- Whew!
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.
- Please stand.
Two and a half weeks ago, ten singles
Took a bold leap of faith in order to find love.
- Hi. [laughs]
- They married as complete strangers.
- You may kiss your bride.
[cheers and applause]
- I took a leap of faith, and I can't wait
To grow together with this person.
[upbeat music]
- Congratulations again.
- Last time, our couples took another step closer
As they spent time with their friends and families.
- Cheers!
- Brett and ryan.
- But I definitely want to know more
Regarding, like, his feelings for me specifically.
- Yeah.
- There's a place that we need to get past
From, like, friend to relationship...
- Yeah. - Marriage-wise.
- ♪ here's where I'm spinning out my innermost thoughts ♪
- Bao and johnny.
- I feel like, for the first time,
We're kind of looking out into the horizon,
And it seems like it's no waves.
You know, it looks smooth.
- ♪ can I get you beside me to be with me now? ♪
- Rachel and jose.
- In a perfect world, you bring two individuals
That have two accounts together.
You're now married.
You have one account. You know, that's it.
- He's kind of making me feel
A little nervous about our future.
[dramatic music]
- Myrla and gil.
- She does tend to move at a slow pace,
But I think what she's feeling is,
"why would I engage in this if I don't believe
That it won't last past the eight weeks?"
♪ ♪
- Michaela and zack.
- For me, personally,
It's bigger than a communication thing.
And then what took me to the next level
And over the top was you canceling the housewarming.
- I'm not trying to cry now. I didn't know that.
- I feel horrible right now.
And I can't fake it. I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
- And tonight, just five and a half weeks
Until decision day...
- ♪ is it for real? ♪
- Thanks for helping me.
- Our couples explore
Exactly what it will take to fall in love.
- Aww.
- We are definitely falling a little bit closer in love
As each and every single day progresses.
- I could not have built this man better myself.
- Aww, that's so sweet. - He's so phenomenal.
- I am lucky you're my husband.
- We're both here to find love forever.
- I'm starting to feel some warm and tingly feelings.
What's gonna make you fall in love?
- [sighs] I really don't know.
♪ ♪
- You act like-- as if I come out,
And I come in, and I just snapped at you.
But what doesn't happen
Is zack doesn't say what the cause was.
That's a problem.
- Did it ever cross your mind, "he probably wouldn't like it"?
I know this girl ain't for real right now.
- I went out girls night. Alcohol was involved.
Ran into someone that I knew from my past.
- Okay. - And it happened.
♪ ♪
- ♪ it's all or nothing ♪
- This is "married at first sight."
- ♪ there's a world awaiting ♪
♪ it's all or nothing ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ step into my world ♪
♪ ♪
♪ and you'll see ♪
♪ it may look easy, but it's not for the weak ♪
♪ ♪
- Good morning
From the cuero-feria household.
- Feria-cuero. - Whatever.
- Our five couples have been married to each other
For nearly two weeks and are now fully immersed
In married life, for better or worse.
- Ooh, no! - And we're cooking breakfast.
- What did I make that's very important?
- She made us coffee. - Coffee.
- Between work, family, and friends,
Juggling it all with a brand new spouse
Can be a lot to get used to.
- Here you go, dear. - Thank you.
- Here, take those blueberries over there too.
- For most couples, love is already the glue
That holds them together as they navigate
Through the challenges that might come their way.
But for our couples, the process of growing
And nurturing that critical connection
Begins now.
♪ ♪
- Keep talking about on honeymoon,
How we were gonna play, like, connect 4
And play bags or cornhole. We never got to.
- I didn't want to do that to you, but...
- Well, I didn't want to do that to you either, but...
- You're about to learn. - Now's the time.
I definitely am feeling some warm and tingly feelings.
There's a romantic dream element
To the situation for me.
Welcome to game day. The game tournament.
I am excited for our intimacy to progress.
Ryan and I have figured out pretty much from day one
That we're both, like, competitive freaks,
So this could be the catalyst
To bringing us closer together.
Every time you don't mess up and you pull a thing out
And you get it on the top,
I have a card for you to pick that you're gonna read.
- Okay. - Are you ready?
- Yep. - I'm gonna go first.
- Go nuts. - Okay, I'm gonna go first.
♪ ♪
Okay, so you have to pick one of these.
- But you don't have to do it?
- No, I don't 'cause I made them.
- Okay.
- All of these cards are things that I like about you.
- Come on, jose. - [laughs]
- There's way too many things in there.
Unapologetically yourself. That's very factual.
- Yep. - That's a good start.
- That's you.
♪ ♪
- How driven/work-minded you are.
♪ ♪
You always hold my hand. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- You're not afraid to speak your mind.
♪ ♪
How open-minded you've been towards me
And our match in this process.
♪ ♪
God, I'm a douchebag.
[chuckles] - no!
- It's incredibly frustrating not feeling
Those sparks at this point.
I'm still waiting for it.
How levelheaded you are and calm.
I have to be levelheaded
'cause you're duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.
I want it,
But I'm used to falling in love incredibly fast.
- You fall in love easy.
- I can absolutely fall in love in eight weeks.
That's not a-- - yeah, eight weeks?
He's fallen in love in 24 hours,
So eight weeks is nothing.
- So I don't want to build her up
With words and reciprocation
If I don't know right now where my head's at,
And that sucks
Because I want this to work more than anything.
[soft dramatic music]
Yes, sir!
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ tok, tok, tok, like the ticking of a clock ♪
♪ I could go around, go around ♪
♪ and we can get it kicking ♪
[knocking on door] [dog barks]
- Hi, hype.
- Hype, go sit. Shoo, shoo.
There you go. - What a good dog.
- Yeah.
- You had your housewarming here, right?
- I did. - How was it?
- It was a lot of fun.
So this is what I really needed to know.
How is jose in, like, social--
- Social settings? - You know what I mean?
- 'cause you guys have not been in social settings before
Other than the wedding. - Yeah.
Two friends that weren't at the wedding that came.
- Oh.
- She's my closest-- one of my closest friends,
And she has a good read on people.
You know what I mean?
So her opinion does matter to me.
- It does matter to you.
- And so we super clicked.
Her boyfriend's like, "man, rachel, like,
You got a good dude" and everything.
I was like, "oh, good." like, I like hearing that.
Like, I know I have a great guy,
But it just feels nice to hear it.
- Reassuring.
- And so, with that, I was like, we're good.
Like, he is... - That's who he is.
- The well-rounded person that I wanted to be with.
I wanted someone social.
I want someone just kind, and just a gentleman.
- That's awesome.
- Yeah, we're just, like, in a really good spot, so...
- Same for us.
And then gil's at work today all day, so it's like
I'm by myself all day. - Your ring.
- 'cause, you know, we go the gym.
- Uh-huh.
- And then, like, it's uncomfortable
When you wear it and, you know,
You don't want to scratch it. - Uh-huh.
- And he bought, like-- - wow!
- On amazon. So it's, like, really--
- So he gave you a ring?
- He gave me a plastic ring. That is so romantic.
- That's romantic, myrla.
That's sweet. - That's not romantic.
- Yes, it is.
Gil is doing the little things
That maybe she might not expect to be romantic,
But they are, you know?
And I think she thinks so too,
But I don't know why she's not admitting
That it is a really nice gesture from her husband.
[laughter]
We're married women now.
Yeah, it feels good. I really like your ring.
- I told my husband that I want a cartier one...
And he said yes. - Was he half asleep?
Did he just finish a 24-hour shift?
- No, we had dinner--
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- ♪ how do we stop the rain from falling? ♪
♪ ♪
♪ and when do we admit that we're just pretending? ♪
♪ ♪
♪ we don't do a lot of things ♪
♪ that we used to ♪
♪ we've changed, we've changed ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey, hey. - 'sup?
This is my first time seeing michaela
Since the housewarming.
Right now, we're kind of in a rocky spot.
I feel like I have to tiptoe around our relationship
Just because every time we have a problem,
She tends to blow up.
- I took all my [bleep] and I left
Just because of what you did. You never came back.
- I came back here at, like, 9:15.
You were gone. - [bleep].
Nope, I was not gone at 9:15. You are [bleep] lying.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- You are [bleep] [bleep] lying.
- We had a conversation on the phone,
And I thought that conversation went well,
And then she texted me, like, an hour later saying, like,
"I'm not doing the housewarming.
My friends are not coming. I'm not doing it."
That's not how I handle stuff. Are you staying here tonight?
- Yes. - I honestly don't want to.
Like, I'm not-- - okay, and that's fine.
- I can't fake it, and I'm sorry.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
After the housewarming, you know,
I told her that I'm going back to my apartment.
And the next day, I called michaela
To talk about, you know, like, how I was feeling.
But, you know, I get a text message from her
Just kind of being childish.
She texted me, "if you want to talk to me,
Use this number. Text preferable."
Inferring that I can't call her anymore.
And to be honest, I'm very frustrated,
And I want her to know exactly how I'm feeling.
♪ ♪
I feel like the main difference between us
Is the way we communicate, and, like,
Understanding of one another. - Mm-hmm.
- Which you would agree, right? - I would agree, yes.
- All right, cool. So from my perspective,
It feels like I'm sitting under a tree
Reading a book of my love life.
I got to the chapter of I took the chance
To be married at first sight,
And I'm very excited to read this book.
Then a bee comes along.
I'm like, "okay, get away, bee. Get away."
The bee goes away.
I'm like, "hm, should I leave this tree?
"'cause I don't like bees. But [bleep] it.
"I'ma stay right here and keep reading this book.
I love this book. I want to see where it ends."
Then another bee comes along. Same situation.
I'm like, "okay, [bleep] it,
"I'm gonna continue to read this book,
Because I really want to see where this book takes me."
And then the third bee comes along and stings me.
And so now I'm like, "well, [bleep], it's time
"for me to get the [bleep] out from this tree,
"because I want to read this book,
"and I swear I'm trying to, under this tree,
But, like, the bees won't let me."
♪ ♪
And so to translate that to our situation,
The bees is the way you handle,
Like, situations-- like, conflict.
There's been three instances that have been the exact same.
- And for each one, there's always been a cause.
And what has-- who has caused it?
You act like-- as if I come out and I come in
And I just snapped at you...
- Okay. - For no reason.
I acknowledge that I did all of these things,
But what doesn't happen is zack doesn't say what the cause was.
- Michaela-- - that's a problem.
♪ ♪
You keep getting stung under this tree.
Where is the hive? Figure that out.
'cause they're coming for you,
So obviously something's going on
If they keep coming back to you.
Figure what that is, not just,
"now, I done got stung, and now I gotta go."
♪ ♪
You do realize, a, this is a new relationship.
We don't know each other. We're learning each other.
- But my thing is, like, michaela, like you said,
Like, you know, it's a new relationship,
But, like, that's a [bleep] excuse.
'cause this is-- I'm not--this is not--
This is bigger than a relationship.
This is a fundamental difference
On how we handle conflict. We could be best friends.
We could be brothers and sisters.
We could be boyfriend, girlfriend.
We could be married, which we are.
This is how we handle conflict. We are who we are.
And what I'm saying is there's a fundamental difference
On how we handle conflict, and...That--
♪ ♪
I don't know, honestly, if I can ever get over that.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
Us not being able
To communicate effectively definitely hurts me.
Like, I'm definitely heartbroken
Because I came into this process hoping to find the one
Because I wanted this all my life.
I'm kind of sad that, you know, this may not be,
Like, what I wanted it to be.
I'm not happy about where we are.
So do you have any comments, questions,
Or concerns about how I feel, or, like, anything?
♪ ♪
- It's, like, "damn,
Like, why won't this [bleep] work?"
And then, like, to have this, like,
All be happening right now,
It's very-- it's very disheartening.
♪ ♪
- I agree with you. - So you agree with me.
- I do.
- And so the question is,
Like, how can we fix it going forward?
Because I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
So, actually, can you tell me what I could be doing better,
Or what I'm doing wrong, or, like, what I can work on?
'cause I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
- You can talk to me.
♪ ♪
That's what I need.
Getting married at first sight,
I wanted, you know,
To find someone who will be my forever.
Zack is somebody who I would love
To have a future with, and I want this to work,
But I can't knowingly jump back in with both feet
As I did before knowing that if I cause
Any kind of infraction, minor or major,
That it may be a "I don't know.
I don't know about her" for him.
I can't do that because, I mean,
While I want to be married once and forever,
I also have to know that my spouse has my back.
- Do you think we'll get back
To where we were? - I'm taking it day-by-day.
- Do you want to get back to where we were?
- It's just dependent on what happens.
My fear is, is that, even in these coming weeks
That we get through
And we get back to where we were,
Then things come up against us,
That we'll meet--
Will be met with the same result.
- I'm willing to try everything in my power to make this work.
So that's gonna be, you know, self-reflection.
That's gonna be communicating more.
You know, that's going to be just, you know,
Doing what you need me to do to give you, like,
The comfort you need to be able to want to make this work.
I mean, that's what I am saying to you.
[tender acoustic music]
♪ ♪
- I am willing to... Think before I act,
To verbalize what I need
And just say it
Instead of internalizing my emotions,
And to hear you out,
And to really try to understand
And follow up and make sure I understood
What you're saying to me.
- Mm-hmm. You promise?
- Mm-hmm. - All right, cool, same.
- ♪ everything will be all right ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[electronic music]
- ♪ side to side ♪
♪ from the ceiling to the ground ♪
♪ it's like you're shouting ♪
- Look at us, cooking our first meal together.
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
I want to make sure
That this meal goes off perfectly.
I want everything to be right.
That, and then we're gonna drizzle
The avocado stuff on top.
I know, I know. I'm ridiculous.
I am very aware that johnny doesn't care,
And he would be okay with eating dog food,
But it's not okay to me
To eat dog food on my first time
To show him, like, I can cook.
I can take care of you,
But I can also do it very well.
I want him to appreciate that.
Thanks for helping me.
You make a good sous chef.
- Well, let's see how it tastes.
- All right. Fingers crossed.
[drumroll]
- Yeah. Heck, yeah.
- So I think we're doing decently well right now,
But the other night, you said that you were starting
To seemingly have doubt,
And you weren't sure if you were ready.
[soft dramatic music]
How are you feeling today about it?
♪ ♪
- I guess I never expected it to be this hard.
♪ ♪
I thought we were gonna be really smooth sailing
Until we hit a hardship.
♪ ♪
I didn't expect it to come so fast.
♪ ♪
And so when we encountered it...
♪ ♪
It scared me.
♪ ♪
I've never had to be afraid of something so early
Where I'm not in love with somebody, you know,
And I'm having to fight for it.
♪ ♪
- I was all-in from day one. Like, all-in.
I told you I bought into the marriage.
♪ ♪
And when I said that, I meant it.
I still do.
I--
- Do you think I'm not looking at it that way?
- I don't know. Because I feel like--
- You could ask me.
- No, I mean, I feel like you waver a little bit.
Like, I can see when you're shutting out.
♪ ♪
- Do you know everything there is to know about me?
- No. - Do you know my heart?
- No. I never said I did.
♪ ♪
But I can see when you're deflated.
♪ ♪
- Does deflated mean I'm running away?
Like, I've decided I'm running away?
- Sometimes I can't tell. - Ask me.
- I do try to talk to you, but...
- Do you? - You get really hotheaded.
♪ ♪
- I wish you would just ask me more questions.
Like...
To understand how I feel in a moment,
Just ask me, like, "how are you feeling right now?"
Literally, that's all you have to ask me.
- How are you feeling right now?
- I feel like you're being kind of judgy
About me, you know?
I feel like you're making assumptions
About what you think is happening...
- Mm-hmm.
- Based on what you think you know about me,
But we barely know each other.
- You've literally told me you wanted
To duck and run after arguing. - I have before.
That's right. I have before.
I said, "if this was a dating scenario"...
♪ ♪
"this is where we would end things."
- But why do you need to say that?
- Because I'm telling you exactly how I feel,
So you understand, like, where my head is at.
At this exact moment,
I want you to know exactly how I'm feeling.
Take it how you want.
- Does it make me feel good?
[bleep] no. It does not.
♪ ♪
- I thought we were just gonna have
A great conversation and great night,
But, of course, we ended up having the same arguments
Over and over and over,
And I don't know what our disconnect is here.
Bao does fit a lot of the things I'm looking for,
But there are a lot of red flags,
And so I think that's why
I'm having so much difficulty...
♪ ♪
Putting us together
And having it be, like, a rosy picture--
Is because I know those things exist,
And I typically would not settle for that.
♪ ♪
I want to be emotionally... Connected.
After the wedding day and our first day of honeymoon,
Like, I didn't feel the initial, like, spark.
♪ ♪
But I'm looking for it.
I'm looking for that to kindle into something like a fire.
♪ ♪
And I still believe that can happen.
♪ ♪
- ♪ wish I could write a song ♪
♪ to love a little better ♪
- And that's where I'm at.
♪ ♪
I'm just gonna be here every day till I find it.
- ♪ is this even real love? ♪
♪ ooh, ooh ♪
- ♪ you are there when I sound the sirens ♪
♪ you are there when I need your love ♪
- Getting legally married to a complete stranger
Is a unique experience that requires
A different approach to building
A traditional foundation for love.
This means that our couples need to find unique ways
To create feelings.
They're not just floating out there somewhere.
They're created by action.
Sometimes you have to come out of your normal behavior
And do those things that are gonna create feelings
Because often, our feelings follow our actions
And not the other way around.
For some, that will be easier than for others,
But it is imperative to find that depth
In their relationship
If their marriage stands a chance of being successful.
- So...
[soft dramatic music]
I was noticing that mine was like this,
All nice and pretty.
And when you left yours up there,
It was like this. - [gasps]
- No. - No!
- We're gonna do it real. - No!
- We're gonna do it real. - How dare you?
- How do you not just squeeze from the bottom up?
It's not that difficult.
- 'cause I'm secretly a sociopath.
- Yeah, I-- - [laughs]
- You want any blueberries or anything?
'cause I'm about to crush these.
- No, I got them for you. - How's your head?
- Not good. - Not good?
- No. Can dogs have blueberries?
- Oh, yeah, they can have blueberries.
- Does he heat it? - He just licks it.
- He's licking it. Good job.
[upbeat music]
- Do you like my purse?
- How many purses do you need, first of all?
How many do you need?
- There is no such thing as how many purses a woman needs.
- How many do you need, and how many do you want?
- I need plenty. - Okay, that is insane.
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- So nice up here.
- I think we really needed this.
- Yeah, we did.
[wind whooshing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I love way it feels ♪
♪ it's magic, it's magic ♪
- We're here. - Hey, guys.
How are y'all? - Hi!
How are you? - How are you?
- Hey, good. - Hi.
- So you must be rachel. - Yes, I am.
- Yes, we spoke a lot on the phone.
- Yes, hi. - I'm other rachel.
So any idea what we're doing? - I don't know.
Driving in, it looked like, you know,
We were skeet shooting or possibly, like,
Horseback riding or something, so I don't know.
- No, we're gonna do something a little bit more zen.
We're gonna do some goat yoga...
- Okay. - Houston-style today.
And your lovely bride here did ask for all baby goats,
So everything here is... - Oh, wonderful.
- Two weeks and under. - I'm so excited.
- Oh! - Oh my god!
- So you have to be very, very gentle with them.
- I will.
- But if you want to come on and get your goat on,
Let's do this. - Yes, I'm so excited!
- Yeah, let's do it, awesome.
- Experiences are what means the most to me.
[upbeat music]
Oh, my god!
This is exactly what I had envisioned
Marriage would look like.
These are the little moments
That I really look forward to with my husband.
- So we're gonna get down into a nice child's pose.
It's not a lot of weight,
Like our big goats, but maybe it'll...
- Ooh, interesting.
- Help you fall further into that posture.
[goats bleating]
- Nice. - Aww.
- Very good.
When you're ready, inhaling it up.
Let's walk those hands towards the right side.
♪ ♪
Five deep breaths.
And I'll put some goats on your backs.
This is their first day of work,
So they're still in training. - Okay.
- That's right, little babies.
- They kind of give you, like, a weird back massage.
- [laughs]
- And then they'll jump from, like, person to person.
♪ ♪
- Aww.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I don't know ♪
♪ how you do what you do to me ♪
- [laughs]
It's crazy how I've never been able
To feel this comfortable and close
To someone in such a short amount of time.
Oh, that was so awesome. - Very good, guys.
♪ ♪
- Thanks for having an open mind, you know?
These are definitely--like,
This is one of those things where you don't forget.
- Right. This is--
- Like, "remember when we were with the goats?"
- Yes, this is something
That we will definitely always remember.
- You know I'm all about, like, the memories.
And I mean, look how precious they are.
- They're so cute. This one's so well-behaved.
♪ ♪
Little man trying to go to sleep.
It's kind of cool.
- ♪ you got me, you got me, you got me, you got me ♪
- You know, I'm getting that little,
Like, dad vibes here.
- You know, we are definitely falling a little bit closer
In love as each and every single day progresses.
There's still so much to learn about each other,
And we definitely have some disagreements,
But, you know, all I want to do is spend time with my wife.
I want him to pass out. Like, just knock out, man.
- Whichever goat goes to sleep first...
- Oh, yeah?
- That's who's gonna be in charge
Of putting the kids to sleep. - Oh, my, this one's--
- The real kids to sleep.
Jose's gonna make an excellent father,
And just seeing him holding the goats, oh, like,
My heart was melting.
And I can definitely see myself
Falling in love with jose.
♪ ♪
- How do you like--
- You don't want your beans in a little bowl?
- No, I want them on the side. - Just like that?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Traditionally, first comes love,
And then comes marriage.
But for our couples who met at the altar
As strangers, they're still navigating
Through a lot of first experiences together,
And love may be slower to grow.
Honestly, if you want this feeling
To just pop out of nothing,
It really is unlikely to happen,
But if you do romantic things,
If you talk from your heart, if you tell this person things
You haven't told anyone else,
Then you have a hope of creating those feelings,
As opposed to waiting that they drop out of the sky somehow.
♪ ♪
- We have a messenger. It says, "gil and myrla."
Why didn't they put my name first?
- What? - [laughs]
- Hold on, so let me get some water first.
- What is it though? - I don't know yet.
- Who's it from? - I don't know.
Maybe it's from the experts.
- Oh, yeah. - It does say "experts."
- So to help them explore the potential for love,
We've given them some deeper topics to discuss.
- Okay. - See, you wanted questions.
Now I have questions to ask you.
- I did want questions.
- What it's going to take for you to fall in love
With your new spouse in the real world.
- Wowzers.
- Yeah, I'll start.
How about every time you ask a question,
You take a sip. - Okay.
- Have you been in love before?
- Yes. Have you?
- I have.
What do you think it takes for you to fall in love?
- Hm.
A lot, I would want to feel that the person
That I'm falling in love with is 100% open
And honest with me, and that we both accept
Each other with all of our flaws.
Like, I'm thinking unconditional love.
- At the same time, there's gotta be
That emotional attachment,
The chemistry, the sparks,
The can't wait to turn off the lights part.
I'm hoping that's what we are working towards.
- I feel we'll get there.
Like, how we're going about romance right now, intimacy,
Makes me feel like I'm back to middle school.
[laughs] - great.
Middle school is where I learned about sex.
My parents never gave me the birds and the bees talk.
- What? So how did you learn about sex?
- Uh, through hentai. - [gasps]
- [laughs] - no [bleep]!
That's how you learned about sex?
- [laughs]
It's cartoon porn, but I mean, back in the day,
When I was a teenager, that was all I had.
Yeah. [laughs]
I had a pervy group of friends.
I don't even know how they got it.
[laughter]
'cause if it does, I'm down for anything at this point.
- No, no.
- I really love how he learned about sex.
He's freaking adorable.
I married the most dorky guy ever.
Sometimes I'm just, like, so [bleep] annoyed
How cute he can be,
And that he brings this out in me.
At the same time,
I'm, like, actually really enjoying it, I suppose.
- I'm gonna take a big gulp before I ask you this.
All right.
What will it take to fall in love,
And what do you need from me
Before you would be able to fall in love with me?
[tender piano music]
♪ ♪
- I want to find more common ground.
We have our differences,
But I think we both could benefit from giving
And learning to find that common ground,
And I feel like us being on the same page more
Will help a lot towards me falling in love.
- Okay. - It's what I want.
I am lucky you're my husband.
♪ ♪
What are you thinking?
- You gotta stop saying [bleep] like that.
- Why? 'cause it gets you in here?
- Yeah.
You want to kill this champagne and go to bed?
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
- Let's go. - Okay.
- ♪ is it true ♪
♪ come on, show me what you can do ♪
♪ show me what you can do ♪
- We're gonna have to take off these mics.
- Ah, damn it.
- ♪ we're going in slow motion ♪
♪ spiraling we go ♪
- You ready for this conversation?
- Yeah.
- Have you been in love before?
- Well, I mean, my answer has always been I think so,
But who knows? - You think so.
- I'm pretty confident I was twice.
- Twice. - Twice.
- Yeah, twice for me also, but I'm certain.
- So since you were so certain...
- Mm-hmm.
- That you were in love... - Yeah.
- What does it take to get to that point?
- Um...
I think for me to fall in love,
I have to feel, like, reciprocation.
Like, I want to feel like I'm not there by myself,
Or, like, it's mutual.
The more mutual it is,
Like, the more I'm ready to just, like,
Open up and give it all. - Yeah.
- So I think that's a huge part of it.
And, for me, like, I'm definitely starting
To, like, feel feelings that I want to feel for you.
[soft dramatic music]
I think I just want to just know more about how you feel.
♪ ♪
- I think we're still on the right path,
But I just don't think
That we're there yet, emotionally, physically.
- Um, so with that being said,
What's gonna make you fall in love?
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
I really don't know 'cause I'm still waiting
To feel things that are--
I mean, slower than I might have anticipated.
♪ ♪
But I will say that, in my past relationships,
I waited too long.
♪ ♪
Like, I feel like the other person
Maybe was more invested initially
In most circumstances with me,
And then I came around, like, too late at the end.
- So by the time you came around
To the feeling part, like,
They, like, ran out of patience?
- I think that's definitely been the case before.
♪ ♪
- The fact that he was in a situation
Where he, you know, didn't open up soon enough,
It definitely concerns me because it is gonna take him
A lot more time than maybe I thought,
And I have a lot of patience, but I'm not waiting forever.
♪ ♪
- It might have had a chance,
But it was just the timing thing.
- Mm.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ yeah, I know you feel it ♪
♪ yeah, I know you feel it ♪
♪ ♪
♪ never felt this way before ♪
- Do we answer all these questions right now?
- Yeah, we can do it. - Have you been in love before?
Yes. - Yes.
How did you know you were in love?
- For me, you want to be with someone every day.
You want to experience life with them.
You think of having a family with them.
- I want to say, kind of, like, no matter what they do,
Like, you're there for them, but not blindly, obviously.
- Yeah, not anything.
- Not anything. It's not blind love.
It's--you know, it's, you know, the right type of love,
I guess you could say.
[tender acoustic music]
- What do you need from me
Before you would be able to fall in love?
I think I need you to be actionable.
Like, I think I've shared this with you all the time.
Like, you can say certain things,
But unless I see it,
That's what has more meaning for me.
Like, you say you love chocolate chip cookies.
I know for a fact you do
'cause you eat those things every day,
And you just bought two more dozen today.
I'm starting to get a little concerned.
- About my chocolate chip cookies?
- Let's talk about this. - I will--
- I love chocolate chip cookies too,
But I like the keto ones, and you--
- Yeah, you like the fake stuff.
- I will make healthier versions
Of chocolate chip cookies.
- You'll make fake chocolate chip cookies.
- I don't call them fake.
- They shouldn't even be called chocolate chip cookies.
- I call them healthy. They're really good.
- They should just be called cookies.
- I'm gonna make some, and you can try them,
And you can tell me whether or not they're good.
- I feel like that's a trademark infringement
By calling them chocolate chip cookies.
- I know you will not like my version,
But you can still try them. - I'll try it.
- I know you will.
[upbeat music]
Do you think you are beginning to fall in love?
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
I don't know how I feel about that
Because I feel like loving someone
Is a choice that I make, and I have to actively
Make that choice to, like, love someone.
- Isn't everything in life a choice?
- Everything in life is a choice,
But you know some people are like,
"oh, my god, I fell in love."
Like, "you fell in love, or you decided to fall in love?
Like, you actually chose to love this person."
- Okay, that's what you mean.
- That's what I mean. - Okay.
- I try to make sure that I'm levelheaded
And not just leading through my heart,
And making sure that it makes sense
Because I don't really think
That you can ever fully know someone.
I honestly don't know how long it's gonna take me
To be able to make that decision about love.
- What's the question again?
- Do you think you are beginning to fall in love?
- Mm.
♪ ♪
I think I'm on the route to.
My coordinates are straight.
Like, I'm going the right direction towards it.
I don't know how far or close I am to it,
But I feel like living together 24-7
That's either gonna make or break it
Personally, eventually. - Tired of seeing me?
- No, absolutely not.
- ♪ don't you know you give me that feeling ♪
♪ give me that feeling, give me that feeling ♪
♪ give me that feeling ♪
- So what do you think
It's gonna take for you to fall in love?
- I might need a little bit more understanding.
- Okay.
- Maybe a little bit more listening to me.
- Mm-hmm, I admit, I'm a guy, so, I mean,
I'm not saying-- okay, that's a cop-out,
But, I mean, I used to listen very well
Until I got married. Now, I'm like--
- [laughs] you used to listen.
You used to work out. - I used to do all this stuff.
- You used to do intermittent fasting.
- Then I'm like--I got married. I'm, like, "whatever."
- Have I just ruined your life? Oh, my god.
- Well, no, it's not ruining.
It's taking me to a different level
That I haven't been at. - Change.
- So, yes, definitely a change for sure.
♪ ♪
- So what can you actively be doing
To fall in love in this relationship?
- I mean, I think-- and not to toot my own horn,
But I think everything I'm already doing.
I mean, yes, it's only been two weeks, but, again,
Things that I'm picking up on--
The positives, and what you like--
Clearly, I'm gonna do those.
So I'm gonna show you by "listening" as well,
Which I gotta be more--
- I definitely think there's some communication issues.
Like, you ask a question, and he's just thinking about
The next thing he's gonna say instead of listening to me.
I gotta make sure he's giving me eye contact.
I gotta make sure he's not looking at his phone.
I just-- I have strategies for it.
Okay, I was about to say.
- I'm gonna start listening more.
- That's fine. - I will. I will. I will.
- I will--
- Okay, so that's not, like, my forte,
And that's not what I really, like--
- And that's okay. - But I'm gonna get there.
- As long as you're acknowledging
And you work on it... - I'm trying.
- That's all I can ask for. That's okay.
- Maybe you tell me twice. How about that?
- Listen? - No, not to listen.
You tell me whatever you want me to do twice.
- Do? - Yeah.
- I just need you to listen. - Okay.
So maybe you say "listen" twice then.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna try.
I see that I talk a [bleep] ton,
And I need to listen a little more.
- And I love that. And--I do.
- And so that's why I'm like, "okay, cool."
- You can talk my ear off, and I won't complain.
I tell you right now I will not complain.
- I need that in writing though.
- You can get that in writing. - And probably in blood.
- But you have to listen too. - I'm trying!
- That's all I ask for. - It's a work-in-progress.
I'm working on it.
[quirky music]
I think I struggle with listening
Only because, again, like, I-- I mean, I hear you,
And I don't want to-- I mean, it's not a cop-out,
But I think, as a man, like, you know,
Kind of--I don't know.
We listen, but we don't hear.
So I hear you, but I'm not listening,
Because I'm maybe doing something else.
I think I may want to talk
A little bit more than I listen.
So have you ever been in love before?
- Yes, or so I thought, but it was a feeling
I had never felt before. It was an intense feeling.
- Sometimes you can say you're in love,
But the actions don't support that.
- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- You know, and I think, for me, if I've ever been
In love before, I don't--I wouldn't say yes.
- You've never been in love before?
- It's been a strong like. It's been a very strong like.
But I--it just-- I mean, I don't know.
It's like they say,
You know-- like, when you know, you know.
- Yeah. And you didn't feel that.
- It just wasn't there for me. - Yeah.
- I mean, it was great and all.
It was a wonderful relationship,
But, unfortunately, I couldn't get past
The fact that she had kids.
For me, unfortunately, I did not want to be inserted.
I want everything my own
From the very beginning, scratch, and--no.
- So how long were y'all together?
- It was more than, like, four years.
♪ ♪
- Years? And you strongly liked them?
- But it--yes, but--yes.
♪ ♪
You know, it was a very, very, very strong like
Because we did everything together,
And it was so badass, and, you know, we had fun,
But I just--I could not see myself married to her,
Unfortunately, but, yeah, so that was that.
- I'm shocked that jose says he's never been in love.
He's been in relationships that have lasted years,
So I just can't imagine, you know,
How long is it gonna take jose
To actually fall in love with me?
♪ ♪
- So what do you--
- Four years, really strong liking somebody.
- Yeah. Yes.
♪ ♪
- Every time I look at you ♪
♪ my heart flutters ♪
- This is perfect.
- What do you mean it's perfect?
- Like, just, like, the whole-- - the place?
- Yeah, the place. Have you been here before?
- This place is awesome.
No, I've never even heard of it.
I haven't come to midtown in...
- Yeah. - A very long time.
But this is absolutely phenomenal.
- Last night, michaela and I made up,
And tonight, we just want to get out of the house,
And I think a change of scenery
Would definitely do us good.
- [bleep] give me a headache. I don't like sweet drinks.
We talked about this. Like, I'm a--
- Yeah, I hate sweet drinks. - I'm a whiskey/bourbon girl.
- I'm gonna take it slow still,
And I want to make sure that we do this right,
Because I want to get back to where we were,
And I think going on dates often helps us build, you know,
Our connection and helps us set that foundation
That we can expand on.
Okay, so I guess the first question
Is "have you been in love before?"
- No.
- No? I have not either.
- Have you been in love? Okay. - No, I have not been in love.
Why haven't you been in love before?
- Um... [chuckles]
I think it's because the relationships
Where I thought it could go somewhere
Ended for some kind of genuine significant reason.
- Mm-hmm. - And that reason was...
- Wait, so, you could have fallen in love?
- I think so.
Yeah, I think I could have fallen in love twice.
- Interesting. - Yeah, but--
- Because of the distance? Because they didn't live here?
- Because of life circumstances.
- Interesting, so I'm jealous
Because I've actually never thought I could be in love
With any of the women I've ever talked to,
And it's because, like, I have this--
Or I had this ideal of, like, you know, my future wife,
And, you know, my the one.
And, you know, if someone didn't meet--
Or check all those boxes, then, like, I knew
It wouldn't-- it wasn't gonna work out.
Since then, I've definitely,
Like, stopped thinking like that
Because it's not beneficial to anyone involved.
But, you know-- - what was on that checklist?
[soft dramatic music]
- You know, looks, like, was up there for me.
- Mm-hmm.
- So, if I wasn't attracted to her,
Then it was never gonna work out.
Someone who's, like, ambitious and, you know, intelligent.
Can she be adaptable to different people?
Trust--like, if I think there's no, like--
If I think she is dishonest or not loyal,
Then, like, that's also,
Like, you know, a box she needs to check.
You know, the way, like, people handle conflict, right?
You know, is she, like, mature in the way
She handles [bleep], or is she not?
♪ ♪
So, like, I think, when I fall in love,
That woman would check all those boxes,
You know what I mean?
- I'm listening to the checklist,
And it seems kind of stringent for me, and I'm like, "eh."
You know, do I really feel comfortable in my own sense,
To say, "okay, I think I can do,
"you know, one, two, and three.
"I don't know about four and five.
I don't know about that."
So--but I think it was a very good understanding
To see how he thinks,
How he, you know, process things,
And whether or not I fit into that "tetris,"
But we'll see.
- Okay, so, do you think you are beginning to fall in love?
- [chuckles]
That's a--yeah, that's a intense question.
I think, a couple of weeks ago, I was.
And so I was like,
"well, what is this feeling that I'm feeling?"
Right?
"let me figure out what this is.
What does it mean?" so then I was.
- Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
- What about you? - Oh, but--hold up.
You said then you were, but what about now though?
♪ ♪
- Now, to be 100% honest...
- Yeah. - I am guarded.
- Why are you guarded?
- Uh, because of just the past couple of days.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I'm not going back to, like...
- Mm-hmm. - Talk about that.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But it just--it did help me take a step back,
And then it's let me just actually see
If this is a truly viable relationship for my future.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But I honestly do believe we're gonna get back to--
We're gonna work on it together.
- Mm-hmm.
[tender music]
I think, for me, personally, you know,
I don't know if I'm beginning to fall in love,
But, [bleep], I hope this is the beginning.
You know what I mean?
When I lose interest, like, it's gone,
And I have never been able to get back from, like, that.
- Mm-hmm.
- But maybe with this situation,
I may look back at it and say...
So you know how I said, like, I want to work...
- Mm-hmm. - To get back to where we were?
Like, this is what I mean by that.
Like, doing stuff like this.
♪ ♪
You know, how I'm feeling tonight
And how tonight went is exactly
What I wanted to happen to get us back on track.
I think we're on the right path.
I'm into michaela. I want this to work.
And so I want to continue moving forward.
I want to keep having nights like these, days like these,
To kind of get us to, you know, to fall in love, right?
To being happily married.
So with everything that has happened,
I'm actually happy, you know, where we are,
And, you know, I wasn't feeling too happy,
You know, a couple days ago,
But I think right now, like, I'm definitely, like--
I can definitely see a path forward.
I can say that. - This is good.
Like, today's good. - Yeah.
I'm happy. I'm happy as [bleep].
- ♪ you know that you're quite the catch ♪
♪ you know that you're much more than that ♪
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- I'm feeling optimistic.
As you can see,
The pillow barricade
Has disappeared between us.
I am now big spoon.
♪ ♪
He still has pillows in front.
But magically,
The pillows dividing us disappeared.
So I feel this is progress
In our relationship.
I'm worming my way into his heart...
Like a parasite.
♪ ♪
I told you I would do it.
♪ ♪
- ♪ you know just what I like ♪
♪ you make it feel all right ♪
♪ you knock it out of sight ♪
- All of our couples got married at first sight
To find the person they could build a lifelong bond with
And ultimately fall in love.
- Babe, hey. - Hi, I brought food.
- But in order to create that feeling,
They must be willing to become completely vulnerable
With their spouses.
- How are you? - I want to try.
- So we're encouraging every one of our couples
To plan special dates for each other.
It's our hope that this will ignite that spark
That will ultimately lead to love and a forever marriage.
- I was working on a little something for us.
What is one thing that you don't have,
That you always wanted?
- One thing that I don't have...
- Yeah, think about it. - That I've always wanted.
- Always. - A porsche.
- A porsche! Okay, close.
- Just kidding. I got the husband, check.
- Let's go--aww.
All right, so I'll help you out.
- Oh, it's--
- So one thing you've always wanted is coasters.
- Oh, my god, we desperately need coasters.
- So check this out. This is so cool, I think.
So, these are, like, scrabble pieces.
We'll create little... - Okay.
- Like, words or whatever.
The experts' cards got me kind of thinking, as well,
In regards to, like, love
And, you know, where we're at, and I was like, "okay,
This would be kind of cool that we could do together."
- I would have never thought of this.
I would have just moseyed on down to target
And bought coasters. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- "hubby and wifey." I love it.
- Okay, so, I hate to bring it up.
- Mm-hmm.
- The whole, like, you've never been in love thing was like,
"oh, interesting."
Was there anything I said that you were like, "huh"?
- Yeah. Catamaran, honeymoon.
♪ ♪
- Never have I ever...
- Oh!
- Damn, I married a cheater.
So you've cheated before.
- Oh. Yeah, I have.
I was kind of like, "huh, he hasn't asked about it."
I was like, "oh, well, I'm not gonna tell him about it."
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.
- So... - Yeah, that's tonight, yep.
- It was with my eight-year relationship.
It happened on year two. - Okay.
- I went out, girls night. Alcohol was involved.
Ran into someone that I knew from my past.
- Okay. - And it happened, you know?
- Okay.
- And the very next day,
I had to tell my boyfriend what happened.
Of course, upset, and we broke up.
- And you were with him for eight years.
- Well, this happened on year two...
- Oh, okay. - And it continued, so...
- Oh, so he still, like, forgave you then.
- Thankfully, I was forgiven.
[soft dramatic music]
Since then, I learned very well.
Do not put yourself in situations
That could lead to that.
- So, you know, it's funny you say that
Because my brother-in-law always put it best to me.
"if you go to the barbershop enough,
You're gonna get a haircut."
Meaning if you put yourself in those types of situations...
- Yeah.
- Unfortunately, sometimes, those things will happen.
As we get closer to saying "I love you"
And talking about it, for me, before I can get there,
I need to know that, hey, am I gonna get cheated on?
I hate to say this,
But once a cheater, always a cheater.
But she's a different woman now,
I'm hoping.
And I can tell you that if it happened to me,
And my wife cheated on me, that I would not forgive her.
So let me ask you a tough, hot seat question.
- Okay. - Okay, so now we're married.
- Uh-huh.
- You have cheated before in the past unfortunately.
- Uh-huh.
- How can I be comfortable with this girls night
That you're maybe gonna have one day?
- Like, the bachelorette party? - Something.
And know that, hey, you know what, my wife's going out.
She's gonna have a good time,
But I don't have to worry about this.
- You honestly will just have to trust me.
- ♪ shadows in the dark ♪
♪ how did it get this far? ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ I didn't know, I didn't know ♪
♪ what you wanted ♪
- I can tell you've been eating
Chocolate chip cookies, husband.
- You can tell what?
- You've been eating chocolate chip cookies.
- How can you tell?
- The bag looks a little emptier.
- Yes, I've been eating chocolate chip cookies
'cause they're in there to be eaten.
And they taste so, so good. - [whispers inaudibly]
- You gonna eat all of that? - I think so.
You see, the love for mac and cheese is deep
Just like your chocolate chip cookies.
- Well, that's a deep love, then.
[chuckles]
I got married at first sight
To fall in love and find that person
I want to spend the rest of my life with,
And I think that we're moving in the right direction.
You ready? - I was born ready.
- Oh, big talk.
But my wife believes a person
Chooses to fall in love with somebody.
They don't just magically fall in love.
And so it's one of those things where I don't believe
That she has made that decision yet,
So I want my actions to show her that, you know,
I'm in this for the long haul,
And I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
So before we go to bed,
How about I give you a foot rub?
- Okay. - Yeah?
You cool with that? - Sure.
- Why are you laughing?
- Because you're weird. That's why.
- Well, I will warn you, my hands are, like, magic.
So you ready for this romantic gesture?
- Sure thing, boss.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- What type of pressure you like on your feet?
♪ ♪
- I don't know. Like, normal pressure.
- ♪ you can put a weight on me ♪
♪ I'll carry your love, girl ♪
♪ ♪
♪ whenever you feel low down ♪
♪ ♪
♪ when you're feeling heavy ♪
- How's this feel? Good?
- I think, for me, it feels a lot better when I'm just,
Like, tired, you know? Like, if my feet hurt.
- Does your feet hurt right now?
- No. - Okay.
- 'cause, you know, I work from home.
[laughs]
If I had to rate my husband's foot massage,
I would say it's like a five-ish.
Okay, that's a little hard. - Is it?
- Yeah. - All right.
♪ ♪
- There's definitely room for improvement
When it comes to foot massages,
But not to the extent that I will say no.
♪ ♪
I would say that you're okay at massaging.
- Ah!
[laughter]
When it comes down to romance with my wife,
She's a very hard woman to please.
I'm okay?
- When you learn the pressure points--
- Oh, you want the pressure points.
- Yeah.
- You want me to make you kind of, like, melt?
- That would be lovely.
- I bet you would. I want her to feel loved.
But she's very particular about things,
So for me to come up with something
That she actually loves, it's almost impossible.
♪ ♪
But I'm definitely not gonna give up.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ you're my kind of people ♪
- Your phone's, like, blinking or whatever.
[phone chimes] - what's that?
- So, jose...
- ♪ my kind of people ♪
- Jose says, "hey, guys."
- Has invited all of us to a barbecue.
- Did you know that the barbecue
Was at his house? - Oh, he's gonna love it.
- Listen, he's going to be living his best life.
- "zack will be there," he says.
"omg, yay. So excited."
- So that means everybody's gonna be there.
I like when we're all together.
- I'll finally meet michaela.
- It'll be our first time all hanging out together.
I always forget about that. - We still got 24 hours.
She could leave twice in that span.
- Ryan, be positive. - I hope she's there.
- She will be. - [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I still want to ♪
♪ make this last forever ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey.
♪ ♪
- Hi, hubby. - Hey.
♪ ♪
- I have a surprise for you.
- You do?
- We have some beers... - Hey.
- We're gonna try. - All right.
- I think if we drink this all
Before dinner comes, we might be drunk.
- I don't know
If I could handle even, like, two of these.
- But we will try. - Okay.
- So I'll give you a little tour
Of the things to come. So there's that.
Fried chicken will be coming in a few minutes.
- Okay.
- We also have...
♪ ♪
- What is that? - We have darts.
- Okay.
- [laughs] - with guns.
- You said you like darts. - I do like darts.
- So-- - this feels dangerous.
- It makes me feel pretty good
To put all this together for johnny.
♪ ♪
I know that he's looking for sparks on the day-to-day,
So I decided to surprise him
With a little bar and game night.
♪ ♪
Thanks for bringing the bar home.
- You're welcome.
- This is my kind of Friday night, for real.
- I'm glad you like it.
- Like, I couldn't ask for much more.
- Mm-hmm.
This night is really important for my marriage with bao
Because this is the first time she's planned something
On her own that shows me how well she knows me.
And bao has chosen three things I love,
Which is fried chicken, beer, and bar games.
So she hit three for three on this one.
- I'm getting a little happy. Not gonna lie.
- Yeah? - A little bit.
- I like happy bao.
[laughter]
- Happy bao is dangerous bao. It's no good.
♪ ♪
No good comes from happy bao.
- I don't know. Were you happy last night?
- Yes.
Johnny and I may or may not have consummated the marriage.
May or may not have.
[surf rock music]
All I can say right now
Is we're both really, really happy.
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
- Yeah, it was-- [pops lips]
♪ ♪
- Really, really happy.
- I think we should make a little wager.
- Okay.
- If I win, we do whatever I want to do
In the bedroom tonight.
[quirky music]
But if I don't beat you, we do whatever you want to do.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
- Deal? - Deal.
- Okay.
[upbeat music]
- I gotta warn you...
I play on playstation, like, some shooting games.
[laughter]
- Hang on, hang on, hang on.
You're just--you're not talking yourself up, are you?
Oh, [bleep]. - Hey.
- [bleep] damn it. - Well, that's a three.
- Okay.
[energetic rock music]
- No pressure. Ooh.
That's a two.
♪ ♪
Oh, god.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- [gasps] - [laughs]
Do one of these.
- Is this proper stance? Like--
- No, I think this is proper stance.
- Like in the movies? Yeah.
- ♪ dangerous ♪
♪ ♪
Oh, like--oh, we're gonna be badass?
Okay.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I gotta go now, let it flow now ♪
♪ inside my super hot machine I get the glow now ♪
- [screams]
- This is the most fun
That I've had in this marriage so far,
And I really feel like, if we can keep this up,
We'll be on the path of falling in love.
In order for you to win, you have to hit red or better.
[soft dramatic music]
- Ah! - [laughs]
♪ ♪
- No!
- Guess we're gonna do what I want in bed tonight.
- I don't want to play video games in bed.
♪ ♪
- ♪ it's like you found a new way to love me ♪
♪ ooh, ooh ♪
- Hubby, do you realize this is the first time
We're all gonna get together since the honeymoon,
And it'll finally be, like, all of us?
- That's why I'm so excited. - Yeah.
- 'cause everybody gets together.
- Today, we're having all the couples over
To jose's house to have our possibly annual barbecue.
Hi! - Hi!
- It's just crazy to think
That I'm hosting as a married woman
With my husband. It's crazy.
But I absolutely can see myself living here,
You know, in the future.
♪ ♪
- Hello!
- So I do not come to barbecues.
I think I've been to one barbecue in three years
That I've been in houston.
I don't like going to people's homes.
I'm just, like, not extroverted,
But very excited to see all five couples together,
But at the end of the day, I will not be coming back
To their house in the middle of nowhere.
♪ ♪
- Hey! What's up, man?
- Michaela and zack had a little bit of an incident,
So we didn't really get to, you know, talk with them,
Interact with them, but everyone's all here today,
And it's gonna be great.
How's the food? Is the food good?
- Thank you so much for having us.
These burgers are fire. - Are they?
- Yeah. - All right, awesome.
- Thank you for hosting. - Yeah, absolutely.
- Thank you for having us.
- So let me ask y'all a question.
I believe I'm gonna fall in love.
My wife believes falling in love is a choice.
So what can your spouse do to make you eventually
Fall in love with them?
Have you ever been in love? What do y'all think?
- The love card couldn't have come at a better time.
It felt like, right when it showed up at the door,
We needed to talk about this stuff.
- Mm-hmm.
- And it ended up being one of the most beautiful moments
Of our marriage so far. - Oh, wow, nice.
- Sparks flew for sure. - [chuckles]
- Sparks that I felt like we hadn't really had
Since the wedding night.
Like, it'd been a while. - Yeah.
- And, for us, it kind of, like,
Rekindled a little flame, and it was very nice.
- That's perfect. That's awesome.
- Wow.
- So, gil, have you gotten your first kiss yet or no?
- Aww, come on. - So...
- How dare you? - Short answer is no.
- Yeah. - Long answer is no.
[laughter]
So, all around, no.
Nah, but the affection has increased since we've spoken.
Like--you know, like, the cuddling,
Just the hugging.
You know, I was able to touch her shoulder.
[laughter]
- All right! A little bit of something.
- Shoulder action, y'all.
- Get a room.
[laughter]
- Being around the other couples
Does make me feel like me and ryan might be behind.
I try not to compare.
Everybody's relationship is different,
And I don't think anyone else's progress
Has any bearing on my own.
To me, it seems obvious that the others are having
A lot more intimacy and communication.
Like, that's pretty obvious to me.
- Has anyone dropped the, like, "love" word,
Like, "I love you" yet? - No.
- Okay, so if we had to put money on the first couple
To say "I love you," who would it--
Who would that couple be?
Johnny and bao. - Yep.
- Hey. - Okay, let me up that.
Let's not only say the couple, but who in that couple.
- Okay. - Ooh, okay.
- So I would say myrla. - [gasps]
- My vote is jose. - Facts, facts.
- Johnny and bao, who do y'all think?
- I think I'ma go with gil actually.
- You gonna go with me? Okay.
- As soon as he feels it, he's gonna say it.
- I'm gonna go with bao.
I figure she has some kind of formula
Or spreadsheet that's gonna lead her--
- Ooh, I love it.
- Okay, I'm gonna say you.
- Me? - Oh!
She put it on her own husband! I like it!
[laughter]
- I gotta go with johnny for the sake of time.
Let's go with my man. Go with my man johnny.
- No pressure. - No pressure.
- No pressure, johnny. No pressure.
- No pressure at all, honey. No pressure at all.
- Yeah, I think it's johnny.
[laughter]
- Dang, everybody.
[laughter]
- It's kind of flattering, I think.
I do not drop the "l" bomb lightly,
But I feel optimistic that bao and I's relationship
Has turned a corner, and it's on the right track.
[laughs]
- Y'all want to go get some refills?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Oh. - Yeah.
♪ ♪
- Cheers to falling in love sooner than later.
[laughter]
- Your room is so big. - I know.
This is actually really nice.
- It's roomy.
- How are you guys feeling about your marriages
Three weeks in now? - Everything's great.
Like, you know, but, just like everyone,
We have our little, like, down moments,
So, if you noticed, jose talks a lot.
- [laughs]
- It all kind of started,
I guess, you know, for me, what I wanted
Was just someone that I connect with,
Had the, you know, commonalities and similarities.
We enjoy doing the same things together,
And it kind of builds us.
You know, this is such a short process.
It's not a marathon.
Rather, it's a sprint now, you know what I'm saying?
So I think it's just kind of finding the things
That we both enjoy.
Even if it was, like, baseball games, right?
So she's, like, a huge sports fan.
If I don't know that you like green eggs and ham,
How the hell am I gonna know that that's what you want
For breakfast every single morning, right?
♪ ♪
- That's something he struggles with--
Is listening, and it's caused, like, little issues.
But overall, everything's pretty great.
- Yeah. - You know?
I'm really happy. He's such a gentleman.
You know, he treats me so well,
And I do feel like that love word is, like,
On the tip of my tongue. - Aww.
- But I keep--like, "just wait, just wait."
But I think of what pastor cal says.
Like, "if you feel it, just, like, say it."
So it's coming soon, I think, yeah.
- That's good. I'm so happy for you guys.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You can see it too. - Aww, thanks.
- The two of you-- it's so obvious.
- Yeah, I know. Y'all are just glowing.
- Like, oh, my god, they need to stop.
Rachel and jose are just too much sometimes,
I swear to god. I've nicknamed them rosé.
Every time I see them, it's just, like,
Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah. And I'm like, "oh, rosé."
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
Love them. Love that rosé.
- So zack and I went in so hard and so fast.
Like, when I tell you it was,
Like, almost love at first sight
'cause it was just like, "oh, my gosh."
Like, it was an insane kind of feeling.
- The first week, we were really fine.
Like, you know, I kept saying, like, y'all can move
Decision day up to today. - Damn!
- You know what I mean? Like--but it's just, like--
- I wasn't ready for that. - No, but--
- Boy, you would have been in trouble.
- I know, I know. But see--
- But with that same intensity,
When we hit a low...
- Ooh. - Yeah.
- 'cause, you know, it's kind of, like,
Those rose-colored glasses get snatched off your face,
And now, you know, we're both kind of like,
"okay, let's figure this out. We can get there.
We can get there."
And it's like, we're both learning
How to be married
'cause we really like each other,
And we really want to be married.
It's hard.
I said it then, and I'll say it now.
I could not have built this man better myself.
- Aww, that's so sweet.
- He's so phenomenal. He really is.
- She's an amazing woman. I will always say this.
It's just the one thing that I've said repeatedly
Is a red flag for me is the-- you know, the blowups,
And the kind of--you know, the kneejerk reactions.
But I'm still hopeful.
- Do you think-- - yeah.
- What will happen will happen, and it will all work out.
- We definitely had our ups and downs for sure too.
So it's been intense for me and johnny because we realized
How much we didn't know about each other.
And so some of those things, it's like, we're so similar
In ways that can be kind of conflict-y.
- Yeah.
- Because both of us can be very dominant in relationships.
- There's all these, like, small things
That we don't match on,
But we match on, like, core values.
- Yeah.
- And I'm very much like-- if 97% is good, 3% is bad,
I focus and nitpick the [bleep] out of the three.
- I'm the same way.
- 'cause I feel like we've all--you know,
We've all been dating... - Yeah.
- And we haven't settled
Until this point-- up to this point.
Why should we settle?
And I'm looking for everything, right?
And I started feeling like...
Like I'm the problem,
And the past four or five days have been good.
Like, really good.
It feels like we turned a corner.
- You seem like you're in a better place.
- I know, and I'm hoping that we build on it.
Just keep having more good days.
- We had a tough conversation,
And a lot of things that I've been holding in came out,
And they needed to come out.
Told her about my past
And that maybe sometimes I did
Previously wait too long to get into that.
I told her that I was kind of feeling those doubts.
- Mm-hmm.
- This is just such-- this is 100% a feeling.
- Yeah, yeah.
- And you gotta have that spark that I need to feel...
- Yeah, yeah.
- And that's what I'm waiting on.
- I don't know what he likes about me.
I don't know anything. I don't even know if he does.
- Have you asked him that? - Yep.
He said he's waiting for a feeling
That he doesn't have. - Ugh.
- What do you think that feeling is?
- Butterflies or something. - That's--
[chuckles] - why is--
- Why can't that be a thing?
Like, why can't you just be enthralled with your wife,
And--I don't know. - Yeah.
- But I just don't know that I would ever get to that point.
And is that good enough? I don't want good enough.
- With this situation, this is not regular dating,
So I think there's a huge element where you do
Have to make a decision that I'm gonna try to get there.
- Mm-hmm. - Right.
- You can't just sit back and just expect.
You can't sit back and just wait for a feeling.
- Right.
- You have to actually do things...
- Right. - To create those feelings.
- And that's what you need to tell him.
That's exactly--
- Did you tell him that part though?
- Everything you telling us right now
Is exactly what you need to be telling him.
- It's easier to tell my friends.
- What are you gonna do going forward?
Like, are you still gonna--
- We're gonna have to have more conversations about it.
- Yeah.
- 'cause you need to know, are you wasting your time
Putting in the effort, or are you not?
- Right, right.
- Because if this feeling-- "what if I don't get
This feeling for two years from now?"
- Right.
- Like, who in the hell is waiting that long?
- Right, right. - Let's expedite this feeling.
- Right. - You know what I'm saying?
♪ ♪
- ♪ is this going anywhere? ♪
♪ I'm still walking in the dark ♪
- ♪ all my life has led to this ♪
- So this morning, it's really awkward
Because last night,
We're on the couch watching tv,
And it just felt like the right moment,
And I said it.
I said those three little words.
And he didn't say it back.
And now I'm just like, "I don't know what to do."
I'm just kidding. I did say "I love you,"
And he said it back like I knew he would,
So we're good. - But no.
It wasn't instant. It was not instant.
It took a hot, little minute.
- I grabbed a knife, and I was like, "say it back."
- She did. She did.
She grabbed a knife--
- A machete.
- Yeah, well, it was like a butter knife,
But it was still a knife.
I felt my life was threatened,
So I did tell her back that I loved her.
- I woke up this morning, and I still love him,
So that's a good sign.
- That is a great sign. - Yeah.
- And I love her too.
- Aww. Aww.
- ♪ I'm never giving up ♪
♪ and I'm never going down ♪
♪ I'm up on top, never stop ♪
♪ I'ma keep this crown ♪
- Hello. - Hello, hello.
- What's up? How you doing?
- I'm good. How are you?
- Good, what's up? - Nothing much.
How was your work? Are you sweaty?
- I know. You know, it's fine.
So today I think it would be fun for us to cook together
'cause both of us, you know, eat out a lot.
So tonight, on zoom,
We're gonna hang out with a chef...
- Okay.
- Who's gonna walk us through a meal.
- Real talk? - Yeah, yeah, seriously.
So we're gonna do, like, a shrimp scampi.
- Ooh, I love shrimp scampi. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I got some ingredients here.
I find myself enjoying time with my wife
When we're doing things, you know, active things,
'cause I feel like that lets us
Know more about each other,
And so, I feel good. I think we're in a good space.
- Nice to meet you, kevin.
- So we're cooking shrimp scampi today.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
- So how much cooking experience
Do you guys have?
- Um... - Not much experience at all.
[soft dramatic music]
So what's the first step?
- Yeah. - We got one pot.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- We can do that.
♪ ♪
I filled it with water, but I'm not sure
If I filled it with too much water.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, she did.
- You can do prep work. You said you wanted--
- You do the prep work. Nah, you do the prep work.
- Nah, nah, nah, it's too much pressure.
- Why? - You do it.
- Nah, you do prep work. - Okay, I'll do prep work.
I'll do prep work.
[upbeat music]
- Well, that would be the hope.
Apparently, I'm terrible at boiling water.
Who knew you can [bleep] it up?
[laughs]
♪ ♪
And then the seasoning,
How much do I-- how much do we do there?
- I trust whatever you want to do.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
I'm learning more about michaela,
And, specifically,
I learned that my wife is not the best seasoner.
You can keep at it, okay.
- I mean, I have to crush it. - Get it, get it.
- It's not that much.
- Nah, nah, nah, go on, get it, get it, get it.
I saw the way she was pouring the seasoning
Into the pot, into the pan,
And it was kind of heavy-handed.
This does definitely tell me that maybe, going forward,
I should probably handle the seasoning,
Or at least we can work on our seasoning together.
Hey, this cajun-- this is cajun shrimp scampi.
[bleep], like--
[upbeat music]
Okay, you want to taste this?
- This is our first meal that we've ever cooked before.
- You want me to give a speech? - I can give a speech.
- You give a speech. - Okay.
- Make it quick. I'm hungry.
[chuckles] okay, all right, go ahead.
- Bruh. - [laughs]
- So I see how we operate in the kitchen together,
Our strengths and our weaknesses
On both ends, but I'm really excited to eat this.
- I agreed. Like, this is definitely fun.
And I see how you season things,
So I think we need to work on that, for sure.
That's one of your weaknesses.
- ♪ why you hiding out in plain sight? ♪
- [laughs] no.
- ♪ in plain sight ♪
- The future is looking brighter.
The end goal of this is that we stay married, right?
I will say every day is a step,
But the steps that we are taking
Are very, very good.
So I think this is very good.
This is very good for our relationship.
♪ ♪
- This is actually very spicy. - [chuckles]
- You laughing, but, like, it's like,
What the hell I'm eating?
- Bro, and I literally do not taste that spice.
I don't know what you're tasting.
- Michaela.
- I swear to god, I'm not there with you.
- How do you not taste the spiciness?
- So, I don't taste the spicy--I don't--
[laughter]
- I don't-- [laughs]
[laughter]
- Oh, yeah, yeah, bet. Yeah, yeah, you don't taste it.
I get you. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
[quirky music]
♪ ♪
- First of all,
Water doesn't help with spiciness.
You drink some milk. - I hate milk, no.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ set the city on fire ♪
♪ light it up, up ♪
♪ set the city on fire, light it all up ♪
♪ ♪
- Hi. What is this?
- Got a date night for you.
- Aw, awesome. What did you get up to?
[gasps] - come on.
- Sweet. - This is yours.
♪ ♪
[laughter]
- Awesome.
- The reason why we're doing a art night,
There has been a occurrence in our past
That I feel like I need to rectify.
- Do you not remember?
I know I still have-- I still have it on my phone.
"there's a new museum of fine arts."
And then I said, "I have dual membership,
"but have trouble finding people interested
In going to these things, so I went solo."
- I would totally go.
- And you said, "ha ha, I'd come with you."
And then you ghosted me. There's no response after that.
- There is no way that is accurate.
- You did not message me.
- It's something I'm not proud of,
And so, tonight, I would love to create
Our own little art exhibit here.
- I'm very surprised and pleased
Johnny came through with a redemption date.
- I feel like this will help the creativity flow.
- I think so. - Cheers to being artists.
- It's crazy.
Like, I'm married to my longstanding crush,
Actually, who ghosted me.
♪ ♪
- So far, I think we're matching pretty well.
- We're matching.
♪ ♪
You started the sun. - My sun is fatter.
- Are you channeling your bob ross?
- Yeah. - Oh, no, this is black.
You got me distracted, and I dipped into the black instead.
[laughs]
- That's okay. It doesn't have to be perfect.
- This is gonna be too dark. This is too dark.
Hmm.
[soft dramatic music]
More sand.
- Ugh.
Like, "bao, please relax."
Just... I don't know.
Got the lights flickering, got the prosecco flowing,
And it's discouraging when we have an opportunity like this.
I made a liquor run earlier.
There's extra bottles of champagne.
- Let me just try to figure this out, yeah.
♪ ♪
- She is still focused on painting it right.
♪ ♪
- Sad gray. Mm.
♪ ♪
- And we're not doing any flirtation.
There's no tension being built.
I'm just gonna wing it.
- No, don't do that. Oh, no.
- It has been winged. - Yours is too high.
- It just feels very... Task-oriented.
♪ ♪
Strictly business.
- Oh, shoot, oh, shoot. I need to get mine higher up.
Oh, no, it's too high.
- There's beauty in imperfection.
- No, there is not!
♪ ♪
- It's the same old bao.
But after two successful nights,
And romance coming from both of them,
Intimacy in the bedroom,
Fireworks, I'm gonna give it my all
Because anything feels possible.
- I've never done anything like this.
That is so cool.
- How's it look? - Not bad.
We made a masterpiece.
Just ignore that there's, like, a little mess up there.
[tender music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I want to run ♪
- Aw.
- Cute.
- The pink one matches my coat. - I like it.
So you've been here before?
- The first time that I came here
Was because this blogger that I follow posted her,
Like, taking a little selfie with a drink
Called chanel number 6, and I was like,
"oh, my god, I have to go there and have that drink."
- Just 'cause of the name. - Just 'cause of the drink.
- If it had a different name, would you get it?
- No.
- If it was called, like-- - I like fancy drinks.
- Was it-- - I like pretty drinks.
- What about if it was the same drink, but it was
Called knockoff number 4? - No.
- Man, you know how good that drink sounds--the knockoff?
- Have you--? No.
- "let me get two knockoffs."
- Who would--nobody would even name a drink knockoff,
First of all, husband.
Before I was married at first sight,
I always envisioned bringing my husband to a spot like this
Because I love to dress up,
And it's a really nice spot to come out
And, like, look cute together.
♪ ♪
Wait, you have to do a boomerang.
- What is the-- you and these boomerangs.
- I love boomerangs. We're gonna do it like this.
We're gonna cheers our dinner date.
- I'm all about cheering, but this boomerang stuff.
- But you have to smile 'cause you're gonna come out.
I just want to have a companion
To explore the city with and enjoy the city with,
So I feel really good.
So you would come to a spot like this?
Like, if I want to have dinner somewhere,
We could come to spots like this.
- Yes. Just depends on--
- Why is it such a slow yes?
- Because it depends on how often.
I like the spot,
But this is way too bougie for my tastes.
- Really? - Yeah.
Like, I'm not a big fan of eating out.
♪ ♪
- You're not gonna take your wife on dates?
♪ ♪
Like, brunch.
I love to do brunch on the weekends.
- So you want to go to brunch every week,
And you want to have a dinner date...
- Twice a month.
That's a lot.
[soft dramatic music]
- Remember there was a question that the experts gave us.
- Yes.
- I think it's like, "what do you need for your--"
- Significant other, your spouse?
- What do I need from you to, like--to make the choice
To, like, love someone?
So, for me, I would definitely
Want you to be my brunch husband.
♪ ♪
- Your brunch husband? - Yes.
For me, that's what I want.
- My quality time is different.
It's not about going out to dinners and stuff.
Like, I'm okay with going out here and there,
But I'd rather cook my food.
♪ ♪
Why did you pick this restaurant?
♪ ♪
- 'cause I had been here once, and they had a pretty drink.
- Did you think-- did it ever cross your mind
"he probably wouldn't like it"?
♪ ♪
Because, for me to keep going
In the path that we're going,
I need consistency
And just feeling wanted...
♪ ♪
Not feeling like you just want to be married
Because of the thought of being married.
♪ ♪
We're aiming for love.
You know, like, I don't want
To just be another--
If I was just a silhouette here,
I don't want you to just be happy
Just 'cause you got a ring on your finger
And that silhouette has a ring on their finger.
♪ ♪
I want to know-- I want to feel wanted.
That's basically what I want.
♪ ♪
I don't want my wife
To just want to be married to any brunch partner.
I want to know that she really,
Truly wants to be with me because of who I am.
Right now, I'm a little unsure.
I mean, if this is what you really want,
Then show me this is what you really want.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I really want you to have brunch with me.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- [laughs]
- Next time on "married at first sight"...
- Oh, heck yeah!
- With only five weeks left until decision day,
Our couples find that their trust
And boundaries are being pushed to the test.
- You should just be like,
"no, I'm not gonna divorce her."
- No, I still feel like I will ask for the divorce.
[dramatic music]
- What are you thinking over there?
- There's something not there.
♪ ♪
- I'm tired of that.
Stop, stop. I can't--[bleep].
♪ ♪
- I did want to tell you about my infidelity.
♪ ♪
- Rachel, uh, calls me by another man's name.
- I cannot be your wife.
To getting locked out!
I do not love him anymore.
♪ ♪