There has been several stories that it was the Sheindlers that encouraged Michael to start dating.
Did they encourage him to spend his wife's rehab money on his dates too?
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The Schindlers probably believed that if Michael found someone else he would divorce Terri.
The Schindlers did encourage Michael to move on with his life and give Terri's care back to them. That was in 1995.
However, Michael had already had several romantic interests before they wrote that letter pleading for Terri's care. I believe there were at least two, one was even happening before the malpractice trial in late 1992. Now with Michael and Jodi's story coming out, we find out that they met in 1993, and by 1995 they had fallen in love, and Michael had asked Jodi to marry him. Maybe you can tell me how someone would ask another to marry him, while currently being married to another? That just reeks of devotion, doesn't it? (sarc on that last one)