2012

Welcome to Format Free Fridays at AskDrDarcy.com, the one day a week when I break the format of answering your questions and I dispense that which we rarely welcome in life: Unsolicited advice. It’s that time of year again:  Time for me to reflect on the past year, to evaluate, and to identify a new…

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Failure To Thrive

Dear Dr. Darcy: I’m a thirty-year-old woman with a dilemma. As a young girl I was abused repeatedly, with no avenues for help available to me I sought a way to return to a time when there was no pain. I decided to wear diapers for safety and this has followed me ever since. I’m…

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My Best Friend, Her Boyfriend, and Me

Dear Dr. Darcy: My best friend and I have known each other for over a year. From day one she was flirtatious and at first I ignored it because I’d never gotten attention in that way from another woman but after a while she wore on me.  We told each other everything and we saw…

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Step Away From Your Parent’s Phone

Dear Dr. Darcy: Okay, so I don’t know if you’re the right person to ask, but I’ll just go for it because I really need to get this out.  I am a teenage girl and just recently I was messing around on my dad’s smart phone for an innocent Google search, and I accidentally came…

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Family Feud

Dear Dr. Darcy: My daughter is (and always has been) a big problem in our family. She sucks the life out of her father and me (and always has), she shares secrets which creates unnecessary drama between her siblings, she overspends at college (putting us in terrible debt) and is committed to destroying every family…

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The Stepmother

Hi Dr. Darcy: My question is all about dating Lesbian women with children. I am currently casually dating someone who is about four (4) years older than me, 31. She has two children ages 9 and 12. I always pictured having my own family, starting fresh with someone who has never been married and no…

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Move On

Hi Dr. Darcy, I am currently in an 8-year relationship. My partner is 13 years older than me. I am 28 and she is 41. We met when I was 19 and she was 31 years old. She has been my first and only partner. I have never been with a man or another woman.…

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