Every morning, my mother checks my outfit and my hair and if she doesn’t app...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a housewife in my 20s, I got married in February to a man my own age and I would like some advice. In the last month of my pregnancy in March, my sleeping husband left h...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female part-time worker in my 50s. I’m seeking advice about my husband, who indulges in psychological abuse toward me. My husband runs a small company. He is always ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female high school student. I’m worried about my relationship with my mother and also about my future. We have no savings and my father isn’t around. I also don’...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female nurse in my 40s. I’d like some advice about my older sister. My sister has had a habit of stealing things since her childhood, and has been reprimanded for it...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female high school student preparing for my university entrance exams. I’m worried by my sexual feelings toward a teacher. The teacher is single and in his 30s. He’...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a homemaker in my 30s raising a daughter who is about to turn 1. I am worried about my relationship with my mother. When I told my mother about my pregnancy, she said, “I...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male company employee in my 50s. I’d like some advice about my relationship with my wife, who works a part-time job. I haven’t had physical relations with my wife ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 70s. I want to consult you about my grandchildren. My son got divorced 15 years ago. Soon after that, my grandchildren were living nearby, but they didn...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a housewife in my 40s. I don’t want go to my parents’ funerals. In today’s parlance, my mom and dad would be called “toxic parents.” They used to order me aroun...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male office worker in my 50s. My thoughts have not come together on how to deal with my daughter, who’s in her second year of high school. I live in a five-person hou...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 50s. I’m seeking advice about my mother, who’s in her late 70s and lives far from me. My mother was diagnosed with dementia, but she manages to live ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m the mother of a son in my 50s, and I’m so frustrated with my son’s bad manners at mealtime. He’s a third-year high school student and he’s always glued to his sm...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 70s. My son’s wife won’t let my granddaughter wear the clothes that I bought for her. I haven’t had the opportunity to buy clothes for my granddaug...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 50s. I’m worried that my single older sister is addicted to shopping. My sister works at a company and lives together with our mom. She manages both h...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 50s. I’m worried about my relationship with my sister and her family. My sister, who’s one year older than me, developed early and has always fallen fo...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male part-time worker in my 20s. I’m still wracked with doubt about what I should have done when I saw a certain family while shopping at the supermarket. There were...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female high school student. I am at a loss, wondering whether I should give up on going to college. My parents are not divorced, but have been living separately for 15 ye...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female university student in my late teens. I’m wondering what to do about my slightly older sister, who has started dieting. I myself have suffered from an eating di...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 40s. I work as a housekeeper, but I want to leave the family I’m responsible for now. The family is composed of a father in his 50s and a teenage daughte...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 70s and I’ve been married for more than 40 years. Every year I get angry at my husband on three occasions. I’ve been frustrated about this for many y...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 60s. I’d like to consult with you about my husband, who’s in his 70s and is a tobacco lover. My husband is very fond of cigarettes, even the electronic...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a man in my 50s. Several months ago I became head of my current department, and since then I’ve been exasperated by a subordinate who’s a total perfectionist. He dem...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my late 60s. I’d like to confer with you about my husband, who left me about 20 years ago. I constantly fought with him over his loose spending habits wh...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 50s. I lost my only daughter to illness eight years ago. She was eight years old at the time. I’d like to consult with you about my husband. I know t...