Dear Dearest,  I’ve had a period where I ran the streets and messed with drugs. It was due to a rough upbringing by an abusive mother. I have two sons and they were put in foster care, reported by my mother. I can’t seem to forgive her because she put them in the system when she could have taken them in herself. She says she raised her ki...

​August 5, 2019 Dear Dearest,  I am the survivor of a physically abusive relationship from my husband who I haven’t seen in 4 years. I was a coward and I exposed my children, who were 10 and 8 at the time to their father physically violating me, breaking my nose, damaging my vison among other things. I never ...