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Dr. Phil’s guests are living in toxic, abusive marriages with too many arrests, scratches, bruises, broken bones, holes in walls and damaged doors to count! Lorrie and Scott have been married for five years and both accuse the other of being abusive. Lorrie’s teenage daughters say they can’t take the turmoil anymore and worry about their 4-year-old brother witnessing the fighting. The teens want Lorrie and Scott to call it quits before one of them kills the other. Can Dr. Phil help this couple bring peace back into their home? And, Nicole and Coz say they have had many explosive fights in their five-year marriage. Nicole says Coz broke her finger and choked her until she blacked out. Coz says she threatened him with a butcher knife. Fed up with the fighting, Nicole took the children and left. Coz filed for divorce and is fighting for custody of his son but says he’d be willing to work on their marriage if Nicole came back. Is there hope for this union? Plus, help give a voice to victims of abuse. Join Dr. Phil’s campaign to End the Silence on Domestic Violence. Take the pledge on DrPhil.com and become a Silence Breaker!

Destroying property, choking others, death threats ... This behavior is too much for parents to handle. Dr. Phil, along with Dr. Alan Kazdin, professor of psychology and child psychiatry at Yale University and author of The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child, has advice for managing aggressive behavior. Talena says she lives in fear of her 8-year-old son, Rhys. She and her husband, Derek, say the boy punches, bites and spits on them and threatens to kill them while they’re sleeping. Then, when Ron and Christine last appeared on the show, they were desperate for help with their 10-year-old son, Zachary. They said he tackled and kicked them and terrorized the family pets. Now they fear he has a more disturbing problem. Learn what it is, and why the couple says they may be headed for divorce. Plus, when Scott and Carolin last sat down with Dr. Phil, they couldn’t control their 12-year-old son, Nathaniel, who they say choked them and broke windows. Four months have passed since they pleaded for an intervention. See their amazing update!

Are you stuck in the middle of a nasty divorce? Or, is the divorce finalized but the war isn’t over? Dr. Phil intervenes with couples struggling to be peaceful co-parents after their marriages went south. Jeff and Angie are legally separated but far from physically separated -- they live across the street from each other and still struggle to get along! Jeff says after 20 years of marriage, five counselors and three mediations, it’s clear to him that his soon-to-be ex-wife just wants as much of his money as she can get. Angie says Jeff is out to make her life miserable. The couple cannot divorce until they reach an agreement on alimony and child support. Are their children paying the price? Then, Julie and Robert have been divorced for two years. Robert won primary custody of their 9-year-old daughter after Julie accused him of being sexually inappropriate with the girl, and the judge didn't believe her. Now, is Robert keeping Julie from seeing their daughter? With the help of family law attorneys Areva Martin and Brett Berman, can Dr. Phil help these couples reach a peaceful resolution?

Are reality television show fights real or just staged for the cameras? Today's guests say what you see is what you get — and more! Davy Jones, frontman for the popular group The Monkees, and wife, Jessica, discuss the many arguments their 30-year age difference brings about. Then, Jonny Fairplay says he became the most-hated villain in reality television history when he faked his own grandmother's death on the hit show Survivor. It should come as no surprise that he says he and his America's Next Top Model wife, Michelle Deighton, don't exactly play fair in their fights at home. See what each says drives the other through the roof! And, Reichen became a household name when he appeared on The Amazing Race, and Rodiney an Internet sensation doing the "happy dance" around the globe, but as they settle into domestic bliss, the two say they fight like every other couple. Dr. Phil gives his guests an in-depth personality quiz to test their compatibility. Learn which two he says may not make it until the end of the year.

Trying to blend two families can be like mixing oil and water. Dr. Phil sits down with couples struggling to merge their families and create happy, peaceful homes. Samantha and Rob are on the verge of divorce because she says he favors their 4-year-old son over her children from a previous marriage and is too hard on her kids when it comes to discipline. Rob feels his wife undermines him in their home. Can these two align and create a parenting plan that they both agree on? Then, with six kids between them, they may look like the Brady Bunch, but Pete and Maureen say their life is no sitcom. Pete says he and his wife can’t agree on how to raise each other’s kids, and every argument brings them closer to a divorce. And, meet a stepmom who says she can’t bond with her stepkids. Dr. Phil spells out the myths and facts of being a stepparent and the most successful way to fulfill that role. Plus, what is your parenting style? Tune in and take Dr. Phil’s quiz!