Reality Check

Carmen Fuller is getting fed up with the baby mama drama, her medaling in-laws and her guilt-driven husband. Balancing her personal life and her job as a caseworker at the county's Friend of the Court system is challenging. Stress levels run high for this thirty-two-year-old mother of two. Carmen keeps her family on a need-to-know status, leaving her girlfriends-Tonya and Simone, who are dealing with their own family drama-as her only support. As she struggles with the feelings she experiences as a stepmother to nine-year-old Junior, she discovers that she is not alone. Her situation intensifies when she suspects her husband, Tyrell, of unfaithfulness. Although she felt the separation from her husband far before her suspicions of infidelity, Carmen's dream family life is at risk of crumbling apart. But she refuses to hand her husband and family over on a silver platter. Meanwhile, her home and work life overlap when she receives "hate mail" from someone who obviously wants her husband. She keeps the letters a secret from Tyrell, but uses other tactics to feel him out. As she figures things out, she makes some astonishing discoveries about her stepson that have been happening all along. Tyrell shares with a marriage counselor that his feelings toward his wife changed when he noticed that she didn't like his son anymore. Carmen is offended and shocked by his bogus accusations. After all of the drama she puts up with, this was the sorry excuse her husband had for treating her the way he did. While eluding their family members and Tyrell's baby mama, the couple struggles with moving forward. As Carmen works on herself, she decides to choose her battles and accept things for what they are. She digs deep for some real soul searching to improve her roles as a wife, a mother, and a stepmother.