CounselingChristians

Q: Is it normal to be frustrated/angry with your parents as a young adult? And what do you do about it  I’m 18 and I’m about to graduate highschool but I am just butting heads with my parents really badly, especially my mom. I mean I do still live at home, I’m still in school. I am homeschooled and don’t go many places, bc I don’t have my drivers license yet, so I see a lot of her and she just really gets on my nerves. She tends to be a bit emotionally immature and a bit controlling. I obviously have mental work to do as well.. no one is perfect. I’ve seen some people say it’s normal and happens as you get older but I just need advice on what to do about it. I just don’t know how to live with her and manage this, at this weird age where I’m an adult but also not an adult at the same time. I need advice to help reason with her to let me have more freedom to be an adult. It feels suffocating and kind of can't wait to move out. A: It is good you are thinking through this and wanting t...

Q: I am 34 years old man, born and raised most of my life as an ultra-Orthodox Jew and about seven months ago I was blessed and born again and baptized into the Lord. AndI left the ultra-Orthodox community I was living in in New Jersey and moved to Dallas, Texas so that I could grow more in my Christian faith and grow with Jesus. As an ultra-Orthodox Jew, I had a well-paid, well-paying job that I could both live on and send to my children who live in Israel. As soon as I came to faith, I had to quit my job, which I happily did and moved to Dallas without any other job. Today, after six months, I still haven't been able to find a good job in Dallas for all sorts of reasons, and the main reason is that as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, I don't even have a high school diploma. And I've reached a point where I'm just giving up and I'm going to go back to my friends from the Haredi community next week to help me look for a job with them, but that will mean that I'll have to,...

I have a nephew who is going into his senior year of high school. He has expressed wanting to go to college out of state. He lives in a nearby State with his family, and my husband and kids are in in a big house.  We have already told him that he would be welcome to come live with us to attend a local college (we are in an area where there’s lots to choose from). In a recent conversation, we found out that his family has been “too busy” for church and they haven’t been attending for some time, so much so that he and his siblings no longer know if they believe in Christianity. This hurts my heart because my brother is strongly Christian in his beliefs. But his wife isn’t, and I guess with the lack if his leadership in the home, she hasnt grown stronger in her faith, and overall that and some complacency seems to have contributed to this affecting their children. My question is this- I had the thought of making it a requirement that he goes to church with us. He can live here for f...