- I'm taking a huge leap of faith.
I'm finally going to marry a stranger.
- Oh [bleep].
I've been dreaming about this moment
For my whole life.
- You don't understand, like, how much I wanted this.
I've never been in love,
But I'm ready to be in love with this woman.
- Please stand.
[dramatic music]
- Just four days ago, ten singles
Put their faith in the experts
In order to find love.
- Hi. [laughs]
- They married as complete strangers.
- You may kiss your bride.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- I am married.
[upbeat music]
- Last time, they began their honeymoons together.
♪ ♪
Brett and ryan.
- I truly am here for the right reasons.
I truly am thankful that I was matched with you.
♪ ♪
- Here we go.
♪ ♪
- Rachel and jose.
- Hopefully, fingers crossed, I get my catch of the day.
- Yes.
- And then my catch of a lifetime.
- Stop.
- I hope this is what I can expect in the future.
- When it comes to groceries, when it comes to bills,
I feel like it should be 50/50.
- Let me take everything
That we need financially for the month.
Then everything that's left, you can pull from there.
[dramatic music]
- I don't want an allowance.
[upbeat music]
- Bao and johnny.
- I feel like it's nothing to be ashamed of
Because so many people snore.
- I know you're not trying to make fun,
But it actually really hurts.
I just feel like I need to be in a different bed.
- Wow.
[dramatic music]
- Myrla and gil.
- I'm just a touchy person.
- Do you believe you've been touchy with me?
- I am not like that on day one with people.
That comes with time.
- Do you see that ever happening?
♪ ♪
- Michaela and zack.
- So I just found out I tested positive for covid.
Michaela's negative, which I'm happy about
But she's obviously not excited.
- I am married now,
And I can't even have my man on my honeymoon.
This is [bleep] up.
We also made the decision that it would be best
That I go back to houston. - No.
♪ ♪
- Whoo!
- ♪ I can never ♪
♪ get you off my, my, my mind ♪
- Tonight, our couples enjoy the final few days
Of their honeymoon in this tropical paradise.
- No one is luckier than us.
- Before they have to return to the real world.
- Ooh.
- You asked for chocolate chip cookies.
- That is amazing.
- Never have I ever...
[dramatic music]
- Damn, I married a cheater.
I definitely think cheaters are very selfish.
- I don't want a dog 'cause I don't want to walk them.
- That doesn't sit well with me at all.
That's just gonna make it harder for me
To even want to get to know you further.
♪ ♪
- If I don't have boxes checked,
It's not happening.
♪ ♪
- Showering every single day was not my top priority.
- Is that so hard? Like, just rinse off.
We have differences.
They're very important differences to me.
This is usually the point
Where I start thinking, is this for me?
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ it's all or nothing ♪
- This is "married at first sight."
- ♪ there's no other way ♪
♪ ♪
♪ it's all or nothing ♪
- ♪ tell me that you're vibing ♪
♪ we gonna make it far ♪
♪ ♪
- Morning. - Morning.
- Status update, the pillow fort is still here.
♪ ♪
It's okay. Whatever makes my hubby happy.
- While most of our couples
Have started to create a strong and unique bond...
- Good morning.
- Not the light. - Not the light?
♪ ♪
- Good morning.
- We hope that they can use
These last few days of the honeymoon
To learn more about each other and look forward
To what their lives together in houston might bring.
- My wife doesn't give a [bleep].
- [laughs]
- Said, "I don't have to get ready for morning diary cam."
No [bleep]. - Clearly don't care.
- Because in just over seven weeks,
Our couples are going to have to decide
Whether they want to stay married
Or get a divorce.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ it's never gonna feel like home again ♪
♪ feels like home to me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ this is holding us up ♪
- This is not the way I imagined our honeymoon.
♪ ♪
Initially I was thinking about,
You know, just us hanging out, drinking mimosas,
Going dancing, exploring new activities,
Just getting to know each other,
But that's not gonna happen.
I feel horrible not only because I have covid
But because I feel like I let michaela down.
It's not a good way to start off your marriage.
- ♪ secretly finding I feel ♪
- I came back to texas yesterday morning,
And it sucks, but I understand,
You know, health and safety first,
But I do miss him, and I know
That we'll have plenty of time,
And he said--he was like,
"short time sacrifice for a long-time paradise."
And I'm like, "I like your positive thinking."
[laughs]
♪ ♪
- Over the last couple days, I was sad to kind of wake up
Without michaela 'cause I really missed her,
So my plan for the rest of the honeymoon
Is just to get rest, drink water,
And get back home as healthy as possible
So we can make up the days that we missed.
I really can't wait for us
To, you know, begin our lives together.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ it's the feeling that you give me ♪
♪ every time that you are with me ♪
- How'd you sleep?
- I promise you did talk in your sleep again.
- What? - Like, you were loud.
If these weren't silent proof walls,
I'm sure the neighbors heard you.
- Look, if there's no evidence--
- But you talked in your sleep.
I was wide awake this time.
There's no confusion. - Nobody ever told me that
And I sleep around a lot of people.
♪ ♪
Last time I talked in my sleep I was--
- Maybe you were saying all the things
That you didn't want to say.
[laughter]
- Like what? - I don't know.
- I'm, like, cursing you out while I'm sleeping?
[laughter]
You know, before we went to sleep last night,
I was thinking about what we talked about
At the wedding table.
- What did we talk about? - The last names.
- What are your expectations around,
Like, changing my last name? Like...
- When it comes down to that,
I'm pretty traditional about it.
Like, I feel like you should change your last name.
How do you feel about it?
[soft dramatic music]
- I feel like I like myrla feria.
♪ ♪
- And I feel like
You should take your husband's last name.
♪ ♪
- But I like feria. - All right.
You're mexican,
So you should be-- you should relate to this.
I mean, in columbia, we have some people
With last names like this.
What about if you put myrla feria de cuero?
- Myrla esther feria de cuero.
I don't think that I'm, like, that aspect of a mexican.
♪ ♪
That's just really long to me.
Like, what would people call me?
♪ ♪
- Come on now. What?
[laughs]
- I don't know anyone
In, like, my immediate family who's done that.
- I imagined when I got married
That compromise would be easy-peasy,
But the topic of changing the last name
Was one type of compromise I hadn't thought about.
- Because I love "feria" in remembrance of my father.
- See, when you put it like that,
You make me out to be, like, the bad guy
If I'm like, "I don't want you..."
I don't appreciate how you're doing that
Because obviously--
- Well, but that is the-- that is the reason.
- 'cause of that?
- [sighs] that's tough.
That's tough. Come on, man.
You can't put somebody in that type of situation.
We can talk about it some more and come up with a compromise.
- To be continued. - Yes, for sure.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- All right. - Coffee.
- Let's start with that. - Yes.
- So we need a little pep, huh?
- I do. - Cheers.
- Cheers to another great morning.
- And a exciting day. - Mh-hmm, and marriage.
[chuckles]
So last night, I know I opened up to you
About a concern,
And I really appreciate that you really listened.
I'm hoping that you understand where I'm coming from
Even if it's not a problem you have personally.
[dramatic music]
It's hard.
As a woman, people don't expect you to snore.
And while I've been told that it's cute,
It's not cute, especially if you've lived
A life of being bullied about it.
- So when you first brought it up,
I was--I thought you were kidding.
I thought it was an overreaction.
The scary thing was like,
Are we gonna have arguments about stuff like this?
- Petty things to you? - Yeah.
- I know. I could tell.
♪ ♪
- I think we deal with things differently
On what we have, like, insecurities about.
- I'm hoping that you understand
Where I'm coming from. - Mm-hmm.
If bao and I were only dating and not married,
I think this would have been a red flag to me.
It would have probably gotten me
Back onto the dating apps.
At this point, I have no other dating apps.
[chuckles] I have zero other options.
I'm married to her. I think this is good.
It's putting me in a really uncomfortable situation
Where my gut instinct is saying, "run,"
But this ring is telling me, "no man, stick around.
Figure it out."
So far... - Mm-hmm.
- What level do you feel like we are at?
- On a scale?
- Yeah, maybe. Something like that.
- I take things pretty slow emotionally.
In my past relationships,
The physical intimacy happened first
And the emotional intimacy took longer for me to build.
- I see.
Why do you think it was that way in the past?
- I think, for me, physical intimacy is easy.
Attraction and physical attraction
And sexual attraction comes quickly.
I mean, I think you're very handsome.
I'm very attracted to you,
And so upon first looking at you--
And this is before when we first met--
I've had a crush on you for a long time.
[upbeat music]
- You never told me.
- 'cause I'm a coward. [chuckles]
- And maybe I'm a coward for this,
But if you had made the first move back then
And told me that you liked me,
I would have told you that I liked you too.
- Oh, my god. Is that just--
- It's just wild, like, how everything's turned out.
Where do you think we would be if we had?
Just kind of picturing hypothetically.
- Oh.
- You think we'd have a couple kids by now?
♪ ♪
- Maybe.
[music slows, stops]
♪ don't be afraid ♪
♪ 'cause they always say ♪
♪ let go of your fears ♪
♪ follow all the things you love ♪
- Good morning. - Mm, morning.
[upbeat music]
It's just crazy to believe that a couple of days ago
I was just a single gal living by herself,
But now I'm waking up
Feeling like a truly married woman.
Oh, my god. - How'd you sleep?
- Oh, I slept good. I slept like a baby.
- So I kind of planned for us to--
- You planned something? Ooh.
[chuckles] - stop it.
You know I have plans. Yes.
So I kind of made some plans and some arrangements for us...
- Bike ride?
- So I'm really looking forward to it.
- I have a tiny little confession.
- Oh, okay.
- I may or may not be able to ride a bike.
- What? - [laughs]
- You don't know how to ride a bicycle?
My wife needs training wheels.
♪ ♪
She don't know how to ride a bicycle.
What the hell? Oh, man.
- But is bike riding your thing?
Can you teach someone to ride a bike?
- Not to toot my own horn, but I can definitely teach you
How to ride a bike.
So in a store one time, I put roller blades on,
And I taught myself how to roller blade
In, like, five min--well, within five minutes
That I was in that store.
And I say all that to say, I pick up so many things
So quickly. It's gonna be great.
It's gonna be very adventurous.
- I mean, it'll be fun because obviously
I want to learn how to ride a bike.
I mean, this is perfect. I can just say--
- You gonna learn today.
- I can say, like,
"I learned how to ride a bike on my honeymoon."
- Yes, my husband taught me how to ride a bicycle.
- My husband taught me how to ride a bike.
- This is gonna be great. I'm looking forward to it.
- Me too, but first I have this list of questions.
Let's talk about, like,
What are just things you really want
To do before we have kids?
Just us two. - Describe it to me.
- So my dream, dream trip right now is switzerland,
And we can go, like, hang-gliding, speed boat,
And so that is my dream trip.
- I think the biggest thing that just comes to mind
Is it's a lot of money.
[soft dramatic music]
I still want us to continue to learn and grow
And travel together, but then again,
If we want to have kids, we want to do that
In a state where, okay, we're gonna prep for kids.
I would say trips to, like, vegas or new york
Where it would be a little bit less.
♪ ♪
- I was someone that took a trip every month,
And I took a big trip every two years,
And to hear him say that might not happen,
I'm struggling with that idea.
I definitely think this might be one of those situations
Where we do have to find a happy medium.
I think we still have a conversation pending
When it comes to joint accounts.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ it's just the things that you do ♪
♪ ♪
♪ they make me go kind of crazy ♪
♪ ♪
- Ooh.
- I'm not going to say this is your last meal before kayaking
Or your last meal in general 'cause I know how scared
You are about kayaking, but in case it is...
- Oh, my god, shut up. My last meal in general.
I have an irrational fear of everything
That's in the water, but I'm gonna try
To be a trouper and do my best
And try to enjoy it.
- I pray that we don't see a shark fin
'cause then you will lose your [bleep].
[soft dramatic music]
And then I'ma lose my [bleep]
'cause I'ma be as scared as you.
- Well, I know you think this, that I'm scared of everything.
- Yet you married a stranger.
- I know. Apparently not scared of that.
- So if we encounter a very vicious manatee
Or a nice shark, what are you gonna do?
What can I do? What do you want to happen?
♪ ♪
- I don't really know if I have, like,
A lot of-- I just want to face my fears.
I don't, like, typically feel that way,
But if this is something that we're gonna do,
Then I feel like I can do it
Because we're doing it together.
You know what I mean?
You can pretty much convince me that everything's fine.
If you just--if you're calm, I feel like I'll be calm.
I know for a fact, if anything goes wrong
That he'll have my back
Because he's already proven that to me.
You know, it makes me feel, like, a little bad
That I'm like, "oh, I'm scared of this on this plane,
And I'm scared of this situation."
But he's kind of taking it in stride, I think.
- If we get there and it's--I know
You're gonna try to get through it,
But if you-- if your fear comes up
And you do kind of lock up,
Then we'll just-- we'll get out of there.
It's--we can go see manatees from a bridge or something.
- Okay.
- We can go pick flowers or something.
- [laughs]
- Something incredibly safe and on land.
- He's like, "I'm so glad I have the most fun wife ever.
She's so adventurous and amazing."
- How did I get so lucky? - How did you get so lucky?
- ♪ all the way to love ♪
- ♪ did I say too much? ♪
♪ or did I say too little? ♪
- I think the last time I was in a hammock
Was probably by myself.
I don't think I've shared a hammock with anyone before.
- Oh, do you want me to,
You know, go to that hammock over there?
- Yeah, there's plenty of options.
♪ ♪
I'm kidding, come here.
- You know, if I let go this one,
You're gonna fall over.
- Get in here, get in here. Stabilize me.
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
- We made it, yay.
- I'm the kind of guy that immediately wants
To resolve the conflict so we can move on,
And so this morning I was not completely open and honest
With bao about how I'm feeling,
And it makes me feel guilty
Because if I'm expecting her to put herself out there,
I also have to reciprocate,
And I actually even need to be proactive about it.
It seems like sometimes we're-- when we're in the moment
Of, you know, just being the two of us,
You're not 100%, you know, in the moment
And instead, you are thinking
About something that happened in the past,
Or you're worrying about some kind of detail in the present
That's not kind of where I'm at,
So that's something I felt from last night.
[soft dramatic music]
And I don't want to lie to you.
I had a little bit of, like,
A fight or flight kind of moment...
♪ ♪
And I started having doubts...
- I could tell. - About us.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't want to scare you, but this is usually the point
Where I start thinking, "is this for me?"
♪ ♪
- Mm-hmm. I saw it.
I saw it in your eyes.
And, for me, it was very disappointing too
Because I felt judged.
This is all new for me,
And, I mean, I'm trying so hard,
And I don't know that it shows.
♪ ♪
I have a tendency to overthink things,
And sometimes that can get me in trouble.
In the past, it has.
The one thing about johnny that does make me feel assured
That maybe this won't be a problem in our relationship
Is that he is very straightforward.
If he's bothered by something, he tells me,
And I think that helps me a lot.
♪ ♪
It really does.
- This honeymoon is, like, our first chance
At getting off on the right foot.
That's the whole reason I planned the romantic dinner
'cause I felt like that was our first real night together,
So I'm just asking, like, just for this week,
While we're still out here and it's just the two of us,
Like, can we focus on each other
And really get the strongest possible start?
♪ ♪
- ♪ sometimes a day feels like one long week ♪
♪ that's why it's good to have a friend like me around ♪
- In any new marriage, it's very important
For these spouses to step out of their comfort zone,
To learn new activities together,
To share each other's hobbies,
Because it's another way of finding out about each other.
♪ ♪
- Here we are. Here are the bicycles.
- I'm not that great at riding a bicycle,
And I'm just so insecure of asking him for help on things
I don't know how to do. Okay.
- Which side should I get on? Here, I'll just hold it.
- Now I'm in a marriage with someone
That wants to take care of me.
I think I hit the jackpot, and I have to accept it.
[laughs]
You go first 'cause I don't want you to see me.
- No, I want you to go first 'cause if I take off
And then something happens... - Okay, aw, man.
Ugh, okay, rachel. You can do this.
- Wait, do you want me to walk you down?
- No, no, no, no. Hold on.
We're just gonna see what happens.
- Okay. - And that's that.
- Wait, wait, maybe I just--yeah, yeah.
Maybe I just put mine, and then I just walk you down
Until you're comfortable. - [laughs]
- Are you good? - Okay, okay.
See, I'm doing it. - Okay, go.
- I'm doing it. I'm doing it.
- You are doing it. - But I don't know how to stop.
Okay. - You are doing it.
I'm so proud of you. - Okay, it's fine.
- It's fine.
It's just the stopping that's weird.
So now...
- Okay, so if you want to stop...
- What's the plan?
- All you have to do is just go back
Just a little bit and then--
- Brake? - Yes, and the brakes will--
- Okay, all right. - Yeah.
- I guess you go, and I'll follow you.
- You want me to? - Yeah.
- Okay.
- [screams] okay.
- ♪ it's a good life to enjoy yourself, yeah ♪
- You okay? - I think so.
- You're doing wonderful.
- Just the starting and the stopping
And the turning. [bleep].
- Almost. - Okay, bad corner.
Oh, no, there's too much going on here.
I can't turn. [screams]
Okay, I feel better. - Doing great.
I was kind of freaking out for a second.
Oh, my god. Are you frustrated with me?
- No, not at all. You're doing great.
- Look, one hand.
- Stop it. Stop it.
You did it. - Okay, that's not that bad.
- All these little things that we've done
Kind of lead up to the reason
Why I wanted to get married at first sight,
Which was I wanted to do little things with my wife.
It's little things that'll bring our marriage
That much closer, and I think it could get
To that love state very, very soon.
So how do you feel?
- I feel good. I feel proud.
And, again, it's you just, like, boosting my confidence
Instead of shutting me down.
Again, I hate comparing because, like,
You're not supposed to talk about exes or whatever,
But just in the last one, it was just, like, a continuum
Of just breaking me down
And just making me feel bad
About things I can't do, things I can't control.
But this whole bike experience just proves
How patient you can be with me. Thank you.
Thank you so much, you know, for that.
And I'm just like, "yes, this is where
I need to be. This is where we need to be."
- Yep.
- Like I'm so glad we're married.
I just see this--it just keeps getting better and better.
- I think the same. - I have no complaints.
- I think the same. I feel the same.
- You're so far! [laughs]
- I'm so glad that we could do it together,
And I'm so glad that you feel that I supported you.
That's what I want to still continue to keep being able
To provide you each and every single day.
- I definitely think we're headed in the right direction.
- I think so too. - You know.
I'm still like, "we have to live together."
You know, once work comes into play,
And just I have a lot of pride in my independence.
That term...
[speaks spanish]
Like, makes me cringe.
You know, I have to bring it back.
I can't stop thinking about, you know,
That last little bit of conversation we had last night.
- Big picture is we both have joints.
Boom, right? - Mm-hmm.
- And then let me take
Everything that we need financially
For the month, whether that be rent,
Mortgage, insurance, car insurance, whatever.
Boom, let me take what I need from there.
Then everything that's left, you can pull from it.
[soft dramatic music]
- I'm gonna have to say I don't think I agree
With having the one account
And then it trickling down into our individual's.
I want to completely be like, "here's my paycheck."
But I'm like, "oh my god."
But you just seem so on top of it.
- I've worked tremendously hard and I did everything that I did
So that way, when I got married,
I could say, "look, we're in a wonderful position."
In fact, I have an excellent near perfect credit score.
It's-- - oh, my god.
- Yeah, it's up there. Do you want to know?
- I mean, it's awfully intimidating.
- My credit score is right at 815.
♪ ♪
- So having this beautiful, amazing credit score
And having, like, basically all your [bleep] together,
Did you specifically request someone that, like,
Also has their [bleep] together?
♪ ♪
- I--in so many words,
I wanted someone that was on my level.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- This is gonna be interesting. - This is d day for you.
- If I can make it through... - You'll make it through.
- We can do anything.
- You will make it through
As long as you get me past these pelicans.
- I got you.
This is not my element, but I want to be a good sport,
And I also don't want ryan to think, like, I'm a girl
In a bubble that can't do anything.
[laughs]
- I'll stand and make sure you don't fall in real fast.
Look how--being brave already.
- Okay.
- You feel good? - Yeah, I'm not scared anymore.
- Ready to go conquer the ocean?
- Yeah.
- ♪ I don't care where we go ♪
♪ as long as I'm with you ♪
♪ you can leave a way, as long as I'm with you ♪
♪ all of my days are good ♪
♪ as long as I'm with you ♪
♪ I feel so special, as long as I'm with you ♪
- Look at me. I'm doing it.
- You're moving. - I'm doing it.
- Manatee.
[dramatic music]
That's a big sucker. - Oh.
- This thing is massive.
♪ ♪
- I don't like it. - Dude, he's right under you.
- I don't like it. I don't like it.
♪ ♪
I'm sure the manatee is the nicest manatee
That ever swam the world, but I don't want to look at it.
If I feel it,
Like, touch my kayak, I'm gonna freak out.
- This thing is massive.
♪ ♪
I want you to at least, like, look at it.
- I looked at it.
♪ ♪
- You were doing so well.
♪ ♪
- Not a fan, not a fan. - It's right by you.
Look down. - I can't.
- Look.
- I can see it in my peripheral vision.
♪ ♪
- We'll have to work on that.
♪ ♪
Bye, mr. Manatee.
Scoot it. - [laughs]
- Come on. Now we get to race.
- Okay.
- Brett is definitely
Not a water sports, flying, outdoors girl.
- Where are we racing to? I gotta turn around.
- Well, turn your butt around. - I'm trying.
- I thought it would be an issue,
But she's been a trouper through it,
And hopefully she continues to be open about that
'cause I have a lot more crazy [bleep]
That she's probably not going to want to do.
[laughs]
So loser cooks the first meal after move-ins.
- Okay. - You better start paddling.
♪ ♪
- Where are we going to?
- Just till it gets shallow over there.
♪ ♪
- I don't know how far we're going.
- To the devil bird. Yeah, I see you, pelican.
- Uh-oh, we're gonna crash.
- Coming in hot. I just want that dinner.
- ♪ we're gonna get our kicks tonight ♪
♪ it doesn't matter where we are ♪
♪ we're gonna play under the light ♪
- Oh, no! No!
I'm gonna fall out. Damn it.
[laughs]
- Photo finish. - I feel very safe with brian.
I think I need somebody
To bring me out of my comfort zone.
Now, there might be a point where I have to,
Like, put my foot down, but I'm glad that I did it.
Who won? - It was a tie.
- Sweet. - Means we both have to cook.
Maybe not a cheesecake yet. We're not at that point.
- Haven't earned the cheesecake yet.
- Yeah. - That's okay, eventually.
♪ ♪
- This feels pretty dangerous.
- Uh-oh.
I'm trying not to worry about it.
♪ ♪
Johnny shared with me that he has concerns about us,
And he asked me to try to please live
In the moment with him, and I am trying.
- You nervous? - No.
It's important for me to know
How johnny communicates about our relationship,
And I'm very grateful that johnny was so open
And frank with me this morning.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
I can't believe we're gonna do this.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Oh, gosh. Oh, I'm feeling it.
- Y'all are crazy. I wouldn't do this.
- Get out of here! - [laughs]
All right. - Maybe.
- We're getting lifted. Oh, my gosh.
[screams] - oh, god!
- Oh--oh, no. Oh, my god!
- Whoa! - Oh, my god!
- Whoo! - [laughs]
Holy [bleep]. - I feel like I'm flying.
- We are flying. Oh, wow.
- Whoa! - Oh, wow!
Oh, it's getting really high. - This is nuts.
♪ ♪
- This is the highest that we've...
- Kissed? - Ever kissed before.
- I know. [laughs]
- How crazy high up we are. - [sighs]
- This is insane. - [laughs]
Bao is living in the moment, and it makes me feel like
She is present here thinking about nothing
But spending time with me, being out in the ocean there.
It really is just us. - How lucky are we?
- We're the luckiest. No one is luckier than us.
Landing. - Oh, yes.
- Landing sequence initiated.
- This is the most amazing experience.
- Here we go.
[upbeat music]
- Oh. - Yay, we did it!
We did it, ah! - We survived.
♪ ♪
- That was awesome. - Yeah.
- This is the best.
I feel that there couldn't have been a better person
To go up in the air with than johnny,
And I am so happy we got to do this together
As a married couple.
Off to our next adventure?
- Yes. Let's chill right here.
- Yeah.
Well, wasn't that fun? - That was incredible.
- That was kind of a wild ride, wasn't it?
- Just being up that high
And seeing everything for miles, it seemed, was great.
Were you scared at all?
- I didn't feel scared, honestly.
- So speaking of fears, I feel like doing this today,
Like, this risky thing with you
And it being a success,
I feel like we can tackle a lot of other things
That we fear.
♪ ♪
One thing that I've been thinking about is at the end
Of this honeymoon, we move in together.
I haven't lived with anyone for eight years now.
It's just been me.
My rules, my way.
And I got to say,
I'm a little bit particular about how I like things.
- Right.
- But is your neat the same as my neat?
- I'm getting the sense that your neat
Might be a little different than my neat.
[soft dramatic music]
And that might be a little bit of a challenge for both of us
And a big adjustment.
I am also very particular about certain things.
♪ ♪
- When I come home, I never have to worry about,
Do I have to put things in a certain place
Or do I need to act a certain way?
Do I need to hold in my farts?
♪ ♪
There's so much that I don't have to worry about,
And I love that freedom and flexibility.
But now we're married, and it might be a lot.
My fear is that we fight on some of that stuff.
♪ ♪
- I can imagine it being a challenge.
At least we both don't want shoes in the house.
- Yeah, oh, it's a no-brainer. - Okay, good, we're good there.
I'm sure there's little quirks about living with one another
That we'll find and make adjustments for.
♪ ♪
- Find out. - Very soon.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- This is very, like... - Looks different.
- Honeymoon vibes, right? - Looks different.
- Hey. - The sun's setting.
- What's happening?
- Look how perfect this looks. - Yes--these guys.
- Hi! - Yes!
- What's happening? - Look at you.
- You good? - Good to see you, man.
- Hi, stranger. - Oh, and we're matching.
- I know. - Good to see you.
- And that sunset. - What is up?
- Hey. - Hey, guys.
- Oh! - What is up?
- Yeah. - Get us something already.
Well, we're headed out.
- I hope y'all aren't hungry! - What's up, johnny?
- Hey, bro. - You all right?
- Yeah. - You look so pretty.
- It feels like we're in, like,
A sorority fraternity together because we're the only ones
That can really truly understand how this is.
- Well, cheers, everybody. - Cheers!
- I know, cheers. - Cheers.
- Here's to--I mean, nights together.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes. - Yes.
- Everybody. - I got you, guys.
- Hey, guys, hold on real quick--hold up.
- Oh, that's true. We're missing a couple.
- What's that? - Hey, zack, what up, baby?
- Aww! - Zack!
- Couldn't even put a shirt on. - I know!
- Zack, you couldn't put a damn shirt on, bro?
- I know. - What's up?
- Oh, are you?
How are you holding up? How do you feel?
- Of course not.
- Yeah. - Aww.
She ain't missing much. No, I'm kidding.
- [chuckles]
- Right.
- Sure. Absolutely.
You know, rest up. Get your meds in.
Do what you gotta do. We'll see you back in houston.
I appreciate the phone call. - Yeah, feel better.
- All right, brother, take care, man.
- Bye! - All right, bro.
- Dude's in there working out.
[laughter]
- That is a tough situation though.
- Oh, I know. - That's really tough.
- Yeah, because, I mean, honeymoon is big.
It's big, especially when we just got married.
- Honestly, like confessing and what we found out earlier
Is michaela said, you know,
Sometimes when they're separated,
Like, she misses him... - Aww.
- And it's only been a couple of days.
And I'm like... - Yeah.
- You know, think about it.
If you were in that same situation
And she was in one state
And you're in the other state and, you know, it's so--
- I'd be worried.
Like, I'd want to take care of him or like--
- Yeah. - Right.
And so it hits my "romeo and juliet"--
Baby, hey, ride or die, baby. We're both going.
- Ride or die. - You know what I'm saying?
You know, it's a difficult decision
In itself, but, you know,
I would hope that rachel would want to stay there
With me to support me through the whole process,
Whether we could see each other or not because,
You know, again, when you get married,
You are basically giving your commitment to your spouse
Through sickness and in health and until death do us part.
[chuckles]
- Have you ever had dinner on a beach?
- Last night. - Not in the last 12 hours.
- Have you ever had a group dinner on a beach?
- No. - Okay.
- First one. - I've never had
A group dinner on a beach.
- Definitely a first for me.
- So what have y'all learned about each other--
Newer things that y'all learned about each other?
- I'm finding there are so many similarities
Between the two of us,
But there are definitely differences.
- We're big on communication.
I think we've figured out very early on that the thing
That we have very in common
Is that we're both really good communicators,
And as soon as I felt like something was off,
I brought it up.
Anytime, she feels like something is off,
She brought it up.
We had our first disagreement last night.
It was rough, and then we slept on it,
Woke up, came out here,
Talked about it-- I told her exactly how I feel--
And I feel like we got to a better place
Because we're both just kind of
Being open and communicative about it.
- I'm not gonna speak for everybody.
I appreciate y'all sharing that with us
Because that's helpful for all of us to know
That you can have those discussions,
Whether--they're gonna be difficult,
But you have to have them, and it sounds like...
- Right.
- It helps y'all,
And it's gonna help all of us at some point.
- What is the hardest conversation
Everyone here has had so far?
- What I sort of look at as one of my flaws is, like,
I don't think I do well at asking a lot of questions.
- Sure. - Just in general.
So there are a lot of conversations
That we haven't had yet.
I mean, we haven't talked about money.
We haven't talked about last names.
We haven't talked about living arrangements.
We haven't talked about, like, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff.
To me, with the timeline, to me, it feels normal
To not have those conversations so soon.
- We're about the same when it comes down
To most of this stuff.
Like, we have touched things about living arrangements.
That was the easy conversation.
- We talk about relationships.
- We talked about relationships.
We haven't talked about finance.
I'm sure that's gonna be a tough conversation...
- Ooh! - Because princess over here.
- Y'all, buckle up.
[laughter]
- Buckle up. - Hey.
Hey! Here we go.
- Text me after. I wanna know how that goes.
- So we'll see.
- What if it turns out at a very basic level
When you touch these deep subjects,
Y'all are on opposite ends?
Are you afraid of that? Afraid of what happens then?
- It goes back to what... - Yes.
- Y'all both were saying, communication.
One thing I was asked from one of our friends is, like,
What about if she's--
Hypothetically, I'm a democrat
And she's a republican? Would that be an issue?
- Oh, no, sir. - No, I know you're not, but--
[laughter]
- Let's say... - I don't even like that.
- Let's say if she was, would that'd be a dealbreaker?
I said, absolutely not.
- With the reverse, it would be a dealbreaker for me.
- For me, it wouldn't be. - For me, it would.
- For me, it wouldn't be. I got you.
- Can we get the check going? - Check please.
Divorce check. - [laughs]
- But for me, it wouldn't be an issue
Because that doesn't--for me,
That doesn't matter in a relationship.
That's not gonna control-- that's not gonna--
How I feel about a person,
I'm not going to let that bother me.
- Disagree. Disagree.
[soft dramatic music]
- Politics shouldn't divide a house.
That's one of those things where you find...
- I disagree. - You find a common ground.
And you go from there.
- Okay.
- But my reasoning behind this
Is if I'm in a field in my career
That this person makes my career blossom
Because this person is passing laws
And things of that nature that's helping me out,
Then I'm going to side with this person,
Not because of who he is but because of the policies
That he in places for my career.
- Ryan and I definitely have different political views.
I've been very strong-minded
About political leanings,
And the things that I know about ryan and his background,
I am afraid that it's
A potential problem for our marriage.
♪ ♪
- If they care that much on one way or the other,
They're not for me.
♪ ♪
- That's a dealbreaker for me.
- But when it's your spouse, is a little different.
Friends, I'm like, if you give me a good reason...
- I get rid of my friends who vote for that though.
- And you can explain it,
I could be accepting, but your spouse?
- To me, that's petty. - I am a logical person.
I understand that, especially in texas,
There's a lot of factors that go into political decisions,
But I still don't like it,
And if we were boyfriend and girlfriend,
And, you know, we went on a few really good dates,
And then I found out that, you know,
This is a topic that we don't agree on,
It would probably end it for me.
- You know, we're much older, so we--hopefully,
You're not voting just emotionally.
You also voting because,
You know, of where you're trying to go in life
And who's gonna help you prosper
In life at the end of the day.
- Not me. People in general.
It's not just about the self.
[soft dramatic music]
- It's tough.
♪ ♪
- Any who...
[laughter]
- I'll still drink it, but... - I got a question.
So I want to make sure before we--I ask
This question of everybody,
I want to make sure everybody's got a drink.
Gets a little sip. - Is it that serious?
'cause I've already had, like, a good dose...
- Sounds like he's gonna toast. - Of adrenaline right now.
- Yeah, not a toast, not a toast.
- Oh, no, it's a hard question. Uh-oh.
- Oh, it's a question. I thought we were toasting.
- Big question is has anyone consummated the marriage?
♪ ♪
- I think everybody's a no from my--
- For us, it might look like, oh, yeah, they're getting down.
- Absolutely. - Yeah.
- Jose and rachel's relationship is spicy.
[romantic music]
It is hot.
- Just sitting next to jose and rachel, like...
♪ ♪
You can feel it. Like, it's radiating on me.
♪ ♪
Like, jose, like, save that for in your room.
♪ ♪
- Wanna say if I saw what's going on here within,
I'd be like, "oh, for sure. They're getting down."
But, I mean, I'm someone
That thinks with their heart and their head.
My heart, I will tell you right now, I totally feel it.
Like, I feel like
Even though it's only been a couple of days,
It feels like we've been together--
Like, oh my god, who talks about finances, you know?
- And babies. - Like in three days and stuff.
You know, like, we've already, like,
Visualized this life together. - We're married, you know?
- Of course, you would think about, you know,
The physical aspect of it,
But I need to know what it is living with him
And what our day-to-day lives--
You know, this is honeymoon.
Of course, it's gonna seem,
Like, all romantic and everything.
- Puppies and rainbows. - And it's easy to--
- Puppies and rainbows. - It only gets better.
- I am very surprised jose and rachel
Have not consummated the marriage.
I honestly don't believe it,
But I have to take his word for it
'cause that's what he said, so I'm gonna go with that.
- So is it safe to assume it's a no over here?
- No. - Okay, okay.
- Well, like, what we said before.
We're pacing everything out.
No, we haven't consummated the marriage.
Right now, it doesn't define us.
You know, we like where we're at.
- Think that's very reasonable.
- And, for me, like, the emotional connection,
It's much more important to me to have and, like, the trust.
- Mm-hmm.
- I need to have those things
Before I let everything else play out.
- Yeah. - Right.
- It's like, to expect me
To have that type of feeling
So soon is so unrealistic for me.
I don't want to move too fast and then be like, "oh, well,
"we shouldn't have done that because, you know,
"there's still so much on the table
That we need to learn." I do think it's important.
And I do think that it can help your connection
And help you get to a certain spot...
- Absolutely, yep. - But we're not there yet.
- But it's not all bad.
- You asked the question, but you didn't answer it.
- Uh... - You sure did.
- Bao's gonna take that one. - [laughs]
- For us, our emotional intimacy
Has really grown.
Even the sexual intimacy has really grown,
And there's definitely tension there,
But we're taking it every day at a time,
And I think when it naturally happens,
It naturally happens, and I wouldn't judge anyone
Because I think everyone's on a different timeline.
- Absolutely.
- Who do y'all think
Is gonna be the first couple to consummate?
- Bao and johnny. - Ooh, ooh.
- Why do you say that?
- I don't know. I just like...
- I feel like it's gonna be...
- I see bao, and I thought bao would--
- Jose and rachel.
- I don't know. I want to win that bet.
[laughter]
- So my initial instinct is you.
- Uh-huh. - Yeah.
- But, like, my head says you.
- Okay. - I think it's johnny and bao.
- What couple do you think is gonna consummate first?
- Ryan's like, "me." he says, "me."
- No, I would never say that. Not in front of her.
No, I wouldn't say that.
My vote is gonna be on the guy that's not here.
He's gonna go through all this stuff,
And I think it's gonna make them--
- Oh, because of the virus. - Wow.
- Hello, dark horse? - That's a wild card.
- Yes. - There's the wild card.
- Definitely the wild card. - That's the wild card.
[upbeat music]
[laughter]
- Give me feelings, babe ♪
♪ give me that feeling ♪
♪ I bet you feel this, baby ♪
- [laughs] aww.
- So, yeah, I had something--
- Can I take my sandals off now?
- Why?
- 'cause I don't like the sand in my--
- All right, take 'em off.
♪ ♪
You wanna put them in here?
- No, 'cause they have sand. - Ah, smart.
♪ ♪
- It's too hot.
So, like, when I go on vacation trips,
I'm under a very covered umbrella...
- Okay. - For, like, the peak hours.
- Hey, guys. How are we doing?
- Hi. - Hey, what's up, boss?
- Got some vanilla and chocolate ice cream
For you guys. - Awesome.
- It has to be melted by now. - Thank you.
- Actually, I want some water. But is this ice cream?
- Gelato? - Vegan?
- Maybe. - What do you mean, "maybe"?
- Try it. - Well, I don't know.
- It is. Golly, [bleep].
- I don't do dairy.
- I planned something for my wife,
But even if it's a thoughtful gift,
I have to make sure
It's a thoughtful gift in her mind.
Not in my mind.
- Oh, yeah, I did say yesterday that I like gelato.
Thank you. - Oh, you're welcome.
- It's very chocolatey. A little too chocolatey.
[soft dramatic music]
- Let's take it back a few years.
When did this-- how did you become you?
- Fabulous, kind hearted--
- However you wanna-- whatever...
- Is that what you mean?
- Adjective you want to use to describe yourself?
- Is that what you're talking about?
- How was your childhood? - I grew up poor.
- And when you say you're poor, what do you mean by--
Like--not what do you mean. I know what poor means.
- For me--
- But like, give me an example of being poor.
- For me, being poor-- - you say dirt poor.
- The first home that I recall growing up
Was, like, a tiny, little one room--
- Shack. - Well, I would--
It's not a shack, but yes with, like, a tin roof,.
- Okay.
- And like two doors and like four--
Like that was the room where like three, four, five
Of us lived in, like, 300-square-foot space.
That was my earliest memory of my first home growing up.
- Okay.
- Which is, you know, my drive for life.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Like I went from here, and I want to get
To so much more for my kids. - I got you, okay cool.
- Did you grow up poor? - Yeah.
- Like dirt poor?
- Well, we were poor,
But we were-- we had everything we needed.
- Yeah, I was poor, but I always had food.
- Yeah, exactly. Like I didn't feel it as a kid.
- Yeah. - You know what I mean?
I probably didn't get the latest and greatest,
But I had what I wanted.
- I did feel it 'cause I wanted to go shopping,
But I couldn't.
[upbeat music]
- Oh, so this little-- this little diva...
♪ ♪
Has been around since... - I do like the word diva.
- A kid.
- Yeah, I mean, when I was growing up,
I wanted to do all those things,
But I just couldn't afford it. - Okay, okay.
So you was born with this.
You didn't choose to be like this.
- I didn't chose to be like this.
- It chose you. - Life chose me.
- Okay. That is very interesting.
♪ ♪
I'm more and more intrigued because I want to get
To the root of who she really is,
And her telling me this,
That's just gonna help me better understand
Why she does the things she does.
♪ ♪
How many siblings do you have? - We're four altogether.
- Grew up as an only child even though I have siblings.
- Interesting.
- I was raised as an only child,
So I want a big family because of that.
- A big family? - I want a huge family.
I don't want, like-- - not gonna happen.
- I want, like, eight or seven kids.
[laughter]
- Divorce check, please. - [chuckles]
I want, like, two vans full of kids.
That's what I want. - Sir, not gonna happen.
- I'm not saying you got to have eight or seven,
Like, naturally, right?
So you can have one or two. We can adopt...
- I--I'm not-- - a few more.
- No.
♪ ♪
- Possibly.
- I'm not really open to adoption.
- You're not open to adoption?
♪ ♪
That sounds so evil.
- Why is it evil?
- All those kids out there that need a loving home.
[soft dramatic music]
- The only way I think I would be open to adoption
Is we have absolutely exhausted all other aspects of fertility.
♪ ♪
But I also want my kids to, like, enjoy life
And I want to be able to afford
All the things that I never had.
♪ ♪
That's gonna be pretty difficult.
- What, eight kids?
- What do you call it? Are you a trust fund baby?
- No, I'm absolutely not-- - oh, okay, so you're not.
So we're not doing it.
♪ ♪
- ♪ shots fired ♪
♪ doot, doot, doot, doot, doot ♪
♪ shots fired ♪
♪ boom ♪
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ I lost my keys, I spent all my money ♪
♪ ♪
- We are here on our last day of our honeymoon.
I believe we're about to go on a boat.
- ♪ I believe in love ♪
- We're gonna go on a boat.
- ♪ going to the ship ♪
♪ ♪
- I'm a little worried about getting seasick here.
- Guys, it's us. This it.
This it right here. - What a barge.
- Nice. - Nice.
- I'm not gonna sit on the sun side.
I wanna sit over here.
♪ ♪
- Anybody ready for one?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll take one.
- Let's do it.
- Yeah, I'm done with-- - don't throw it.
- I was about to.
♪ ♪
Let's do a drinking game.
- Never have I ever.
- Never have I ever been excited to play this game.
- [laughs]
- All right, so I'll start it off.
Never have I ever been scuba diving.
- Hey, we got a scuba diver. - All right.
- And you have to drink too, right?
- No. - You don't?
- If you've done it, you drink.
- The goal is to not drink. It's a stupid rule, but--
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- So let's see. Never have I ever rock climbed.
- Like the pretend or a real one?
- Both.
- Ryan just steady drinking over here.
- Yeah, I know. - All right, let's see.
Let's see.
Never have I ever been streaking.
♪ ♪
- Oh, what? - I'm not surprised.
- And I got lost--I got lost
While doing it, so that was fun.
- That's awesome. - I'm gonna need another beer.
[laughter]
- There's always that one person.
I would have never thought it was ryan.
And the fact that he has been streaking is hilarious.
- I have one. I have one.
- All right, let's go. - Go ahead, brett.
- Never have I ever had a one-night stand.
- Oh.
♪ ♪
- God damn it. - [laughs]
- Hm. - Did bao just--
- Wait, wait. - Did bao just drink?
- Real quick. You've had a one-night stand?
- Long time ago, long time ago, long time ago.
- She said he ghosted her.
- All right. That's a good one.
- Yeah. - I have one.
- All right. - Never have I ever...
[soft dramatic music]
- I know. Drink up.
They don't know that.
♪ ♪
- Oh. - Uh-huh.
- Damn, I married a cheater. Damn.
[laughter]
If I hear my wife saying that she has cheated before,
For me, it's kind of a surprise
'cause I definitely think cheaters are very selfish.
My dad did cheat on my mother, and so, for me,
It's one of these things where I am totally against it.
I mean, why put someone through that?
- No one's perfect. - I was young and dumb.
- That's true. No, that's true.
- We all make mistakes, and we grow from them.
- I was very young and dumb.
♪ ♪
- All righty, couples.
We have paddle boards for you guys
If you guys wanna--
- Paddle boards. - Take out the paddle boards?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- I need to know what's in the water out here.
♪ ♪
- Sharks. - Oh, man.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
[upbeat music]
- Use that one 'cause it's already in the water?
Well, I'ma get on there too, so screw it.
- Ryan's gonna be out there like, "yes, I'm in nature."
- He's in his element. - Yeah, oh yeah.
- Princesa, aren't you paddle boarding?
I've never done it, so I'm definitely gonna do it.
- No, because it's kind of cold.
- Once you get on it, it's easy.
- Falling off. - Okay.
- All right, who next?
♪ ♪
- He's a natural. Look at him.
- Ryan is impressive on that paddle board.
He made it look effortless.
- He's like a seasoned professional.
- Mm-hmm.
- Have you gone before? Have you paddle boarded before?
- Never. - Me either. This is too--
- I'm probably gonna fall over.
- Yeah, me too.
One of the things I really like
About my husband is that he's adventurous.
Are you doing the paddle board? I'm gonna try it.
I've never done it. I want to try it.
- All right, here we go. - Yay.
We both are so excited to do this together,
And I am ready to conquer my fears
And I feel confident doing it with my husband.
♪ ♪
- Look at boa. - Whoa!
- Yeah, bao!
♪ ♪
- Yeah! - There you go.
- You want to go or you want johnny to go?
Johnny, you wanna go? - Just drop.
Just drop, buddy. - [laughs]
- Yeah. - Don't lose the paddleboard.
- There you go. Nice, johnny.
♪ ♪
- You're doing great! - Look at them!
Yeah! - You're doing great, guys!
I love it!
♪ ♪
- Oh. - Just get in the water.
♪ ♪
- He's, like, out there.
- Johnny, you're going the wrong way.
- Yeah, correct?
- I don't think johnny knows how to turn.
[dramatic music]
Somebody should have taught johnny how to turn.
♪ ♪
- Grab the board! It floats!
♪ ♪
- Swim! Paddle!
Swim this way. - What's up?
- Like this!
- I'll go get him. I just need a board.
- Johnny!
- I'm trying to get bao in the boat
To go save johnny.
- Yeah. I'm panicking.
We're so far away from johnny. We're in open water.
- Is that boat going towards johnny?
♪ ♪
- Grab the board! It floats!
♪ ♪
Okay, paddle! Swim this way!
Like this!
- I'll go get him. I just need a board.
♪ ♪
- I'm trying to get bao in the boat
To go save johnny. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Is that boat going towards johnny?
♪ ♪
- He make it on the raft? - He's coming?
[upbeat music]
Come on, hubby!
♪ ♪
You can do it!
♪ ♪
Bao, he's gonna need a massage later.
[laughter]
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- In times of crisis, I kind of, like, you know,
Get out of my own head like,
"all right, this is what you need to do."
Figured out that the reason why I wasn't turning
Was I wasn't getting enough traction.
I need to get lower so I could put more
Of the oar in there.
- He's working really hard.
He's gonna come back and be exhausted
For the entire day. He made it!
- Whoo! - Whoo-hoo!
♪ ♪
- Wow.
Hey. - Yay!
- How you feel, buddy? - I survived!
- These kind of moments do really shake you up
And you realize how important a person is to you.
I mean, I do not need life flight
Coming out to save my husband from his honeymoon.
- It turns out the water's just like carrying me out.
I get farther and farther away.
I can't make the thing turn around.
- So I got to ask you,
Will you ever do that ever again in your entire life?
- Yeah, I'm good. - Okay, you--
- Aww. - Aww.
- One and done.
- Never have I ever been lost at sea.
Drink. - Drink.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- ♪ get ready 'cause you know some girls ♪
♪ know how to have some fun ♪
♪ but you know some girls do ♪
♪ you know some girls do ♪
- To life, y'all.
- I sincerely am so appreciative
That I've met you ladies. - Uh-huh.
- When I met everyone, and I was just so proud
How we're all, like, super independent.
Has that changed?
'cause I know it's kind of changed for me
Of, like, having someone,
Like, want to do all these things for you?
And I feel like I kind of have to put my pride to the side
A little bit and like let him be--take that man role.
- For me, like, I've always been,
Like, the caretaker.
And if I get coffee, I bring him coffee,
But, like, he doesn't let me do anything,
So I feel like I don't know what my role is anymore.
You know what I mean? - I feel the same way.
- It's uncomfortable. - Uncomfortable.
I don't know.
- It's uncomfortable. It's weird.
- I'm okay with it.
- Myrla's, like, living the good life.
- Living the good life, y'all. It's also a honeymoon though.
Like, when you go back home,
You can go back to doing those things.
You know, like, you don't have to make breakfast here.
Like, you don't have to serve someone coffee.
Like, it's just--it's easy to just fall into that but,
You know, we'll figure it out when we get home.
- We might've actually discounted our husbands
Because we're probably pickier.
You go on the dating app, you want someone 6 foot tall.
You want someone taller and handsome.
You have these criteria that maybe weren't really necessary
For cultivating a long-lasting marriage.
And then you meet this man at the altar, and you're like,
"yeah, he didn't check all those,
"you know, prior superficial boxes,
But he's checking a lot of the deeper boxes."
- Deeper.
- Well, it forces you to look for the good
In the situation because it's very permanent.
- Absolutely.
- Whereas when you go on a bumble date,
You're like, "nope." - yeah.
- You're like, "hate his jeans. Gotta go." you know?
- Hate his jean? That could be me.
- Or just like, you know, I'm not outdoorsy.
Don't listen to country music. I'm not from a small town.
I think our political leanings are also different,
So for them to be adamant enough to put us together,
You know, it's gotta be something else much deeper.
- That's pretty deep though. - Real deep.
- ♪ but you don't see a reason ♪
♪ I'm your one million reasons ♪
♪ ♪
- It's been a long day. - Yeah.
- Are you sore from today? - No, not yet.
I think it usually happens the next day.
I got to get a workout on one arm.
- [laughs]
- So in the short time that we've stayed at this resort
Together on our honeymoon,
Do you think we've been living well together?
- I think we're great travel companions thus far.
- Yeah.
How do you--how do you feel about our next step,
Which is moving in together?
- I'm very nervous.
- Does me not having a roommate
Or living with a romantic partner
For the past seven, eight years,
Does that worry you? - Yes.
- Yeah. Why?
- And it's because we are-- we're older now.
And as you age, you become less flexible.
You harden, and I know I have, and I see areas
Where I can do better, and I'm working on it.
But I mean, I don't know you yet well enough.
- You haven't lived with me.
- No. - That's a big part.
- And you learn a lot there. That's huge.
We've learned a lot here sure, but it's a different thing
When we're living together and the routines sink in.
But my fear is that I sense
That you probably don't like some things
You're seeing as of me as a travel companion.
For example, I know you shower a few times a day.
Honestly, I have actually gone--I've seen weeks
Where I've showered that many times in a week.
[soft dramatic music]
I mean, most of the time I shower once a day,
But there have been times in my life where I was just sad
Or for some reason something happened
And showering every single day was not my top priority,
And I just wanted to lay in bed.
There are times when I'm so tired, I come home,
Whatever I'm wearing,
I will sometimes just get in bed that way
And not even brush my teeth and not even floss.
It happens. - Right.
- But I don't see, like, that happening for you.
- No, it I mean, it definitely does happen for me.
- I don't want you to be disgusted.
Like, "she is disgusting."
- Definitely don't assume that. It's just a preference.
I'm expressing to you that this is my preference.
I would love it if you're clean.
- No, I love that you're like that,
But I--that's--that will take some adjusting for me
To be anywhere near like that.
Like, I don't think I'll ever get to the point
Of showering three times a day.
- I'm not saying that's a requirement.
- Okay.
- I'm basically saying every time you work out
Or you're sweating, don't bring it into the bed.
- Okay. - 'cause that's dirty.
And then we'll have to change our sheets every day.
- Okay, how about this?
If I'm so lazy after working out
And I don't feel like showering,
Are you okay if I just sleep on the couch
'cause I'm okay with that.
Like, if I just want to pass out,
And I'm like, "I'm tired,"
But I don't--I'm too lazy
To get up and lift a finger or do anything.
- I think you can sleep in the bed,
But change the sheets. You take care of the sheets.
- But I don't want to do that.
What if I'm lazy and I just want to crash--
- Then take a shower.
Is that so hard? Like just rinse off?
As I'm finding, we have differences,
They're very important differences to me.
And it makes me really nervous again.
You know, like, these are definitely things
I would have uncovered
In the first couple months of dating.
And if I'm being 100% honest, I would've walked away.
I'm not going to say this is every day.
I'm not going to say it's every week,
But, like, from time to time, just let me just have my space
And crash on couch and just be my dirty self.
♪ ♪
- He's at this corner one.
Zack!
- Oh, my gosh, you're yelling. - Yo!
- Yo, yo, man! - What's happening?
- What's up, man? How you doing?
- Good. How you feeling?
- I feel a little bit better. - Yeah?
- Missing michaela but, you know.
- I bet.
- Hi. - I'm feeling better, man.
Like, I'm almost at 100%,
But it's more so, like, mentally for me.
You know, just being here, like, in this room by myself.
- I know. It has to be horrible, man.
- It's pretty tough.
- I definitely feel like I miss out
A little bit on the honeymoon,
But, you know, honestly, I didn't go
Into this to go on a honeymoon.
I went on this meet my wife,
And I've done that with michaela.
So my plan for the rest of the honeymoon
Is just to get rest
And get back home as healthy as possible
And then hopefully be able to see michaela soon.
♪ ♪
- Do you feel yourself yet? - I'm almost there.
I feel like once I get back to houston and, like,
Have a day, you know,
With michaela like kind of back to normal,
I think I'll be fine but... - Okay.
If you need something, you know,
I'll gladly roll it over or, you know.
- Johnny and ryan actually came by last night.
Like, threw up some beers to me.
- Okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That's what's up. That's what's up.
So you turning up in there by yourself, huh?
- I'm trying to, but it's kind of hard.
- Party of one. Okay.
- Yeah, for real.
- Glad to know you have a support mechanism,
You know, it's here, right?
- So I can't wait till you're back to 100%
And we can be, you know, closer than 30 feet apart,
You know, so we can really get this thing going.
- Yeah, I know. I know, I know, I know.
- If you need some more beers, give us a holler.
- Thank y'all.
♪ ♪
- ♪ it's all about you ♪
♪ it's a kiss, it's a kiss of love, love ♪
♪ 'cause I've got puppy love ♪
- I kind of just wanted to do something a little,
You know, a little bit special, and as I pop this open.
- Do you want me to open it?
You know, I catered, and I know how to open bottles.
- Okay, so you're a pro then.
As you supporter, as your provider, as your man,
I think I'ma try to do it.
- Why can't I do it? - You want to?
- Yes, I want to do it. - Okay.
- Okay, thank you for letting me do something
And you were kind of doing it wrong.
- Oh, was I? - Yeah.
Okay, that's why I let my wife do it.
I'm just learning to pull back just a little bit and allow her
To be the independent woman that she really wants to.
I know you're pouring it for yourself,
But I would be pouring it for you.
The fact that I was matched with someone that's very,
You know, classy, simple, humble, educated,
But you know, clearly takes care of herself,
And works out, and so she does make me
Want to be the best man that I can be.
- Something I noticed just with the other couples
That bao and johnny brought up
That they've already talked about, like, intimacy
And when they were talking about intimacy,
It was, like, the physical part.
And that's probably the one thing we haven't talked about.
I think it might be a little elephant in the room.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
We obviously show affection towards each other.
We're giving kisses and hugs all the time, you know?
So I'm very hopeful that, when it comes to that time,
You know, that it will be very easy
Just because everything else is very easy.
- Right. - However, it is quite scary.
Intimidating just because maybe that's the area we don't click.
♪ ♪
Like, how important is it to you?
♪ ♪
- For me intimacy,
It's very, very, very important.
- And I agree with you.
♪ ♪
We've just evolved so much and so fast
That I definitely feel that emotional connection,
But if physical intimacy doesn't begin months from now,
I would think there's a problem.
♪ ♪
- But you have to get the communicat--
You have to get other things down first
Before you even start talking about sex.
If you jump into sex first
Before you have everything else,
I think you're looking at it wrong.
- I feel like we have this strong connection,
And if this strong connection continues on
Into finally living together,
Yet we don't consummate the marriage,
I would definitely be concerned.
- Again, as I told you, I have to have box checked.
If I don't have boxes checked, it's not happening.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ this is one for the ages ♪
♪ we're slowly drifting into temptation ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey. - Hey.
- Look what I got. - [gasps]
- This looks good.
Oh, my gosh. We even have a dessert.
- How nice. This is quite the spread.
- Doesn't that look really good?
- It looks amazing.
- My honeymoon has been a roller coaster,
And there have been a lot of ups,
But there've definitely been a lot of downs too,
But we have grown from it and, hopefully,
This will be just a small road bump
In the entire journey that we have ahead of us.
♪ ♪
- This is good.
- So I talked to my dad today for the first time
Since we got married.
- So how did--like 'cause
He would-- he didn't even attend.
- He didn't. - I'm sorry.
I just--I mean, share whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
- Yeah, it's crazy because the call started with,
You know, "are you married?"
Just in case I didn't go through with it.
Right? - Yeah.
- And he goes, one, is she asian?
That was his first question.
And I said, "yes, dad, she's asian."
And he's like, "great." [laughs]
And the more I described you to him,
The more he felt-- he said the word--
This word in chinese, this phrase called,
He says... [speaks chinese dialect]
Which means-- if you translate it literally,
It means "release heart,"
Which just means relieved. He felt relieved.
- Aww.
- This whole time he thought that I was going into this
As like a mistake.
You know, who would marry a stranger?
- Yeah.
- And at the very end of the call, he told me
That he is happy for me
For the first time in months.
- I'm getting goosebumps. Look, look, my hairs.
- Me too.
- My hairs, [bleep], like, they're standing.
- My dad is, like, the last holdout of my entire family.
[soft dramatic music]
Prior to the wedding, I'd kind of already
Come to terms with him just not being happy
With this entire thing,
And I bet I would have to move forward without his approval,
And to get it after the fact during my honeymoon,
This has given me the hope I need for the future.
♪ ♪
This whole time up until this point,
I felt like this was gonna be the specter that
Kind of just looms over me. - Yeah.
- And for him to just say those words
At the very end of the call, and the words were--
It's literally. [speaks chinese dialect]
"I'm happy for you."
- Oh, my gosh. I'm so happy.
♪ ♪
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
- ♪ you got me floating, it's emotion ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So it is our last night of our honeymoon,
And I decided to do something nice for my husband.
And you'll see that he loves chocolate chip cookies,
And so I hope he will appreciate
Two, three dozen chocolate chip cookies
Because he is very patient with me all the time.
- Darling.
- It can be darling.
- Princess. Ooh.
- You asked for chocolate chip cookies.
- [laughs] that's awesome.
- I got you a chocolate chip cookie.
It's the size of my face. - That is awesome.
That is amazing. I love it.
- You said you wanted chocolate chip cookies
And you could eat a bunch. - I've been dying for it.
That's like flowers for me. I'ma put it like this.
You giving me cookies, especially like this,
With this, that's almost foreplay.
♪ ♪
That's getting close to foreplay for me.
Seriously.
I haven't had a kiss yet,
But it's one of those things where her actions
Are finally pouring behind the things that she says.
And the fact that she's paying attention to that
And gave me a platter of chocolate chip cookies,
You know, reiterates to me that she does want this.
Possibly that kiss might be coming sooner than later.
This is our last night. I had a great time.
I felt like this place is gorgeous,
And so I'm happy.
- I feel like less of strangers now on this day
Than we did obviously day one.
- I can tell that you're a little more comfortable.
You're kind of opening up slowly.
I mean, even if you're just cracking open that door,
I can see light coming through that door.
It's not shut, but I wish we had more time
To do this here 'cause, you know,
We get back to our regular lives.
- I think I'm actually excited to go back home.
- To get back into your routine?
- Not me. Just like us.
Like, create a home, you know, like for me,
The home is important 'cause that's where you--
That's where we're going to be every day.
- I am personally interested in seeing
How you interact with hype, my dog.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I'm not taking him out for walks
Or like pooping and stuff.
You'll do-- you'll do that, right?
I've had hype since he was six weeks old,
And, you know, he's part of me.
So you know, hearing that she's
Not willing to do something as small as walk my dog,
It's a little disappointing, and it's something
That we definitely need to talk more about
'cause I would hate for that to ruin something
That we believe that could be special.
I do work 24 hours two days out of the week.
- So then who watches your dog when you're not there?
- I have a dog walker that usually walks him
In my apartments.
I don't know if she's gonna come to my--our apartment.
- We can find a new dog walker. Dog walkers exist.
That's a waste of money is what it gets down to.
For me, that's a complete waste of money having a dog walker
Come and walk my dog twice a day
When there's clearly an abled body that can do it.
- I don't think it's a waste of money.
♪ ♪
- I'm not saying you're going to be a doggy daycare.
You acting like I want you out there--
- I'm not, I'm not. I'm not saying no.
That's not what I'm saying.
- I'm literally saying just--
- But for me, that's, like, the basic things.
Like, I don't want a dog
'cause I don't want to walk them,
And I have to take care a dog now.
Responsibility is being forced on me.
♪ ♪
- That doesn't sit well with me at all.
That's just going to make it harder for me
To even want to get to know you further.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So cheers to continuing to get to know each other.
And also to all the love notes
I'm going to write you. - Maybe babies.
- And maybe babies.
Our honeymoon is coming to a close,
And I wish I had a few more days.
I mean, I think that we've been making a lot of good progress.
And I understand that we have differences.
But for all the differences that we have,
I see a lot of similarities.
You know, I think every conversation
That we have, it makes me feel
Like I know him more,
And, for me, like having a really good grip
On knowing who he is
Is the thing that makes me like him.
We're gonna live together.
- That's what I was told. - I know.
- I didn't have much say in it.
- [chuckles] - [chuckles]
- He left me no choice. - Nope.
- He said this is your wife. This is where you're living.
And I just said, "okay" and smiled.
- I feel like our habits aren't that different, right?
- We'll see. - Right.
But I mean so far.
- I'm taking your word for it on the bathroom stuff.
How about making beds every day?
- No, I never make my bed. - Okay, I can live with that.
I'm like a throw the comforter back over.
- I'm gonna be gone before you. - Yeah.
- So you'd have to make it anyway.
- Now I regret bringing this up immediately.
- [chuckles]
- I've been thinking about
The dinner the other night with everybody.
- Yeah.
- I know I tensed up when that topic got brought up, politics.
I felt like, you know, it got a little...
Passionate, I guess is the word.
- Yeah. - You know?
- Like I said before, I didn't have
Many strong feelings,
Like, politically, up until recent events.
You know, I've been more involved much more lately.
- Well, I'm glad you brought it up again.
- Yeah.
- 'cause obviously it's something
That you've been thinking about since then.
- Yeah, it just like came kind of into my mind
As we're talking about, like,
Making babies and moving in together.
Like to me, I mean, the fact
That we have different opinions
As far as left, right, in the middle.
You know, I voted this. You voted that, whatever.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And you know, the industry that you're in
And the industry that I'm in--
- 'cause we're voting for different things.
I'm seeing that this is a lingering thing for her,
But this is really a non-issue
Whatsoever in my mind.
- I understand that, you know, fiscal conservatism,
But societal issues and the things
That are going on in the world to me, it is a big deal.
♪ ♪
- ♪ where there's smoke, there's fire ♪
♪ I should have seen it coming ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ let me step ♪
♪ into your life ♪
- Gorgeous. Look at that.
- I'm actually a little lazy this morning.
- You should just let me pack.
- I'm trying to tell you, it was packed and then--
- You can leave that pelican. - No.
- Our newlyweds have spent the last few days in paradise
Getting to know their stranger spouses.
♪ ♪
- Morning. - Morning.
- Oh, breakfast in bed.
- And now it's time
For our couples to head back to houston.
- I can't believe this is the last day of our honeymoon.
- I mean, everything's been lovely.
- I know.
- Hopefully, they're ready to deal with the stressors
Of the real world and the serious challenges
They're gonna have to overcome
If they're gonna be a successful couple.
- It's the last day.
Are you excited to go back home?
- I am excited to go back home.
- What are you gonna do?
'cause you only work two days out of a week.
- Well, I don't look at it like that,
But I'm going to be knitting you that quilt.
[chuckles]
- I told you never to bring that quilt.
- [laughs]
No, I'm gonna be doing my thing.
I'll be running errands.
- When you say errands,
It's just like I have zero errands.
- That's a beautiful life of yours
That don't have errands,
But other people have errands, you know?
- Like what?
- What you pay people to do, I do.
My wife is very particular.
She is someone that will not be forced to do anything
That she does not want to do,
So now that we're moving in together,
I'm interested to see how she handles it.
So does it feel, like, surreal going back home with a husband?
- No, it's not surreal. - No?
It's a little surreal for me. I go back and forth.
Like, at times I feel like I'm in a movie.
- Really? - Yeah.
- It definitely does not feel like I'm in a movie.
- [chuckles]
- I'm not saying it feels like
I'm in a romcom or something like that.
- No, definitely not.
- No, but I'm saying like, you know,
Knowing I'm flying back with my wife
From our honeymoon, you know,
And now we're about to experience a life together,
Living together, I feel it's gonna be easy.
♪ ♪
- I don't think marriage is really easy,
At least from what I've heard.
- So when we get back to houston,
I'm so looking forward to us living together.
I'm very curious to kind of see where you're you live.
Would you consider yourself a minimalist when it comes to--
- I think so. - Okay.
- I'm naturally not.
♪ ♪
I think I have little hoarding tendencies.
- Okay. - But I'm--I'm aware of it.
I'm aware of it so that's what I need you
To--here I am asking for help.
- The single jose didn't have a woman that had
Half her stuff all on my counters,
And all this other-- so it's going to be--
It's definitely gonna be a game changer.
This is gonna be interesting.
- This is gonna be real interesting, I know.
- That's okay.
I think right now I just focus on her in the marriage,
Not all her stuff all over my stuff.
- I do have the tendency to have clutter.
- Yeah, it's gonna be everywhere so...
- Reality is about to hit. The honeymoon is over.
♪ ♪
- Last morning here, huh?
- Yeah, it's been a wild week.
[tender music]
Bao and I are not always on the same page.
We kind of interact with the world
In a different way,
But now that we are getting ready to live with each other,
I think the challenge for me is to get in her head
And see things from her point of view.
♪ ♪
- How do you feel about us
Leaving and going back to our normal lives?
- I think it'll be a nice dose of reality.
- Yeah.
- And when we get back, I think it's gonna be
A little different. A lot different.
- Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing it.
What is in store?
- Yeah. - Ready?
- Ready.
- You want a to-go cookie? - I'm okay on the sugar.
- Okay.
- You got two. I got two.
♪ ♪
- Come on. - Come on.
- Ready? - Ready.
- Okay, let's go.
- Ready or not.
- Back to the real world.
♪ ♪
- Oh, dang. - This is nice.
- Next time on "married at first sight"...
- Home sweet home.
- Moving in together,
I would hope that it will be two lives merging together.
[knocks]
[upbeat music]
- [bleep] you. - [laughs]
Hi, wife. What's up?
Hi! Oh, get in here!
- How do you feel about him? - I have a crush on you.
♪ ♪
- You kiss him?
- Well, we haven't kissed, so I need somebody to kiss me.
[dramatic music]
- Let's shower before bed thing,
I'm not gonna do that. - Okay.
I want to be real and I want to make sure she's not blindsided.
After everything that happened, I'm conflicted about us.
I plan on going home after this.
♪ ♪
- I will be 100% real with you.
If that happens,
I am going to ask for the divorce.
♪ ♪
- Wow.
- You never came back.
- I came back here at, like, 9:15.
- You a [bleep] liar.
♪ ♪