Love it or List it viewers slam wife who refuses to leave her home
‘Let him have his bungalow!’ Love it or List it viewers slam ‘selfish’ wife who wants to stay in their home with ‘amazing views’ despite her husband struggling after a stroke
- Sue and Richard, from Mapperley, appeared on Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It
- The couple had been divided over whether to sell the house after 30 years
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Love it or List it viewers slammed a wife who refused to leave her home despite it becoming inaccessible for her husband after he had a stroke.
Sue and Richard, from Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, who had spent the last 30 years in their home, were totally split on whether they should renovate their property or put it up for sale.
Their family home was no longer fit for purpose after Richard had a stroke following a serious cycling accident two years earlier – and he hoped to find a bungalow with an open-plan layout, a downstairs bathroom and fewer steps.
However, viewers branded Sue ‘selfish’ for wanting to stay in their home and renovate it, because of the views over Nottingham, and proximity to her mother and their sons.
One person wrote: ‘What with Sue on this episode and Amy in an earlier episode? This series has been full of selfish partners.’
Another said: ‘Imagine your husband having a stroke which has had a major impact on his mobility, meaning he can’t do stairs, but you want to stay in your house, situated on a 45° slope and involving multiple steps because…. of the view!!!’
Someone else wrote: ‘Well that was a waste of time. Poor guy still can’t use his home.
Love it or List it viewers slammed Sue, from Mapperley, Nottinghamshire who refused to leave her home despite it becoming inaccessible for her husband Richard
Before: The couples kitchen was cramped and it didn’t offer much room for the pair to move around while Richard was in his wheelie chair
After: Once the couple knocked a few walls and made the kitchen more open-plan it became much brighter and spacious
As someone who is disabled myself and also lost my mam to a stroke I understand completely what his man has gone through. So much more could have been done!’
Another said: ‘I would burn my house down if it made life easier for my husband. I can’t believe what I’ve watched on.’
A fifth wrote: ‘This woman on #LIOLI is coming across horribly. Not putting him an accessible patio in at home because she doesn’t want to disturb the bay window?! He will never get the home he wants or deserves while she’s in charge.’
Before: The front door led into the couples kitchen which was a strange layout for the pair
After: By putting up a wall between the front door and the kitchen the couple got a spacious hallway
Sue was deeply attached to the couple’s spacious home which offered impressive views over Nottingham and was close to her elderly mother and their two sons
While others disagreed with the backlash and stood up for Sue saying she is a ‘supportive wife.’
One person said: ‘Amazing that people have seen 45 minutes of a show and decided they know more than the couple that’s been together 40 years. They would have had endless conversations behind closed doors and come to the outcome together. But sure, blame it all on the wife.’
Someone else wrote: ‘They’re a lovely couple. I feel she needs support to help her support him. She’s struggling to manage the changes to her life.’
While another wrote: ‘People are being incredibly hard on the woman I think, she’s lost the husband she knew, has had to adjust her life for that & is probably scared of also loosen the house she loves & the family that’s nearby. If takes an adjustment when life changes so suddenly.’
Richard’s stroke came soon after a cycling accident, costing him his speech and leaving him only able to communicate through a special app on his tablet and with lasting mobility issues
But many of those watching the programme, which is presented by Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer, were unimpressed by Sue’s attitude after they decided not to move with some saying she was ‘selfish’
While a fourth wrote: ‘Can’t believe the criticism coming the way of Sue here. If I was in Richard’s situation she is everything I could wish.’
Appearing on the programme last night, Richard and Sue had been together for 40 years and had two children who now live nearby.
Richard’s stroke came soon after a cycling accident, costing him his speech and leaving him only able to communicate through a special app on his tablet and with lasting mobility issues.
Explaining through the app Richard said: ‘I want to move because I would like a house thats more suitable for our needs now. I would like to get up and down the garden without using steps .’
Meanwhile Sue initially agreed saying: ‘The flow of the downstairs doesn’t seem to work as well as it used to, if Richard is in the kitchen in his wheelie chair then we just get in each others way all of the time.
While others disagreed with the backlash and stood up for Sue saying she is a ‘supportive wife’
‘But I would like to thing we could change the layout to make it more accessible.’
Sue revealed there is still a lot to love about their home including the size of the rooms and the ‘amazing views over ‘Nottingham’.
Richard said: ‘If we move somewhere thats all on one level without steps then i would be able to go anywhere I want in the house and garden, this would give me more independence.
‘Also if we moved somewhere that doesn’t need as much maintenance then we wouldn’t need to do jobs around the house and we would have more time to ourselves like going out of doing thinks together.’
Sue replied saying:’ I just think the hassle of moving and all the things that come with that, I just think it would be easier to do some tweaks with our house to make it more useable.’
Before: Richard has a nice spacious bathroom however it was located on the first floor which was hard for him to access
After: The couple decided to fit a loo downstairs for easy access for Richard when he is home
The pair revealed they have £50,000 to renovate their home but the presenters said adapting a period house to fit modern accessibility would be a challenge.
Sue and Richard’s property search took the couple to an open-plan bungalow in nearby Burton Joyce, Gedling, valued at £435,000.
They also take a look at another bungalow in the Derbyshire village of Breaston, in need of some modernisation but valued at £425,000.
And another three-bed bungalow with a self-contained annex – priced at £595,000 – in Ruddington.
However the pair decided to stay put in the home they have lived in for 30 years and modify it for Richards needs.
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