Amy - please keep posting here. Your comments are really really insightful!
I am sure there woudl be many people here interested to see details of a prior cycle of his if you have that.
In in general, any detail of what its like as the reality of "being the girlfriend" of a hard core bodybuilder, might open a few people's eyes to what is REALLY like to live that kind of life.
One thing that did impress me about Rich was how well and how nicely he treats his dogs. Is that for real (or just for show?).
Has he been investing in realestate, or does he just have the one place featured in the clips?
Finally, whether good, or bad, this publicity is probably ultimately positive for him - as they say, in showbiz, there's no such thing as bad publicity...
Richs' love for his dogs and animals in general IS GENUINE. I believe he would do anything to protect his dogs and he was always had respect for all critters. I loved that about him. I am a HUGE animal advocate and I wouldnt be with anyone that didnt have the same views. I am vegetarian but I couldnt get him to conform obviously but thats OK, it was expected. I do miss the dogs but I have my own now but think of his often. The house in the clips the big pinkish one is not his. Someone posted a pic of his real house a few pages back. He posted his address on one of these forums a few years ago because he wanted to challenge someone to a duel (lol) so that is how his address became known, I didnt give out his address.
The pool is his which is nice when it is kept up. He saved for A LONG time and did without a whole lot of things back then in order to pay cash for that pool. That house in the video has to be one of his clients or just a house he drove by to get that clip and then spliced it into that video clip. He house isnt even close to that one...There isnt a house in Northridge that looks like that in fact. LOL. He had houses a few houses in Texas and when he went through the divorce he got Texas houses and she got the Northridge house. After she couldnt pay on the Northridge house it went into foreclosure, she moved out and got a condo and he moved BACK into the Northridge house. It killed him to leave that pool and he was happy to move back in.
When he was married his ex did everything for him which included paying the bills and when they split I guess he thought the tooth fairy was going to send the checks out in the mail, etc. When I say she paid for everything I mean she wrote the checks and mailed them although she also worked. It was way too much money that was owed on the house so the plan was for him to move when the bank came knocking! In the meantime, same thing happened with the houses in Texas, got years behind on paying. I didnt think that was such a big deal when I posted that because this was a few years ago when EVERYONES house was foreclosed on and EVERYONE was just taking the loss and the hit and moving, etc. Before that tho, the houses in TEXAS were costing HIM MONEY because he couldnt charge rent as high as the mortage was so they were costing him money.
He needs an accountant but instead he tries to take a shortcut and hire someone who knows someone who knows someone that can do the books, etc ALWAYS tries the shortcut in EVERY WAY in life & thinks by just ignoring something, it will go away. Im talking about major things, not a little headache. I guess I could write a book. People wonder why I am posting and its because people are intrigued I guess so I am answering questions. I lived it for 7 years so I know the deal & the way of life. As long as you are a puppet on his strings everything is fine and dandy but the second one strays just a little bit, he swoops back down and stears ya back in the middle of the road. People have said he is right, that the man should be in charge, etc I agree but not the kind of charge I am talking about. The littliest, stupidest thing & the million dollar question has been, what does that say about me? Says I was a dumb idiot for a few years & was a fool.
Everything negative on this thread has probably been true at some point in my life during those years so I deserve every bit of the smack talking but Im not gonna sit here and listen to it and read it without telling my story of why I stayed and why I was with him. If people want me to shut up and or think im whining and want him back, etc WRONG & as long as Im asked questions I will answer them....It doesnt mean I want him back. Wanting or needing him back is psychobabble & laughable. So if the questions keep on, I will keep on. I left in a hurry when I moved back to FL and when I packed sinice we lived together some of his stuff was in mine and viseversa so I do have notebooks in a nightstand of his cycles, etc. I know people have shown interest in that because they wonder about his psysique. He is pretty open about it tho and very approachable if any of you ever see or talk to him you will see what I mean.....Many think he is unapproachable but quite the opposite with him. Its his life story as a young boy and he loves to tell his story.
