Common Denominator

Dear Dr. Darcy: I’m in a 12 year relationship that I have the feeling is not going anywhere. I do everything for this person and I never get anything in return. She is 7 years older than me, she doesn’t want to be intimate with me anymore, there is no romance, no tender moments. I’m…

Read More

Wrong Role

Dear Dr. Darcy: I’m big on role-playing. I’ve done it for years. I recently took my playing to a new level insomuch as I’ve begun posing as a lesbian on an online dating site. I never expected it to go past fantasy but I’ve fallen in love with this woman and I believe she’s fallen…

Read More

Is It Time For Therapy?

Dear Dr. Darcy: I’ve been on antidepressants since last year but it hasn’t helped. Now I’m starting to get anxiety and my doctor wants to give me medication for that but I don’t want to just keep taking medications because at some point I want to be off them. Do you think I should try…

Read More

Parenting Power Challenge

Welcome to Tuesday’s Tips, the one-day a week when I dispense useful, actionable and empowering tips! Every week I get questions from parents and teens. I guess that’s what I get for specializing in those populations for the first 13 years of my career. Today I’ve amassed a list of my most powerful parenting tips.…

Read More

Dirty Secret

Dear Dr. Darcy: I’ve recently learned that my brother is having an affair on my sister-in-law – but it’s much worse than that. He’s got at least one child with this woman he’s having an affair with. My poor sister-in-law has been trying to have children with my brother…for 3 years and can’t.  If she…

Read More