Dear Queenie,
My mother’s husband molested me and my sister when we were kids and she did nothing to protect us. Now we are grown up with children of our own and she is still living with that man. She claims he got religion and is cured of his nasty ways, but I don’t believe it.
Queenie, do you think we can trust him around our children?—Paedophile’s former victim
Dear Queenie,
My husband lost his job when things got bad last year and started drinking a lot. He finally found another job but it’s not as good as his old one and he still was drinking a lot.
I finally got fed up and threatened to leave him if he didn’t go to AA and he did and he stopped drinking at all, and I stopped too so as not to expose him to temptation.
Queenie, what I want to know is, can we ever go back to taking an occasional drink, like a glass of wine with dinner or a drink or two when we are socializing with friends?—Reluctant non-drinker
Dear Queenie,
There’s this guy I really like and he likes me too and we want to start going together, but my mother says we can’t because we’re some kind of cousins and it would be incest.
Queenie, is she right? What are the rules on this?—Confused cousins
Dear Queenie,
I’m going away to college this fall and I’m planning to move in with my boyfriend who is already in the same city instead of living in a dormitory.
The problem is I haven’t told my parents about this yet. They will be giving me money for living expenses and it will be cheaper living with my boyfriend and sharing expenses than living in a dorm, but they probably won’t like the idea of us living together without being married.
Queenie, how do I handle this?—Apprehensive daughter
Dear Queenie,
The doctor just told my daughter that she has human papillomavirus (HPV), which he says is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). She insists that it can’t be true because she has never had sex and is still a virgin.
Queenie, is she lying about being a virgin or is the doctor wrong or what?—Confused mother
