Tammi McCreary: “Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry?”

Your son had some reservations about Eric, what did you make of those?

I just thought, well maybe my son has reservations because my son knew that he [Eric] was younger. He just didn’t know how much younger. At the time my son was also in college. I just thought he was being protective because he knew the effect the divorce had on me and how long it took me to get over it. I just thought he was being protective.

After you were married, when did think he might not be who he said he was?

I never had indications that he wasn’t who he said he was. I never thought anything different until the day that I found out that he was arrested. Because I had people that would call me and say, “I was at the hospital today and guess who I ran into? I ran into Eric.” Whenever he was at the hospital, he would always call me from a landline, within the hospital, because he said he never wanted me to think he was not at work when he said he was there. My only concern about Eric at the time was that he was young, he was decent looking, he was new in Atlanta and he was at the hospital. I pretty much know how the women are in Atlanta, I don’t know if he’s going to be able to handle the pressure. I kind of felt like, at the time when he said he was practicing again, I kind of felt his ego go up a little bit. Kind of like, I’m the junk now because I’m a doctor. I did see a shift in his attitude. I did notice that. When I noticed that I started doing a just a teeny weeny just little bit of snooping. Just a little bit.

What do you mean by that?

I would do weird stuff, when I would do laundry. Men have this thing about emptying their pockets. So I just looked at receipts and stuff for lunch to see if it was lunch for one or lunch for two. There were receipts where I saw there were two orders. I’m thinking, why do you have a receipt that you ordered for two persons and you paid for it? Little things like that. Of course he always had a good answer. Or someone would say, “I was at the hospital and I went to the little dining area and I saw Eric. He was sitting with some young lady.” Oh really? Umm hmm. Oh ok. Just little things like that. And because people were seeing him there and he would call me from the hospital all the time and I would drop him off there some days I just, never thought that he was not who he said he was.