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Ask Asad: I want to end my seven year long career in civil services but am scared of the future
A bad job does not equal a bad life, jobs are only a small slice of the pie
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Dear Asad: Should I quit my job to pursue my father's business?
Few businesses turn a profit in their first few years of operation
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Dear Asad: Should I just stay his 'friend'?
If you can’t marry each other then there is no point in keeping in touch with him
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Ask Asad: How do I overcome the constant sullenness of everyday life?
Everyone goes through the occasional blues but if it continues, then probably you suffer from depression or anxiety
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Ask Asad: My health doesn't allow me to stay alone in Australia but I don't want to live with my family
Life is full of compromises and everyone has to make them, sooner or later in life
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Ask Asad: My husband wants to end our marriage, how do I convince him against it?
It is true that many a times we don’t really appreciate or are grateful for someone in our life till they are gone
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Ask Asad: How do I deal with severe depression and suicidal thoughts?
One excellent way of working your way through depression and conquering it is to put it outside of yourself
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Ask Asad: I have a constant fear of losing my wife and my child. How do I overcome this?
Religion can help you develop spiritually and bring you peace and accept the reality of life
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Ask Asad: Am I going to be cheating on my late fiancé if I decide to move on and marry someone else?
Sometimes we feel guilty about being able to re-establish a normal life after the death of a loved one
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Ask Asad: My mother doesn't like my choice of a potential life partner, what should I do to convince her?
Financial discrimination is common in our society and is the root cause of stress and upheaval in many homes
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Ask Asad: Am I wrong if I want more time from a person I am seeing for marriage?
The saying that actions speak louder than words is never truer than in a relationship
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Ask Asad: I don't want to marry my cousin because she isn't pretty!
It makes complete sense to marry a person of one's choice, and not marry the one we don’t like or don’t want...
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Ask Asad: Should I quit everything and go back to Pakistan?
When we want to quit something, we normally try to find a reason that would justify our quitting it
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Ask Asad: I am obsessed with excessive cleaning, does that make me psychotic?
OCD sufferers experience anxiety from their triggers, which is why they feel compelled to engage in certain behaviours
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Ask Asad: Is it okay to marry a man who is 19 years older than me and already married with kids?
May-September relationships (where the man is significantly older than the woman) have their own special challenges.
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Ask Asad: How do I accept the fact that my marriage is over?
Working on acquiring healthy life habits will help you start to feel mentally more stable and physically stronger
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Ask Asad: I want to opt out of MBBS but I am scared I'll disappoint my parents. Please help
Majority of us have to struggle with changes in our life that major studies like MBBS demand and bring along
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Ask Asad: How do I tell my father that he only has six months left to live?
When one is hit with the realisation that they have limited time left to live, they make drastic changes in life
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Ask Asad: I am married with a child and have a habit of falling for other men, how do I overcome this?
It is human nature that when we dream, we normally dream about events and people that would make us happy
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Ask Asad: I feel lonely as I find opening up to people difficult. How do I overcome this fear?
In our culture younger siblings are often thought of not having as much sense or reasoning as elder siblings
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Ask Asad: I love a girl for the past eight years, but want to get settled before approaching her. Should I wait more?
Admiring someone from afar without knowing them is perhaps infatuation, and not necessarily love
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Ask Asad: I made a mistake and it may have ruined my career. Please help
I love being a working woman and was happy with my job, but it had one negative aspect – my boss
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Ask Asad: My ex’s brother sent me a proposal. Should I marry him?
If I say yes I will have to spend the rest of my life keeping a secret about my previous relationship
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Ask Asad: I want to live contently but I face only rejection and disappointment. Please help!
My childhood was not a very happy one and I feel unhappy most of the time
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Ask Asad: Even after my engagement, I still miss my lost old love. What I should do?
Now when the time of my marriage is fast nearing, I simply do not want to go for it at all
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Ask Asad: I'm a confident guy but stammer during job interviews. Please help!
This is quite shocking because I only stammer when the interview talk makes me excited or nervous
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Ask Asad: When I am angry, I lose all control over my words, actions. Can you help?
It happens instantaneously, I can't seem to control it
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Ask Asad: My parents are against my double first-cousin marriage. How should I convince them?
I am in love with my cousin and want to marry her but our families are against it
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Ask Asad: I spend my day as normal person but depression hits me at home. What should I do?
I start crying at the stupidest of things because of my condition
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Ask Asad: My fiancé left me 10 years ago but why do I still think of him all the time?
I am always tempted to show him how happy I am without him
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Ask Asad: I do not feel happy or sad about anything. Is it OK to be like this?
I think my mind has grown far ahead of my age and so I have become a serious person
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Ask Asad: My lover and I are so different I don’t think we have a future together. What should I do?
Our relationship has always been rocky and unstable because he is unambitious and immature
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Ask Asad: My obsession with parenting is out of control. Please help!
I am stressed out usually to the point of anxiety about how the kids will do in the world
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Ask Asad: I love a married woman. How should I marry her now when she is divorced but I’m engaged?
I want to marry the woman for whom I waited for 9 years, but I am engaged to my cousin now
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Ask Asad: Buy a house or send kids to good schools…What should be my first choice as a father?
I can afford to pay for either our own house or their education if a choice is given to me
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Ask Asad: After 8 years of marriage, I no longer like my husband. What should I do?
I earn more than him, have grown professionally more than him and have started thinking of him as a loser
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Ask Asad: My husband cheated on me when we're expecting our first child. What should I do?
He had a colourful life before our marriage and is still in touch with several women
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Ask Asad: How should I stop myself from falling into the trap of procrastination?
I am a constant disappointment to my parents who have always supported me through thick and thin
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Ask Asad: My mother turned down my marriage proposal because an astrologer asked her to. What is my fault?
The guy I am in love with told me that he wants to marry me but not against the wishes of our parents
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Ask Asad: Can you help me have a normal relationship with my mother again?
She slapped me in front of everyone for something I didn't do and now I fear sharing anything with her
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Ask Asad: I have been dumping men after dating them since my breakup. How should I stop myself?
I have to admit that I dump men deliberately and I am somewhat addicted to this new habit
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Ask Asad: With no interest in life anymore at 29, I feel depressed all the time. What should I do?
I had experienced the same feelings when I was 19 and there was a time when I did not want to live anymore
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Ask Asad: I don't know what I want after two most important people in my life have left me
Even when a new person tries to show interest in me, I start ignoring him
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Ask Asad: I am stalking an older woman on WhatsApp. How should I stop myself?
Although we are not in a relationship and she is free to talk to anyone she wants to but I think I am getting jealous
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Ask Asad: My married cousins look down upon me because I am single at 30. Is it my fault?
Everyone asks me the same question, every now and then: 'When are you getting married?'
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Ask Asad: My wife has no faith in our marriage. Should I consider my future plans without her?
Her attitude flummoxes my mind that how such a highly-qualified person can act so childishly
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Ask Asad: My girlfriend has suicidal tendencies. How should I break up with her?
I love her and do everything I can to please her but she does not trust me at all
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Ask Asad: My mother is a widow but she has remarried. What should I do?
I am trembling with worry when I think about the pressure that is about to come on my family from the society
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Ask Asad: My husband divorced me, but I still love him. What should I do?
I really wish he had not divorced me and instead had tried working things out
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Ask Asad: How do I overcome low self-esteem?
An episode in my life has destroyed my personality that I now feel scared and nervous talking to people

















































