Topic : 03/18 Love Junkies

It looks to me like Dr. Phil was wasting his time with Dawn.  Paul was the one that needed to most help.  Why would a man put up with Dawn antics.  I know she had a ruff childhood, but didn't we all. Paul seems like a good guy being manipulated by attention seeking hustler.  

Four marriages/divorces,why would you want to be number five?

It could be that she has never felt true love by anyone (except for her son)

Sorry, meant to say that she has never felt loved by anyone, meaning friends or family alike (except for her son).

Well said!

Today's first half of the show was really interesting to me because I have been in Paul's shoes.  A decade ago, I met a wonderful man in his early 40's that had never been married and his longest relationship had been 3 years - same average years as Dawn's relationships.  As a little boy, he,  too, had the same foot problem as Dawn and had been hospitalized for treatments for long periods of time.  Deep in my heart I knew this experience had scared him emotionally and could of been the reason he sabotaged his relationships.   With me, he broke the 3-year record; we were together for 7 years, but eventually I needed a commitment.  In turn, he asked for a 50-page paper from me stating the meaning of marriage - I got the U-Haul.  I saw this request as his way of dancing around commitment.  Sometimes, we have to acknowledge that there are things beyond our control and move on.  Best of luck to Paul and even Dawn - maybe you can offer her the help she needs to help her get over the pain.

    Hello;

  When I heard the girls talk about their relation ships not lasting,

 and also I kept hearing them say they have never been on their

 own. I have been in some relationship's, but I was a codependent.

  I took a lot of abuse from different guts just for a place to live.

  I could not have real feeling for them due to the abuse. Also

 in my situation, I feel some of them also I felt when they wanted

  sex, that was a lot of it. And sometimes just could not do it just

 because it was more a duty. And after you are abused in any

 way, how can you have feelings. The worst position that any

 women can be in is a co-dependent relationship. That is just

 my view. I got some negative feed back about what I wrote on

 the 17th of March. I have been in some difficult relationships

 I would either be alone then to be living a life of shame.

WOW who knew that relationships were complicated. This two ladies have had something in their past to make them have complicated relationships. They don't seems to be bad women, but they need to be aware that they are hurting their famalies and themselves