- Breathe.
It's very risky to get married at first sight.
- Please stand.
♪ ♪
- Six weeks ago... - Hi, husband!
- Ten courageous individuals risked it all to find love.
- Nice to meet you.
- They married as complete strangers.
- You may kiss your bride.
[cheers and applause]
- I am married.
- How are you, my dear?
Last time, our couples identified
questions they still had about their spouses.
- ♪ Get caught up in the madness ♪
- Rachel and Jose.
- As a child growing up, seeing my parents
go through a divorce, I do everything
almost opposite than what I saw.
- You have my trust.
I want to be Jose's wife, no matter what.
- ♪ Steady lights ♪
- Brett and Ryan.
- I promise you, I'm gonna put more effort into it.
- Knowing him makes me think that he's distracted somewhere.
- Really?
- Myrla and Gil.
- Miss little Debbie Downer, when you get like that,
the problem for me is if my mood starts to change
because of it, and I don't like that.
I feel like you should be considerate of other people
around you when you get like that.
♪ ♪
- Bao and Johnny.
- I asked him about if-- Is he ready for marriage,
is he committed, and he kind of blew up.
Yeah, he gets very defensive.
- My conversations with Bao are like,
I said this, you said that.
Yeah, it's very-- It feels very juvenile.
- Michaela and Zack.
- So we had a conversation about Decision Day.
As it stands, I would say it's a no for both of us.
- I understand it, but I don't understand
why should we sleep-- We should sleep
in separate rooms right now, I don't get it,
that doesn't help anything, that only hurts.
Michaela doesn't want to sleep in the same bed anymore
so I'm just gonna go home tonight.
So she texts me literally an hour later.
"Since you've left the apartment,
"I'm going to go ahead and move out fully
tomorrow morning."
- That is beyond childish.
♪ ♪
- And tonight,
with only two weeks left until Decision Day...
[gunshot] - [yelps]
- Oh, my God!
- The ranch retreat encourages the couples to bond,
have fun, and strengthen their connection.
- Hi, little babies--look, they all come.
- Hey, bud. - Marriage with you
was way more work than I thought it would be.
[dramatic music]
- I can't--I can't--I can't!
- I came here for love.
I did not come here to be disrespected.
- You said in front of Johnny and Bao
how you don't have a problem sleeping with me.
I was like, "What?"
- Ryan, are you saying it's not healthy?
Then get in the car with him because he's [bleep] leaving.
- He's a [bleep] adult, like, what are we
supposed to do, lay under the car?
♪ ♪
- Get out!
[glass shatters]
[bleep] out!
[soft music]
- They were matched by experts.
Then, after eight weeks, they must
make the decision for themselves.
♪ ♪
- Do you want to stay married?
- Or do you want to get a divorce?
- ♪ No holding back ♪
♪ No holding back ♪
♪ It's all or nothing ♪
- This is "Married At First Sight."
- ♪ There's no other way ♪
♪ It's all or nothing ♪
- ♪ I won't let you go ♪
♪ I know just what, just what I got ♪
- I am hearing that for our retreat,
our little weekend away as a bunch of couples,
we're going to a ranch.
So you know your girl doesn't know what to bring to a ranch.
- This is pretty much back to my roots.
Get me on a horse.
- Oh, Lord.
- Decision Day is two weeks away and our couples are about
to go on a ranch retreat together where they can share
what they've learned about themselves
and their marriages.
- Did you pack any western--do you
own any western--I thought you was from
a ranch, you never owned any western?
- I was, which is why I left the ranch.
- Couples retreat is an opportunity to re-examine
their marriages, work through any issues,
and hopefully build a stronger connection before Decision Day.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Johnny and I are not doing well on our
marriage, and it is very disappointing.
♪ ♪
- You excited for the road trip?
- I am, I'm looking forward to this.
I think couples retreats are important because sometimes
you just need to get away, and reconnect and
reflect on where you're at in your relationship.
I'm looking forward to it, mainly because
I'm excited to reconnect with all the other couples.
♪ ♪
In terms of reconnecting with Johnny,
eh, right now,
honestly, I'm not excited about that.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Michaela moved out, but since then,
we kind of resolved the situation.
- Hey. - Hey, where you at?
- I am on my way,
I had a appointment,
but I'm ten minutes away.
- All right. All right, bye.
You know, we're just moving on.
So the first time I've seen Michaela since the fight
is actually going to be this morning.
I just want her to tell me that she's sorry,
or that she, like, understands
why she shouldn't have done that.
She did it to hurt me, and that she's sorry for it.
Sup? - Hey.
- How are you doing? - Good, how are you?
- Good, you all packed?
- I'm all packed. - All right.
- Ready? - Let's do it.
- ♪ When we come together ♪
- It's gonna be fun.
- ♪ Come together, oh ♪
♪ Come together ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Come together ♪
♪ It'll be all right ♪
- I like--I like the little baby cats,
but not, like, medium cats that just, like,
knock over like porridge and that's not even cool.
- You know I used to have a cat?
- The, like, sass.
Then they'll get up, look at you crazy.
- Do you enjoy road trips? - With good company, I do.
Mm-hmm.
- Smile, hubby.
- I will take a picture of myself and Hype.
- Three years?
- Jeez, so you do hear, but you just keep talking?
- Yeah, it's a special gift of mine.
- Okay, we're gonna work on that, right?
- Yes, baby.
- Okay. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- Last night was pretty interesting with your sister.
We were talking about, you know, like her perception
of us at the beginning and at the wedding,
and on the honeymoon from,
you know, whatever you've told her to now.
And then, like, essentially,
how did we get from there to here?
And like, it seemed like an abrupt switch.
And she was like,
"That makes me think that,
you know, he has a distraction."
And she said something about maybe somebody from the past.
♪ ♪
- Like, what does that--how does that even come up?
How does that end up in her head after the conversation?
Apparently I have-- I'm seeing someone else
and I'm distracted.
- It wasn't a definitive statement.
I think she is interpreting things,
and she said she wonders if that's what it is.
You know, we're not having the best time
communicating, and that I feel like there's
a lot of things that I don't know
that other people do know.
About how you feel.
- What do you think I'm telling other people
that I haven't told you?
- Well, I heard that you said
you were gonna have a conversation with me
about how you want to just be friends.
- I've told you, if I don't have these feelings,
it's obviou--if these feelings don't develop--
- You don't have to be defensive, it's okay.
- I'm not being defensive, but we've had these conversations,
like-- - Yeah, but it's a fact--
- If I'm still not developing them, like,
I'm--how would it be anything other than that?
I mean, I don't know that everything has to be said.
I care about actions way more than words.
I pick up on actions way more than words as well, possibly.
So in my mind, I don't feel the need
to say all the things
whenever I feel like my actions have been doing that.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
- So even though we've talked, I don't feel like
me and Michaela are on the same page
with what went down the night before.
- This is nice, it's peaceful.
- She seems over it, but it takes me longer
to get over things like that, so we decided
that the best thing to do was just to stop
before we got to the retreat and talk about it
so we can start off the retreat on the right foot.
- So I had a really good talk
with my sisters and your brothers.
They kind of helped me shift through,
like, my emotions and my thoughts.
- So you're at a better place right now?
- I'm in a much better place right now, yeah.
- Got it.
- Like, having my own space, like,
I needed that and I didn't know how much I needed it, you know?
Like...
Sometimes you think, like, we're handling stuff in a good
way until I guess it's, like, kind of like a build up.
- You're in a better place, how?
- Just being able to know what--I can
pinpoint, like, what triggers me.
So I know where that starts,
and then I was able to hash out,
like, you know, how did you get there?
You know, there's all those details,
and it's like the finite details, too.
A big thing for us is, you know, trying
to figure out how to talk to each other.
- Do you think that communication issue is, like,
is it something we can overcome?
- I think it is.
The argument that we had earlier in the week was really
a learning moment because I realized how we need
to really talk, and really explain,
and really use our words when something is bothering us,
and explain what we would like to see going forward.
- Hi, hi, hello, hi!
I don't know if I'm doing this, though, hold on.
Hi.
Okay, let's chill out, let's not get crazy.
- Here, you have some more.
- Okay, so what do you think we do well in our relationship?
- I don't know, I think we have fun.
Like, when we go out and we, like, go do stuff,
like, I think we have a lot of fun.
- That's the most fun to me. - Yeah.
- Hey, don't put your hand too close to them,
I don't trust them.
- I know what the [bleep] I'm doing, and I like goats.
- Wait, I can definitely see--hold up,
stand--let me see, stand right by him
and then, like, do like a little, like...
Oh, my God, yo, this is you, like,
oh, my God--I can definitely see it now,
hold on one second. No, no, no, no,
you like--you take pictures of me all the time.
I'm really not surprised that she is kind of in her element
so it's kind of cool to see this side of Michaela.
- I want to give them more hay. - You like the goat queen.
Goat baby!
I'm sorry, I'll be chill.
[laughter]
- Aw, look, he just loves you, he likes you.
- I am the goat queen. I like goats.
- Watch it, I don't trust this dude.
Hey, yo, this is my wife, yo, chill.
Damn. - [laughs]
- He said, "Back the [bleep] up."
So we are sleeping in the same bed tonight.
- Yeah, we'll stay in the same bed tonight.
- I'm looking forward to that. - Why?
- 'Cause it's gonna be fun like it always is.
- Ah, okay.
- ♪ Tell me where you are ♪
♪ Get ready for my heart ♪
- ♪ Lookin' back at all I had ♪
♪ There's nothin' that I miss ♪
♪ Still, something gets better when you're around ♪
♪ When you're around ♪
♪ ♪
- This is a barn!
- It looks very nice. - I live for this.
- Ah, [bleep], damn, all right! - Okay!
- I didn't see this coming,
eh!
- This is a farmhouse, yee-haw!
- Yeah, this is--this is a--
- Okay, I like this, they got a little pool table action,
they got some hats.
Do we pick out a hat? - Yeah.
- Yeah, yee-haw!
- My head too big for hats, so I'm just gonna...
- Wow, this is very nice.
[knocking at door]
- Hello!
- Oh, my God. Ahhhh!
- Yo, this is nice!
- Finally away from the city, away from work life.
You know, it's gorgeous, and I'm really looking forward
to having a good time with the other couples,
but this time is really time to spend with my husband.
It is so nice! - It is, isn't it?
- I gotta focus on my marriage, especially when it's working.
- Oh, yeah--oh, yeah!
- You good?
- Not really, but okay.
[door creaks]
Ahh!
Don't--don't play that, please.
That's a lovely entrance.
- Yo, what's up--what's up?
- Hello, beautiful! - Oh, I forgot my hat.
- Welcome!
- Hi, buddy!
- What's his name, I never met him?
- Hype. - Hype?
- Yeah, Hype.
- Hey, boo boo, I know you're excited.
- My sitter kind of bailed on me, so...
- Ah, damn.
- Where'd y'all put y'all's stuff?
- Go pick a room--there's rooms back there.
- So this is like a everybody dormitory thing.
This is the very first time that I've ever been forced
to stay in the confines with other humans.
Wow, we have to share restrooms, golly, man.
Such close confines with other humans.
- Cheers to a great weekend!
- Whoo! - Yes!
- What do you think about the living quarters?
- I would have preferred, like, individual, separate cabins.
- I mean, I like this type of stuff, though.
I mean, obviously, I was--I would plan something
like this with friends so I'm used to this
type of stuff, it's cool with me.
The difference between my wife and I is that when I'm
around people, my mood completely changes.
You know, it's like I feed off of people,
you know, and it actually puts me in a better mood.
- What up! [shrieking]
- Ahhh!
- Yay!
- The only thing that I could possibly tell my wife
to get her out of this funk
is telling her that we're staying
at the Ritz Carlton in a penthouse suite.
Then she would be so thrilled to go,
she might even run there.
- Have you guys picked where you guys are sleeping yet?
- Yes. - We have picked.
- Yeah, so we haven't picked yet.
- So you need to go pick before...
- Yeah, you better hurry up.
- Before Ryan and Brett get here.
- Okay.
- The thing that makes me a little nervous is, I assume,
each couple gets one room, and one bed.
Oh,
all right, which one's taken?
How do we know if it's taken? - Uh, yeah, I don't know.
- I think it's pretty much expected that we're at
a certain level of comfort with our spouse,
but for me,
it's kind of gone backwards.
Uh, this one. - Okay, let's go with this one.
- I'm gonna go grab our bags and then throw them in here.
- Okay.
- Do we just put a bunch of pillows between us?
I don't know, not sure yet.
Where am I sleeping exactly?
- What kind of pasta we have, rotini?
- We do have rotini.
- I can help you, that's easy.
- Yeah, the guys can help grill the chicken.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- It's time to make dinner for the whole group
and I am head chef.
- Let's get some group effort out here.
- Here, let me get this.
- I'm feeling good because everybody is
offering to help.
The men said they would grill.
- ♪ I got just two weeks to have me some fun ♪
♪ Come on now, baby... ♪
- No.
- ♪ It's called a getaway ♪
- Party's here, baby! [cheers and applause]
- What's up?
- ♪ Well, it's a two for one, get you some ♪
♪ Hillbilly holiday ♪
- Let's go, bro. - Yes, sir.
- ♪ What will the neighbors say ♪
♪ Hillbilly holiday ♪
♪ ♪
- Thank you, Bao! - Thank you, Bao!
- Thank you, Jose!
- You know what? We got here late--
- The chicken. [all speaking at once]
- Teamwork--teamwork, guys.
- So it's been a few days since volleyball.
Does anybody have anything that's, like, been--
- How have y'all been since?
- We're getting a divorce.
- I knew it!
[laughter]
- Why?
- My husband's saying he wants eight kids.
- Okay, yo, how do you feel about that?
- I feel good about it.
- Y'all better start consummating.
- I feel confident in my situation.
[laughter]
- Anybody else?
- So over the last two days for me Michaela,
it has definitely been interesting,
but I think we're in a really good spot right now.
I think we have a lot more clarity on where we want to go.
- And we're both, I think,
in a much better headspace with it all.
So we're in a good-- Really good space.
- How are you guys doing?
- You know...
- No, I don't.
- Things have been bumpy. - Okay, and that's okay!
♪ ♪
- I'm just kind of going into it this weekend with a...
Just being good to one another, being nice,
being positive, trying to have fun.
- Okay, good,
best thing you can do. - Yeah.
- I mean, don't think you're alone
on that, we got a lot of stuff we're
working--we're dealing with, too, so it's not just you.
- My advice would be to be, like...
[clears throat]
Just honest, and in some ways
a little unapologetic about your honesty.
Sometimes it may hurt,
sometimes it may--you may, like, try to preserve
the other person's feelings
or think, like, maybe I shouldn't say this,
but I think just getting it out there
really does help, because then you can take it in,
process it, and maybe you'll come back
with more questions, or maybe not, you know?
Maybe you'll feel a certain way,
but just, like, being open and honest,
like, really does help.
- Like, if you have an issue with something,
just address it.
- ♪ Rain, come on down ♪
♪ Let it wash all away ♪
♪ 'Cause tomorrow's a different day ♪
[insects chirping]
- ♪ The days ♪
♪ When I wish we were together ♪
♪ 'Cause in another life ♪
♪ Oh, in another life we would be forever ♪
- What do you got, John? - Be careful, Johnny.
- This is for Brett.
- What do you mean?
- Brett, we know you've been going through a hard time
and we wanted to get you a little something.
- Aw!
- Aw. - It's so cute.
- Look, a little cookie.
- I know it's been a rough time losing Baxter.
- It has. - And from all of us to you.
- Thank you. - They're cookies,
they're human cookies, they're not dog treats.
We also got some of this. - What is that?
- Sparklers.
- Sparklers! - Sparklers!
- Oh, man, that's awesome! - Aww!
- Brett's gone through a lot in a very short period of time.
I don't think she's had time to really take it all in.
She's working with a struggling marriage.
- You guys.
- We wanted to give her some time
to memorialize and honor Baxter's life.
- Look, I know that,
yeah, for you guys who don't
even really know me that well, or know me long,
to, like,
go out of your way to reach out,
and go out of your way to call me, and text me,
and say that you're thinking about me.
I mean, it--it really means a lot
and I know you think it probably doesn't help,
or it just--it's such a small gesture just to say,
"Hey, how are you doing?"
But, I mean, to me, that's--that's
what any of this is about, you know,
is making connections
and feeling cared for and feeling supported.
And I have definitely felt that way by you guys.
And it means a lot.
Yeah, I miss him a lot and, just, thank you.
- I can't imagine.
- I really grew fond of Baxter.
He was a great dog, and my heart really goes
out to Brett, she loved that little guy,
and I know losing him right now is very hard on her.
I just wish I could be a bigger comfort to her right now.
- And I'm really happy that he got to
meet and hang out with Maisey because
he didn't have any, like,
pet siblings or any pet friends.
It was just me and him so, like, they ended up getting
along really well and that was really sweet to see.
- Yeah.
- He was just like the best companion, you know,
it was just awesome, so...
- Now we can light these sparklers!
- Light it up, let's go!
- I like it!
- ♪ Like it's fate or destiny ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ I hope you can count on me ♪
- People who have pets understand how hard it is.
- For Baxter!
- Yeah!
- He's been everything to me.
I mean, every life milestone that I've experienced
that I think is significant
to, like, who I am,
I've had him.
- ♪ Watch me burn through the dark ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ All it takes is a spark ♪
♪ Watch me burn through the dark ♪
- To celebrating Baxter's life.
All: Yay!
- Baxter!
- I'm gonna call it a night.
- I'm not gonna lie, man, I'm kind of tired, too,
I'm kind of pooped.
- Yeah, have a good night. - Good night, y'all!
- Good night. - Good night, everybody.
- See you in the morning.
- It was a nice evening.
- This is actually good, I needed this.
- ♪ Move a little closer to me ♪
♪ I know that you know what I'm thinkin' ♪
♪ When our bodies have a chance to meet ♪
♪ Would you move a little closer to me ♪
♪ Move a little closer to me ♪
♪ ♪
- Good night. - Good night.
[owl hooting]
- I think we should call it a night,
the smoke's getting to my eyes.
- Where are y'all planning to sleep tonight?
- That's a great question.
I don't even know what's in there.
- The bedroom has one bed,
so what are y'all--what are y'all comfortable with?
- I mean we can stay in the same room.
If Brett's okay with it, I'm--
- I wasn't thinking that.
- What do you mean? - To stay in the same room.
You can't just throw bombs out like, yeah,
we're gonna sleep in the same room.
- Okay. - I don't know what
"I don't have a problem sleeping
in the room with Brett" means.
If you wanna have a sleep over, you want to sleep
on the floor, I can sleep in the bed.
We can chit chat, could have done that,
but you have to say it.
- There are six bedrooms.
- Oh, there's six?
- Mm-hmm.
- So there's an extra.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
- I'll sleep with you, Johnny, if you want.
- Wait, so the two guys are gonna sleep in their own--
In one room and then the girls get their own rooms?
- Yeah. - Okay, let's do that.
[both laughing] - That's fine.
- Okay.
- Johnny and I are sleeping in separate rooms
because Johnny wants to work on building
the foundation of this marriage.
So I am sucking it up
to make Johnny happy
and do level one, and I am not happy.
- Good night!
- Good night.
- I am trying to make the best of a weird situation.
I'm trying to stay positive and have a good time.
My goal is actually to spend
as little time as possible with Bao
during couples retreat
and not get into any arguments.
I don't want to argue in front of the other couples,
I don't want to bring down the mood
of the couples retreat.
You guys haven't decided where you're at, or no?
- She's shown where she's at.
That's the only thing that's bothering me is that I
told Dr. Pepper I was gonna put in more effort and then,
simultaneously, with me saying I'm gonna
put in more effort, she checks out.
I wish I had been more vocal about my
expectations and hope going into the weekend.
I don't know that that would have changed
anything about our sleeping arrangements,
but it couldn't have hurt just to be more open about it.
- ♪ I'm full of self defeat ♪
♪ My problems on repeat ♪
♪ I need to find a break now ♪
♪ Not another let down ♪
- I feel like we're gonna end up sleeping on that couch.
- I think it's only fair that we do rock paper scissors.
- Best of one or best of three?
Do best of one.
- Best of one? - Yep.
- All right. - I can handle that.
- All right, yeah, here goes.
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
- Damn it! [laughter]
- Couch!
Get out of here.
- ♪ Keep digging deeper ♪
♪ Soon I'm gonna find myself ♪
♪ If I'm gonna get to heaven ♪
♪ First I've gotta live through hell ♪
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Who wants to party now, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- Ooh! - Ooh-wee!
- ♪ Who wants to have a little fun ♪
- There you go. - Hey, I found it!
- Y'all be stars, we'll be stripes.
- The loser takes a shot, loser takes a shot,
Rachel, how do you feel about that?
- Sure. - All right, let's do it.
- Babe, we're not gonna lose.
♪ ♪
- Come on!
- Oh, nice.
- All right, here we go. - Don't push it in,
if you make it, it's gonna go in.
Damn it!
- I tried not to, I didn't even touch it!
Man, that's--she's got a little competitive side.
- I told you!
- Here's this beautiful, short, little, sweet,
innocent, you know, wonderful wife,
but then she's got that competitive side.
- Catch all five.
- I think it's sexy.
- ♪ Go big or go home ♪
[laughter]
- Whoo!
- I found the swarm, yeah.
- Ah, babe!
- Come on, Michaela, you got this.
Let's go, Michaela, let's go!
- This is why I got married, to have these fun and silly
moments where it's just like, let loose,
let's just hang out and have a really good time.
We're even, right?
- Yeah, so you gotta make it, Rachel,
pressure on you, Rachel.
- Damn.
- So what kind of shot are y'all gonna take?
- Yeah!
Good game, good game.
- Good game, good game!
- Yes, you did.
- I--I did something, I contributed.
- We lost. - You want a shot?
♪ ♪
- You don't have to take it all in one hit.
That's delicious.
- We're gonna do tacos for lunch, Michaela.
- Guac is extra.
[laughs]
- When you sleep, do you move a lot, or you stay still.
- I move a lot, he does not, like, I'm all over the place.
- I go to sleep in one position,
I wake up in the same position.
She can go to sleep like this, and wake up like Jordan symbol.
I don't know what she doing in her dreams,
she thinks she's a kung fu fighter or something.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- Sit right here. - Hey, hey!
- I just put on a different dress 'cause
it's hot as [bleep].
- That is like a bomb burger and it's, like double meat.
I'm gonna burst open, I had three tacos.
- I did three tacos.
- You had three tacos, too?
- A little late lunch.
- A local spot that I always went to in high school.
- Oh, so you grew up near here?
- Yeah, I grew up like 15 minutes from here.
- So are there any unanswered things that y'all
feel like you need to get out, questions?
- For us, I think, going back to last night dinner
conversation about the brute honesty and respect,
I think me and Zack are are in a "I don't care" area,
and in that "I don't care" area,
I swear to goodness, we found the most--
Not only sarcasm, but love.
We like each other and I think we both--we both like
a challenge, and it's a bizarre feeling
because I've never felt anything like this, right?
Like, I've never put so much effort into
making sure somebody else was happy.
- It sounds like your husband's gotten to the point
of compromising and really meeting in the middle with you,
which--which is different from early on, it seemed.
- Yes. - I'm so happy for them,
but also I can't help but feel envious because that's not
what's going on with me and Johnny.
- But--and it does take, like, somebody wanting to also do it.
- I think we're actually in a good place,
even though we kind of had an issue,
like, a couple days ago.
So what happened, Michaela moved out.
That was like a very difficult situation just because, like,
I think, you know, by us sleeping in the same bed,
we've been like progressing, and I think if we don't
do that any more, then we're taking a step back.
So I'm essentially like, well, okay, well if
I'm not sleeping the same bed with you, I just want to, like,
go to my own bed, in my apartment
to get some comfort for once.
And so she was like, "Whatever, I don't really care."
So I did that, and she had a problem with me
doing that, and so that's why she left.
- Do you think she want-- She wanted you to,
you know, say, fight a little bit more?
- I think what she wanted me to do
was not leave in the first place.
So my thing is, well then if you just told me "don't leave,"
I'm not gonna--I promise you, I'm not gonna--
- He told her, and she said,
"Okay, do whatever." - Yeah.
- One thing I noticed about Zack and I's relationship is,
I don't know if you guys have seen, like,
Godzilla versus King Kong, or those kind of movies where
it's like--it's like a clash, like, somebody has to win,
nobody's going to submit, and it is a ceasefire for us,
somebody has to ceasefire, and I think that's what we're
learning right now is who's gonna stop.
- What I'm observing that you guys are able to get
to that point of realness and openness because you guys
have something that Brett and I
don't have in our relationships.
You guys have trust.
You have commitment from your partner, you know?
You might say something that will hurt him,
but you feel that he's there and in it with you.
- It takes two, always, you know and a girl,
in general, can only take so much.
You know, I've been in past situations where I'm like,
why am I so obsessed with someone that is
not giving me anything back, like, won't text me back,
won't do anything, yet I think the world of them,
like, I don't get it, and it's just this, like,
the rose colored glasses kind of thing, you know?
And thankfully, for me, it took a disagreement to be like,
"Okay."
After our big argument, you can call it,
it made me just put everything on the table.
I was like, you--you're getting to know polite Rachel who's not
gonna call you out on anything, but now any little thing,
I'll point out and he gets upset,
and I'm okay that he gets upset.
- At the beginning, I'm 100% me,
not a question, not a--not an insecurity,
this is who I am, take it or leave it.
The minute that that is rejected,
I go away.
- The last bit of hope I had was coming into this weekend
and I just needed anything to change us completely,
a change of scenery, a change of everything.
I need to just--I gotta try something different,
and that's why last night I was being open
to us staying in the same room,
and she immediately said,
"I'm not comfortable with that."
- Okay--hmm, okay, hold on, let's see.
So how is her not wanting to sleep with you here
different than you guys not sleeping together
at the apartment?
- Um...
That's a very great question.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
- Yeah, Bao and I have that--have that problem.
There's a difference in perception on what's
happening and that's where we get in a lot of our arguments.
I feel like I've also learned a lot about myself.
I've realized I'm a lot more emotional than I thought I was.
I thought I was like one cool--cool customer, you know,
even keel, and it turns out a lot of stuff affects me.
- I'm disappointed, I'm disappointed
in our marriage, but frankly,
I can be very specific, I'm disappointed in Johnny.
I'm mad, I can't help it, I'm mad, I'm irritated.
- Yeah, and you have every right to those feelings.
- I've been very patient in the face
of meanness, but I've had enough.
I got married because I wanted a husband,
I wanted a life partner, I want to start a family one day,
I want this whole future.
I replay our arguments over and over just to try
to think about what am I--am I triggering him,
am I saying something specific that--is it my fault
that he's blowing up and overreacting
and being a big drama queen?
And then I realized something,
which is kind of scary and chilling.
My parents have been married for 50 years,
and it's amazing, but there was some [bleep]
times back in the day, and as a child,
I remember when my dad was very
verbally abusive to my mom and it spiraled.
There was a period of time in my childhood
where it was really dark.
And I always imagined, I'm never going to put up
with this [bleep] one day,
I'm going to marry a man who's going to treat me right,
and I will never
allow myself to be treated that way.
But reflecting this past week,
I realized that I did yield
and back down so many times when my young child self,
from way back when,
would have said I would never do that.
I did that in this marriage,
I mean, it shocked me when I realized that,
that I just kind of devalued myself.
I can't do that anymore.
- Same.
- I came here for marriage, I came here for love,
I did not come here to be disrespected by a man
who's not worth my time, at this point.
- Yep.
- ♪ Trying to find the answers ♪
♪ Trying to find the answers ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey, there. - Hi.
- Howdy, those are some pretty horses.
- Thank you, this is Ladybug and this is Mojo.
- Mojo and Ladybug. - I want Ladybug.
- Yes, that's who you're riding.
- Okay, thank you. - Uh-huh.
- I'll go ahead and put you on Mojo first.
- Okay, do need to, like, pet him,
do I need him to sniff me first or something like that?
- Yeah.
- Hey buddy.
- When I was little, my mom is originally from
Chiapas, Mexico, and so it's like very rural,
and we used to ride horses when we went to visit,
and so I've always loved riding horses,
it's something that I really enjoy.
So it's something that I'm familiar with,
and so I'm excited to ride horses with my husband today.
- All right, so am I just here and then getting on?
- Yes sir.
- All right.
- There you go.
Now you can go ahead and just give her a kick.
- Let's go, buddy.
I feel like a whole cowboy,
but a horse is a very strong and powerful animal.
I do have a healthy fear of horses, but Myrla likes
horseback riding, and so I just got to suck it up.
I'm not gonna let fear control that.
- Okay, tell Mojo to go.
- Come on, Mojo. - Why is she backing up?
- Put your hands forward, there you go, just like that.
Good, now you can just follow Mojo.
She gets stubborn and she likes to stand in
this one spot in the arena.
There you go.
- Just roasting on the sun.
I don't like being in the back
'cause you're throwing me all the dirt.
- Well, your girl should have walked.
- I'm gonna need a shower after this.
Did you fart, Ladybug?
I think she farted.
- She will. [laughter]
- Lovely.
- So when we go out there, just make
sure to have a nice loose rein, okay?
- And they'll do pretty good with following?
- Oh, yeah. - Okay, good.
- Are you nervous, husband?
- Nah. - You sound a little nervous.
I want to go on an actual trail, husband,
I like it a little faster.
- It's all good, I like my pace.
- Are you scared?
- No, no, no, no, I have a healthy fear of horses.
- Okay. - Man...
- ♪ 'Cause I might be the one you're lookin' for ♪
♪ Try me ♪
- So they may speed up a little bit walking up this hill, okay?
Oh, yours is galloping.
Mine is like, eh.
- Good job, Mojo.
- Good job, guys.
- Howdy, ma'am.
- Howdy.
- Got the boots dirty,
I feel official now.
- That I don't like, but okay.
- That was fun.
- It was really short but it was fun.
I wish we could have gone faster on a longer trail.
- Are you ever satisfied with anything?
Myrla is very particular, even when she's
having fun, she's not having fun.
It gets under my skin because she says
she's open-minded and she's willing to do stuff,
but when it comes down to actually doing it,
she doesn't want to do it.
- It was fun, but I wanted to go on for longer.
- Is there ever, "It was fun, period"?
- It was--
- Ever, on anything? - Yes, all the time.
- No,
you sound like you're a brat
when you are not cooperative,
being difficult at times, when there's no need to be.
- This was fun.
- There you go. - This was fun.
- Do you feel okay with me saying that?
- Yeah, I receive it.
It's definitely hard for me to change overnight,
you know, blinking an eye, change.
It's difficult for me to do.
For me, it's
good for him to communicate
because I can't read his mind,
and so if he doesn't tell me what he's thinking or feeling,
then I don't know how to best react or act.
So being married is definitely an adjustment in that
aspect that like, oh, you have to be willing to compromise.
So anytime that he tells me something bothers him,
I always tell him like, noted, moving forward,
like, it'll change, and so for me, it's always
helpful to know because then I can change the behavior.
- You understand where I'm coming from?
Okay. "I receive it."
[laughs] - You can't copy me.
[laughing]
♪ ♪
- Is this good? - This it?
- This is it? - Who wants to go first?
- You! - I don't want to go first.
- You are going first. - Yee-haw!
- I kinda wanted people who haven't done it
before to go first so they don't get, like,
warmed up, they just jump right in.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- I love to skeet shoot, I'm happy to be in my element
and get to enjoy that with Brett.
Hopefully we can find some common ground here and bridge
the divide that we have between us right now.
- Let's be safe and have fun.
[gunshot cracks] - Ooh!
- [Bleep], all right, that's loud.
- It's supposed to switch over to the other one.
- I don't know if this is--if this is--
[gunshot cracks] - Okay, all right.
- Got it, now.
[gunshots crack]
- Somebody else is gonna have to go, though, yeah.
- We're easing in.
- Yeah, I'm just gonna watch for a little bit--
- Me too.
- At a safe distance and you guys kind of do the thing.
- Yeah, yeah, that. - I'll shoot another one.
[gunshots crack]
- I don't like sudden loud noises so,
like, champagne bottles, balloons.
It's like the anxiousness of, like, waiting for that noise.
- Who's up?
- All right, Bao first.
- Where's the safety on this-- Oh, this is the safety.
- They should be the same.
- Safety.
Okay, it's not gonna dislocate my shoulder?
- Careful, Bao. - Your safety's still on.
- She's a badass.
- What am I shooting at?
- Just--just get the feel for it first.
- Okay. - Good luck!
- Just shoot into the air.
[gunshot cracks] - Whoa!
[laughter]
- Okay, maybe it does kick a little.
- Oh, you can feel it.
- You okay? - Yeah.
- I'm here skeet shooting for the first time.
I've always wanted to do it, so this is my opportunity.
I'm gonna live it up, I'm gonna enjoy it.
Oh, there's a bug on me.
- You got a gun, you shouldn't be worried about a bug.
- It won't--okay.
- This is, like, funny and frightening
at the same time.
My hands are getting clammy.
- Mine are, too, honestly, Johnny.
- Oh, it's not going.
[gunshot cracks] - Oh!
- Oh, my God.
- What happened?
- I'm gonna die here today.
- Okay, let me know when.
- Bao is so adventurous and she's
willing to try anything that's thrown in her path.
It was fun watching. Yeah.
- You good? - Okay.
[gunshot cracks] - Did not hit it.
- Oh. - Do it again.
I wish there would have been more people
shooting today than just Bao and I.
I didn't see that coming.
Brett completely shut down, I don't know what happened
there, but that was a little disappointing.
I wanted this to be something we both want and do together.
- Ryan, I thought you did this before?
- I've done this a lot.
- Do you feel a little disappointed
in how this has played out?
- I definitely do-- [gunshots crack]
And I think he does, too, of course.
[gunshots crack] - Nope.
- We dove into, like, really deep conversations early
without being ready for those conversations
and being equipped with, like, the right tools
to have those conversations. - Absolutely.
- It seems like the root of a lot of our problems are
we don't trust each other, we have bad communication.
- I feel like, not exactly the same because I
feel like we're always civil, I don't think we've
had the--the fighting that you guys have had,
but we have the opposite of that which is like a--
[gunshots crack]
- Which is, like, no conversation.
- Are you--are you at a point where you think you need more
of that and that'll--that'll resolve things?
- More fighting? - No, more conversation.
- Definitely more conversation.
[gunshot cracks]
- What's your--I guess what's the best case
scenario, everything goes according
to the way that you want it to go?
- That we are able to be more honest with each other
and, like, say how we really feel.
- That sounds like a conversation
y'all should have.
- I think I tried to, but he's not direct.
- So he's, like, beating around the bush?
- A little bit, a little bit.
[gunshots crack]
- Ugh! - I can't hit it.
♪ I wanna run ♪
♪ Somewhere brand-new ♪
♪ Ooh, new ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ ♪
- What's up, Ryan?
- I guess I need to hear from you, like, what you think
is the best plan of action for us to do going forward.
I mean, why are you here, why am I here?
- I mean, there's a part of you that's just like,
let me just see.
Let me just see if there's something different.
Let me just see if I feel something different.
Let me see if he acts different
or if there's some type of connection.
- Yeah.
- I mean, your actions say you don't want to try,
your words are saying you do want to try,
and they don't line up.
[tense music]
I mean, when you said in front of Johnny and Bao
how you don't have a problem sleeping with me
and you're gonna sleep-- We're gonna sleep
in the same room, I was like, "What?"
♪ ♪
That didn't make sense to me.
We live in this apartment,
and we do not sleep in the same bedroom.
And his reasoning
is all these things about his sleep,
and there's no way to not take that personally
when someone removes themselves from your shared bedroom space.
So why on Earth would I randomly just be like,
"Yeah, that seems chill, we're gonna sleep in the same room"?
Why did you think we were gonna do that?
- I don't know, I went into this--I was
trying to be open about this weekend and--
- But you get how--how it's been,
and then just because we're at this place,
we're gonna sleep in the same room, all of a sudden?
- I was trying to be an adult about it and,
clearly, that wasn't my best option.
I can handle myself in scenarios like that
to where I don't have to make a scene about it,
and that's what we have now is an absolute scene.
- We have an absolute scene, you think?
- Well, yeah, 'cause--yeah, yeah we do.
- Why do you think that?
- I don't know how else-- You're gonna just---we're
having this conversation right now because of it.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, I guess I...
Was looking for any time to follow through
with what I said I was gonna do.
- You said that you were looking forward
to being here and being in your element.
- I said it could be only positive for us,
and it was very quickly the opposite of very positive.
- You go negative so fast. You think honesty is negative.
You say to call you out, well, when I call you out,
this is what happens, and that's the problem,
so I can't call you out on your [bleep].
- Yeah.
- When someone asks me for something,
or someone tells me what their boundaries are,
I respect them to the point of I ignore what I need.
So if you express to me that you need patience,
if you express to me that you need to sleep elsewhere,
I'm gonna give you that, no holds barred,
you can have it all, but what that does to me,
then, as a person, eventually, is I break down.
And I broke.
I know that within my heart, I was doing
everything under the sun to be open, to have conversations,
to be sweet, to be what I think a wife should be.
- And I acknowledge that I wasn't a lot of those things.
- To give space, you know.
- If I would do anything different, it would be to not
expect someone to take my actions for what I
think they should be perceived as,
because people need different things.
I don't know what the right thing to do is
at this point, as far as--
- The right thing to do is what you feel.
- I'm still--I'm not completely giving up on this,
I still know what I want in life,
I know I want a wife, none of that's changed.
They got me an incredibly good person.
She's amazing in a lot of ways.
I'm just trying to stay as open-minded as I--as I can,
and doing everything I can for this marriage to work.
Yeah, we're gonna go take a shot.
[laughs] - You want to take a shot?
- [bleep] right, we're taking a shot.
- Okay, let's do it.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Can't steal my love ♪
♪ I'm living my faith ♪
- ♪ Today feels like a walk in the park ♪
♪ I got this blank canvas, wonder where I should start ♪
♪ Before the lights go on I live my life in a dark ♪
- Like, when you think about marriage, like,
what is your idea?
- My idea of marriage is it's just like a situation
in which I'm very, very happy most of the time.
I understand there's ups and downs,
I understand there will be conflict,
but it's a situation in which I'm happy a lot of the time.
That's--that's, simply put, that's what I view marriage as.
- And that's the thing that you need, right?
Like, you need a consistent, like, feeling.
- From my perspective with us, like, I don't know,
I feel like my feelings have been consistent.
I think I've been pretty consistent, though,
this whole relationship. - Mm-hmm, you have.
- Whereas you, I feel like it just fluctuates.
- Because I'm trying, I think I'm the only
one trying to--to make something better.
- Hold up, hold up. - No, no, no, listen to me.
Week two, you shut down this relationship,
and you'll admit it.
- Wait, hold up, sorry, you said didn't try?
- If you've been on a consistent feeling
since week two, how could you have tried?
- If you don't know by now
how I felt, or how I've done this,
or how much effort I've given, then you just won't know.
- Again, back to, like,
what we talked about last night, like,
we already know what's happening with us,
we already do.
You and I have already decided what the end goal is.
- Even though Michaela and I talk through our issues
and things are feeling better for us, last night we had
a conversation about how neither of us
feels like ourselves,
and we decided that the best thing for us
would be to get a divorce, and then take a break,
come back together, and see if there's something there.
♪ ♪
- Marriage is a lot more work than we expected,
and perhaps we do have a little bit more inner work
that we didn't expect.
- I don't agree with, like, marriage is more work than I
thought it was going to be, that's not true.
Marriage with you was way more work than I thought
it would be, that's a big difference.
- Okay.
- So I just want to make sure that we're clear on that.
It's, like, I'm not like this naive guy that's like,
"Oh, it's gonna be rainbows and butterflies
all the time, it's not gonna be hard work."
No, I understand marriage is hard work, but when you say
like, it's harder work than we expected, that's because
of our situation, not because of marriage, the title.
- Yeah, so let me ask you this, if marriage with me is so hard,
then why even continue
any kind of relationship after this?
- If we got a divorce, right,
then we wouldn't be married anymore,
so then we would be in different circumstances,
so we'd see what happens then, that's why.
- I can't, I can't, I can't, I'm sorry,
[laughing] I [bleep] can't, I can't!
Yo, like, I can't make this [bleep] up!
He literally just said, like,
"Oh, it would be the different circumstance."
- My issue is this reaction.
This has been my issue since day one
and I'm literally, like, there is no way this is
happening to me, like, this cannot be real.
- So whether we're married or not, why would we even
be in a relationship?
Because I am still me.
- Inner me is just like, "Zack, why are you here?"
I'm starting to get mad.
- We get divorced, you think you'd be happy after that?
- Yes, because we would not be married anymore, so then we can
work on a relationship outside of this process--
- So who--who--
- I'm sorry, so not like--just hear me out.
- Okay.
- We talked about this exact conversation.
- We did. - What's changed now?
This is like-- - No, no, no!
- This is why my head hurts.
- No, no, no, do you think that removing
marriage from that would change the person that I am,
'cause that's the zenith of it all.
- In this process--
- Are you ready for marriage?
Answer the question, yes or no. - Yes, I'm ready for marriage.
- Are you ready for marriage with me?
- In this process, absolutely not.
- ♪ Where do you see this going ♪
♪ Where do you see your life heading ♪
- I've been ready for marriage since I was 17 years old.
Was I ready to do this, get married at first sight
to Michaela Iman Clark?
No.
I have no more energy, I have no more time to spend--
- Then get up and go-- Then get up and go.
- Okay, thank you. - All right.
- Like, I can't.
I wish I could, but I can't give no more.
- Yeah, bye.
- ♪ I'm so done, I'm so done chasing you ♪
♪ I'm so done, I'm so done chasing you ♪
- Damn. I can't stand this [bleep].
- ♪ I'm so done, I'm so done chasing you ♪
♪ I'm so done chasing ♪
♪ I'm so done, I'm so done chasing ♪
- Are you okay?
What happened?
- Last night, Zack literally said that marriage--
He is not ready for marriage and he needs to work on him,
and that's why he's not ready for it.
- I thought you guys were on the same page.
- We told everyone last night that we were good.
We were, at that moment, in a good space.
Honestly, looking back, I feel like maybe Zack was
just putting up a front because his behavior today
is different than what we talked about before.
Now, just now, he remixed the story,
and he was like, "No, I'm ready for marriage,
but I'm not ready for marriage with you."
♪ ♪
- I honestly, think your egos are getting in the way.
- I think so.
- You know, when love is in the picture,
I don't think you should let that get in the way,
and I know you're feeling like you need more,
and it's fair for you to share that,
but I don't think you should punish him for not being ready.
He might not be on your same timeframe, but if he's already
at love, that's a lot farther than a lot of us are.
- Yeah.
I do have abandonment issues, and he knew this about me.
- Okay, so he is not behaving the way you prefer,
but he is still in the relationship, is he not?
- Yes.
- Okay, so why would you push him away?
- ♪ No lies ♪
♪ We know this won't work, love ♪
♪ Oh, no ♪
- It's--the easy thing is to quit,
the harder thing is to work at it.
- Yeah.
- ♪ All I ever really wanted ♪
♪ Was you ♪
- Thank you.
♪ ♪
- Can we play Up?
Bao helped me come to a place where I'm ready to have
a conversation with Zack, and so going forward
on the retreat, I do want to continue to have fun,
and I'm going to stop self-sabotaging, as she said,
and I'm really just gonna try to be better as best as I can.
If we really love each other, if the love is true,
then we should try to make it work, I will 100% agree.
- Okay, we are going to play a game, okay?
So I need everybody to move into this area
and have a seat on this bench.
Listen, I love being in charge of the game
because it's kind of like in my wheelhouse.
Y'all remember, like, the high school yearbook, like,
most likely to succeed, most likely to be a model,
most likely to whatever, that's what we're doing.
- Okay, so no one wins?
- No one wins.
I know that not everybody's in the best place in their
marriage and in their relationships, but I think
with this group of people, we're all just, like,
willing to just make fun of each other
and it's no hard feelings.
The game is called
Married At First Sight Most Likely, okay?
- Got it, let's start.
- Who do y'all think is the most likely
to have kids first?
- Oh. Oh. - Oh, that's easy.
- I don't know.
[laughter]
- But you can't have kids, you're a man.
- All right, three, two, one.
- Oh, my gosh. - Ah!
- Oh, my God, I think it's unanimous.
- Rachel, you even said "me."
- Wow, that was unanimous.
- So maybe thank you?
I don't know how I feel about that.
- Most likely to end up in rehab.
[laughter]
- There were some shady questions in there.
Three, two, one, go.
- I spelled it wrong, but...
- What the hell!
[laughter]
- Hey, what the hell?
[indistinct shouting]
- So it seems like Johnny was the majority answer and I think
it was because yesterday you did this little--[sniffs]
- Yeah--hey, yeah!
- I was joking, I don't do drugs!
- Yeah, wow.
- Hey, look, if everyone doesn't have
the same answer to this, I'm walking out the door.
- That's a lot of pressure.
- No pressure, most likely to leave a party early.
- Oh, that's easy.
- That's not easy.
- She wants to leave right now.
- Most likely to leave a party early?
- Come on.
- You wanna start right here?
- Yeah, go ahead, Bao, Myrla.
- Myrla.
♪ ♪
- That is 1,000% accurate.
[laughter]
- Princesa!
- When I've had my quota, like, I'm done, deuces.
- Next question!
Okay, most likely to be a drama queen.
- Hold up. - Come on.
- I think this is gonna be difficult.
- Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who's the biggest drama queen of all?
- Johnny.
[laughter]
- My husband!
- Oh, my...
- Put a crown and everything.
- I'm sorry, I shouldn't be making fun.
- So last round.
- We're gonna make up our own question.
- Yeah, you can make your own question.
- Most likely to be petty.
- Why'd you look at me?
- I didn't.
- Most likely to be petty-- Oh, that's easy.
- Ooh, who wants to go first?
- I'll go, I said Rachel or Ryan.
- Ooh, I said my wife.
- She acknowledges it.
- But I love her.
- I said Michaela.
- Michaela.
- She seems like a very vindictive and--
And thought out person, like, I don't think she'll just--
If she's gonna get back at you, I feel like she's
taking batteries out the smoke alarm.
[laughter]
- That type of petty-- Petty, petty.
- [squeals]
- I'll take the [bleep] baseboards.
- Ice cube tray.
- [bleep] with me if you want to.
[laughter]
- She wanted a baseboard.
- I voted for Michaela as being petty
because she actually is.
- Petty.
- You thought you wanted dishwasher detergent.
You got a little agitator.
Yeah, you thought that you wanted that to spin.
- That was a great example of how petty she is.
Like, to me, that's category five,
and that's not what I want in a marriage.
♪ ♪
- So a very eventful day.
- I gotta check on my campfire.
- I'm tired.
♪ ♪
- Oh, we got a fire.
- Wanna sit and roll, just chill?
♪ ♪
- So what'd you think of today?
- The conversation we had earlier, it was just
kind of, like, unacceptable for me.
- Okay.
- So I just can no longer put myself in those
situations, that's not who I am, so yeah.
- I understand out there on the patio we were
talking and we're trying to figure things out.
I had a long talk with Bao, me and Bao, like,
we had a great conversation,
and I really connected with her.
We came back in and we talked to the other couples,
it seemed like we were having a great time.
- So my thing is, like, I realized during that
conversation, like, I've always thought this.
- During what conversation? Be specific.
- The last one we had outside.
- Okay.
- I've always kind of thought this, but like,
the things you were saying, were just like--
It's like--it's like you're two different Michaelas.
It's like you forget stuff that we've talked about.
- So what's wrong now, not going back to anything
because I haven't done anything to you since.
- These conversations don't help,
like, it's time to move on--let's move on.
- That's what I'm saying, like, you can literally,
like go home tonight.
[tense music]
- I honestly wish I would have driven up here by myself
because I figured you'd do [bleep] like this,
that way I wouldn't have to, like,
figure out a way back home,
'cause I don't want to ride back with you.
- Hold on, so wait, so let me get this straight,
so you're not gonna ride back with me tomorrow?
If that's the case, I'm going to leave tonight.
- Good, bye.
- No, no, I was making sure you're--
- Good, bye--bye.
- No, I came with you, I don't--
- Ah--go home now, I'll find a way home.
- No, but we rode together, I can't just, like, leave you.
- No, no, I'm telling you right now,
I don't need you to take me home, you can go, bye.
♪ ♪
I don't know what the [bleep]
happened tonight.
What did I do to you to make you say you wanted
to, like, be done tonight?
- Just, like--
- Like, literally, we were sitting out, there is literal
visual evidence of us cracking up laughing during this.
- I know, so that must mean I'm very serious when
I'm saying this right now.
- Yeah, that's why I'm confused on why,
like, you come back here.
You come back here, you're like, "I'll go home."
- You're telling me you don't want to drive with me anymore,
so under that circumstance, then I will leave tonight.
- But then you said, "Well, I don't--I'm not--
I don't want to ride with you."
So I was like, okay, well, then if you have a ride back.
- I'm sorry, I misunderstood, I thought
you were going home tonight.
- No, I'm not saying I'm leaving tonight.
- Yeah, I can ride with you back.
- You just said you wouldn't.
- So you--okay--so, as I--no, no.
- I can't do this.
♪ ♪
- Actually, honestly speaking, how about this--no, no,
honestly speaking, how about this, I'll make it even easier.
Shut the [bleep] up and let me talk.
How about this--how about this, we'll make it
very [bleep] simple.
I will say it loud and clear: you do not
have to worry about taking me back home.
- What are you doing, dude?
- Hey sissy, I am calling you to ask you if
you can pick me up from Brenham, Texas tomorrow.
Zackary is having a problem; I don't know what that
problem is, we had a miscommunication--
Give me the phone, please.
- Who is this--is this Shareefa?
- It's Shareefa. - What's happening?
- Okay, yeah, so we had a conversation today,
it didn't, like, go to--it wasn't the best conversation,
whatever, and I just realized,
like, I don't--like, I can't, like,
I kind of reached my limit with this whole conversations
and, you know, the same thing over and over again.
But--but anyway, Michaela will definitely
have a ride home, I made that clear, but--
- And Shareefa, that's the only reason
I called you; I only called you to get a ride home.
- You understand ten minutes ago
you said you do want to ride home with me
after I said all that stuff. Please--
- When the [bleep] did I say I wanted to ride home with you?
- Michaela...
♪ ♪
- Yeah, I can--I can ride with you back.
I'm sorry, I misunderstood.
I rode here with you.
I do not need you to get home,
I don't, not one bit.
That is why I called my sister.
- Me leaving the couples retreat
is nothing more than me just removing myself
from a situation I don't want to be in.
You know, I'm looking around just like thinking,
"How did I get here?"
Because, you know, this is not what I wanted,
and this is not what I expected marriage to be.
♪ ♪
- I definitely feel miserable and I really
don't have nothing else to say.
I think I've tried everything I could in this marriage
to work on us, myself, but it's just not enough.
♪ ♪
- Like, I don't like who you make--like, I don't like how
you make me feel or, like, who I'm becoming.
I'm like, I don't like myself right now,
and that's primarily because of you, it sucks.
[tense music]
I have to trust my gut, and my heart, and my mind,
I have to remove myself from the situation.
- I don't want you to drive out in the countryside,
it's not safe.
You're upset, you're not thinking straight.
I think you should go to sleep, take at least a nap,
wake up, and then go.
- Got it, so you're saying I'm not
thinking straight, what makes you say that?
- We're both tired, it is now 10:30, 11:00 p.m.
All I'm saying is I, me, I don't think you should.
You should go to sleep,
you can wake up in the morning, and then go.
- So I appreciate all that, like, seriously, like,
thank you, that means a lot, but I'm just, like,
I'm now finally just, like, saying, like, enough.
Like, you know what I mean, this is like--like as
soon as I get in my car on the way home,
I'm like, I will be unbelievably happy.
- So you do still plan on going home tonight?
- Yes. - Okay.
- Okay, so, what's up?
- But I want to ask you to stay tonight.
- I know, I hear you, I hear you.
- You don't have to sleep in the room with me.
- This never was about that. This never was about that.
Holy [bleep], Michaela,
this is, like, too much, dude,
this is, like, too much, come on.
- Then go the [bleep] home. - Thank you, damn.
- There he goes, [bleep].
Dumbass, leaving here at 11:00, to do what?
Go to Houston? The [bleep] is in Houston?
You can't sleep in that bedroom right now?
- Mm-hmm.
- Maybe I'll go like that. Remember that?
Kick it to the wall like this.
Remember not having to start this?
- I'm just about to leave. - Yeah.
- [indistinct muttering]
[door slams]
Please, I'm just trying to leave,
now you're making it harder for me to drive.
See, now you pushing on the bed.
- Go to [bleep] sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep!
- I saw a side of Michaela and a side of Zack
that I never expected to see.
- [indistinct]
I've not ever heard them yell at each other,
and the whole scenario was just shocking.
- I'm just, like, leaving.
- I know, it's okay, though, guys.
[talking over each other]
- I feel like your mama wouldn't let you
go this late, though.
- I'd just rather just leave now, but I just wanted
to say goodbye and I'll see y'all later, okay, cool?
- All right, brother, make sure you hit us up.
- I will.
Okay, dude, stop, stop.
- No, no, no, you can come with me, it's okay.
- God [bleep] --I don't like--
Is there anything I can do to let--
Like can I just leave?
I'm begging--can anyone--can you just let me leave, please?
I can drive back, guys, I promise you.
Please let me leave.
I'm not mad, I'm gonna be very happy
on the way home. Just let me--thank you, damn.
I will text you guys immediately when I get home.
- You gonna ride back with him, get in the [bleep] car, then.
- I will. - Get in.
- I will. - Then get in!
- Okay.
- Get in there right now, he's getting in the car--Ryan,
if you're saying it's not healthy, then get in the car
with him, 'cause he's [bleep] leaving.
- There's nothing we can do to make him not leave.
He's a [bleep] adult; like, what are we
supposed to do, like, lay under the car?
[tense music]
- We were talking to him until that happened.
[bleep]
[tense music]
[crashing and banging]
- There's a reason he's leaving
and that's the [bleep] reason.
[crashing continues]
- Get out!
Get out!
[door slams]
[somber musc]
- Last night, I woke up to Michaela coming
into my room and getting into my bed really distraught.
She said that they were getting ready for bed and Zack decided
he wanted to just leave in the middle of the night.
Michaela tried to sleep, but she couldn't,
so she called her sister.
Her sister came to pick her up early this morning.
I'm feeling for both of them,
and I hope that this upcoming week,
they are open to listening to each other
and that Dr. Pepper can help them.
♪ ♪
- With the retreat coming to an end,
we hope the couples have taken this time
to think about what they've learned from their spouse,
as well as what they've learned
from the other couples, because when they get back
to Houston, they'll have less than two weeks to decide
whether they want to stay married or get a divorce.
- Oh, the pancakes.
- ♪ So let's get up while we can ♪
- Good morning.
- Coffee? - Yes, sir.
- Good morning, guys.
- I'm counting--I'm counting, two, four,
six, eight, where's our ten?
- There was nine for a while and then we woke up to eight.
- You missed a--you missed a moment last night.
- An eventful evening.
- Gil stayed up later than you.
- Yeah, that's saying a lot.
- It is, and Myrla-- Myrla stayed up too.
- That's because Myrla had, like, eight smores.
[laughter]
- Can someone give me a recap?
- I don't know what sparked it, but they had a pretty
lively conversation for, it seemed like, a couple hours.
Bao and I tried to, like, calm him down
to see if we could get him into staying,
and--but, um, we kind of had it a little
de-escalated to an extent and then, yeah, Michaela came
out and started hollering and, yeah, it was a lot.
I just don't know how it goes from talking it out
to that much escalation.
- Mm-hmm. Tempers.
- It sounds like they were getting ready for bed and Zack
said, "I'm leaving right now."
So he had made up his mind.
- Yeah, 'cause he was quiet at dinner.
- He was.
- He was very quiet at dinner. - He was stewing.
- It was fun. - I loved it.
- I'm surprised about how much I enjoyed it,
I've never shot a big gun before in my life.
- I wasn't surprised you enjoyed it.
- I thought he was just hungry.
- But yeah, I don't know.
At some point, you can't keep separating
yourself from the situation.
- Yeah.
- He left recently, according to Michaela,
he left recently because she asked if he could please
sleep in the other bedroom and he got upset and he left.
- That's right, he did-- He did tell us that,
so he was like, "If I'm gonna sleep in another bedroom,
then I'd rather just sleep at my house."
And then she was like,
"Do whatever, do whatever you want."
So he gets his house and then she got mad
because he went to his house.
And I'm like, "Well you just said do whatever."
- She didn't tell me that part.
- I know women tend to say that and they don't mean it--
- Men do too.
- But that's why you got to say what you mean
and mean what you say.
- Facts.
- Some people will literally just be like,
"All right, cool."
- The funny thing is I did hear glass breaking last night,
but I thought y'all were just partying.
- Yeah, there was glass breaking.
- I don't know what broke, but it wasn't glass.
- It was a wine glass. I think she threw it.
- Yeah, I saw her, I saw her through the window,
I was out here.
- And then there were eight.
- Damn, man.
- We kinda started with eight.
- We did start with eight.
That was a nice little foreshadowing.
- That is true. That is so weird.
- The honeymoon crew.
- Damn, man.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Just come with me ♪
♪ Just, just come with me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I want you back ♪
- I think our little adventure will be ending soon,
back to reality.
Time goes by so fast, to think it's kind of go time,
it's not time to relax on our relationship.
- ♪ Just come with me ♪
- Michaela and Zack leaving the retreat altogether,
to see it blow up like that last night,
I was very surprised.
- They've now, unfortunately, missed out on a couple things.
You know, the honeymoon was one of the big things
and missing this day with us here on the farm is,
you know, a unique experience and opportunity.
- Yeah, after what happened last night,
I think if that was us,
if we got into another argument like that dramatic, to me,
you know, it was like, man, we're doing so good,
and here we are again,
a month later after it happened.
Like, that would definitely make me question things so
it's hard not to think back about what happened,
but I keep focusing on, with you, I feel loved.
- We know that things are gonna come up, and there may
be another blow up, but at least, I think,
going into, hopefully, issues that come up,
we can resolve those based on how we resolved...
- Yeah, I think pettiness can happen,
it just has to--we just have to be careful to not
get it to the point of being vindictive.
You know, sometimes you need to hash
out anything and vent, you know?
We can disagree on some things, but we've
really learned how to talk to each other.
Like, that's what love is.
I'm just so rel--I'm super happy we're where we're at,
how far we've come, you know, but I can't help but think
in the beginning we were so great and then something
crazy happened like that, you know, so...
- We continue to keep learning about each other
each and every single day. - Mm-hmm.
- And we'll have to see what happens
in the next couple of weeks.
There's a lot to think about, a lot to process.
- ♪ Take it day by day ♪
♪ Day by day ♪
♪
- Say, "Bye, Barndominium."
- Bye, barn.
- Couples retreat is wrapping up, so this also means
that there's only a couple more weeks until Decision Day.
Things are going good with my wife and I,
but the way she acts sometimes can be a little bratty,
and these are things that I need to consider
if this is something I want for the rest of my life.
♪ ♪
- Bye, Bluebonnet.
- Bye, 12 Armadillos.
♪ ♪
- A little piece of me is a little relieved that
there was other focus last night other than us.
- Oh, other than you and me? - Yeah.
- Michaela has a lot going on in there,
and her feelings are valid,
and I can understand how
she would feel that it's unfair.
But at the same time, I can also see what--
I mean, others can see the--the escalation,
which isn't fair for Zack, either.
- Yeah, zero-- Zero to a hundred.
- Yeah, but I know they're both hurting and I feel
really bad about it.
- The Jersey Barnyard.
- This is cool.
- Ooh, look, a longhorn!
Wow!
- We are visiting the Jersey Barnyard
today with the other couples.
I think it's exciting for people who are from the city
and have never been to, like, rural towns or ranches.
Go and be with the goats and step
on little pebbles of poop and like...
[goat bleats]
- Who's most ready to do things?
- Yeah, man! - Yeah!
- I feel at one with nature. I don't look like I do...
[laughs]
- Meh.
[goat bleats]
- Oh, this is one's so pretty.
- Yeah, right, you just leave this on right?
- You can get it, good goat.
- This guy's aggressive. - Yep.
- Everything is food, they keep trying to eat Bao's dress.
- Hey, oh no!
- Bao's dress is so delicious.
- Oh, my god, they want to eat me.
- Oh, you're so cute.
- Look at the donkey.
How do you get the pony to come over?
- You don't know how to call a pony?
- No. - Yeah, me neither.
[smooching]
- That would be a good call.
- From here, you know, the focus just should
be like how it was today.
- I think we will make the most of this going forward.
I just can't make excuses for not
having conversations, whether it's for the right
intentions or not, it's just timing.
There's never gonna be perfect timing for them.
I feel like we can continue to roll with how today was,
hopefully, and have as much fun as we can with it.
This has been one of the most relaxed days
I've had with Brett in a long time,
and I'm pretty confident that we'll keep that up
and just have fun with this
and enjoy it as much as we can with each other,
and I think that's much healthier than we have been.
- We're on the same page. Look at that.
- You seem like a natural out here.
- I love it.
- One thing I appreciate about you this weekend
is you go for everything.
I mean, the skeet shooting, doing this,
and you really enjoyed yourself.
You know how to have fun.
It was nice to see.
- It's nice embracing the opportunities.
I'm learning something about this whole experience,
is that there's always something to appreciate.
There's always a positive side.
There's moments in our marriage that have not
been the happiest, but I'm still finding a lot
of opportunities to appreciate the journey with you.
- I mean, obviously, we're not lovey-dovey like the two
couples, but I think this is what works for us right now.
- Mm-hmm..
I feel like level one conversations are working
for us because we're keeping it light hearted,
we're keeping it positive.
- I think that's the recipe for success
going forward.
- I agree, we are on the same page.
I feel like for the first time in our marriage,
we're solidly on the same page.
This is a great weekend, Johnny and I have not argued
once, largely because we're not interacting.
I'm talking some [bleep] now.
So it's a win-win for both of us.
Let's head out.
[goat bleats]
♪ ♪
- Next time on "Married At First Sight"...
- Whoo!
With only two weeks left until Decision Day...
- How does that feel to share all of that?
- It feels good.
- Our couples will have the opportunity to show
their roots as they try to build an even
stronger bond with their partner.
- It left me feeling good at the end.
I feel better in the past week than I have been a long time.
- I never brought anybody here.
- And I just want him to know, I love you.
[dramatic music]
- I recently had a conversation
with Bao's best friend, Sarah.
Things that I would say would be very damaging.
- Got a text from a friend that showed
that you are on a dating app.
♪ ♪
- I'm gonna say something, basically, I'm gonna regret.
- It was not, you know, something I wanted to hear.
Trust has always been a non-negotiable for me.
♪ ♪