'Concern' or Control? How a Former Katy ISD Board President & Mother Attempts to Undermine Her Son's Path Forward

Addiction is one of the most sensitive, painful topics a family can face.

It deserves honesty.

It deserves compassion.

It deserves respect.

So when I hear that Courtney and Scott Doyle — two people with long-standing community involvement, church presence, and a polished public image — are allegedly telling others that Christian is “using again,” I want to speak from my personal experience and my perspective.

Because if this is truly what they’re saying…

then the story is not about Christian at all.

It’s about them.

And it’s about a pattern I’ve watched quietly for years.

1. In my experience, rumors appear when someone needs a scapegoat.

Christian has been clean.

He has been working.

He has been rebuilding his life.

He has been present, stable, and focused.

So if anyone is saying he’s “using again,”

it’s not concern —

it’s narrative control.

In my experience, people resort to these kinds of whispers when they:

🚩 Feel their image is threatened

🚩 Want to redirect attention

🚩 Need someone else to look unstable so they can appear stable

🚩 Are uncomfortable with another person’s growth

If these rumors are coming from Christian’s own parents,

then that says more about their motives

than about Christian’s reality.

2. The timing isn’t random — it’s revealing.

Just a few weeks ago, Christian was working in the shop on their property day after day, building his first table — something he was proud of.

Courtney’s response?

She called it “a thing.”

Not encouragement.

Not support.

Not interest.

Just dismissal.

Fast-forward to now:

Christian starts a new job in woodworking space — a job that valued him, appreciates him, sees his potential —

and suddenly there is a “renewed interest” in wood from his parents to be buying this kind of wood?

If that’s true, then to me, it looks less like support

and more like positional insecurity and loyalty purchase.

3. In my experience, this is a family that praises publicly but harms privately.

To the outside world,

Courtney and Scott are:

🌟 Leaders

🌟 Faith-driven

🌟 Community involved

Stable

🌟 Family-oriented

🌟Highly respected

That’s the image.

But my experience has been different.

And so has Christian’s.

Behind the scenes, it has looked like:

💥 Emotional manipulation

💥 Inconsistent stories

💥Lies that shift depending on the audience

💥 Disappear when support is needed

💥Showing up when attention benefits them

💥 Undermine Relationships

💥 Attempting to fracture Christian’s progress

💥 Punish boundaries

💥 Uses scripture as a mask instead of a mirror

There is a difference between living by values

and performing values.

4. If they truly believed in their sons sobriety, their actions would look VERY different.

A family that cares would:

⚡Speak to him directly

⚡ Reach out with love

⚡ Ask how to help

⚡ Respect privacy

⚡ Avoid spreading fear

What they wouldn’t do is allegedly:

✔ Whisper to siblings to put a strain in their relationship

✔ Tell extended family

✔ Tell people in their circle

✔ Hint to others

✔ Pass rumors indirectly

✔ Contact people around him or possibly his new employer

If these conversations are happening,

that is not concern.

That is character sabotage.

5. This family has a long pattern that people either see… or refuse to see.

Those who know them

see the manipulation immediately.

Those who don’t know them

see the polished image, the church attendance, the leadership roles, the community presence —

and never imagine what happens behind closed doors.

And this is exactly how cycles repeat for decades.

Some will always believe the performance.

Others will always see the truth.

6. Here is the truth: Christian is sober. Christian is stable. Christian is rebuilding.

He is doing better than he has in years.

He is working hard.

He is showing up.

He is breaking generational patterns.

He is building a future he can be proud of.

And if people (his own parents) are spreading rumors to the contrary,

those rumors are not rooted in love.

They are rooted in fear.

Fear of losing control.

Fear of losing narrative power.

Fear of being exposed for the things they’ve hidden under a religious, community-serving persona for decades

FINAL WORD

Rumors don’t change truth.

Whispers don’t rewrite reality.

And people who live behind carefully constructed images

tend to panic when someone else’s growth threatens that image.

If they are saying these things,

then it proves something important:

Christian’s growth scares them far more than his past ever did.

And that says everything.

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