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Heartaches - ask agony aunt online, problem pages letters, free advice columnist. Everyone has to endure upset during their life. Celebrities and the very wealthy have to. You cannot buy guaranteed happiness. Sometimes having money or being famous can cause problems in itself. A very wealthy and famous person might have problems that an ordinary and poor person does not have, such as having one of their children kidnapped and being held to ransom for a huge sum of money. Think about this for a minute. A rich or famous person has problems that the average person on the street never encounters. They have to watch out for kidnapping, murder, blacmail, burglary, theft all the time. They need to have security at their home, they cannot even go out for a walk along the beach without an escort making sure they are safe.
There are all types of upsetting situations we can endure. Betrayal by a loved one such as a partner cheating on us or going off with someone else is usually the most upsetting because it is personal. In a way by behaving the way they have they are telling us that we are not important to them, that they do not care about us, that we are not special enough to be loyal to or to consider or they are teling us that their own feelings or the other person are more important to us than we are. But such things are temporary. Whatever we feel about them right now will not be the same in a year or in five years' time. So always ask yourself when anything happens if it will matter in the future.
There are two things that you can do when you suffer from heartaches.
The first is to accept that not everybody will treat you as well as you would like them to. Nor as well as you deserve. Into every life a little rain must fall. Try to work out who is decent and kind, honest and worthy of you and make time for them, and with the others either spend as little time with them as you must or avoid them.
Do not automatically trust people until you are sure you can.
One of my clients came to me recently. She had met a married man and she had told him she was worried that she would end up being used by him for sex and just being his bit on the side. He told her he wanted to leave his wife and be with her and started to have sex with her. She had only known him for THREE WEEKS. A few weeks later it emerges that he has no intention of ending his marriage and has lied to her. She is very upset yet she had made the mistake of believing him when she had only known him for three weeks. He had every reason to mislead her or change his mind.
The other thing to do is to accept that we cannot change whatever has happened to us in our lives so far but we can decide that as from today things will be better, different and more positive.
online, problem pages letters, free advice columnist.
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