This show is sooooooo my problem.
Confession time:
I have been eating the stress of having a relationship with a wonderful man who has an unbelievably manipulative 80 year old mother and he is a very passive with her and refuses to stand up to her. Consequently he has been divorced once because of her and she has undermined our relationship every chance she has gotten. We were engaged several years ago and I broke it off because of her, but we got back together about 4 months later.
The frustration of this situation along with the pain of living in my OWN apartment when I know we should be living together is also a big reason I medicate with food. (She sends him the message, if you leave me, I can't live on my own- she constantly tells him that she is all alone even though she has 3 other children and she is VERY jealous that he has become an important part of my large close-knit family)
She manipulates her children with money, giving gifts of large sums of money when they live a life she agrees with and witholding when they don't. He has never gotten a large sum given to him, but she promised to leave him the house they live in, in her will, until he asked me to marry him and then she made a change and put the house into a trust for all 4 of her children.
When I call her on her actions she tells me she has NEVER interfered in her children's lives.
I feel like I should leave the relationship, but that seems wrong because I know he and I have something really special together. But until his mother is gone (and I mean six feet under) I know we're not going to be able to be under one roof together. I constantly feel caught between a rock and a hard place.
If you read this far, thanks for listening.
See, it would have been so much easier to eat a cheesecake than to post this here.
At least there are no calories in a question!) ... who is Dr. Phil? And what show is he on?
