…please put me in jail so I can get back on my medication. And I thought to myself, this failure to deal with mental illness, I believe came twofold. One, because, you know, it’s just economics, money, and all that. And two, nobody wants to raise their hand and say I’m mentally ill, because it had such a stigma to it.”
“Now if I’m going talk that talk, how can I not say my father was bi-polar and I struggled with issues myself? And I’m not embarrassed. I’m not ashamed. I’ve done very well in life. My father’s done very well in life, and it is what it is.”
So getting back to what she does every weekday in her TV divorce courtroom, Toler shares one of the biggest reasons for divorce that we can all learn from.
“Money is always the big problem. People don’t even know how they feel. They never sit down and have the conversation. How do you feel about money? What do you want out of money? So if you have different concepts of money, it’s going to be very, very difficult to have a calm, cool and meaningful relationship without a lot of trouble.”