[leemo2000]

Hi SP

There is a review somewhere on here from North American viewers. It was on TV over there several months ago.

So far, the way the MLC'er behaved is total script!!

leemo

[Stillpraying]

What was Dr Phil's response?

[Chookie]

I was at work today. My friend usually tapes it though.

Thanks Leemo, I'll see if she recorded it today.

[leemo2000]

Its on my Foxtel box, if you are in Sydney you can visit and watch it lol :-)

I got the feeling Dr. Phil doesn't really believe in MLC but I suppose thats to be expected.

The LBS had met someone else but the MLC'er was insisting he wanted to save their marriage, Dr. Phil recommended the LBS tries to make things work but she was so hurt by the MLC'ers actions she wasn't sure she could.

I think Dr. Phil commented that the husband had a temporary mental disconnection from his wife.

[Stillpraying]

Someone needs to send him a link to this forum!

[bipolared]

I am in the US but interested in your thoughts on this.  I saw this very early on in my situation.  I taped it and I think H erased it!  I too got the impression that he doesn't believe in MLC, which surprised me a bit.

[summer90]

I watched the episode about 8 months ago, it's on YouTube.

I was very skeptical about Dr Phil and his analysis of the situation.  The whole program made me angry.  The so-called MLCer was, I thought maybe a serial affair man and he did have narcissistic tendencies but the whole thing left me with more questions than it answered and was nothing like most of the forum stories.

Dr Phil was very non committal   and I certainly got the impression he thought MLC was a load of rubbish.  The second person was a woman in MLC and her story was unconvincing as well.  Dr Phil may as well not have been there, and the questions he asked were not ones I would ask an MLCer.  Dr Phil thought the marriages had just ended for "other" reasons and certainly didn't seem vaguely interested in the subject.

I will watch it again to see if I've changed my mind but at the time - useless program, did nothing to help anyone on this forum, only make us feel like fools for loving our spouses.

[Chookie]

Word for word how I felt too, Summer.

My friend and I watched this episode a while ago too, and I was really disappointed with Dr Phil's response. He seemed to 'poo poo' the whole idea of MLC. My friend watched it again through the week when it was aired again and feels that Dr Phil wasn't necessarily disbelieving of MLC but rather that he didn't think the guy on the show was suffering from MLC. I need to watch it again but I still feel that he doesn't really believe in MLC.

Dr Phil needs, perhaps, to spend a day in the life of......... Us!

[OldPilot]

http://loveanyway.theherosspouse.com/midlife-crisis-and-infidelity/dr-phils-midlife-crisis-episode-1/

RCR wrote a 5 or 6 part blog post about Dr, Phil is this the same episode?

[summer90]

That's the one OP,

Useless piece of television and a total waste of time.  I hated it.  If Dr Phil had taken MLC seriously, we could all have more exposure for what we are dealing with and a lot ore information for the newbies.  Instead, we were belittled and told to move on.