Wife Swap: The Coal Miner, the Ghost Hunter, and a Dad-Mom

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Wife Swap: The Coal Miner, the Ghost Hunter, and a Dad-Mom

February 27, 2008 09:29:44 by Jennifer_Brown

It’s another episode of Wife Swap and I predict a backwoods country super-mama swapping lives with a psychic ghost hunting mom. How’d I do? Probably not as good as Shane Myers, Shoshone Shaman and psychic, married to Samantha, a high-powered executive by day, ghost hunter by night.

The Myers family, in fact, is full off paranormal powers. From the dad who can see apparitions to the daughter who can “read” objects, this family is all about the paranormal. Wife Sam is also into work, and not so much into being a cuddly mommy. Her kids call her “cold and callous,” and say that she doesn’t like kids — she just likes sex. Sam is married to a stay-at-home dad, who the kids lovingly call “Dad-Mom,” and Dad-Mom spoils the heck out of Sam. He does all of the chores, the cooking, the child-rearing, and even irons Sam’s clothes and warms her body lotion with his hands before applying it to her skin.

Sam is about to switch with her exact opposite: Karen Sutton. Karen is a stay-at-home mom who fervently believes it’s her duty to be there for her family at all times, in every conceivable way. She does everything for her coal miner husband, Tommy, and her three daughters. In fact, her daughters are so spoiled by mommy’s servitude, they call her on their cell phones from their bedrooms to order her around. She loves “being needed,” and calls her kids her “best friends,” but Tommy calls Karen the family’s “free maid.”

The wives swap and in short order Karen feels isolated and put down by the brainiac Myers kids. In fact, oldest kid, Drew, sits Karen down and tells her, “I think you’re less intelligent than the rest of us and it shows.” Right away, the family takes Karen on a ghost hunt and she’s scared silly. She calls the family “110% capital F-R-E-A-K-S…FREAKS!” She gets stressed out when she has to take over Sam’s high powered exec job and feels overwhelmed.

At the Sutton house, things aren’t going any better. Tommy is demanding, and Sam isn’t living up to his high standards of cleanliness around the house. She’s unnerved by the bickering between Tommy and step-daughter Tiffany, and gets very upset when Tommy makes her cook his breakfast, only to toss it in the trash because it took too long for her to make. “A real mom would just shut her mouth and bite her tongue and do her damn job!” he shouts.

After a week, the wives get to change the rules on their new families. Karen tells the Myers that there won’t be any more ghost hunting, calling their abilities “dumb powers.” Furthermore, she puts a ban on “long words,” and declares that anyone heard using a long word will have to write that word on his or her forehead. She calls Shane a sissy and makes plans for him to get a job, and sets Drew up on a date with a down-home country type.

Sam’s rule changes revolve around getting the kids and Tommy to pitch in more around the house. “You’re going to get in touch with your feminine side,” she says. She also plans a ghost hunt and a role reversal for Tom and Tiff.

Things get emotional when Karen rips up some ghost hunting photos of Shane’s. Later, when she makes daughter Cassie write “all-encompassing” on her forehead at dinner and inadvertently gets 4-year old Thom in trouble, she bursts into tears and runs to her room. Cassie comes in and consoles her, trying the “emotion thing” on for size. Again there are hurt feelings when Drew’s date calls Karen to tell her that Drew is making her feel degraded with his big words. When Karen tells Drew (who thought the date was going great) about it, he gets upset that she didn’t soften the blow at all. He faces off with her, both of them in tears. Meanwhile, things between Karen and Shane improve when she takes him to a detective agency to use his psychic powers. He hits the job out of the park and the agency offers him a job.

There are little emotions over the Sutton rule changes. Tommy, slow to cooperate, hides all of the cleaning materials in the house, and even resorts to breaking dishes rather than washing them. But later, after the role play with Tiffany, Tommy gets emotional himself, wanting to repair their faltering relationship. He then starts to cooperate, sending the girls off to school one morning and realizing how tough Karen’s job really is.

The two weeks are up and the couples reunite. There isn’t much mud-slinging going on around the table, as it seems this time pretty much everyone’s had an epiphany. Tears are flowing all around the table as Sam reveals that she wants to engender a more nurturing relationship with her kids and Shane reveals that he wants to go back to providing for the family financially. Even Tommy cries, “I realized that I couldn’t live without you,” to Karen, who’s decided that she’d like a little more help around the house.

Since the Swap, Shane has been working with law enforcement and detective agencies again and is loving it. The Myers family is trying to balance the roles of the parents more now, and Sam is being more cuddly with her kids.

At the Sutton house, Tommy and the girls are helping Karen more — she’s no longer their “free maid,” but is instead a free woman. Free to get some “me time” every now and again, that is. Tommy’s also been bitten by the romance bug, spoiling Karen whenever he can. With tears in his eyes he says, “Without her we don’t have a home.”

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