Question: My husband smokes and is planning to give them up. However, he has been saying that for years. The thing is, he is hiding it from our 10 and eight year old and expects me to lie for him when they find lighters and cigarettes etc. I won’t lie for him, all I say is they are not mine.
Question: My husband gave up drinking a year or so ago. He had been a big drinker before that and it severely impacted our quality of life as a family. He was hungover in the mornings and drinking from 4pm on, so you can imagine what an absolute hell my life as a mother of three kids was.
Question: My daughter is in her 30s and I am very worried about her. She has stopped dyeing her hair and is completely grey, which makes her look almost as old as I do. She has put on a lot of weight in the last few years and has let her hobbies and her friends go completely. All she does is mind her kids and look after her husband.
My column last week about the husband who was about to leave his wife asked what advice I’d give to him so his wife wouldn’t turn the three children against him.