Sharona Fleming/Relationships

==Family ==
=== Cheryl Fleming ===
Cheryl is Sharona's beloved mother who has raised her and her sister Gail On her own since Sharona was 12 after her father's death. 
=== Douglas Fleming ===
Douglas was Sharona's father and the two were very close. She recalled that back in New Jersey he owned a shop that she often liked to visit. However, when her father got terminally ill, Cheryl was forced to sell Douglas's shop. All that Sharona was reminded of was her father's death was the hospital room he died in. 
Douglas' death was a sore spot for Sharona, even years after his death, as seen during her session with Dr. Kroger. 
==Love Interests==
===Trevor===
Ex-husband 
Trevor is Sharona's ex-husband. They had Benji when Sharona was in her late teens and they got married faster. However the couple eventually divorced each other, with Sharona moved away to Atlantic City before moving to San Francisco when Benji was a 1-year-old.
In "Mr Monk and the Sleeping Suspect," Trevor returns to Sharona and Benji, claiming to be a changed person. He now has a job and is 60 days sober, wanting Sharona and Benji to move back to New Jersey with him. However, Sharona decides not to when she learns that Trevor only came back because his aunt had recently passed away and he had inherited money from her. In "Mr Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf," Benji gets worried about his mother's well-being so he calls his dad. When Sharona gets home from groceries topping, she sees the back of Trevor's head and pulls out a knife until she realizes who it is. When Sharona's apparently starts hallucinating a man with a screw driver in his ear, she decides to let Trevor take temporary custody of Benji. She also makes it explicitly clear that this is only temporary until she gets her life back on track and that this has nothing to do about permanent custodyship. Fortunately, Sharona is helped by her friends into figuring out that her creative writing teacher Miss Preminger and her lover were behind Sharona's "delusions", discrediting her so she couldn't link Mr Preminger's murder with "The Fatal Recipe," a story Sharona wrote where the wife poisons her husband's tomato soup and makes it look like a heart attack, which Mrs. Preminger recreated.
In Season 3 episode 10, "The Red Herring," Sharona seems to have reconciled with Trevor, having sold her house, quitting her job as Adrian's assistant / nurse and moving back to New Jersey. However in 2009, when Sharona comes to settle her late uncle's estate, she goes to Adrian's apartment and reveals that she and Trevor are done, this time for good. Instead she moves on and begins a romantic relationship with her longtime friend and former partner Randy Disher.
===Randy Disher ===
Husband
During Sharona's time as Adrian Monk's nurse and assistant she often clashed with Randy Disher, Leland Stottlemyer's second in command and Lieutenant. She would often insult Randy by calling him names or calling him out likely to make up for him insulting Monk in earlier episodes. In later episodes, their conversations can come off as bantering and flirting. However, it is shown in season 2 that Randy and Sharona do care about each other in their own way. In "Mr Monk and The Sleeping Suspect" Randy even admits that he would miss Sharona a little if she really was moving back to New Jersey to be with her ex-husband Trevor. However, she didn't. Later, in "Mr. Monk and the Playboy," Randy and Leland (presumably off screen) were told by Adrian and Sharona that Dexter was blackmailing them with incriminating pictures of Sharona back in Atlantic City in an attempt to stop them from investigating the murder of Elliot D'Souza. Randy finds the pictures and the negatives and tells Sharona that she doesn't have to worry about those pictures getting out anymore before burning the pictures. However Sharona is not reassured. She awkwardly asks Randy if he looked at her pictures, and realizes he did when he has the same reaction that Adrian did when he confronted her about the pictures earlier.
It is possible that Sharona and Randy may have had feelings for each other earlier in the series. For example, Randy would sometimes get jealous of other men that Sharona was dating like Kenny in "Mr Monk and the 12th Man" and Anthony "Fat Tony" Lucarelli in " Mr Monk Meets the Godfather." In "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month," Sharona also didn't believe that Randy had a girlfriend named Crystal Smith even after she Saw her photo in Randy's wallet. At the end of the episode Randy tried showing Sharona, Monk and Stottlemeyer that his girlfriend was real by showing Crystal's taxi driving away But they walked away cuz they didn't believe him. However the audience finds out she is real and that Randy wasn't making it up. In "Mr. Monk and Sharona," Sharona returns to San Francisco after her uncle Dewey passes away. She reunited with Disher and apologized to him for her constant insults and remarks. Randy admits her he kind of missed it and her. After her uncle's murdered is solved, Sharona goes to the airport with Randy where the two share a kiss and start a long distance relationship. After so many years of dating the wrong guy and having two messy divorcea with her ex-husband, Sharona and finally is in a happy relationship with Randy, someone she has known for a long time and a very good man. 
In "Mr. Monk and the End," after a poisoned Adrian disappears and goes after Judge Rickover, Randy and Leland frantically search for him, with the former saying to Sharona that he loves her over the phone. In the end of Part 2, Disher moved to New Jersey to be with Sharona, where he becomes the chief of police.
It is revealed in the reunion movie that Randy and Sharona have married by 2021. 
==Friends==
===Adrian Monk===
Sharona and Monk met a year after Adrian's wife, Trudy was killed in a car bomb. She was the first one who helped coax Monk out of a catatonic state and get him to leave the house. Monk credits her as the one who saved his life and recalled that Sharona was hired by Leland Stottlemeyer. In the episodes she appears in, Sharona is the only one who keeps Adrian on track abs helps him control his OCD . However she does lose her temper with him when her paycheck bounced or when Adrian scares away her crushes. 
Additionally, Sharona realizes how brilliant Monk is and knows when he solves the case when she sees him smiling ("Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger" and "Mr. Monk and the Playboy.") However, there are times when Sharona disagrees with him, as she refused to believe that Dolly wasn't psychic in "Mr. Monk and the Psychic." She also did not believe Monk's theories that one of her favorite actors is the murderer of the actor's ex-wife until Sharona sees the determination in Adrian's eyes. Instead of gloating, Adrian gives her an apologetic look before continuing. Despite their misgivings, Sharona and Adrian still care for one another and it is often shown that Monk would do anything for Sharona. 
Monk is often the one who goes to save her or help her (Mr. Monk and the Candidate, Mr. Monk and the Earthquake). When a sleazy playboy, Dexter, blackmailed Adrian to step away from the Elliott D'Souza case, threatening to publish incriminating pictures of Sharona in his magazine, Adrian reluctantly agreed to stop investigating in fear of what this impact would to Sharona and her 11-year-old son. However, when Sharona found out about this, she told Monk to nail him no more what, which is exactly what he had done. 
It is also shown that Sharona will mother Adrian and treat him like a child at times, as seen in Mr. Monk and the Other Woman, when he asked for permission to sleepover at Monica Waters' house and later Monk chastising to Sharona that he's not a child when she advised against it. However, it is sometimes vice versa. 
In "Mr. Monk and the Red-headed Stranger," Sharona tells Adrian that he's not her mother when he tries to interfere in her relationship with Justin. In the end, Adrian proves to be right when Sharona learns that Justin was the streaker in the Jason Cross murder investigation. 
In "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect," Sharona follows along with Monk's theories that the man in the coma, Brian Babbage, sent bombs in the mail to kill his siblings Ricky and Amanda. When Sharona's ex-husband Trevor shows up at Benji's 11th birthday party in the episode, Sharona thinks of leaving for New Jersey to be with Trevor so Benjy can grow up with his father. Adrian was very upset and probably jealous of Trevor and the situation in hand, even suspecting Trevor of being dishonest and coming to the house for ulterior motives. However, when Sharona came to pick him up from a house, she announced to Adrian she wasn't leaving for New Jersey because Monk was right about her husband just coming there for his own selfish desires.
In "Mr. Monk and the 12th Man," Sharona gains much attention from everybody in the town when she starts dating the deputy mayor, earning Adrian's jealousy and annoyance. However, after Sharona breaks up with her boyfriend, Kenny resigns as deputy mayor and Sharona is treated just like every other citizen again when a police officer does not let her off on a parking ticket.
===Leland Stottlemeyer===
In 1998, at least a year after the murder of Trudy Monk, Stottlemeyer Was Force 2 honorably discharged Adrian from the San Francisco police force. Growing worried for his best friend's health, Stottlemeyer hired Sharona to be Adrian's nurse. Despite this gesture of Goodwill, throughout most of Season 1, Stottlemeyer acted cold and aloof towards Sharona and Adrian, clearly not wanting them in his investigations especially Adrian. In "Mr. Monk and the Candidate," Stottlemeyer greeted Adrian and Sharona with smiles and handshakes but showed his disdain bringing them in. However, when Monk's acrophobia kicked in when he couldn't stop a suspect, Stottlemeyer yelled at Monk in front of the entire police force, causing Sharona to snap "Bite me." In "Mr. Monk and the Billionaire," Sharona tried to charge Stottlemeyer her and Adrian's fee at the crime scene when they were investigating Sydney Teal's murder. Leland found it to be inappropriate time, with Stottlemeyer and Monk finding the murder more important than money. Sharona could have waited to charge them the fee after they left the crime scene and Stottlemeyer found her $500 fee to be extreme. Despite whatever misgivings Sharona and Leland had in the first season, they appeared to be getting along better as season 2 unfolded. 
However at first, their relationship was still strained, as Sharona was upset that Stottlemeyer was able to get his son, Jared eligible for playing a little leager's game. Even though Stottlemeyer's son won the game, Sharona still found it unfair because most boys were under 13. When she confronted the captain about it, Stottlemeyer told Sharona that their conversation was over. However, Stottlemeyer later congratulated Sharona's son Benjy for winning the second game. 
In "Mr. Monk and the Playboy," Sharona and Adrian were heading up to Sapphire mansion. Sharona was disgusted by their reasons for heading up to the mansion in the first place, as they were more interested in seeing attractive women than helping her and Adrian in the actual case. She immediately deduced that stottlemyer had been up at the mansion before and he admitted that he was there 10 years ago. He also admitted that Karen found out about his visit during therapy when Sharona asked if he ever told his wife. 
However, after further investigating, Leland and Randy were presumably told by Monk and Sharona that Dexter was blackmailing them into staying away from the case, and given Leland's protective nature towards his friends and family, helped them nail Dex for Elliot's death. It is also shown that Stottlemeyer doesn't approve of some of Sharona'a boyfriends even initially calling her current one, Kenny to be a weasel. 
In Season 3 episode "Mr. Monk Takes his Medicine," Sharona interrupts Adrian's appointment with Dr Krogan and frantically tells Adrian that Leland has been shot. Both of them are concerned for him, and Stottlemeyer nearly being shot caused Adrian to take pills that were supposed to help with his OCD. After Sharona decided to move back to New Jersey, Stottlemeyer does indeed miss his close friend and sees how much it has told on Adrian since Sharona left.
The two were reunited in mid-late 2008 when Sharona came back to San Francisco to settle her uncle's estate. Leland was happy to see Sharona and gave her a hug. She saw a picture of Leland's girlfriend on his desk and was Happy to see him in a relationship with someone, saying TK was pretty.
=== Natalie Teeger ===
Natalie is one of Sharona's friends who she met in "Mr. Monk and Sharona." While the two got along at first, Sharona and Natalie were sometimes at each other's throats, and placing Adrian in the middle. Sharona initially has trouble realizing that Adrian's dynamic with Natalie is different than his past relationship with Sharona, with the former finding it strange that Natalie calls Adrian "Mr. Monk." However the two women set aside their differences and help Adrian get back to solving Sharona's uncle's murder. 
==Neutral==
===Molly Evans===
Sometime between season 8 and the movie, Sharona learned that Trudy had a daughter and Adrian had recently been reunited with his stepdaughter, Molly. 
It is unknown if Molly and Sharona met in person, but they presumably did because Sharona was going to attend Molly's wedding. However, Sharona had to stay back to take care of Benjy and her newborn grandchild. Randy said Sharona was sorry she couldn't make it.
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