Topic : 05/11 Obsessive Love: On the Run

Does anyone else feel like this was  very one sided for the sake of ratings?? Yes, I totally agree that Jeffery has a few screws loose, but what about Jennifer? Why is she portrayed as the innocent victim in all of this? Lets look at this from Jeffery's point of view for just a minute. You fall in love with and marry a beautiful woman. Shortly after you get married you go out of town on bussiness and call home to find out that your new wife is having an affair with a man in your house, in your bed!! Then they all call Jeffery crazy for driving all of the way home and kicking this man's butt out of his house?? Jeffery constantly finds men's phone numbers and notes, but he is not supposed to be looking?? Was it not Dr. Phil that told a cheating husband a while back that if he wanted the marriage to work after his affair he would have to lay everything out on the table for a while? He would have to be an open book about where he goes, who he is with, who he talks to, etc. Why does this same philosophy not apply to Jennifer? And why was her cheating just cast aside as no big deal? Out of 3 hours worth of shows, not one discussion about her cheating? And in the end she is crying and scared and goes into hiding at her mom's house. She was so upset and scared for her life that while in "hiding" she goes off partying with her friends and has pictures taken of her hugged up to man and posted on the web site? Come on!! And furthermore, this abused woman was never hit, kicked, or even threatened by her husband. My best friend was abused and it is no joke. Her husband would threaten to kill her and when she divorced him, for the first 6 months she was so affraid he would find her that she would barely leave the house, let alone go off partying with men and having their pictures flashed together all over the world wide web!! The Dr. Phil show molded this story into what it needed to be for high ratings!!

Does anyone else feel like this was  very one sided for the sake of ratings?? Yes, I totally agree that Jeffery has a few screws loose, but what about Jennifer? Why is she portrayed as the innocent victim in all of this? Lets look at this from Jeffery's point of view for just a minute. You fall in love with and marry a beautiful woman. Shortly after you get married you go out of town on bussiness and call home to find out that your new wife is having an affair with a man in your house, in your bed!! Then they all call Jeffery crazy for driving all of the way home and kicking this man's butt out of his house?? Jeffery constantly finds men's phone numbers and notes, but he is not supposed to be looking?? Was it not Dr. Phil that told a cheating husband a while back that if he wanted the marriage to work after his affair he would have to lay everything out on the table for a while? He would have to be an open book about where he goes, who he is with, who he talks to, etc. Why does this same philosophy not apply to Jennifer? And why was her cheating just cast aside as no big deal? Out of 3 hours worth of shows, not one discussion about her cheating? And in the end she is crying and scared and goes into hiding at her mom's house. She was so upset and scared for her life that while in "hiding" she goes off partying with her friends and has pictures taken of her hugged up to man and posted on the web site? Come on!! And furthermore, this abused woman was never hit, kicked, or even threatened by her husband. My best friend was abused and it is no joke. Her husband would threaten to kill her and when she divorced him, for the first 6 months she was so affraid he would find her that she would barely leave the house, let alone go off partying with men and having their pictures flashed together all over the world wide web!! The Dr. Phil show molded this story into what it needed to be for high ratings!!

Couldn't Dr. Phil have provided Jennifer with a private plane to get her back home ahead of Jeffrey rather than make her go through all the stress of getting to the airport, getting on a plane and having to sit with passengers who have no idea what she is going through.  I can't imagine her fear of the unknown while she was sitting scared to death that he would be there when she got home.  And then to have to go in and face him alone (with her kids there).  Weren't they supposed to be watched by a babysitter who told Jennifer she would do what she had to to protect her children.  What was up with that.  Couldn't Dr. Phil have provided some protection for her.  It was like he put her on this show in front of millions of viewers and offered to help her start a new life and help her get a divorce by hiring a lawyer for her.  Why couldn't he have gone a little further and provided her with some type of bodyguard.  She could have walked in and gotten shot right then and there by this crazy man.  It's very generous of Dr. Phil to offer to help her so far but he should go the distance and protect her more now that all this publicity has gotten Jeffrey more crazy.