- ♪ can the love we have... ♪
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Ten singles took a giant leap of faith
To find love.
They married as complete strangers.
- Whoo!
- ♪ I'm like silk up on your hip, babe ♪
- Last time most of our couples
Moved into their new homes together.
♪ ♪
You want to be seen for more than just my value.
- Yeah, you want to be desired. - I want you to look at me--
I mean, if it's natural for you,
Hold her hand, or however you choose
To have physical contact,
The more attraction is going to happen.
- ♪ I'm like silk up on your hip, babe ♪
♪ ♪
- We have been intimate as of this week.
- Yeah. - Awesome.
Awesome. Did that bring you closer?
- Yes. - Yeah, it did.
- It was almost like in a movie.
Like, we both just looked at each other,
And we were like... - It's time.
♪ ♪
And do you want gina to move in?
- Yeah, I mean, I think in order for us to grow,
We have to have more exposure.
- I'm just not there yet, and I don't know how to explain it.
- We'll take it day by day.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- I don't typically express how I feel.
- So you're going to have to provide a safe place for her,
And that's going to require you to blindly trust him.
♪ ♪
- I wanted marriage,
But I didn't think that I was gonna get someone
That was a polar opposite of me.
- He is not a polar-- no, that is what you--
- We had this conversation.
- No, wait, he's not. - We're in agreeance.
- Well, then you guys lied.
♪ ♪
And tonight our couples
Will get to see their friends and family
For the first time since the wedding.
- What's up? - What's up, what's up?
- We had a nice little candlelight dinner.
- How romantic did the honeymoon get?
- Did we have sex?
- Communication is, bar none, the best I've ever had.
- You don't seem like a fighter.
- Mm-hmm.
- How often can you really say, like, no, really,
What do you think? Really, what do you think?
- So is it like a personality clash?
- I didn't feel respected.
She basically told me I was a fake person.
- My concern is that I'm gonna be the one to--
- You're gonna be the [bleep]. - I'm gonna be the [bleep].
- I feel like no wasn't an acceptable answer.
And I am-- you know I'm very honest.
[dramatic chords]
- So do you want to be married?
- You are going to regret this.
[dramatic music]
- ♪ it's all or nothing... ♪
- This is "married at first sight."
- ♪ there's no other way ♪
♪ ♪
♪ it's all or nothing ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- I feel like we would be making
A very...Quick decision
To say, yeah, this is it.
And as much as I feel terrible
And like a giant loser...
I still think we need to take into account
Your outlook on everything
Before making, like, a final decision.
♪ ♪
- Domynique, what is your perspective?
- Honestly, like, I'm just kind of over it.
♪ ♪
- What does that mean, "I'm over it"?
I'm over this conversation?
I'm over the marriage?
What does that mean?
[suspenseful music]
- I'm over all of it, like...
- What is "it"?
♪ ♪
"I'm over it" could mean so many things.
- I know. - I need to know
What you want right now, domynique.
♪ ♪
- I would like a divorce.
♪ ♪
- Mac, how you feel about that?
- It's tough to hear.
I can't...
I don't know. - Yeah.
I suggest that if this is your decision...
♪ ♪
That you take ample time...
♪ ♪
To explore life, to do whatever the heck you want to do
Before you choose to get into another serious relationship.
- Okay.
- Maybe...Just maybe
25 was too young.
♪ ♪
You think?
- Honestly, I don't think so.
- I'm not trying to be mean.
I'm really not, but I need you to understand
That if you're going to be in a relationship,
In a marriage, you got to fight for it.
You don't quit.
That takes time.
That takes life. That takes strength.
That takes grit.
For couples who get through these hurdles like this,
Eventually they look behind them,
And they say, "wow. We made it through that."
And before you know it, they look behind,
They see all these different hurdles that they got over,
But they're always moving upward.
What you're choosing to do
Is to quit after the first real bump.
♪ ♪
And it's not advisable.
It's not what I want, but it's not my marriage.
♪ ♪
All right.
So your-- your marriage ends here.
[marc robillard's "fall away"]
- I'm disappointed, to say the least.
♪ ♪
Let down and...
♪ ♪
Embarrassed.
- I'm so sorry. Like...
♪ ♪
But truly, like... - You know what?
- I am... - I believe you.
- So sorry, like... - And so am I.
♪ ♪
[sniffles]
♪ ♪
[exhales deeply]
[whispering] oh, gosh.
- ♪ am I on time? ♪
♪ have I got soul? ♪
♪ arrest myself ♪
♪ for being cold ♪
♪ I'm runnin' blind... ♪
- All right. See ya. - Bye.
- ♪ I can't control ♪
♪ stealin' time ♪
♪ from the ones I've sold ♪
- [sniffles]
- ♪ fall away ♪
♪ from me ♪
♪ fall away ♪
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ I just want to, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ feel ya... ♪
- Beautiful morning
In nashville.
We are out with...
Oh, she's peeing.
We're out with duchy girl.
- Doing her business. - [laughs] doing--
She's doing her business.
- While one couple has already decided
To get a divorce, our other four couples
Are settling in to married life.
- I'm very grateful for shaquille.
He made sure I had
Air compression to get some air in my tires.
And after that, he can fix my tire
And be my roadside assistance.
[chuckles]
- Making the transition from single
To married life might be easy for some...
But an uphill battle for others.
- Gina, how's marriage going?
- We are gonna move in, so we'll see
If we both grow and our relationship grows.
Mm-mm-mm.
- No matter where
These marriages currently stand,
They're all going to have to put in the work
If they want them to last,
Because in less than six weeks,
They will have to decide
Whether they want to stay married
Or get a divorce.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ I think you got the wrong number, baby ♪
♪ who are you trying to reach? ♪
♪ I think you got the wrong number, baby ♪
♪ because it isn't me ♪
♪ ♪
- So, uh, I haven't seen you
Since the old wedding day.
- I know, man. - Isn't that crazy?
- So jamaica...Did you get to do anything fun?
- Yeah, we did a hike to a waterfall.
- How was she on the hike? Is she outdoorsy?
- She's never really done anything outdoors.
- Really? - Yeah.
She's, like, always focused on her hair salon.
- So she couldn't step out,
And she was still thinking about work
While she's on vacation? - Well, a lot, yeah, a lot.
Andrew's one of my best friends.
I met him through the sailing community,
And I think he's got good advice.
He's been married. He has a child.
He's been in a lot of relationships.
He has more life experience than I do.
So everything andrew gives me I'm gonna heed
With, you know, a certain level of, you know, openness
And, you know, a keen ear to what he's saying.
[clears throat] - so is it 24-7 or what?
- Yeah. I mean, we're married, so...
Yeah, we've...
Had some interesting times in jamaica.
- Mm-hmm.
- Had some experiences, good and bad.
- Some challenges? - Some challenges.
- What kind of challenges? Talk to me.
- So we talked to pastor cal,
And so the physical-attraction thing
Has been a real barrier for us 'cause we're like--
We look at each other, and we're just like,
We don't have any physical gravitation to each other.
You know, hands don't want
To go seeking different areas. - Sure.
- And he's like, listen,
If this is the problem that you guys have,
Like, I've seen way worse, you know.
It's like finding attraction from the inside out, so...
- You know, I just think back to other situations
Where people weren't initially attracted to each other,
And maybe attraction is built over time.
But that's always existed in a very low-stress, you know,
Friendship, social environment.
There's no pressure, right? It just happens.
You start to see somebody
Differently than you saw them before.
- Yeah.
- But with this, there's just so much on you, man.
There's so much pressure to...
Make it work, do the right things.
- I think we're in...
We're in a better place than we were
Because we're not just focusing on the physical thing.
But it's...
I think that's going to still be a problem.
Like, how do you get over that hurdle?
- Well-- - so, we'll see.
- Certainly, people can appear differently over time
The more you get to know about them,
In good ways and bad ways.
Right? - Yeah.
- The vibe I'm getting from clint
Is he's just being very careful right now
And he's focused on the positive right now.
I think both of them are,
And that's kind of what they need to do.
I think, attraction aside,
If two people want to grow love together
That they can do it.
Have you met hank yet?
- Oh, yeah. He's a good dude.
- Yeah? He likes you? - Yeah.
Yeah. We have the same color hair,
Which I'm like, you said you don't like redheads,
But you have a dog that's completely draped
In the same hair color as me. - [laughs]
♪ ♪
[dynamic music]
♪ ♪
- Been a minute. - So much to talk about.
- Yes.
Have you eaten here before?
- Yeah, I have. It's really good.
- So what's been up?
- So, you know, the honeymoon...
You know, went to jamaica.
That was cool.
Finally got to, like, spend some time
With the other couples.
Our trip, it was cool, but, like...
I was trying to navigate between,
Like, her, like, really, really being into me
And me not there as of yet.
You know, like, may be the girl, but I'm just not there.
Like, we on two different--
- So, in other words, you're not attracted to her.
- I think she's an attractive person,
But just, like-- not like my normal type.
- Yeah. Well, attraction ain't only just, like, physical.
- I feel like I'm such a physical person
That I have-- like, there's a wall up,
Not even allowing, like, the chemistry part to build,
Which I don't feel is fair to her.
I don't know. Like, she is a great person.
She has a lot of great qualities.
- Yeah. - If I wasn't in the room
And people was talking crazy, like she gonna check everybody,
Or if I got, like, real sick and needed help,
Like, I know she would be, like, right there by my side.
And I've dated people for, like, years.
So I don't even know if I can answer
That same question about them.
That should count for something, and it does.
- So what is it? [laughs] you said a lot.
But you ain't really, like, have helped me
Identify what it really is.
That's the problem.
- No, that's it. Like, I'm...
I just don't-- for me, there's like no...
- So 'cause you not fondling all over her...
- Yeah. It's not like no sexual attraction, like--
- Oh, so y'all haven't had sex.
- No. When we lay down at night,
I go straight to sleep.
My sexual desire just ain't there.
And then pastor cal,
He asks her, like, "how do you feel about that?"
- What she say?
- She handle it like a lady and very mature.
She was like, you know, what woman
Wouldn't want her husband to, like, rip their clothes off?
Like, that's what you want.
But I understand that that's not where he is,
But, you know, I'm hopeful that it'll change.
♪ ♪
- [chuckles] sounds very textbook.
[sighs] jasmine...
Seems fake to me.
You know, like, just be a woman.
Like, if that hurt you, say it hurt you.
Let this man know that you're planning
To spend the rest of your life with
That that bothers you that he does not have the connection
That you obviously have.
- So we got a housewarming coming up.
Want to invite you. - I'm not coming.
[dramatic music]
I don't want to be invested
In something that I see is obviously--
That I saw before y'all walked down the aisle--
Is not going anywhere.
It's like, it's no point.
It just don't seem like you that invested.
♪ ♪
- Guess I'm in my own head.
- So do you want to be married?
♪ ♪
- I do want to be married. - Okay.
So be a husband and have sex with your wife.
- [laughs] - I don't pretend
To know everything. [chuckles]
But I told you you shouldn't have got married.
♪ ♪
I mean, but you are married,
So you got one of two choices.
Like, you either gonna, you know,
Go home tonight and work on that process
Of getting connected with your partner,
Or you got to go and get up out of here.
[laughs] like, just move on.
Go ahead, don't waste any more of your time.
- ♪ this is what it takes, yeah ♪
♪ fight through the pain and through dark ♪
♪ never let it break ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, how cute. - This is really cute.
- I've never been here before.
Okay, I already know what I want.
Good, good, good.
- All right, girl, what's up?
- You know, just living the old married life.
My rings are a little big,
But I never want to take them off, so...
- You love them so much? - I love them so much.
- You love the rings so much? - I love the rings so much.
Yes, because they are from my wonderful husband.
- How is christopher?
- Oh. - Here we are.
[continues indistinctly] - ooh! Thank you.
He's everything that women specifically say they want.
- But, like, in practice, you're like, meh.
- And then on dates,
I would be like, oh, my god, he's too nice.
Like, he's never gonna be able to, like, stand up to me
Or take my feedback.
But because we're in an environment
Where I don't have the opportunity
To give up on him? - Yeah.
- And I'm actually getting to know him,
I'm like, oh, my god, all of these things
That I would normally run from are actually amazing qualities.
And it's hard to take compliments,
I feel like, in general, as a human female,
But I'm definitely not really good at it.
So he compliments me all the time,
Which is amazing, because I know how he feels about me.
But it's inside my brain that I'm like...
- Why'd you say that? - Do you really think that?
Like, you know, are you just trying to make me happy
Because you think I need to hear it?
- Like, do you definitely feel like it's genuine,
Or is there any part of you that's like,
Is he putting it on a little bit?
- I think he is 100,000% genuine at being himself,
And I'm waiting to find something wrong.
- Right. Do you feel like that a little bit,
Like, you're waiting for that other shoe to drop?
- I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
And it will. - It will.
I mean, he's a human. You're a human.
You guys are gonna get into spats,
And things aren't gonna always be, like,
Peachy keen, jelly bean.
But, like, if you're building that nice foundation
Where it's like you're giving each other the space
To, like, be who you are, and, like, if he can understand
Like, yeah, maybe I might blow up and I need a minute.
- My concern is that I'm gonna be the one to...
- You're gonna be the [bleep]. - I'm gonna be the [bleep].
When are the issues gonna come?
What are they gonna be? Is it gonna be my fault?
Is there something that I'm potentially doing
Or will do that will cause issues?
So that's a lot of where my brain is going.
- I feel like that's a lot of pressure to put on yourself.
Like...
- It's not intentional, but I-- - you're a wonderful person.
It's not like you're gonna blow this up like it's...
- Well, tell my brain that.
- [laughs] - I mean, you know me.
Normally, at this point, I would run.
- I feel like you'd be ditching.
- Yeah. I would be like, okay, things are going well,
And he's really nice, and he makes me really happy.
Like, what's wrong? I got to go.
- Yeah. - I think it was always like...
A defense mechanism.
Like, if I'm with someone who's actually a good guy,
This might go somewhere, and then I would have
To make a commitment. - Right.
- But since I already have made the commitment
Before I even met him, I was comfortable
With the idea of being in a committed relationship.
So now that I know him, I'm like, oh,
I want you to be all these things you are.
- Right.
Chris sounds great.
I mean, we haven't spent a ton of time together,
So I feel like I still need to totally
Round out my own opinion of him.
But she's changing. Like, she's more vulnerable.
She's more open. She wants this to work.
- But if it didn't turn out well,
I think it would be because of my actions.
- Yeah. - And I...
I don't know what that would be.
It's not like I'm trying to come up with reasons,
But I'm so scared that-- - which is valid.
Which is totally fine, and I think it's nice
To be very conscious of people's feelings.
But you also have to be yourself.
And, like, you can't not be who you are to protect him.
- Right.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Come on.
- Nope, it's fine.
I got it, I got it.
[scoffs]
So many items.
- Okay.
- Right. The caravan has arrived.
- I'm feeling definitely a little bit nervous
Going into today.
But pastor cal did make some valid points
In terms of, we might be making a predetermined decision
To not work on things
If we didn't at least give moving in a shot.
Okay. - All right.
Well, I guess I'll start putting my stuff
In the other room.
- Okay. - Relegate myself there.
- You can put your stuff... - Until we get the all clear.
- I have lived alone for the good portion
Of probably the last four years,
And so I just have my normal routine,
And bringing someone else in
And feeling like you're, like, accommodating
Both of your routines, it makes me a little nervous.
But all I can do is really just give my all
To the journey.
We're just taking this next chapter
And hopefully creating a life together.
♪ ♪
Mmm!
What do you think about your new home, bud?
- We got it all in.
- I'm like, "I'm not moving in."
And then I, like, brought double the amount of stuff.
- Yeah. - [giggles]
I think we'll be okay. - Mm-hmm.
This is a big step.
It's a very, very big step.
And we're gonna just take it day by day,
See how things go.
We've decided that we're gonna be staying
In separate bedrooms.
We're not gonna rush anything,
Just see what feels natural and best to us.
So I think it'll work out great.
♪ ♪
- Hey.
- What's up?
- I was doing some last-minute work
Before I get ready to be off.
What are you up to?
- I'll probably go do a little more last-minute shopping
Before our housewarming.
I got to pick up a few more decorations,
Like balloons and wall décor. - Mm-hmm.
You know, I want you to be comfortable.
I want to be comfortable, so, you know...
Yesterday when we was making the list, the guest list,
You were, like, refusing to write fall's name down.
[tense music]
- I have taylor and titi pat coming.
- Titi pat? - [chuckles]
- And you have...
- Fallina.
♪ ♪
Write it. F-a-l-I-n-a.
- I don't need to know how to spell it.
- Mm.
- Who do you have coming? - Fallina and rizzy...
- [sighs] - aka wayne.
- So I'm not gonna be at the housewarming.
♪ ♪
I just feel like,
With everything being so fresh and new,
She's just not, like,
A person, like, that I'm comfortable being around.
In our last interaction, with the words she said to me,
She basically told me I was a fake person.
There's no point of having anybody in my presence
Who doesn't think, like, I'm genuine.
- Yeah, so I invited fall.
♪ ♪
And she said she didn't want to come.
♪ ♪
- Good.
So then it is obvious that it's mutual, then.
- Well, she's got, like, a very strong personality,
And she stands ten toes on, like, what she believes in.
So maybe if, like, she asked you something
And you don't answer how she thinks it should be answered,
It's "scripted."
But it's just the way you answered, you know?
Like, versus--well, she might just be like,
"nah, whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo-whoo,"
But you're like, you know, like, calculated.
Like, you know, so I don't think it's--
- I don't think it's that deep. - Yeah.
- I just know with everything being so fresh and new
That I was just like, I kind of don't want her there.
♪ ♪
- From the beginning, she wasn't a fan of none of this,
So I feel like, for her,
Until she feels like it's a real thing--
Like, I mean, we're married, but in her mind...
- It's not real yet. - She's like--yeah.
So, when it--
Who knows when that'll become a reality to her?
That's for her to figure out. - Mm-hmm.
- You know, who knows? Like, a year from now,
We might all be at cousins' night laughing about,
"remember you didn't want to come to the housewarming?"
You know, like... - [chuckles] okay.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
[electronic music]
♪ ♪
- Like, you, you're not rushing.
Like, we got a party to get-- we gonna be late
To our own party. - Party!
Are you--I feel like you're sweating me right now.
- I am.
♪ ♪
- Okay, okay. - Perfect.
- This is a special day.
- I mean, it looks like when you plan a party,
You go all out. [chuckles]
- Our newlyweds are about to bring
Their friends and families together
And host their very first party as a married couple.
- You gonna help me prep? - Yeah, sure.
♪ ♪
You need me to slice any of these?
- Yeah, I was just gonna dice some up,
But, yeah, if you want to do that...
- Merging their two lives into one
Is a major first step,
One that can often be hard to navigate
And is incredibly important for the success
And longevity of the marriage.
[lively music]
♪ ♪
- So he's just gonna hang out in the lamp.
- Okay. We don't really use that lamp anyways.
- Where should this little guy live?
- What if we did him in between the two pineapples?
We did a pineapple, flamingo, pineapple?
- Oh, that's a good idea. Look at that.
That's such a good place for him.
- So it's getting very festive, very tropical in here.
My wife is awesome.
She's doing all the decorating,
Running all over the place.
It's a "let's flamingle" party. It was her idea.
- Do we have a theme?
What if we did--hear me out. - Okay.
- We made it, like, a "let's flamingle" party
And had, like, flamingos and...
- I kind of get it. - We're gonna mingle
With flamingos and our friends,
Like you're at a hawaiian beach.
- I make a really good, like,
Buffalo-chicken sandwich kind of thing.
- If we do, like, a tropical theme,
Then we'd have to change-- we can't have,
Like, buffalo chicken and flamingos.
I just want it to match the food.
- Yeah, I know. I agree.
- Matching shirts.
This could be funny. - [chuckles] all right.
- Do you want to wear this?
- Yeah, I could wear that.
- If you don't want to, you don't have to.
It won't hurt my feelings. - [chuckles]
It's fine. I can wear it. It goes with the theme.
- Do you like it?
- Eh, it's a little much, but...
[chuckles] it goes with the theme.
- If you don't want to, I won't pressure you.
I'm not here. You have to decide.
- I mean, I personally wouldn't pick that out.
That's a little much for me. I appreciate the thought.
- But it's okay, you know? We still have so much on theme.
- Are you upset? - No.
- Okay. I just want to make sure.
- Yeah, and we want you to be comfy
In your own house at your party,
So these flamingos, not invited.
- Are you wearing your flamingo shirt?
- Well, no, that would be ridiculous.
- [chuckles]
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
- Scoot that down a little bit.
The letters. - I'm gonna fix all that.
Tell me where you want them.
[knock at door]
- Oh, my goodness.
Come in. - Oh, hey.
- Come in! - Hey, guys!
- Hey! - Ooh!
- Welcome to our place. - Okay, design team.
I like what I'm seeing. - Do you see this?
- Shaquille and I felt like it was very important
To start off with a housewarming party
With two married couples
Because we both definitely want some insight
And some guidance and great advice
From people who are married and in love
And have a great marriage going on right now.
- Would y'all like a drink, you know?
- I see y'all already done settled in with the browns.
- You know, just a little bit. - Look at the wedding picture!
- Oh, yeah. - Aw!
It's to die. - It's to die.
- Shaq, I feel like you look like you grew up overnight.
- I just grew up quick. - Such a beautiful couple, man.
- It's serving body. - I know.
I was like, they would get me sitting down.
[cork pops] - the adventure begins.
- Okay, pro. - Never.
- So what have you all been up to?
We've been up to a lot, and I know y'all probably
Got a lot of questions for us. - A lot of questions.
- So we gonna throw it back on y'all.
- What? - What?
Both: How y'all been doing?
- Oh, is that what y'all trying to do?
Both: How's the kids?
- No, how have you guys been doing?
Our kids are wonderful.
- We've been doing great. - You've been doing good?
Tell us about it. How was the honeymoon?
- The honeymoon was fun. - It was really fun.
- We went horseback riding. We went and did the atvs.
- The horseback riding was really fun.
- Yeah, it was very romantic.
We had a nice, little candlelight dinner.
- How romantic did the honeymoon get?
All: Ooh! - Yes!
Tasha's going in for the kill. I like that.
- We haven't even had champagne yet.
- Wait, are we toasting? - Listen.
It didn't get hot and heated.
- It didn't get spicy yet? - We just had a good time.
- We are asking you guys--
- Did we have sex in jamaica?
- We did not-- - she said nothing was spicy.
- I don't think anyone used that.
- You took it far, brother. - Yeah, right?
She didn't say "consummate."
- We didn't consummate our marriage.
- There was no consummation? - No consummation.
- No consummation, just conversation.
- Yeah, just conversation.
- Did y'all kiss throughout?
- I'm not getting kiss energy yet.
I'm not getting the energy of smooch.
- You're not getting kiss energy?
What is kiss energy? - I'm not a good kisser.
So that's why we didn't do a lot of kissing
On this honeymoon.
♪ ♪
- She needs to allow shaquille to be the judge of that...
By kissing him often.
- What's a good kisser? What's your definition?
What's your definition of a good kisser?
- You better answer it right. - My husband.
- You better answer it right! - My husband is the definition
Of a good kisser--that's it.
- Aw, that's a good answer. - Yeah.
Well, let's cheers to love and kissing and...
- Y'all can't cheers to that yet.
We'll cheers to that. - We'll cheers over here.
- Support it. Support it. Support it.
- To the dillons. To the dillons.
All: To the dillons.
- Kirsten's definitely not a kisser,
And, you know, that's something for me
That will have to grow because I am a kisser.
I like kissing, but if she's not comfortable with it,
I have to compromise and say,
Okay, I have to allow intimacy to grow
In our relationship.
And, you know, I'll just be patient enough
To let it take time.
- [sighs]
Well... [chuckles]
- Okay, sis. - Come on, now.
- [laughs]
- How you feeling? - [sighs]
I-I feel--I'm still, like,
Getting into the, you know, groove of everything.
It's taking me a little bit more time.
He's been very patient with me.
I'm really trying to open up to him,
And I feel like that's probably one of the struggles.
And, like, sometimes I don't want him to get discouraged.
- Am I being too patient?
Like, I don't know when I should, like,
Speed it up or slow it down or be patient.
- You're gonna have to, like, figure out
What she needs in men.
So there's gonna be a point or moments
Where she needs that dominant presence or force from you,
Which can be tricky.
♪ ♪
- I understand that attraction grows,
But for me, it's like,
If we're trying to reach that one goal,
Which is the eight weeks and get to decision day
And say we want to be together,
What makes you attracted to me?
- Yeah, so, one, the goal is beyond eight weeks, right?
The goal is for a lifetime. - Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
- There's definitely room for kirsten and shaquille
To become more connected with each other.
I am hoping that they can move past the friendship
And really begin to become, you know,
Intimate and physical
And, like, really like husband and wife together.
- I would say let the chemistry build
Through intention.
♪ ♪
- We were friends
For probably about a year.
- And we were not physically attracted to each other.
And it was more as I got to see
How beautiful a person she was...
- Inside. - That I started
To really become attracted to her.
And she can tell you, she, like,
Remembers vividly the day it just flipped,
Where I was just looking at her like, oh, my god,
Like, she had been next to me this whole time.
- You know, do you feel like you guys are warming up
To each other physically?
- Is it better than day one?
- It is better than day one. - Okay.
- Is it better than day two? [laughter]
- I think it's a great challenge for both of them,
Because it's not the perfect package.
"let's figure out how to make it work.
Let's grow together to still be a beautiful couple."
And I think they have that potential, 100%.
- Are you thinking about decision day at all?
- No. - No?
- Nope. Not at all. - Mm.
Do you want to be with shaq for the rest of your life?
- I can't answer that right now.
I don't know yet. - Yeah.
- I don't know.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[lively music]
♪ ♪
[knock at door]
- What's up? - Hello!
- Hey, guys. - How you doing?
- Hi. Welcome. Great shirt.
Very festive. Both: How are you?
♪ ♪
- Welcome, ladies. - Wow.
- You're looking so festive. I love it.
- Thank you. Welcome. - How are you?
So devonte's coming, too,
But he's running late. - Oh, okay.
♪ ♪
I like the flamingos.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- The theme was her idea. I can't take credit for it.
- Thank you. - She loves a flamingo.
- Oh, the leis.
- Ooh. - Ooh.
- Here you go, b. - Well, thank you.
- Thank you so much.
- So this is our kitchen. - I like it.
- It normally doesn't have this many flamingos
And pineapples, but, you know...
- I think you should leave it up.
- Yeah, I agree.
And this is our living room. - Oh, my gosh.
This is the best picture. - Oh, this is our first kiss.
- Aw! - Did you see this?
That's beautiful. - That is really beautiful.
- I will show you the-- there was an original picture
That I was not super thrilled with.
This was the other photo. Both: Aw.
- No, you look beautiful. - That's what I said, but--
- Well, you have to say that.
[laughter] shall we eat? Yes.
- Let's dig in so it doesn't get cold.
Yeah, we went with a whole tropical-food theme,
So shrimp scampi, chicken teriyaki.
And then we got
Nutella-stuffed chocolate-chip cookies..
- Ooh. - With sea salt and caramel.
- You got lucky. You got a good cook.
- But did you have that shirt in the closet ready to go?
- I actually did.
I had it ready for jamaica,
But I didn't get to wear it, so...
- I bought us these really cheesy matching shirts.
- Where are these shirts? - Yeah. Can we see them?
- They're right there on the couch, amazingly.
- Oh, golly. - What?
- Like, if you guys walked in
And we were in these matching shirts,
I thought it would be funny.
- The two different patterns, I like it.
- I think brandon would like it.
- I enjoy them. - Yeah.
- I feel like I'm about to put in my fast-food order.
- Yeah. [laughter]
- But I was so happy
That he was like, "I don't want to wear them.
I will if it makes you happy, but I don't want to."
- Well, at least you stood up for yourself and said no.
- Yeah, don't let her bully you.
- I liked the effort, but I was like,
"eh, I didn't really hit." - [laughs]
Yeah, that's what they say, right,
That it's the thought that counts?
- Yeah, that's what it was.
- I'm so happy you told me that.
- Chris, can we steal you and go have a little chat?
- Yeah. - Don't you let them bully you.
- I'm gonna teach him how to not let you bully him.
- Yeah, that's good advice. - I'm gonna give you some tips.
♪ ♪
So things are going well, it sounds like.
- Yeah, things are going really well,
Like, way better than I expected.
- But do you have anything-- even, like, little things?
Like, do you think, like, "oh, my god,
That could get really annoying in a few weeks"?
- In certain situations, I'm like,
You know, she definitely gets a little more upset than I do.
- She's not afraid to...
- Yeah. - Make waves.
- But, again, it's like, I like that about her.
I like that she's strong-opinionated.
I like that she voices that. - Well, I appreciate that.
It already sounds like you are accepting her for who she is.
Both: Yeah. - So, when she has been having,
Like, her little issues, how does that go?
How do you feel about that?
- She hasn't used that against me,
Or she hasn't done that, like, towards me,
So I'm like, I don't know
What our first potential roadblock may be, but--
- Yeah, you don't seem like a fighter.
- Mm-hmm.
- So was it you that chose the theme,
Or was it a group effort?
- It was me.
Well...
[knock at door]
Hold, please.
[knocking continues] coming.
Hello. - Hey.
- Are you devonte? - Yeah.
- Hi. I'm nicole. - Wow. Nice to meet you.
- Hugs--we hug around here. Both: Nice to meet you.
- Welcome. Well, we have leis for you--
- What's up, man? Good to see you.
- You guys know each other. Here you go.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- So are you hungry? - Always.
- Okay, let's hook you up.
- Where's chris at?
- Uh, he's back in the bedroom with her friends.
- Oh, wow. - Enjoy.
- Let me see the ring. Damn.
- I mean, your boy knows how to pick jewelry,
So we are very happy.
- So you've been married for how long now?
- A little over two weeks.
- Y'all had any arguments yet?
- Not really, but I've been noticing
Just little things throughout the day
Where he's kind of appeasing me--
Like, you know, "whatever you want.
I just want you to be happy."
And it's an admirable quality,
But I know in his past relationships,
He's told me, you've told me, your mom,
Everyone I met at our wedding has told me
That he's kind of gotten walked all over
Because he is such a nice guy.
And I don't want that to happen with us
Because I do have such a strong personality.
And I am very conscious of it,
But how often can you really say,
Like, "no, really, what do you think?
Really, what do you think?"
- So is it, like, important for you
To make your own decisions,
Or are you looking kind of more for compromises,
Or, like, how are you wanting to model this relationship?
- I'm totally open to compromise.
And sometimes there really are situations
Where neither one of us has a strong opinion,
And that's fine.
It doesn't make me happy if he's only doing things
To benefit me and he's secretly miserable.
But if it's something that changes how we live
Or how we look or, you know, something really impactful,
I'm open to compromise,
But I need to know where he's coming from
So I can even have that conversation.
- Just be vocal on his stance and that kind of stuff, yeah.
- Right. Like, there's a world where we can both be happy,
But we don't know that
Unless we're both saying what makes us happy.
- She says at times she does have a little bit of an issue
When I do things, like, to make her happy.
I don't think she's used to it. - That's 100% what it is.
- She's like, "oh, it's too easy."
- Because she is so strong, I think she wants someone
Who's, like, gonna challenge her.
I joke, like, she's like, "don't let her bully you,"
But she's strong, and so I feel like she wants someone
Who's, like, gonna keep her in check in a little, like--
- It's nice that you're nice.
You just don't want to be a pushover, yeah.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ party, party, party 'cause I feels so right ♪
♪ party, party, party ♪
- Hey. How you doing? - Hey.
Hi, duchy. How you doing?
- Good. Hey, auntie. - Hey!
What's up?
- What's up? What's up? Good to see you again.
- I know.
- Yeah! - Yeah!
- Yo, yo, yo, yo. - What's going on, man?
- What's up, bro? - Yes, sir.
- Hi. - Reggie.
- Jasmine. Both: Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you again. - Hi.
Nice to see you again. - How you doing?
- How are y'all doing? - Hello.
- Reggie. - I'm taylor.
- How y'all doing? - How you doing?
♪ ♪
And this is duchess.
- Duchess? Okay.
- This is one of four. She got four.
♪ ♪
[laughter] - that's a tall task there.
- It is a tall task. - He said--
He ain't have no words. - None.
- Before the marriage, was she sleeping in the bed?
- Oh, all my dogs is in bed with me.
♪ ♪
- All of them? - I mean, I'm single.
I have a king-sized bed.
- Four dogs? You and four dogs?
- Me and four dogs, yeah.
- What's the problem? You don't like--
You still trying to get adjusted to one dog?
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- What has been some of the struggles for you two?
- Mm. - Um...
Both of us aren't the best of communicators.
- Communication is not my strong suit
In my relationships.
- Exactly.
- Prime example--
We was making a guest list for this housewarming.
One of the guests was supposed to be my cousin.
They don't have the best of relationships.
- You are a pageant sister.
You know, it's just, like, a lot of times,
You're ready to answer a question
With what's considered to be the right answer.
But, you know, this is really your life.
♪ ♪
- So, as we were making the guest list,
She kind of just brushed it off,
But then, like, after she left, she sent me a text message,
You know, saying, like, you know,
She wasn't comfortable with her coming.
Like, I would have preferred her to say it in the moment.
♪ ♪
- So is it, like, a personality clash?
- I don't think it's a personality clash.
I don't know her,
But I know that when we had a conversation,
I didn't feel respected,
So it was just like,
I don't want that person in my space right now.
- So how did that make you feel,
Since that's your family?
- I mean, you know, it's obviously
Two important women in my life.
I would like them to,
You know, come together, get along, but it's early.
I got to give that situation, like, grace.
- Officially, you're married. - Right.
- So you have to be able
To make sure that your wife is comfortable.
- I understand her bluntness
And how she just say how she feel,
But I been knowing her my whole life.
She just met her. You know what I mean? But...
- The way airris' cousin may be saying things
May be taken the wrong way.
I mean, his cousin's gonna have her feelings,
And she's gonna have hers,
But they got to get to know each other.
- Airris, are you gonna show me the rest of the house?
- I got you. Let's do it. - Okay.
- Come on.
- It all go back to communication.
So, once they can get the communication down,
I think the relationship will be better.
- You know, a closet, bathroom.
- It's nice. - Pretty standard.
- This is. This is very nice.
- How do you feel sharing your space
And a closet with a woman?
- Let me just check out this bed.
- Yeah, check out the bed. - Pat, girl--
[laughs] oh, my...
- I mean, right now it hasn't been an issue,
But depending on where we go after this,
I think I'm gonna need space,
'cause we couldn't have four dogs in here.
- No. No, no, no, that would be a lot, for sure.
- Well, how do you feel if she decided
That she didn't really--
That she would be willing to give up her dogs?
- If she would be willing to give up her dogs?
- Yeah. - I'd be super excited.
- [gasps] - [laughs]
- Okay.
- Not duchess, though, the rest of them.
- [shouts indistinctly] - they can get out of here.
[quirky music]
- What are some of your concerns
Just about the marriage and everything?
- Um...
I mean, me and airris aren't, like, you know...
We ain't having sex.
[dramatic music]
Like, we don't have that, like, sexual, like, chemistry.
Like, we're not trying to rip each other's clothes off.
And he's been very clear that he's a sexual person.
Like, he's been very clear,
So I don't think that's solely the reason.
- Do you think the experts picked right?
- I feel like they did.
There's a lot of things me and airris have in common,
So I feel like we could be very great together.
We just have to continue to be honest
And, like, work over the hurdles that we've been handed.
[tender music]
- So what are your expectations?
- I guess just for us to continue
To get to know each other.
I kind of feel like we need to plan, though,
'cause if it's just, like,
Neither one of us says anything,
I feel like we're just gonna keep going to work,
Coming home.
- I'm gonna ride or die for jas.
I know that she's in this.
Are you willing to take the effort
To see how this is gonna work out
And "if I can love you
Or show you that I am falling in love with you"?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Like, you know, we're gonna try, see where it goes.
♪ ♪
[gentle music]
[person vocalizing]
♪ ooh, oh, yeah, ooh, oh, yeah ♪
- You are so sweet.
- My mom is disappointed this didn't work out, you know?
Like, she signed me up for this.
She had intentions
Of, you know, me finding my lifelong husband.
Both: Thank you. - For sure.
- I feel like I let her down,
But hopefully she can understand
The reasons why I asked for a divorce.
- I'm so sad.
We're supposed to be having your guys's housewarming today.
- That would have been interesting.
- I was so excited for that. - Really?
- Yeah. I mean, I was excited
About the fact of getting to know him a little better
And, you know, you guys--
- I mean, do you want to after everything?
- No. I mean, I kind of wish I had had the opportunity
To kind of talk to him, you know,
Before all this got to this point.
♪ ♪
Maybe things would've changed or been a little better.
- Honestly, no, because he started being very petty.
- So he started being negative. - Yeah.
He was very, very vocal
About the things that he did not want to do.
- Oh, so that was too much? - It was too much.
- So did you express to him
That his complaining was a bit much
Or exuberant for you? - Yeah.
Yeah. He said that he would work on it.
- But then did he really have time to change it?
- I didn't come into this process to change anybody.
You know what I mean?
Like, he had made a comment
Saying that he had felt like "[bleep]"--
I'm quoting, these are not my words--
Throughout this entire process
Because he felt like he just kept apologizing
And that he was being portrayed
In a way that just made him feel
Like he just needed to keep redeeming himself.
- Do you feel like you could have done anything differently
In your relationship? - I...
- Do you think you could've been a little more patient or--
- I feel like I was very patient, to be honest with you.
I've had enough time,
To where I feel in my gut... - Yeah.
- That this is not the relationship
That I need to be in.
- Honestly, I felt like, with him being 34--
- I expected more.
- I'm highly disappointed.
You know, I feel like we all came together,
And we had a great time at their wedding.
I mean, I'm sad, but I was more sad for her.
Just--it hurts my heart.
♪ ♪
Do you plan on seeing him again?
- Honestly, I don't...
I don't really feel the need.
- Are you still dead-ass set on your decision?
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- ♪ the clock strikes ♪
♪ and it's over ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- The party has arrived! - Hey!
- Whoo! - Hey!
- So this is elizabeth. - Hi.
- Elizabeth, very nice to meet you. Paige.
- Hi, I'm ashlee. - Ashlee, nice to meet you.
- And this is melissa. - Melissa, nice to meet you.
- This is hanky-doo. - Hi, hank. Hi.
- Do you guys want a margarita? - Yes, I would love one.
- So gina is a trained drink-ologist.
- We should put tattoos on.
- What did you guys do at your housewarming party?
- Y'all didn't get tatted up? That's what we did.
- Worth it. #worthit.
Oh, no. Oh, sh... - Oh, you got a chili pepper.
- ♪ some like it hot, hot, hot ♪
- Oh. - [laughs]
- That one looks good. - Chili pepper!
- Aw, mine sucks.
- Oh, cover it up.
Laser--we're gonna get the laser out.
- We tried. We all tried. "a" for effort.
- Or we could eat.
[person singing in spanish]
♪ ♪
- Good boy.
- [laughs] - he's so smart.
- This is really the first time we are able
To get outsider perspective from people that know us.
I feel like we can both agree
We don't have to, like, press the physical.
We're just taking this next chapter
And still building the foundation.
Welcome to our humble--
- Oh, look how cute he is-- on your bedside table.
- I feel like I haven't seen you guys in, like, four months,
And I know it's only been a couple weeks.
- I'm sure it's just been, like, just...
[imitates whooshing] - it's been a whirlwind, yeah.
- Yeah. - It's been really crazy.
- So, all right, now that we've got you here,
You can just open up to us.
How is it really going? - Spill the beans.
- So--so...
We've had kind of these peaks and valleys.
It's been just the roll of the ocean.
And we're brutally honest. - Yeah.
- And that can be, you know, a point of contention.
- Better to reel it back in than hold it in...
- True. - And have secrets
And not feel like you can tell her what you're thinking.
- You know, we're just taking it slow,
Taking it day by day.
I feel like we're both emotionally,
Physically, and financially in a place
To have a successful relationship.
And I've always been, like-- I want to be in a relationship
With somebody that has the foundational components
To grow together. - Right.
They may not be quite there physically yet,
But in, I think, her history,
And I think what a lot of people see,
Is the physical side is usually the easiest up front,
But, like, kind of the foundation
And all the big stuff and the values
Are what really becomes hard to line up on,
And they've kind of got that down.
And they're just looking to see what's beyond that.
So y'all got to, like, plant the seeds
To, like, get each other some butterflies going.
- If you get too hyper-focused on the things
That can tear you apart, it will continue.
- I think for us to focus on the positives,
Like, where we're at right now,
The positives definitely outweigh the negative.
I think I was overthinking
The whole, like, moving-in thing, too.
[pensive music]
- I think we'll figure it out. - Yeah.
- I think we judged a little early.
- Right.
- So we're on, I think, a positive track,
So I feel encouraged.
- ♪ all I need is somebody ♪
♪ just like you ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ no matter what we do ♪
♪ no matter where we go ♪
♪ we always come back home ♪
♪ ♪
- We about to meet the other couples, catch up on them.
You know, this is kind of, like, our first gathering,
Really, since jamaica.
- I'm kind of nervous about this potluck, actually,
Because-- - see what's really going on.
- Let's go. - All right, let's go.
♪ ♪
- All right, just put it over here.
- Look at us showing up early for something.
Are you impressed
I was ready on time? - Yeah.
What's up, guys? - Hey, y'all.
- How you doing? - Hi!
Oh, you look so beautiful. - You do, too.
- Welcome. Welcome.
Hi. - Oh, hello.
All: Hi. - [laughs]
- Yes. Hey, hey.
- Let's migrate to the couches, people.
- [chuckles]
- Has anyone spoken to mac or dom this morning?
Because I did not text anyone.
- Hey. - Wow, there they are.
- [laughs]
- I'm not too excited about seeing dom for the first time,
You know, since the divorce.
I don't know-- it's awkward, but also...
It's sad to tell the other couples
That we're getting divorced.
I had high hopes for us.
I put in a lot of time and effort to all this,
And it sucks.
- I just want to say thank you all for coming.
It has been wonderful getting to know each other.
And I hope you're all getting to know your husbands and wives
And appreciating everyone for who they are.
And I look forward to us all being on this journey together.
Cheers to happy marriages. All: Cheers.
♪ ♪
- Okay. How was everyone's housewarming party?
- We had a good housewarming. - Yeah.
It was a lot of fun.
- Clint's a really, really good cook.
- Yeah, I've noticed that.
- And not to mention, our housewarming party
Was all females and clint, so that was,
Like, a big deal for me 'cause he was just killing it.
He's like, "ladies, who wants a marg?"
Like, just had the best time.
And I don't think I would ever think to be with a dude
That would be like, "yeah, I'll hang out with all the girls."
- He gonna come to the salon and just take over.
- Yeah, loving it. Like, that's my whole--
Like, I know now I can have all the salon girls over.
- I'm gonna be putting extensions in in no time.
[laughter]
We have come a long way in a short period of time.
- Y'all have.
- We so proud. We like proud parents.
- I am proud.
- Yeah, I look forward
To really diving deep with gina, really.
Like, I want to know, like,
What did five-year-old gina want for her life,
And now what does 35-year-old gina want?
Like, the depths of who she is,
Like, just the crusty, little bits.
[laughter]
- That's very romantic underneath all that.
- I'm rooting for y'all.
- Usually crusty and romance don't go together,
But that was honestly the sweetest,
Most romantic thing I've ever heard you say about her.
[laughter]
- Well, anybody else want to share?
- Has anybody had sex yet?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[pensive music]
- Has anybody had sex yet?
♪ ♪
- Yeah. Yeah, we did.
- Yeah! - Good for y'all.
- Score! - Yep.
- Cheers to sex. - Congratulations.
- [laughs]
- Nicole has been the only wife so far
To get her back blown out.
I'm so happy for them. - [chortles]
- Yeah, I don't-- the other couples--
We're just moving along a lot slower.
- Anything crazy come out?
Like, some weird spinning wheels or--
- Oh, yeah, we were, like, hanging from the ceiling.
- Chris had some nipple tassels on?
- Yes.
His back was actually hurting the day after
Because I blew that [bleep] out.
- You blew his back out! - Yeah.
[laughter]
- Like, we hooked up the other morning.
- We're very much in-the-moment people.
- Yeah. Sorry. - No, no.
No, I mean, I'm proud of you for, like, letting it go.
- It's the best way to wake up, you know?
- Better than coffee.
♪ ♪
- What about y'all? Y'all getting frisky?
- I don't know if we getting frisky.
- No, we're not getting frisky.
- No, we're not getting frisky over here.
- What was that big reaction for?
- No, we're not getting frisky.
- No. No intimacy, no friskiness.
- Mm-mm. - Are you kissing?
- Occasionally. - Occasionally.
♪ ♪
- I mean, I'm sexually, like, attracted to him,
But he's not there yet with me.
♪ ♪
I mean, I've never had to initiate ever
In any relationship I've been in,
So this is...
- I mean, it's new for me, too. I never been in a situation--
- Where he ain't been sexually attracted to them.
- So it's new for me, too. - Hey, listen.
You guys are not alone. - Yeah, definitely.
- We can all hang out and talk. - Yeah.
Y'all definitely not alone. She wasn't attracted to me.
- Now she loves that head. - Now she like this...
Now, she always like-- like, it'll grow.
- Yeah. - It'll grow with time.
- But you have to allow it to grow.
- What about you guys?
- I lost my voice last night, but here we go.
Dom is outspoken.
She knows what she wants. I know what I want.
And me and dom have made a decision
To get divorced.
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This is the decision we made, so...
- Why are y'all getting a divorce?
- Yeah. Can we get some context?
Like, what happened? - Yeah.
It's a pretty bold statement.
- Well, I feel like there was a little bit of confusion
Because he had made a few comments,
You know, that made me feel like he was not happy,
And I am very much, like, positive vibes only.
Like, I don't like negativity and negative energy in my life,
And I felt like it was best for us
To cut things off, like,
Before it got to the point to where things turned toxic.
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- I don't fully agree with that.
I was 100% blindsided that you asked for a divorce.
I had faith in the process,
And that's not what wore me down.
It was more like the belittling that started on the honeymoon
That wore me down mentally, emotionally.
You know, I'm somebody who knows I have faults,
And these are things I want to work on every year
And grow and be a better human in general.
And I'm not saying
That you think you're perfect or anything,
But there's been no compromise, though.
It's just been me compromising. - I mean...
- I mean, throwing in the towel
Is the easiest damn way out, though.
All: Yeah. - That's the easy scapegoat.
And so, like, I would challenge you
To, like, take a step back,
Because I think there could be something there
If you guys are willing to, like, stick it out.
- You don't want to just give up on him so fast,
Because, like, if you give up on somebody,
You wouldn't want somebody to give up on you.
I think it's unfortunate
That they're giving up on each other so quickly.
I'm like-- I don't even really feel
Like they gave each other a real chance at all.
- Like, I'm pretty sure they haven't had any, like...
Real conversation.
"how was your childhood?" you know?
It was always a back-and-forth tassel between them.
- It sounds like they were just pulling against each other
Versus working together to get to know each other
And how they can have a better life together.
- Dom, honestly, I really like you.
I care about you a lot.
I really like you two as a couple,
And I say this out of love,
But you are going to regret this.
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You will regret not even trying.
- ♪ oh ♪
♪ so ♪
♪ lost and lonely ♪
♪ ♪
- Just playing devil's advocate here.
And, listen, it's your relationship.
I don't know the ins and outs, but is there any scenario
Where maybe taking a little time apart
And starting fresh could help?
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- Maybe. - Okay.
- Cheers to maybe!
- But, mac? - Yeah, yeah.
- Mac's saying yes. Yes and maybe. Okay.
- Cheers to maybe! - Cheers to maybe!
- Cheers to maybe. Thank you. - I love it.
- So you're saying there's a chance?
- Yeah.
- ♪ if our time is done ♪
♪ going down like the sun ♪
♪ then maybe we're better as friends ♪
- Here's to you two being open
And to everyone else being a support system
For you guys and each other. Both: Yeah.
All: Cheers.
- Aw, babe, they're giving us cheers.
- One day she's mad, the next day she wants a divorce.
And then it's a maybe.
All the back-and-forth is, like--it just--
It's such a younger thing to do.
That's what you do when you don't know what you want,
When you're not in tune with yourself
And your emotions mentally.
Like, the back-and-forth is a young man's game,
A young woman's game, and that's what dom plays.
- That was interesting.
- [sniffs] yeah. - What'd you think?
- I don't know. Kind of went as expected.
- Yeah. - What did you think?
- I feel like that was so much pressure.
- Yeah. No, it was.
- I feel like it was so much pressure.
- It was a lot of pressure. It wasn't my intent.
- I know. I know. Nothing towards you, you know?
And I know that they want the best for us, you know,
But at the same time, I'm just like,
Are you actually listening?
- Yeah.
- It wasn't my favorite conversation.
[chuckles]
- I guess my question is, why did you say "maybe"?
- I mean...
When everybody's looking at you
And nicole is giving you the glaring eyes...
I honestly didn't appreciate it at all.
- I know. That's--I get it.
- Yeah, I felt like nobody was actually listening.
Everybody's just like, "no. Keep going, yeah," you know?
But, like, nobody was actually listening, you know?
- So, obviously, maybe a lot of pressure.
Do you feel like you just said "maybe"
'cause it was peer pressure?
- Honestly, yes. - Yeah.
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- I feel like "no" wasn't an acceptable answer.
And I am-- you know I'm very honest.
- No, I know you are. Yeah.
- But just, like, reading the room, like...
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
So here we are.
[inhales deeply] it was definitely awkward.
♪ ♪
So where do we go from here?
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- I wouldn't mind being friends, you know?
- I mean, I don't want to be your friend.
♪ ♪
- I'm not feeling so good about myself right now.
[chuckles]
I'm feeling like a carcass in the middle of the road,
And cars just keep running it over.
I feel like there's been a lot of jab-throwing
And a lot of petty conversations
And a lot of, like, petty statements
That have been said to me that's kind of immature.
And that's not something I want to deal with
And incorporate into my life.
- I should probably start packing.
- Okay.
Okay. - All right.
- [sighs]
Hug.
Friend, not friend.
- Yeah, of course. - [chuckles]
- I'm not interested in, you know, another friend.
I have plenty of friends.
It's just--I don't think dom knows what she wants.
I think dom is young
And has a lot to experience.
I don't think she's ready for a relationship,
And I don't know that she knows
What a serious relationship takes and needs.
♪ ♪
- Bye.
♪ ♪
I don't want anybody walking around nashville
With hate in their heart for me, you know?
But, ultimately, like, I respect mac's feelings.
If he doesn't want to be my friend,
He doesn't want to be my friend.
That's okay. So I guess this is where we end things.
And I wish him all the best.
I feel also that I have been pushed to my limits
And think I'm just gonna, like,
Go on some, like, soul-searching journey
At this point to try to piece myself back together.
[elevator doors open]
- ♪ find a home ♪
♪ rest your bones ♪
- You know, dom is the one who asked for the divorce, not me.
So what am I supposed to do?
♪ ♪
Yeah, it's not a perfect match,
But we just needed time and effort.
You got to give things time, and I just didn't get that.
- ♪ let it fade away ♪
- I am looking to start my life with somebody.
I want to find my forever person, my wife.
- ♪ let it fade away ♪
♪ let it fade away ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ all right ♪
- Next time on "married at first sight"...
- ♪ dig that thing ♪ - [screams]
- ♪ make that bank ♪
♪ bend till you think it's gonna break that thing ♪
- Our couples build on their connection
And try to create a foundation of love
That will last a lifetime.
- Come on, mr. Good-looking.
We're definitely taking things to the next level today.
♪ ♪
- Covid has got your boy.
- I'm gonna try and be there for him as much as I can.
- Appearance-wise, I said beautiful smile,
Beautiful face, but I did say, like,
A little thicker than I normally go for.
[dramatic music]
- Do you feel like you're falling in love
In this marriage?
- No. No.
- This is what happens when you let your wall down,
Like, you let somebody get close.
It just blows up in your face.
- I got a girl pregnant.
♪ ♪
- We just met each other,
So of course I'm gonna want to be around you.
- You got what you wanted, and now I'm miserable.
♪ ♪