On 2014-05-14 6:18 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

>> The wife was a piece of work... fat, ugly and just plain nasty. She
>> would regularly cook up a box of Krap Dinner for her husband and
>> daughters and then she would go next door to the restaurant and have
>> dinner there.
>
> I had thoughts in my mind of Bob Newhart when I thought of counselors.
> Well, I can say now that not a one of them I have run across were in any
> way remotely like that at all. I know others who have seen them or had
> their kids see them and they pretty much said the same thing.
> Counselors these days are not there to help with life's problems.
> They're there to diagnose and treat mental illness. Don't have mental
> illness? They won't help. Have mental illness? Maybe they can't help.
> Sometimes the best they can do is throw pills at you. The mental
> illness part has not been my personal experience as it does not apply to
> me. Does apply to other people I know. Not saying who these people are
> as it is nobody's business here.
>
> Perhaps if you are a really rich person and can pay out of pocket for
> some sort of counseling (I have no clue what kind), you could find a Bob
> Newhart kind of counselor. But they aren't out here in the real world
> for people who depend on their insurance to cover it.

I trust that you realize that Bob Newhart is a fictional character.