Hey Amy,
Just caught the episode with you speaking at Cornell College. I thought that it was very elliquent and straight from the heart. You and your husband are an inspiration for any family facing extraordinary and/or everyday challenges from petty squables to holding everything together. As a wife, mother of one teenage daughter and holding down a career, I take my proverbial hat off to you, as I can barely find time to accomplish half of what you do everyday. I think you are an incredibly beautiful, intelligent and accomplished woman whom I would be proud to embrace into my social circle as a very dear friend. Stay well and much happiness to you and your family.
Mary

What exactly has Amy done besides put down Matt, does not clean her house and spoils her kids terribly ?

Agreed that Amy takes care of her children. But so do zillions of other women. She doesn't work outside the home. She doesn't clean, cooks uncomplicated dishes. She does get to lecture some times--and that means she gets away from the house drudgery and the farm.

And, by the way, the R's do not read these posts.

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Originally posted by PDSchweitzer:
What exactly has Amy done besides put down Matt, does not clean her house and spoils her kids terribly ?

I like her just as well as I do Matt...and why, may I ask, when duty is involved, is it 'her' house...and 'her' kids? They are all Matt's as well, and he's not getting any medals for disciplining kids...cleaning up his own messes...and none for involvement much either.
It's one of those equality things. It is not very insightful to ask someone to defend their opinion.

It's hers because she throws a fit when anyone tries to clean or organize.
If Matt wants to discipline, she acts like he's torturing those spoiled brats.

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Originally posted by encyclopaedia:
It's hers because she throws a fit when anyone tries to clean or organize.
If Matt wants to discipline, she acts like he's torturing those spoiled brats.

Sorry...I never see a guy like Matt, with more spin than a candidate for city council and very intelligent, as ANY kind of victim. He talks the ears off a bunny when he wants something, so a fantasy that he is utterly helpless in his home would not be believable.

Sorry also...they are not just 'her' kids...they are 'his' kids as well. House..ditto.

For people who need a heavy to blame for all things...Amy suits them obviously. Long live drama...I'm sure there are viewers who do not even realize that shows are put together for maximum drama. Must be like feeling sorry for someone's character on a soap opera.

Never watched soap operas but did live near them for a while. Amy is a bulldozer.

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Originally posted by encyclopaedia:
Never watched soap operas but did live near them for a while. Amy is a bulldozer.

Neat!!!
Anyway, when Matt wants something done, he hires an army of bulldozers.

I didn't know they don't read these posts. They should.

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Originally posted by mintjulep_ageless:

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Originally posted by PDSchweitzer:
What exactly has Amy done besides put down Matt, does not clean her house and spoils her kids terribly ?

I like her just as well as I do Matt...and why, may I ask, when duty is involved, is it 'her' house...and 'her' kids? They are all Matt's as well, and he's not getting any medals for disciplining kids...cleaning up his own messes...and none for involvement much either.
It's one of those equality things. It is not very insightful to ask someone to defend their opinion.

I suggest you read more opinions.

wow. "Her house", "her kids" that's very telling. Sad considering that this is 2009, but telling.

Amy is absolutely awesome. To be able to put up with such idiocracy with her husband and his brainless childish schemes. You have to hand it to her.

I think your house, and your family is just fine. We cant all be so perfect as these on here who are complaining of the "state of her family".

Its just pathetic to me. Some of these who are complaining that Amy is such a bad housekeeper, are probably those sittin on thier laptops with 300 dirty plates, and cups sitting all around them, and a pile of laundry to the ceiling by their bed.

Amy just needs to get out on her own, and take her kids with her. She didnt ask for that fancy house all these people have been talking about, in fact she tried to get him to slow down on it, but his half wit brain just kept going and going....always on to the next stupid and useless project.

Like I said in another post

Give me a break purple.

She belittles him, she humiliates him, she always takes her disrespectful brat of a son's side on everything, she undermines ANYTHING Matt tries to do for the family...

she's a pitiful excuse for a mother, Encouraging disrespect, encouraging sloppiness and laziness, being emotionally abusive to her husband...

if Matt was so bad, she should have gotten out years ago... Not be an abusive witch

THANK YOU Jrocks!! Zach is very very disrespectful! Amy puts Matt down constantly. She and the kids are enjoying all of Matts so called antics. I don't see them giving up the life style that his antics help to create.
He needs to put Zach out, until he learns to be more respectful, even if he doesn't agree.
And clean up that NASTY HOUSE!!! (Purple) My kitchen is cleaned and my laundy is done. There is no excuse for their house or yours to be that NASTY!!!!!!!

I'm physically disabled because of a car accident... and there's NO WAY I'd let my house get sloppy beyond the point of cleaning.

Sloppy lazy disrespectful creatons will not survive in the REAL world (outside of reality TV)

Both Amy and Matt have their weaknesses and to blame just one is shortsighted and naive.
Where to start?! I mean, they both drive me crazy for a hundred different reasons. If I had to pick one thing that is on the top of my list, it would be their lack of follow-through regarding the kids. No discipline.
And why do they not require these children to behave more respectfully and reasonably in their own home? They were running wild in tonight's episode, and yes, I realize that we don't see everything, just bits and pieces, but still, it was such a madhouse. I understood Matt's frustration w/trying to concentrate and get anything done.
I understood also, Amy's frustration w/Matt ONCE AGAIN going ahead and making a decision and big plans w/o consulting/discussing it/working out the details w/her.
I wonder just what is wrong w/Zach these days, he just doesn't seem to be with it at all, and completely unaware of the world around him. To sit and stare at the ceiling with his mouth hanging open, while attending a meeting with a college advisor, making it obvious that he wasn't even interested in what was being said! How rude and obnoxious. If I didn't know better and had tuned in for the first time, I would have thought he was mentally challenged or something was wrong, (that behavior was horrible, Anti-social.) Yet I used to feel Zach had promise!
Another thing that bothers me is the children's and even their parent's terrible table manners including while eating out in public, you'd think they'd be a little more aware of their appearance then, but it doesn't seem to matter to them at all.
I don't know what else to say, everyone has made the same points over and over, but I did find tonight's episode difficult to watch. It was sad on so many levels....Oh! I wanted to say that I for one completely understood why Zach got fed up w/Matt's malarkey, the flim-flam man was really geared up when he was attempting to talk Zach into coming along!! But it was total nonsense and I didn't blame Zach for having had enough of it. Matt always does that and the kids are getting old enough now to see through these ploys! I think Zach felt insulted that Matt would think he could influence his (Zach's) decision with that load of drek. It was ridiculous and absurd.

I don't care what Zach's reasons are for not wanting to go...

Matt's his father PERIOD and his father deserves respect, even if you don't agree with him.

Zach is a pathetic crybaby who likes to play the victim.

Matt is not neglectful, he loves his kids, he provides for them just as much as Amy does...

His kids SHOULD respect him. PERIOD

this is what's wrong with our society today.

People are always making excuses for the kids. Making them victims when they're nothing more than lazy slobs who don't want to do anything with their lives.

They disrespect their parents... but Oh that's ok.

They let the house turn into a pig stye "Oh they have so much else to concern themselves with other than cleaning up"

They act like the victim "Well look at how hard life is for them"

Give me a break. In order for them to grow up, they have to learn respect and responsibility