Topic : 04/26 Obsessive Love

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“When I think I’ve seen it all, then I get a wake-up call,” Dr. Phil says of his guests who are involved in a very intense relationship. Jeffrey's obsession with his wife, Jennifer, has careened out of control during their 11-year marriage. He says he loves her so much he goes to extremes to watch her every move. He's tracked her with a GPS device, listened to her phone conversations, trapped her in their home and alienated her from her friends and family. But is there something more sinister Jeffrey's done that he's been hiding? Jennifer says she's ready to leave her controlling and jealous husband once and for all. Has she been up to no good, and is Jeffrey justified in his snooping? Jeffrey wants to save his marriage and family, but is Jennifer willing to stand by him? Dr. Phil unravels the jealously, lies and abuse to see if this marriage can be saved, or if it's really Jennifer who needs to be saved from Jeffrey. Talk about the show here.

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April 26, 2007, 2:50 pm PDT

Obsssive Love? This is Not Love

Dr Phil - this man is more than out of control.  This looks and sounds like a text book of a man who will kill their children if his wife divorces him.  How many have we seen in the news lately of husbands wanting to get back at the spouses, where it hurts most - killing the kids!  Dr Phil this man needs to be put in an institution.  As much as I think you are top notch, this man needs to be in a hospital and this wife needs to be put in an undisclosed location for a while.
 
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April 26, 2007, 2:50 pm PDT

This is NOT love

I think Jeffrey needs to be in a mental institution.  Jennifer please get all the help you can from Dr. Phil and your state and get away from this ticking timebomb.

 

                                           Been there

 
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April 26, 2007, 2:50 pm PDT

Get Out Now!

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I feel your pain. I am living with a man who is also controlling. When I watched the show, I felt like I was watching my life. My fiance' is not quite as bad, but is getting there. I can see him getting this way...He controls every aspect of my life. Our daughter, the car, money, where and when I go out, ect. He has me exactly where he wants me. Stuck at home with our 2 year old, with no money, no car, and no where to hide. He is the only income for our family. When I did go back to work, he complained and made my life miserable the whole 6 months I was working. Till finally, I couldn't take anymore, and quit. He makes sure we have no savings, no checking accounts, no financial stability!!!  He has cut off all affection and comfort. That started when I got pregnant with our daughter. His excuses range from I'm too old, to you lost to much weight, to I have to much on my mind. Every night before I go to bed, he gives me 3 quick smooches an "I love you, goodnight." Then in the morning when he leaves for work, its the same thing. Thats all the attention I receive, unless we are yelling at each other. He sits on one end of the couch while I sit on the other. He never comes within 10 feet of me, for any reason.  We used to be very loving and affectionate. In fact thats the biggest reason I feel for him to begin with. He used to be very touchy, feely.  If I say I'm going for ice cream with a friend, he asks where we're going, how long I'll be, and who else is going. Then if I am not in the door in the exact amount of time I told him, it's an arguement till I go to bed. He treats me like a roommate and a child. He speaks to me as if I am the 2 yr old and to our 2 yr old like she's the 37 yr. old. We do nothing but fight all the time. Over stupid things. I will tell him the baby didn't nap, and the next question out of his mouth is "did the baby nap?" I am in total distress!!!!! I need a way out of this. I don't know what to do or where to go. My daughter means the world to me, and I need to do whats right for her. If this doesn't stop, I have to go. But again, no money, no car, no where to go, and a 2 year old with me. Anyone with advice, please help!!!!! It is way worse than I have time to explain. He is on his way home. He checks my email, goes throu my purse, and searchs my bedroom. I feel like this poor woman, trapped, no way out, and scared!!!
I'm sorry you are in this situation.  You do NOT need to figure out the reason why this man is doing what he does to control you.  He can work that out later, if he is willing.  Right now you need to go while you still can and before your child is older and more involved.  Call the women's shelter in your area. Look for them under Crisis Intervention in the yellow pages.  Do it at your FIRST possible opportunity.  You do not know when even you phone will be taken away.  You can rebuild your life and there are people out there who have been through it and they can help you do it.  Please act now.  Good luck to you.
 
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April 26, 2007, 2:50 pm PDT

PLEASE... GET OUT!

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for 32 years I was married to a very successful, high profile surgeon.  He was controlling, jealous and abusive. As he became more addicted to sex he began to drug and sodomize me until I was losing the will to live. When I finally divorced him he villified my name and attempted to make me look like the one with the sex issues. REcently, his second wife experienced the same thing: he was drugging and raping her. She filed for divorce after only 3 years of marriage.  Sexual abuse is as Dr. Phil would say, 'a deal breaker'. No marriage can survive this betrayal of trust.

 

 I hope Jennifer has had her eyes opened now. Jeffery is not gonna change and if he was sincere, it's gonna take years. I just don't feel he was sincere. Jennifer... go to your parents, go to a sibling or go to the friend you spoke about on the show. Where there's a will... there's a way! You are attractive and have a job history. Sue him for divorce and alimony until you get on your feet, then let him have the alimony back because you will want to sever all ties to this guy!! I will keep you in my prayers. Good Luck.
 
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April 26, 2007, 2:50 pm PDT

Not always as it seems

Not that this means much, But I really do not think he would kill her. I am sure every doctor and lots of people who think they are one will lash back with.... *you never know* and I understand that.

Speaking from experience Jeffery and Jennifer should be 100% accountable for the life they have today . ... .... Healthy people do not get married, have 3children and stay married for 11 plus years and then.. oh find out they have issues as extreme as these..

 

Two unhealthy people with issues get together because of those issues.

 

I truly hope Jeffery gets help and I hope Jennifer can wake up enough to know that she is a part of this. She had children with him and should do what she can to fix herself and save her kids. If she leaves him she will only attract the same thing, just in a different form.

He needs to be checked in to a hospital for extreme depression and low self esteem. And Jennifer needs to get help herself.

 

Who cares why Jeffery gets the help he needs and should have gotten a long time ago, be it fear that he will lose his wife, or shame that he went on T.V and exposed himself, or most importantly  because they do not want to pass this on to their children..

I just hope someone puts it in their face some how and they get the help. 

 

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April 26, 2007, 2:51 pm PDT

04/26 Obsessive Love

This guy should 10 minutes with someone who's his size and who's also a male. I'm sure after that he'll never try to take advantage of another female again..

 

Good thing that woman isnt my sister or that guy would be way in a way worse situation then anything he could imagine....

 
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April 26, 2007, 2:52 pm PDT

I got out

     When I was a junior in college I started dating a guy that was in the same major as I was, we lived in the same building and everyone liked him.  Everything was perfect for the first few months, then I tried to take some time appart to focus on my schoolwork and everything changed.  Instead of letting me go, he wound himself into my life. He became friends with my circle of friends, using his relationships with them against me.  (They didn't understand why I found fault with his behavior, when he was "Such a nice guy,")  When I would go out without him (to a coffee shopt to study, or to run errands) he would call my roomates to find out where I had gone, then hunt me down to make sure I was there.  Between driving a wedge between myself and my family, (he would always say "They're just not lettitng you grow up."  or "They are just jealous of what we have.") and causing a rift with my friends, I knew I had to start finding a way out of this relationship.

    I tried to break up with him on several occasions, and it always ended with him in tears. He would cry and promise me that he'd change, and if I left him he would die without me.  To make a long dramatic story short, the final moment of our relationship came when we were in the car arguing.  He started to accelerate, and swerve down the roads near our school.  I screamed for him to stop, when he refused I started to realize that I had to get out of this car before he did something crazy.  At the height of the moment he slammed on his breaks and I almost hit the windsheild of the car before the seat belt pulled me back.  I was in pain, but grateful to be alive and thankful for the clarity to leave this relationsihp for good. 

   I realize now that this relationship was unheathly, and that I got out before things got to the point of no return.  I thought I had seen enough Lifetime movies, and Oprah shows on the subject of abusive relationships to not be involved in something so terrible.  I hope that this show can help other women who are trapped in obsessive relationships realize that they can get out and find happiness apart from a man who controls them.  

 
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April 26, 2007, 2:52 pm PDT

so.......

Quote From: joedad4559

       while watching the broadcast, there were a couple of things that struck me oddly. First SHE did cheat on him not once but twice, and it was completely glossed over by everyone one the show. He(the husband) is completely wrong in his behavior and in his attempts to rationalize his behavior. But if my life partner had cheated on me twice that early in the relationship, I would not, nor would any of you out there, trust anything that she said or did, PERIOD.

       Secondly; after she knew what type of behavior that he was capable of; she continued to have some type of relationship with male co-workers, she was deceptive about it to her husband. she even tried to justify her going out to a bar with this male co-worker behind her husbands back. While the husbands behavior is way over the top and probably dangerous, she is just as guilty of escalating the situation.

      I am very disappointed in Dr. Phil in this point that at no time did he ever say to the wife that she was wrong to cheat, or lie. If it were the other way around that is all we would hear about is how the liar and cheater is helping to facilitate this situation. There is nothing that the husband can say or do except to check himself into some type of facility to get the mental help that he desperately needs. The wife should not use that excuse that she can't do any better than she is, get out no matter what you have to do, PERIOD.

Women can't have male friends? 
 
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April 26, 2007, 2:52 pm PDT

WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR TOMARROWS SHOW?

What does everyone think will happen?

 

From the previews, with him being so upset in the green room (in the fetal position, throwing up in the waste basket etc.)

 

I know the preview wants you to believe that Dr. Phil made a huge break through and he realized how awful he is, but.....

 

My prediction is that she will announce that she has met someone else and she is going to leave him no matter what. 

 

And Dr. Phil gives her a safe place to stay where he can't find her..

 

 I do think the best is for these 2 to call it quits... and I hope she stays safe and he gets super intensive inpatient therapy!

 

What are your predictions?

 
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April 26, 2007, 2:53 pm PDT

Obesessive Love

 

 

                      Dr. Phil,

    The couple on this show is headed for a very bad ending. The fears she is haveing I can see comeing true if she dosen't get out and get out now, not when they get a chance to change things but now. if things are going to change (I don't think he will ever change)they can work on it with her out of the house and the same town for that matter he shouldn't know where she is going or who with. If he can't or won't agree to all this then she should just leave and get on with her life because she sure dosen't have one now. Dr. Phil please take this lady where he will never find her again and let her get her divorce. I for one know that a lady can make it on her own with out a controlling man in her life. Because after 18 years I decided what ever life I could give my children on my own was far better than what they had at the time. please help this lady both mentealy and finaucely .

                                                                                 Thank you,

                                                                               Anita

 

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