Quote From: ginam5That is so true....1st make her look unfit to his family, then, go on national t.v. to do the same.
The news kept breaking in to the show today here in Ohio because some cities are experiencing heavy rain, so I missed parts of it, but I remember about his wife mentioning his gambling debts...that is so incredibly not good. That's true..kill her and use her life insurance policy to pay off his gambling debts and use the lies of self defense because he has already begun to set it up saying that she is psycho and unfit. When she brought it up about the negative and untrue things that he says to his family about her, he didn't deny it or have alot to say in his defense about it.
If you take it in that direction, I can totally see it...it is a very crazy and scary thought, but it happens soo much now.
I can only hope that Dr. Phil truly go through to him and that Mike's tears were real.
It's interesting that you mention the tears, I did think Dr. Phil finally got through to the other side of this guy's agenda, (making her look like she deserved whatever he is or was planning for her), but my own read on it was that he was ashamed of what he had said. With editing it's hard to be sure what follows what and how closely but I would say he looked ashamed and hopefully he's ashamed of what he had planned for this woman.
It's sort of like asking any criminal if they're sorry--sure they are, they're sorry they got caught, not for what they did to someone. I do think he was remoresful though, but just not for what he's been doing to both the wife, and heaven knows to those poor children who have had to listen to the truly horrible things he's been saying as he moved forward with his plan, whatever it was.
All children need to feel they are secure in their lives with parents who are caring and willing and capable. Anytime you define a parent as incapable there is terrible damage to a child--what he did to the kids was unforgiveable to me.
Lucky he is, that for reasons I can't fathom this woman finds any iota of something attractive or appealing about him. I frankly can't even begin to see why. I can't imagine a good day where he'd be appealing. Maybe he ought to think about that too--I get the impression some of these guys think they're going to be hot stuff once they get rid of their tiresome old wives............geez most of 'em are probably lottery lucky to have the wife they already have let alone someone who would be interested after the fact.
I don't mean to sound so judgmental but I have lived a long time, and seen so much and there is the fact that the camera doesn't lie. That's why shows like this are so successful, and important, you really get to stand back and get a good perspective, unadultered (for the most part anyway), and hopefully again, the people on the shows get to see themselves as they really are. Or maybe even in this husband's case as he comes off to the rest of us.......transparent. I've done jury duty and it's interesting how many people will go to court and despite the cockiness you see them start out with it's often pretty easy to see right through them. More people could serve themselves better by dealing with reality rather than the ego trip that makes think their own lies and subterfuge are indetectable.
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