Dear Dearest,  I have a 19 year old daughter that I adore more than life itself. Her mother and I never got along; a street gutter woman with a hot temper that would keep me away from my daughter at the slightest missed payment of child support.  But my child always wanted to be with me, so at 16, she ran away and...

Dear Dearest,  I contracted COVID in March of this year. I was very resistant to go to the hospital when I began to get sick but my son insisted because of my age and health. I tested positive and immediately was admitted. During the 3 week stay in the hospital I may remember two days. But it was the most horrifying experience I...

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...

Dear Dearest,  My daughter is a beautiful, chocolate, 18 year old whose personality just glows. But she recently told me that she never had a boy talk to her and that most boys she knows just don’t like Black girls. I asked her what she meant and she told me most Black boys are not attracted to Black girls unless they ...

Dear Dearest,  My husband can’t respond to me without being verbally abusive. He humiliates me in public and private. He yells at me in front of our children like I am a child. He is so mean. We have children from different partners but he is especially cruel in front of his own children. Most of the time it’s over the simplest ...

Dear Dearest,  I am 37 years old and like many others, I am consumed with social media, especially FB. According to a phone app, my usual time on exceeds 8 hours a day. That’s more than I work. Posts and comments literary make me sick. I feel like folks are always insinuating something about me. I take and post picture...

Dear Dearest,  My man is hard working and loves his kids more than anything on the planet but he is a complete narcissist and has too many children (over 6). He makes posts on social media, which includes everything but me. He will post our house, with him and his kids, our car with him and his kids, even our dinn...

Dear Dearest,  “Why are you keeping your ex-husband’s last name? Don’t you want to let go of all the baggage?” - Just Being Nosy Dear “Just Being Nosy”, “What a bold act to become free from a toxic, oppressive relationship yet wear your scars like a boss.” ~ Dearest Price I’m not ashamed of being deceived yet that is not the rea...