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Right after he proposed,
I asked him if we could bring my mother over.
She's the root of the problem, ma'am.
He hates living with my mom. She stresses him out.
We lost all intimacy.
It's like I'm making love to a mute.
We're really close.
Your mother's sick. She's very manipulative.
She wanted a butt lift.
Cameraman, please zoom in.
You paid for her butt implants?
Right after she had surgery, she disappeared.
He made a video that's tarnishing your reputation
and have people badmouthing you at work.
Because she left you.
And what's a gold-digger?"
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French moralist Joseph Joubert once said...
"Marriage is a vessel meant for two sailors."
Hello and welcome to "Case Closed."
Okay.
Let's see how that quote relates to our first case.
Please bring out the litigants.
Marriage is for two. A third person stinks.
What matters here is that we live together in harmony.
-Good afternoon and welcome. -Good afternoon, ma'am.
Augusto, is this your wife?
Yes, ma'am.
We've been together for three and a half years.
I'm here because Victoria left home
a week ago looking for his mother,
with whom she has an unhealthy relationship.
She left me and her nine-month-old son.
I'm getting to a point where I can't take it anymore.
-How long have you been married? -14 months, ma'am.
14 months...
You have a nine-month-old child...
and she left following her mother a week ago.
-Did she live with you? -Yes.
She moved in with us when we first got married.
Tell me how this happened and what you're asking for.
What are you demanding?
I want her to come back home today, but without her mother,
and I also want them to undergo some therapy...
- Therapy. - Psychological treatment.
Okay.
If she doesn't...
We had issues a couple of months ago,
and we agreed we'd go to Punta Cana...
I spent $7,200 on marriage counseling.
A family vacation, right?
-Yes. -Okay.
I can't take it anymore, ma'am.
We met each other four years ago at the University of Miami.
I was getting my Master's degree.
She was getting her bachelor's.
At first, everything was fine. We had a nice relationship.
She was the love of my life and I was hers.
I felt great next to her.
After we moved in together...
we had been together for about six months,
I started noticing she'd spend the night texting her mother,
facetiming, etc.
I got to a point that I thought it was okay."
Her mother lived in Venezuela back then.
I understood her position, but it could be a nuisance.
So...
She got pregnant a year and a half after moving in together.
She asked me to marry her before our child was born
and all that.
Our relationship was perfect.
She really is the love of my life.
Right before the wedding,
she asked me to help her bring her mother from Venezuela.
I agreed because it was normal.
Of course.
That was the root of the problem, ma'am.
Why?
Because, for starters,
We didn't take a single photo of the two of us alone
on our wedding day.
They have a sick relationship, ma'am.
Her mother was fixing her hair or her makeup in every picture.
I didn't get a chance to...
We had a small wedding.
We just went to the courthouse...
but I wanted our picture taken.
It was an important moment in our lives and I wanted to...
A photo of the two of you.
Her mother wouldn't leave her alone.
I ended up getting upset and I asked her to leave us alone.
Big mistake.
She got mad and started crying.
To make up for upsetting her mother,
I had to take her on our honeymoon.
-Her mother? -Yes, ma'am.
-She went to your honeymoon? -Not just that, ma'am.
On our wedding night,
she stayed in the Jacuzzi with us until 1:00AM.
She was giving Victoria advice on how to raise our child.
She was giving us advice. You know that.
That's not possible.
On our wedding night, ma'am!
I'm sorry,
but I pictured what you went through that night and...
That's not all.
When she was about to leave, Victoria would tell her to stay.
She was giving me advice on how to raise the baby.
I couldn't tell her to leave.
We already discussed this.
You'll have your chance to explain.
I was upset with the whole situation.
And I had to put up with it for a few months.
She came to the wedding and stay a few more months.
That's when everything went down the hill.
She started...
If she had to study, she wanted to have her mom next to her.
If she wanted to eat out, her mother had to...
If I was hungry, "Mom cooked."
What's that?
How long has this lady been living with you?
14 months.
She came when Victoria was four months...
And what's the plan?
When is she going back?
I was taking it easy because I thought...
She's eventually leaving.
She'd leave after Victoria gave birth.
I thought about telling Victoria about buying her plane ticket.
I was desperate. That was my only hope.
Victoria said her mom would stay to help her with the baby.
After the baby was born...
I've never changed his diapers. Not even once.
Whenever I try holding him,
she tells me I'm too rough or that I'm not careful enough.
So I can't hold him or change his diapers or anything.
Is the lady living with you at the moment?
She's not living with you, right?
She is, ma'am.
But I thought your wife had gone after her.
Yes, ma'am. Here's what happened.
After all this happened, we even lost all intimacy.
It's like I'm making love to a mute, because...
You know newlyweds need intimacy,
but I can't do anything because I can't wake her mother up.
So I lost the closeness between us among other things
not only with her but also with my son.
Everything bothered her.
Eventually, I got fed up.
One night, after dinner, they started criticizing me
while I was doing the dishes.
That was the last straw.
I lost it and I kicked her out of the house.
I went to her room, packed her bags and sent her on her way.
And what happened? She went after her mother.
-Where is she living now? -In a motel.
-In a motel? -Yes.
That first night I was fine because she came back home.
When I left to work the next day, she was there...
but when I came back, she was gone.
When I called her,
she said she was staying at a nearby motel.
Two blocks away?
And I'm taking care of our nine-month-old baby.
We've been like this for a week now, ma'am.
Okay. Perfect.
I got it.
We'll take a short break, when we come back,
you'll respond to his request, okay?
We'll be right back.
You abandoned your husband to go after your mother.
But ma'am...
-Marriage is between two people, not three.
CASE CLOSED