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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 5:12 pm
I was thinking as I watched this last nite...which kids are more likely to turn to drugs? I was raised on a farm in Oklahoma and we didn't have time to think about drugs.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 7:07 pm
The younger rich girl seemed ok but the older one is just like the mother. Wasn't it interesting that they buy 12 pairs of jeans for themselves and send the kids from the farm family one shirt each. I have to add, NEVER clean a rabbit cage with Clorox! The fumes are toxic to rabbits. Poor "Stew" could have bitten the dust from pneumonia.
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Sle
Member
11-10-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 7:45 pm
Anyone watch the fox version tonight? I had a dvr issue and missed the end of the discussion between Lisa and the grandmother from Kentucky about Kosher food and Leviticus. Did it ultimately end amicably - it seemed pretty tense to start with. Can anyone paraphrase how the discussion ended? Thanks.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 9:19 pm
The grandmother was asking about the kosher rules. Lisa said they came from Deuteronomy and Leviticus. The grandma didn't seem to realise that was from the Bible. She asked some more and Lisa said the rules came from the Torah. Then the conversation went round to marriage and one of the others asked Lisa if she wasn't being prejudiced because she wanted her children to marry Jews. Lisa said she just wanted to pass on her family values and didn't think that was prejudiced. Other woman started to say something, but grandma cut in and said that she agreed with Lisa. Grandma was impressed that Lisa followed the rules of her religion and said something like if people of two different religions married, it would be an unequal yoke and they'd be pulling in different directions. Lisa said that Christians believed that Jesus had come to save them, or something like that, and grandma was pleased. It ended well.
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Sle
Member
11-10-2003
| Monday, October 23, 2006 - 3:51 am
Puzzled, Thanks for the update!
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Monday, October 23, 2006 - 8:16 pm
YVW, Sle. 
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:25 am
I was tense when Grandma came to visit. Notice the boy was no where to be seen during the supper? Anyways, I'm always amazed when people start off trying to pick a fight then suddenly decide they have much in common. i thought it was hilarious that the Kentucky family didnt want to accept that the Food rules were actually from THEIR Bible too. There are ordinary mainstream Christian Churches that try to stick to the original rules as well...it aint just strict Jewish religion. It also made me laugh when Grandma wanted to know if they used the King James Version of the Bible. Lisa had to explain that Moses and Abraham/ Old testament was LONG before the man King James. I thought that Lisa's respectful and quiet personality really defused any nasty situation. If the father hadnt been such a nonentity in the family I think he could have defused that silly situation with the boy. however, it was obvious that the girl was the favourite and the father didnt give two hoots that the boy felt stupid. By the way, Wasnt this two hour episode the Season Opener of Trading Spouses?? ie/ they exchanged letters and 50,000? Maybe we need a second thread like last year to avoid confusion.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 7:21 am
Did anyone see the last episode with the Boulder mom coming to live with the lobster fishing family? Boulder mom--Wendy--seemed so shallow and ignoring her two daughters to concentrate on the third child, her boy toy husband. The new mom is forcing him to be nicer to his step daughters, but having little luck. As you can imagine there's a lot of trashing of Wendy going on at the Fox messageboards.
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 7:54 am
I saw it, kinda disturbing, hoping for the best. When is the 2nd episode on? I get the 2 swaps mixed up.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 10:49 am
Second episode is on Friday night on Fox. {Its Trading Spouses, not Wife Swap.} I couldnt find a spot for it and posted here.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 2:47 pm
What made me the sad was the thought of how the girl's real father probably fought for custody and was refused...and the mom wins, only to not want them due to the new husband. Bet that happens a lot in life. Wife wants the kids only because it means more $$$$$! and with that added $$$ you can support a ne'er-do-well Much younger man.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Tuesday, November 07, 2006 - 5:29 pm
Sun, I totally agree with you. I was wondering about whatever custody battle there may have been with Wendy and Husband #1. I was wondering if he's still around and knows what is happening with the two girls and Husband #2 - or why don't the girls go live with their biological father.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, November 09, 2006 - 9:04 am
It was quite sad when in her commentary she said how much she was going to miss her husband but didn't mention the girls, and never said good-bye to them. Looking at him he's nothing to write home about and the way he treats her kids, he'd be gone pdq regardless of what she thinks is his joie de vive. Plus all her comments about her upscale life etc I expected a much posher looking house, I hate to disillusion her but it just looked like run of the mill middle class to me.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Friday, November 10, 2006 - 9:04 pm
I don't know if the father fought for custody, some men feel it is the woman's job to raise children, especially daughters. More men will fight for custody of sons, thinking they can't identify with girl's issues. I can't say one thing or another about thier father, he seemd to give up his wife pretty easily, perhaps they were not compatible and it was a matter of time. I know editing does not always show the truth, but it was sad when the girls were left alone at the end of the show. Apparently, money is not that easy to come by in that family for the adult needs, the kids will do OK finanaically.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 12:39 am
I didn't see the first half of this one but I felt so bad for those two girls sitting out on the porch alone after mommy dearest came home. I wish someone would give me $6,000 to remod my kitchen. I could get that done easy for that amount. What's the matter with that woman and her husband?
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 1:47 am
I think that the mom was completely making it up. I doubt for ONE minute that she was putting aside HER money for the girls. I believe that the Biological father had one heck of a lawyer so that the Money for the girls actually WENT to the girls. I hope after viewing the show the father reopens custody. Can you believe the <57> woman going on and on about how the girls had more money than she did?? Then to berate the girls for not telling that they just had their Grandma DIE!! while Laughing like it was some kind of a joke. The girls looked horrified. Guess it was biological dad's mom who died. that woman was so shallow and the guy was emotionally abusing the girls. How amazing that he feels verbally berating the girls will help them 'make friends in college' and not become Mental Cripples. I'd suggest his harping at them with snide insults will cause the mental crippling LOL
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 2:06 am
That couple made me feel sick. He was borderline abusive with those girls and she is just too selfish for words. My heart hurt looking at those girls sitting out there on that porch alone. My jaw dropped when she asked them didn't they tell her that Gramma had just died. What the heck does that have to do with anything. And, then when one of them said didn't you tell her we wanted the kitchen re-model? OMG! I hope those girls take that money and run as soon as they can. Where the heck is the dad anyway? Maybe the visiting mom should have designated the whole $50,000 for a new custody attorney for those girls.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 8:48 am
ITA Sun... I hope the biological father files for custody of the girls. He can use the Trading Spouses show as an exhibit at the court hearing.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 11:50 am
That step-dads snarky remarks like "are you sure you don't want anything starchy, like a cinnamon roll" to those girls seemed like such a dig at them and their weight. So many things made me want to smack Wendy and her Aussie stud muffin (ick). I really felt for those girls. And did Wendy interact at all with Laura's childern?
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Lilfair
Member
07-09-2003
| Sunday, November 12, 2006 - 6:45 pm
It was impliied when Wendy and stud muffin went upstairs that they were going to do the nasty. That didn't fly over the girls heads. It's very sad. Disgusting.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 3:56 am
what put it into the realm of harrassment was the comment " Dont even think of coming up" or something similar. If those two want their "private time" why not wait until the girls go to bed. Surely on school nights it is around 9pm. I would LOVE a followup interview of this couple AND the ex after watching the show.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:21 am
That interview would be interesting. I wish they'd do it too. I only saw parts of this but I thought when he kept trying to throw her in the water/mud knowing she had on a white shirt and didn't want to get it wet/see through was borderline abusive too. Someone needs to slap that man.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Monday, November 13, 2006 - 9:05 pm
I didn't like the show tonight. It did not seem well edited. How many men get attached to their vacuum cleaner? How could the cowboy father say his son was not missing out on having friends his own age? I hope Wife Swap is never shown in other countries and billed as life in the United States. Ack!
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:10 am
What I found interesting about the show last night was the dominant wife was just going nuts over the cowboy dad who could have been her identical twin in behavior. At the first of the show she admitted it was "my way or my way" and then later while ranting about the other dad said he thinks it's "his way or his way." I was also rather stunned at the meeting when the cowboy dad accused the dominant wife of lying about what his son had said when he had told his dad basically the exact same thing. The bullhorn - unbelievable!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 8:31 pm
I forgot about the bullhorn.
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