Quote From: dlynne14DR. Phil,
I realize your job is to counsel couples to help them save their marriages, but come on!! I think this is what drives me crazy about your show.
Most of the people who come to your show are in marriages that are beyond saving. You provide all this professional help so that you can drag it all out for ratings. I am not against the need for the help you offer, but really, offer it to the woman ( or man) to end the marriage not stay in the marriage. I don't care if the divorce rate is what it is, most of these couples should never have married in the first place. Love does not conquer all, Love alone does not constitute a reason to stay in an unhealthy marriage. What is your success rate anyway? Out of all the married couples you have counseled over the years, how many have actually stayed married successfully??
This is a perfect example. This guy, Jeffrey, is a lunatic!!! Jennifer needs to get out and she should have gotten out years ago!!! She has been beaten down so low, she is a poster child for abused women. She may not have a bruise on her body, but the abuse she has dealt with is almost worse in some ways.
I hope and pray that Jennifer will find her way out of this marriage and get the help she needs so that she sees that her love is worth so much more than what this man could ever afford. She is worth more and it is time she show this to her children. She is giving them the wrong message by staying in a marriage that is dead. I hope this episode ends with Jennifer coming on your stage with the self esteem she needs to provide for herself and her children. Only then will she attract a man that is worthy of her love.
"Most of the people who come to your show are in marriages that are beyond saving. You provide all this professional help so that you can drag it all out for ratings."
If you've been watching the Dr. Phil show since the very beginning (and even when he was on Oprah), you would know his theory is that people need to exhaust EVERY avenue possible before getting out of a marriage. He says (clearly, just not in this set of episodes) that people need to "earn their way OUT" so they can have a very clear conscience that they did everything possible, and have no regrets later.
Do not get me wrong, I think Jennifer needs to get OUT OF THERE FAST! Faster than fast! And now Jennifer can say she TRIED EVERYTHING.
Now she needs a safe haven, and frankly I don't know that one exists. I hope I never read about her in a newspaper or hear of her tragic ending on a TV broadcast. She and the children are in danger.
