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Topic : 10/02 The Dr. Phil House: A Family's Last Chance, Part 3

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Created on : Friday, September 29, 2006, 09:44:22 am

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The Dr. Phil House continues with Todd, Jessica and their three sons. This couple's marriage had become unhealthy, with restraining orders, physical fights and ugly accusations in front of their kids. Dr. Phil moved their family into The Dr. Phil House, where he could watch them and intervene when their fighting began to escalate. It didn't take long before Dr. Phil was making house calls and showing them how their fighting affects the kids. After coming clean to Dr. Phil, Jessica sits down with Todd and confesses that she has had two affairs during their eight-year marriage. Then, Todd's mother drops in unexpectedly to offer her son some moral support, but Jessica isn't exactly happy to see her. What does Jessica tell Todd that makes him want to throw in the towel, and makes her mother-in-law say, "I will bury her"? Then, Todd gets on the phone with the other man. Share your thoughts on this episode here.

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linn56

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October 7, 2006, 1:06 pm PDT

Jessica and Todd

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Excuse me..

I'm not sure how you Missed seeing and hearing your "very caring and loving friend" loose it totally on nation TV and charged like a mad bull at her Step-Son because she was fighting with her husband.

In the real world, that falls under abuse..

You think all of these post are "OUTRAGEOUS".. What about Jessica's actions towards her Step-Son?? Hello, she knew the camera's were on her and she went off like this.

Come on, what the hell is going on when the camera's are off??

And as far as anyone "slandering poor Jessica", she is doing a fine job all on her own. She set her own pace on this mess from day one!!

And as far as the Mother In-law.. oh, please, those poor kids need someone in their lives who loves them unconditionally.. and this Women loves all of her Grandchildren.

And as far as "sabotaged".. again, Jessica set herself up, she made the choice to go on the Dr. Phil show and she made the choice to waste everyone's time and energy by trying to win a "academy award" for the biggest lier on nation TV.. but, as we all know, her acting ability's, stink...

One last thing, "poor Jessica just got messed up with the wrong man".. hello, whatever happened to "taking responsibility's for are own actions"??? Get real!!

Well Said Lisa.

This couple needs to stay apart. They should be required to take parenting classes. They need to work on the anger with self and learn how to treat children.

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shagga70

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October 7, 2006, 3:32 pm PDT

Right ON!!!

Quote From: dianah

Excuse me..

In the real world, that falls under abuse..

You think all of these post are "OUTRAGEOUS".. What about Jessica's actions towards her Step-Son?? Hello, she knew the camera's were on her and she went off like this.

Come on, what the hell is going on when the camera's are off??

And as far as anyone "slandering poor Jessica", she is doing a fine job all on her own. She set her own pace on this mess from day one!!

And as far as the Mother In-law.. oh, please, those poor kids need someone in their lives who loves them unconditionally.. and this Women loves all of her Grandchildren.

One last thing, "poor Jessica just got messed up with the wrong man".. hello, whatever happened to "taking responsibility's for are own actions"??? Get real!!

This is the second show that I have seen where there has been an assult occur on national TV and it is discussed and blown over.

I love Dr Phils show, most of the time I can take some of it and use it to help my own life, but I really object to a child being physically or verbally assaulted and the offender is spoken to and helped.

Take the witch and give her a piece of her own medicine, in australia (where I live) at least if you assault your child, the law deals with you, you dont get helped by a tv show. I think that message needs to be put out that abusing your child is a crime not a family problem. What about the old circle of life, children are getting the message that violence is part of a problem that needs to be fixed. "CRAP" Violence is a crime and deserves punishment. Help the family sure, they really need some help but there needs to be serious consequences for thier actions not just understanding, or else they will grow up to think that this is how you deal with their own children.

I do understand as well that parents are to be persecuted they will not come forward and tehse instance will go un noticed, but pleese,w we cannot go be entertained by childrens suffering

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mokey49

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October 8, 2006, 3:32 am PDT

a family,s last chance'part3'

i feel that couple should surrender those clidren to their grandmother, until they get their heads on sraight. imagine being 8 years old and wanting to die because you do not feel safe and loved. the parents are very immature adults. i thought the show was imformative.

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jadebear

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October 8, 2006, 7:17 am PDT

Bad Situation

My guess is that kind caring loving Jessie-babe split and is with her new "boyfriend" as a solution to all this. I hope the kids get counselling and Todd too. Too bad someone didn't accidentally make her cell phone "disappear". It wouldn't have stopped her because she hasn't solved the basic problem. Someone said to me, you can leave a relationship, but you still take yourself with you when you go. So one half of the problem she is taking with her to the next guy. If she hasn't solved her own issues and worked on herself ,those very things will crop up again. Only the names of the guy and the places change. Until she takes some responsibility that she is abusive herself. She needed to apologize to the kids and say she was wrong to be verbally abusive and the problems were hers, not theirs. This will follow her . She seems to crave the drama from these men ans also the attention of playing it out on the show ,and the kids are just pawns in her great big drama of me, me, me, it's all about me....................................

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ssoliz

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October 8, 2006, 11:25 pm PDT

Utterly Selfish

I could not believe how selfish this mother is on this show. It is fairly obvious that these two people do not belong together. They are so far apart from each other that they probably can't even remember why they liked each other in the first place. But the way I see it is they started their relationship with an affair so I suspect that neither one of them have changed who they are nor did they ever evaluate why they cheated on their spouses to begin with. These two seem to be probably repeating the same patterns from their former marriages. Ultimately the ones paying the price in all of this are the children. These two people need to grow up. The fighting I see going on between this couple reminds me of high school. But the mother is obviously in some deep denial about who she really is and what she is doing. It seems to me that she is blinded by what she wants and she doesn't care who she steps on to get it. And all the mean while she isn't happy. This mom is so determined that she is not going to let her husband have any say in her life because she thinks he is trying to control her that she is acting out in a very reckless manner and sacrificing her children in the process. And the husband well he is using whatever he can to get her to give him some kind of emotion because he feels so dismissed that he doesn't know what to do. These two need to get a divorce and they need to get some individual counseling. Dr. Phil don't torment these children another day. God only knows what damage has already been done.

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kolson01

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October 9, 2006, 8:04 am PDT

Family Last Chance

I am praying that Todd gets cousidy of Tyler. Ever since the first show I saw anger issues with Todd but I agree with Dr. Phil that he is a good man nd a good father. I agree that Todd needs to move on. Once a cheeter always a cheeter. I can not belive that they would talk that way infrint the kids. Jessica has a lot of cousiling in front of her because she is emotional confused. I hope that the kids and Todd are better now that she is out of the picture.

With my husband and I we make sure we are not with the kids when we talk about problems. Our twins are the most important people in our lives. I know from experiance that kids absorb anger if they are brought up that way. There is so much wonderful things in this world to be blessed by to be speaking to each other this way.

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lepasley

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October 9, 2006, 10:04 am PDT

Just wondering.....

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If Jessica says I once more I'll divorce her!!!!

Has there been on single positive post regarding Jessica as either a wife, mom, or even guest on the Dr. Phil show? Says it all when even the audience wants to divorce her!

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pastorjames

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October 9, 2006, 4:12 pm PDT

quit thinkinking about yourself

I feel that the husband can do better than a woman who not only doesn't care about her husband and kids,but obviously doesn'care about herself. Someone needs to tell him to get himself,and his kids as far away from her as he can. Otherwise there will only be more hurt and pain for them.

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brookster

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October 9, 2006, 4:34 pm PDT

10/02 The Dr. Phil House: A Family's Last Chance, Part 3

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Can't bring myself to watch this one! Too much dishonestly, dysfuction, anger and hostility (along with the kids' sadness) to sit and watch. It HURTS TO WATCH!

May Dr. Phil have some luck with this family for the sake of the kids. How cruel some of us parents are to involve our innocent children in our messed up lives! Sad...sad...sad....

I'm not one to interfer with my married childrens lives, but if I saw my grandchildren in a situation like those poor kids are with those two, you bet I would step in. Those two are so self absorbed, that it is really pathetic! They don't even deserve children, but they do deserve each other!

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jeanne6510

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October 9, 2006, 10:43 pm PDT

The parents are BOTH losers

When a man follows a woman and yells and cusses and pins her into a corner, I find that horrible. He never let up on her. She was gross, but,better to leave her than to scream all of the time. Dr Phil said he was a good man. Good men do not point and yell at their wives ESPECIALLY in front of the children. These two needed a divorce for their sake and the children. I too was uncomfortable having to watch these nasty people. I am glad they are gone and my prayers go out to the three children.

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