After watching Dr. Phil do his closing statement to Steve, "Friends come and go but family is always there for you."
Dr. Phil needs to meet my mother. After my Dad passed away she drove my youngest sister away and started telling everyone (anyone that would listen) that she was a thief and had stolen money from our mother. Since the viciousness of my mothers tongue started, my sister has estranged herself totally from the family. I can't blame her.
9 months ago, I moved back into my mothers house to take care of her. She is getting dementia, was not taking her medications properly, not seeing her doctors regularly and was financial wreck. On numerous occassions, she had tried to cook something on the stove and had come close to setting the house on fire. Although I was there daily with her, she was still worried about being there alone at night. I put my marriage aside so I could take care of my mother.
Well....after nine months of taking care of my mother (i.e. taking her to doctors appointments, setting up her medications and monitoring her taking her medications only. Taking her from a near Bankruptcy to being paid up except for one credit card and that balance went from $8k down to $5K and would have been paidoff completely by June 2006. Enter her boyfriend....user in the truest of words. A reputation of going after lonely widows with property and vehicles.
On September 23, 2005 my mother sued me in small claims court to get me evicted out of her house. She has sued me for back rent. I am not an ungrateful son. Over the last 3 years I had spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $13k for things for her. Even in court, she told the judge it wasn't about the money, she just wanted me to leave.
I forgot some important issues. In June 2005 I was hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism. After looking into it, my surgeons wanted to do a quadruple bypass on my heart. They informed me that I was a "walking time bomb" with a heart attack. Fatal heart attack. This was the worse time in my life, health wise.
Leave I did. I was given 48 hours to vacate my mothers residence. With the help of some dear true friends and my lovely wife, we accomplished the move. Back with my wife again.
Now I have had to retain an attorney to get my tools and truck from her residence. She has been really taking time with this just to aggravate me, I think. I have had people on hold to do this move but can't do anything until I can wade through the bad attorneys and legal system.
Sooooo......Dr Phil. Family is great but when you have a viper for a mother what can you do....? I will stay with my tried and true friends because they have proven to be better than family.
(Original Air Date: 11/2/2005) False accusations have ruined lives and divided families. No one knows this better than Terry. She claims she was falsely labeled as a gossip at her son, Steve's, rehearsal dinner and was escorted out of his wedding by security! Now, she confronts her son and daughter-in-law for the first time in almost five months. Can this family ever reconcile, or are they better off apart? Then, a former high school principal made headlines when a 16-year-old student accused him of having sex with her. The scandal rocked the town, and now he struggles to regain his reputation and move forward. Share your thoughts here.
