Replies to '06/26 Twisted Love'

Quote From: acalifgal

Watching the show today was exactly like watching my parents.  I am 39 years old, my parents are in their early 60s.  My dad met his mistress at church (of all places) after he retired.  I am so ashamed of him.  He thinks nothing of spending most of the day with his mistress and people of the church know it too.  My mom knows it because he has confessed.  I have written to their minister and the elders of the church have tried to counsel my dad and his mistress, but he is so stubborn and takes the attitude that nobody is going to tell him how he should be living his life.  I wish Dr. Phil could help my parents but I know they won't go to the show.  I wish my mother had been sitting in the audience on today's show.  My dad bought a camping trailer and now he periodically takes his mistress camping, sometimes they are gone four days at a time.  He tells my mom that he is taking the other woman and going camping.  I have asked my mom why she doesn't divorce him.  She says that California is a community property state and she will lose even more money if they divorce.  She has been keeping financial secrets from him because if he knew how much money was in the bank, he'd spend it on his mistress.  He has already spent all the money that my parents earned from a sale of a piece of property they had.  He spends it on his mistress for her home repairs and car repairs, plus taking her out to dinner and out to the movies.  I have grown to hate my dad.  I wish he were dead.  I don't love him at all.  I don't speak to him and haven't seen him in over 3 years.  He has spent any money my brothers and I would have inherited on his mistress.  I am so angry.