- This year has put us all through it.
- ♪ Went from a ball and chain ♪
♪ Now you want a bullet in my skin ♪
- No peace!
- No justice! - No peace!
- Relationships, more than anything,
have been tested during this time.
- High-five.
- Stuck in the house with the kids,
trying to keep it sexy and sane at the same time.
- Some couples thrive,
but some are hanging on by a thread.
- It's a divorce party, y'all.
- So I reached out to all of my friends
that was going through some kind of challenge
in their relationship,
and I decided to plan a couple's retreat.
- ♪ Ooh, when you look like that ♪
♪ Hitting the floor thinking, Oh, my God ♪
♪ Ooh When I move like me ♪
♪ You're dancing in my bed ♪
- I told them this was a break from our normal daily lives.
- He's eating off your toes!
- We are putting the phones to the side.
- Oh, Lord.
- But this is not just a vacation.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I got you ♪
- I planned a full week of challenges...
We are going to see how well we know each other.
Games...
- We're going to enhance our sexual energy
by doing thrusts.
- And special guests.
- Hey, what's up? - Hello.
- Hi, everybody. - Meet my friends.
- I'm AJ Johnson. I want you think about--
where are you now? Where do you want to be?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Her behavior says, "I'm not really cool with it all."
- I'm tired of looking stupid.
- I ain't got time for that [bleep].
We're stuck here. - Stuck?
- Does Yandy feel unsupported?
- This [bleep] is dumb. It's super-duper dumb.
Go back home. Cut scene.
- This trip is about understanding each other.
- You called me stupid 20 times.
We're done? Okay.
- And at the end of the week,
each couple will have to decide
how are they gonna move forward
or if they're going to move forward.
- I'm sorry. - We are here to tune out
all the noise from our daily lives,
work, social media, kids,
and really look into each other's eyes,
work through our issues
and remember why we fell in love in the first place,
just grown folks doing grown things.
- What are you doing? - Bye-bye!
[all cheering]
- ♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Yeah-eah ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Gotta love, gotta love, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hgotta love ♪
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h- ♪ Hey, boy What you got for me ♪
♪ What you got in store, \h\h\h\h\h\hoh, oh, oh ♪
[Sia’s "Hey Boy" playing]
\h\h\h\h\h- Don’t eat it yet! We got to wait for everybody.
- Well, I had to taste it.
- Oh, my God. Here you go.
- How you going to serve something you don’t know
what it taste like?
- Don’t taste nothing else,
Mendeecees.
\h\h\h\h- I’m Yandy. - And I’m Mendeecees.
\h\h- And we are... both: The Harrises.
- This could be our last dance \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor a while.
I love you.
- I love you too.
- Mendeecees came home
from a 5-year prison sentence \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin January,
and then, boom...
- Seven, six, six.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. We were stuck in a pandemic
\h\h\h\h\h\hand forced to be virtual homeschool teachers.
- Ah, [bleep]!
[children yelling]
Ever since I been home,
my kids been over excited. \h\h\hThey been jumping me,
\hbeating me up, been abusing me.
- So, yeah, we’re going \h\h\h\ha little crazy.
We haven’t been alone together \h\h\h\h\hsince he’s been home,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand we have a lot of catching up to do.
- They’re standing right there. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey!
- Look at you! \h\h- Welcome!
\h\h- We all got green on. - I’m so glad you made it.
- My name is Michael Blackson, \horiginally from West Africa.
This my girlfriend, Rada.
- Mike and I have been together \h\h\h\h\hfor almost two years.
- Like Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Look at my village right there. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[indistinct]
[laughter]
I’m a stripper. \h\h\h\hNo, no.
\h\h\h\hComedian for about over 20 years.
Come here, you punk bitch!
Look at this bootlegger Migos.
You ain’t Quavo. \h\h\h\hYou Jose!
- I’ve followed Michael \h\h\h\h\h\h\hforever.
\h\hWhen he showed up to my birthday party,
\h\h\h\hI fell in love with how funny he was,
and I knew I had to meet \hhis significant other,
Miss Rada.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWe have some really fun things planned.
- Does it involve sex?
\hBecause that’s what I want to--
- We want a lot of sex. \h\h- Okay. Thank you.
- He talked about making \hbabies, and I was like,
"We’re not making babies."
- In this relationship, \hI think I run things.
It’s the African in me \h\h\h\hto take charge
and take control as the man.
If somebody came here \h\h\h\h\h\hright now
and tried to kidnap us,
then I’d put her in charge, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut--
- But who’s always \h\hon top, though?
\h\h\h- Well, you get on top when you’re ready to [bleep].
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI get on top when I’m ready to [bleep],
so we both get on top.
\h\h\h\h- I think you guys will make beautiful babies.
\h- It’s going to be a hard-working baby,
half Cambodian, half African.
That’s the hardest-working baby \h\h\h\h\hever that we created.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou know, I got this call from Yandy
about this couple’s retreat.
I said it would be the perfect \h\h\h\h\htime for me and Rada
to try to fix our issues.
’Cause at that time,
we weren’t speaking \h\h\hto each other.
\h\h\h\h\h- I blocked you. - Oh, so you did block me?
\h\h\h\hBut not for Instagram. Did you block my phone number?
- I think so.
- Oh, now you want to tell the truth.
- We got some more people here!
- Hey, guys. \h\h- Hello.
\h\h- Hey. Hey, Kirk.
- Thanks for the invite, girl.
\hYou must have been channeling my inner "bitch need a break."
\h\h\h\h- Honey! - Hi, beautiful.
- Hey, guys.
\h\h\h\h\hWhat up, y’all? It is your girl Rasheeda.
- And I am Kirk Frost.
- And we are the Frosts.
\h\h\hKirk and Rasheeda, we been doing our thing,
you know, holding it down.
- The OG couple of Atlanta.
- I’m such not a thug, am I?
- How are the babies? \h\h\h- They’re good.
They got my big baby-- - How old are they now?
- You know, my oldest son \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\his 20.
He moved out on us \h\hand everything.
- He moved out?
Then you started \hall over again.
- All over because Karter is 7. \h\h\hImagine having a newborn.
\h\h\h- No. - I can’t.
\h\h\h- Up all night, already busy as hell.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Nope. Don’t want to imagine.
Do you want babies?
- I’m open to it, you know? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
- We’ve talked about it.
- Y’all going to have some \h\h\h\h\hpretty-ass kids.
You know that, right?
- I was just thinking \h\h\hthe same thing.
- Girl, your babies are going \h\h\hto be cute as [bleep].
- Beautiful. \h\h\h- Yes.
- Thank you.
\h- You hear us, Michael? We talking about babies.
- Y’all going to have \h\h\hsome cute kids.
- [laughs]
- Yandy, what is that \h\h\h\h\hyou eating?
- Prosciutto. \h- Oh, okay.
- Sound like something that’s \hgoing to come out your ass.
What is that?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Un-uh. - I’ve never heard of it.
- Hello!
- Hello.
\h\h\h\hall: Hey. - How you doing?
- Hey, London!
- The world knows me \h\h\h\has Deelishis,
but I am London Santana.
\h\h- And I’m Raymond Santana. both: And we are the Santanas.
- I first saw Raymond on "When They See Us,"
the series where they told
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe story of the Central Park Five,
\hwho were wrongfully convicted of a crime,
\hand they spent between 7 and 14 years behind bars,
and so I was connected \h\h\h\h\hto the story,
and then Raymond was connected \h\h\h\h\hto me based on what?
- "Flavor of Love."
[dramatic music]
I went and looked \hon my Instagram,
\h\h\hand I saw that she was following me,
\h\hso I was flattered, so I followed her back.
- He double tapped \hall of my photos.
- Not all of them.
- I’m like, "Wait a minute. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHold on.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI think you a little attracted to me."
- Yeah. I couldn’t help myself. \h\h\h\h\h\hI just kept going.
- Good to see you. \h\h- How are you?
\h\h\h\h\h- Hi. - This is Rada.
\h\h\h- Hi, Rada. You’re beautiful.
- Thank you. You are, too.
- Nice to meet you, too. \h\h\h- Nice to meet you.
\h\h\h\h- By the way, unlike my ex-husband,
\h\h\h\hthis one will not try to knock you down the stairs.
\h\h- Yeah, I hope not. - Ray, this is Michael.
Michael, this is Ray. - It’s a long story.
\h\h\h\h\h\hWe’ll talk about it later, please.
\h\h\h- Oh, my God. - Her last [bleep]
tried to kill me. \h\h\h\h\hPlease.
\h\h\h\h- Michael and I were good friends back in the day.
I starred in one of his movies.
- Your mama is a bitch, bitch. \h\h- Both of you are bitches.
How about that?
- Kiss my bitch ass. \h\h\hHow about that?
He came by to show me \h\h\hthe final edit.
\h\hMy ex-husband was there, and, ugh, it did not go well.
- Her ex-husband thought I was sleeping with her.
Next thing you know,
I’m getting thrown \hdown the stairs,
people jumping out the window.
\h\h\hIt was very ugly. Just go read about it.
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ ♪
- I’m Ray J.
\h\h\h\hI’m married to a beautiful lady
named Princess Love,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand we made two special human beings.
We’re forever together,
\h\h\h\hbut the relationship is a little rough right now.
- I don’t want to be married \h\h\h\h\h\hanymore, period.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMy name is Princess Love Norwood,
\h\h\hRay J is my husband, and he’s a pain in the ass.
It’s a divorce party, y’all.
- We are on live right now. You know what she’s doing.
\h\h\h- ♪ You think you know me better ♪
\h\h\h- The world is familiar with our rocky relationship.
I filed for divorce, and then, \h\h\h\ha couple months later,
I withdrew my divorce,
\h\h\hand then we got in a little argument,
and then he goes and files.
\h\h- ♪ It’s something that you’re missing ♪
- I filed for divorce \h\h\h\ha month ago,
and we haven’t talked about
what’s on the other side \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof that.
We need to figure this [bleep] out.
\h\h\h\hI think Yandy invited Princess and I
\h\hbecause I feel like she knows we need help.
[upbeat music]
- A couple’s retreat might be \h\h\h\hthe best thing for us.
\h\h\h- Yay! You made it!
♪ ♪
- Just fine, baby. \h\h\h\hThank you.
♪ ♪
- Princess, you had a baby? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I had two.
- I know. Where? \h\h\h\h\h- Girl!
- You look amazing.
- I said that I would give it \h\h\h\h\h\h\hone last chance,
so we’re in a space right now \hto where we’re just trying
\h\h\h\hto figure it out, and I feel like this trip
will determine the outcome \h\h\hof our relationship.
♪ ♪
\h- This trip is mainly about the togetherness, and, honey,
come over here real quick. \hSee how we set the tone?
- You want to get close to me? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Here we go.
We wanted to put this trip \h\h\htogether with people
\h\h\hthat we could just really enjoy,
\hlearn from, and maybe even we could all help each other,
because we need help.
But I also wanted to have \hsome real conversation
and get to know each other \h\h\h\hon a deeper level.
\hSo I wanted us to have a dinner,
and I want the dinner \h\h\h\hto represent
\hwhat beautiful Black love means,
\hand that’s just loving in color.
Wear colors that represent \h\h\h\h\h\hwhatever it is
that Black love means to you.
Let’s put on some colors \h\h\htonight for dinner.
After you do whatever you guys got to do--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhe wants people to make babies on this trip.
\h- I’m with that. That sounds great.
- We just had a baby.
- I’m going to have exit \h\h\h\hout of that one.
\h\h\h\h\h- Well, listen, at least make love then.
If you ain’t making babies, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmake love.
- That sounds great. \h\h- In the moment.
- The couples that get \h\hthe answers wrong,
they have to take a shot.
\h\h\h- Who, him? - Both of y’all.
\h\h\h\h- No! He was wrong!
- This finna turn into \h\ha whole situation.
\h\h\h- Right. - That was Ray!
- As much as I want this \h\h\h\hto be a vacation,
I have a relationship \hlife coach coming.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hi! I’m AJ, everybody.
I want you to think about--
\h\h\hwhere are you now? Where do you want to be?
And that starts tonight. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Tonight?
[dramatic music]
- We’ve been in a place \h\h\h\h\hwhere [bleep]
was just [bleep] up.
- You’re still talking \h\h\h\h\hall business.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Thank you. - We’re always fighting.
- Where did the love come from? \h\h\h\h\h\h\hCould it be lust?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No. We don’t have sex.
♪ ♪
- ♪ You are my favorite ♪
♪ Baby, you are my favorite ♪
♪ All this cash, here, take it ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
- I like this room. \h\h- You like it?
- Yeah, and if for any reason, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou happen
to get on my nerves--
- Done.
- [laughs] I’m just joking.
- Okay, I’ll tell you what.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLet’s plan on none of that happening
and us having a great time.
- We’ve been married 20 years, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hso, you know,
we the big dogs on here.
\h\h\h\h- Period. We the bits now.
\hWe got to show a little experience in this thing.
\h\h- Yeah. - [laughs]
I’m not the one to sit here \h\hand think I’m the damn,
\h\h\hyou know, therapist of all love or something,
\h\h\h\h\h\hbut at this point, I do feel like Kirk and myself
\h\h\hcan give people some sort of advice.
I mean, we’ve been through \hsome pretty heavy stuff.
- Somebody said you got a baby \h\h\h\h\hwith some chick and--
- What?
- I’m thinking it’s a joke.
- So she just making up \h\h\h\h\h\hlies then?
- Yeah, of course.
\h\h- I would hope that she would be.
- Yeah, I did lie.
Did I [bleep] around? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYes.
- I might not be perfect, \h\h\h\h\h\hbut God damn!
I’m the type of bitch \h\h\hyou want to go
\h\h[bleep] a bitch at the strip club?
That’s what I get?
That’s what I get \hfrom my friend?
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h- We’ve been through so many things
that you never know
what we could probably maybe possibly instill.
- Listen to Ray J.
\h\h\h\hIt’s just seeming like it’s just all hell broke loose.
- Yeah.
- You definitely got \h\hthe better room.
You got the bigger tub. \h\h\hYou get all that.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Oh. That’s your room.
It is a little weird being the only couple
on a couple’s retreat who are sleeping in different rooms.
\h\h\hEven though Ray and I are going through a divorce,
\h\h\h\h\hwe are still living under the same roof together.
I mean, we’re still a family.
We’ll always be family \h\h\h\hno matter what,
and our main priorities \h\h\h\h\hare the kids.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHell, yeah. This is my room right here.
They got my clothes on the bed.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Get off of me.
Ray, no, you don’t get that...
With your running around doing, \h\h\hyou know, God knows what.
[melancholy music]
\h\h\h\h\h- You throwing shots. Can we not throw shots tonight?
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\hCan we try to act, like, civilized
\hat the dinner, like-- - So I’m not civilized?
♪ ♪
- You know, it’s been \h\h\h\h\ha nightmare
going through a divorce \hand living together.
I want to be friendly.
\hI want to be loving, but then she flips out
\h\hand says that I’ve been sleeping with other people.
We are here for a reason.
I’m trying to figure out \h\hwhat your reason is.
- I feel like this is \h\h\hthe opportunity
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto really, like, give it our last try.
♪ ♪
I mean, I wouldn’t be here \h\hif there wasn’t, like,
a little bit of hope. You know what I mean?
- And I’m ready to work
\h\h\h\h\htowards making this relationship right,
you know?
I wanna be with Princess.
I wanna be in a household
where my kids have \h\h\htheir mother
\h\h\h\h\hand father there every single day together.
\hThat’s what I want. That’s what I dream.
- But if we’re gonna \h\h\h\h\hbe together
or we’re gonna try to make \h\hit work for our babies,
whatever it is,
\hI’m ready to just do it, so we can just be at peace.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
[spacey music]
- Our relationship \h\hmoved so fast.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - But God took a very long time
sending love my way at 42 \h\h\h\hand yours at 46.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- 46. - Raymond Santana.
\h\h\h\h\hWho wouldn’t fall in love with him?
\h\h\hWe got married during the pandemic.
We are very, very new.
We are truly newlyweds.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThis is like an unofficial honeymoon for us.
It’s a long time coming. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
- But the timeline... \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Is very, very short.
We went from meeting...
\h\h- Yeah, dating. - Dating, engaged.
- Uh-huh. To... \h\h- Marriage.
Pregnant, miscarriage.
Raymond and I--we weren’t \h\htrying to be pregnant,
but we did get pregnant. \h\h\h\h\hIt seems like,
as soon as we said, \h\h\h"I do," boom.
We only went through 8 weeks \h\h\h\h\hof enjoying that,
and then we lost the baby.
\h\h\h\hI don’t think that I was prepared,
\h\h\h\hand it was so good that my husband was there.
\h\h\h- Life for me as a 14-year-old kid
\h\h\hand going to prison for something I didn’t do
was devastating
because I have this big gap \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat’s gone
from 14 to 22,
and it’s replaced with prison life.
It’s deeply embedded.
So now I know what I want,
and once I found it, \h\h\h\hit was like,
"I’m just going to get in. \h\h\hThat’s it. Let’s go."
For me, it’s just about for us \h\h\h\h\h\h\hto keep growing.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - Keep connecting.
- Mm-hmm.
- Keep having our marriage \h\h\h\h\h\hblossom, right?
We can learn something new \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hevery day.
- We’re the newlyweds here. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Although I don’t know \h\h\h\h\h\h\hhow long
Mike has been with her.
- Yeah.
- What’s her name?
\h\h\h\h- I have no idea. - Oh, no. We’re terrible.
- Yeah.
- We can’t keep calling her \h\h\h\h\h\h\hMike’s girl.
- Yeah, you can’t.
- God, man, everybody looks \h\h\h\h\h\hso good, though.
\h\h\h\hDeelishis look-- I mean, I ain’t seen her
in a very long time. \hShe looks younger.
Husband seems like a really nice dude.
- I don’t know anybody here, \h\hso I’m kind of nervous.
Michael and I have our rough patches,
but I will open up
and do whatever it takes \hto get our relationship
\h\hto that next level and to a better place,
and if I have to drag \h\h\h\h\h[bleep] out
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin public to do it, I don’t care.
- Poor Ray J.
- They don’t look happy. Are they okay, you think?
- [sighs]
I know Ray J, and I also know
the Shade Room version of him
and Princess,
but regardless all of that, I like this guy, you know?
He’s like a brother.
We’re like brothers, and I just \h\h\h\h\hwant him to be happy.
I want him to see that-- \h\h\h\h\hmake this work.
I feel bad for him,
but that’s why they’re here, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hto work it out.
- Maybe we can learn something. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- What?
- I mean, I didn’t think
you would come back \hafter I left you.
- You ran away. \h\h\hYou left.
\h\h\h- A few weeks before all of this,
Michael and I had broken up,
\h\h\h\h\hand I told him, "I’m never coming back."
\h\h- You left on something that we already agreed on.
- No, no.
What caused this is a side bitch.
\h\h\h\hShe’s trying to get in the middle of our little thing
that we’ve got going on.
You keep changing the rules on me.
That’s why.
You told me that when we do bring somebody to hang out,
I get to pick too.
\h\hIt’s a little more complicated than that.
It’s not that we had another \hwoman in our relationship.
\hIt’s that I didn’t like this one particular woman
\h\hbecause, fun fact, we’re into threesomes and foursomes
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand fivesomes, like, really, really into them.
- Yeah, but you always try
\h\h\hto pick chicks with no ass, no body.
- No!
I was trying to pick chicks \hthat are classy and cute.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Man, classy? You trying to marry this bitch?
\h\h\h\h- No, but I got to spend time with her!
- I just know that \hthe contract is,
we do threesomes once in a while,
and maybe if I’m on the road \h\h\h\h\h\h\hor if I’m home
\h\h\h\h\hand she’s not around, I can get a chick to come over,
but she has to kind of, \hlike, know who it is.
- That’s part of honesty,
and your definition of "once \hin a while" is kind of off.
- You got to pick somebody \h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat I like.
You don’t be trying to pick \h\h\h\hnothing with a ass
as big as yours or bigger.
- What are you talking about?
\h\h\hSome of the chicks are pretty with big asses
\h\hthat I’ve brought to hang out with us,
but I just don’t like it \h\h\h\h\hwhen you, like,
tell me somebody is coming
and then surprise me, \h\h\h\hand I’m like,
\h"The [bleep] farm did she come from?"
I am all human resources.
\h\h\h\h\h\hI get to accept and reject any application,
\hand I don’t always have to be an equal-opportunity employer.
[laughter]
- ♪ You might think \h\h\h\hI’m crazy ♪
♪ The way I’ve been craving ♪
♪ If I put it quite plainly ♪
♪ Just give me them babies ♪
- Oh, this is cute.
\h\h- Yeah. It’s nice.
[champagne bottle pops]
- Hey! - Hey!
Come get some drinks.
- ♪ I don’t want to keep you up ♪
- Hey, there.
\h\h\h\h- ♪ Show me, can you keep it up ♪
- Cute.
\h\h\h\h\hIt really feels good to be able to kind of sit back
and let loose and go forward
and don’t be scared of whatever it is Yandy got up her sleeve.
\h\h\h- I’m really excited about this trip, you know,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hus being around other couples, married couples,
not-so-married couples. \h\h\h\h\hI need that.
- ♪ ’Cause then I’ll have \h\h\h\h\hto keep you up ♪
- Hey, hey. \h\h- Hey.
- How we feeling?
- What I expect from the trip \h\h\h\his a fun, great time.
I’m looking forward to spending \hsome quality time with Rada.
- Is that real?
\h\h\h\h- [gasps] - Is that a bear?
- That’s a big [bleep].
\h- Come on, guys. Let’s have a seat.
[chatter]
- I couldn’t sleep with that \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the room.
- A bear. \h- Dang.
Imagine that running, jumping \h\h\hand running after you.
- My homey stuffed his dog. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLike, damn.
You got these dead dogs in the house like that.
- I would stuff Ray.
- So thank you guys for coming tonight.
Tonight...
I’m just playing. \h\h\h[laughter]
\h\h\h\h\h- I was like-- - I thought that was Ray.
- Come on, Pastor Ray. \hBring it over to us.
- Before we sit down \h\h\h\h\hfor dinner,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI have a fun little game prepared.
\h\h\h\h\hWe are going to see how well we know each other.
You guys have a little bit \h\h\h\h\hof an advantage.
- That’s not true.
\h- We’ll see. I think you do.
We’ll see, but this game is gonna have a little twist.
The couples that get \hthe answers wrong--
they have to take a shot.
- You might want to lose. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h[laughter]
- Lord.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. So I am unleashing the dragon.
- I’m confident that we’re \h\h\h\h\h\h\hgoing to win
because we know each other. \h\hWe’re new. We’re fresh.
We gonna win this game. We got this in the bag.
[playful music]
- First question:
Which was the best date \hyou’ve ever been on?
\h\h\h- You better get it right, baby.
[tense percussive music]
- We’re gonna start \h\h\h\hover here.
Cancun, Mexico.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mine says Pappadeaux Seafood spot.
First time I kissed you was at this restaurant.
\h\h- No. [buzzer]
- Are you serious? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Take a shot. \h\h\h\hThanks.
\h\h\h- Who, him? - Both of y’all!
- No, he was wrong!
\h\h\h- This finna turn into a whole situation.
- All right. All right. \h\h\h- Down the hatch.
- [whistles]
\h\h\h\h- I said, first date was our best date, in Miami.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I said the dream hotel night.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[buzzer] That hotel in New Guinea?
\h\h\h- [imitates buzzer] - I know, but that was--
\h\hour first date was much better than that.
- Y’all can talk about that later.
Go ahead.
- Remember Lexington, [Indistinct] my car?
\hShe signed my car and took a picture.
\h\h\h- Oh, you ready? - I cannot believe it.
- I guess.
\h- And me and you kissed when they was in the car.
- Oh, there we go. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h- All right. Rasheeda, Kirk?
- Waffle House. \h\h\h\h\h- Ah!
- What you got? - Waffle House!
- Okay!
- Bro, you romanced her \hat the Waffle House?
- Princess, Ray J?
- What is it?
- Miami. \hMiami.
- Miami! \h\h- Oh!
\h\h\h- Yay! I love that.
- I put a steak house that you took me to.
\hWhat is that? What you wrote?
- Bedroom. \h[buzzer]
- That’s not a [bleep]-- \h\h\h\hthat was a date?
[laughter]
[indistinct commentary]
- We are going to see how well \h\h\h\h\h\hwe know each other.
Okay.
How many times did you have sex
\h\hthe first night you slept together?
[percussive music]
- One. - One.
- Okay, so same answer.
- What you got? \h\h\h- Three.
- Oh, okay. \h\h\hDamn.
\h\h\h- Twice. - Three times.
[buzzer]
- Yo, you were dreaming \h\h\h\hat that point!
- So Deelishis and Raymond \hweren’t actually in sync
like they thought they were.
- Take a shot. \h\h\h\h- Yeah!
- No, no, no! \h\h[buzzer]
- You’re getting us both \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin trouble.
[buzzer] \h- Shot.
[buzzer]
- Y’all got to tighten up.
[buzzer] \h- Yeah!
- Is this game rigged?
- How the couple that already \h\h\h\h\h\h\hare divorcing--
how they winning?
[buzzer sounding]
- Go for it, baby.
- Y’all killed this game.
[bell dings]
\h[buzzer] - Damn it!
- Y’all got it wrong.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Whoa! - And our first place winners,
Princess and Ray J!
[cheers and applause]
\hIt’s obvious to me that these two love each other.
\hRay J and Princess may work things out.
They remember
every single detail \habout each other.
\hAnd the prize is, you get to go home later on tonight
and make the most passionate, \hamazing love ever in life.
- [laughs]
- Yay!
\h\h\h- Boo. - Y’all won.
- That is not a good prize.
There’s absolutely \h\h\hno part of me
\h\h\h\h\hthat wants to have sex with Ray.
We are definitely, absolutely,
\h\h\h\h\h\hpositively not sleeping together.
\h\h\hI absolutely think that he’s cheating on me.
- Y’all got that. \h\hY’all got it.
- It’s been divorce purgatory.
We see each other. It’s uncomfortable.
\h\h\h\hIt’s just been a roller coaster ride,
and living there at the same time,
it’s just, you know,
something that, you know, people usually don’t do.
\h\h\h\hThe last thing that we having is sex.
- And the losers are Raymond \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand Deelishis.
- Hey, I’ll take it!
- All right, everyone. \h\h\hTime for dinner.
- Come on, Ray.
\h\h\h\h\h\hLet me buy you a drink before all of this.
- I couldn’t believe we did it. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Nah.
See, that let you know you’re a lot tighter than you think.
There’s a lot of things about Princess and Ray J
that kind of reminds me \h\h\hof Rasheeda and I.
We, once upon a time,
thought about getting divorced \h\h\h\h\hand was really close.
We made it through.
So you need to talk to people
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho’ve been in long-term relationships.
- You beat us, 20 years. \h\hThat says something.
- I see how y’all doing it.
Y’all definitely has a hope.
How did y’all hang in there?
- You know, there’s points \h\h\h\h\hwhere we thought
we was going to break up,
\hand, you know, [bleep] be rough.
\h\h\h\hY’all got to find a way to bridge that gap
and get a clear understanding \h\h\h\h\h\h\hof each other.
- [whispering] \h\h\h\h\hDamn.
I found lingerie in her purse.
[peppy music]
- [sighs]
- Was it for you? \h\h- [bleep] no.
I haven’t seen her in lingerie \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hin years.
All right, so I never search.
I’m not the type of person to go through your purse,
but I saw a little corner \hof it, the panty line.
So I had to take a peek.
- I mean, did you ask about it?
- No.
- Why not?
- Because we’re getting \h\h\h\h\h\ha divorce.
\hWhat the [bleep] am I going to say?
"What you got lingerie \h\hin your purse for?"
- I mean, she could’ve bought \hit and put it in the purse.
\h\h\h\h\h- Fam, it was three different kinds.
I got a lot of different emotions about this, man.
\hI’m jealous. I’m emotional.
I don’t know what to do, man,
because I’m the one \hgetting a divorce,
\h\h\hso I don’t think it’s even right for me
to even ask her about this.
- But what if she went \hto Victoria’s Secret
or was at a lingerie store
and doing want to carry a bag \h\hand put it in her purse?
I’m just asking. \h\h\h\h\h\hWhat?
[both laughing]
♪ ♪
- Hey, thanks, man. - I’m just saying.
- ♪ Let it show ♪
♪ We gon' shine like gods today ♪
♪ Look down on the stars, look what we made ♪
[indistinct conversation]
- Mm-hmm. Red wine.
- We used to drink wine together.
- We used to drink wine together, shots together.
- Hey.
- What y'all--
- Wait, how come you're not pulling out the chair for me?
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- Okay, honey, you better say it.
- I'm very excited for the first Black love dinner.
However, I've very self-conscious
because I'm not Black,
but everyone has been so open and loving and kind to me.
- I'm so glad we all got here looking beautiful.
- All the couples are together. Everybody is excited.
- It's always so cute to see newlyweds, fresh love,
all the goo-goo, goo-goo, "Oh, Raymond."
- Being out here with amazing other couples...
- "Oh, Deelishis, your booty is so big."
- I think this is going to be a positive trip.
- I'll take a lemon drop. - Yeah.
- After 8:00 p.m., she's single.
- There is Black love at this table,
and there's been so much in our history
that tried to dismantle Black love.
We've had to fight.
We've had to overcome in order to love each other.
I told you to wear an outfit that represents Black love.
- I picked blue, and I picked blue to,
like, represent, like, the sky
because I feel like love is limitless like the sky.
- Not knowing that this was going to be something
that you wanted,
we tried to incorporate what was in our wardrobe
that featured black and brown.
- Me and Deelishis have picked black and brown
because, you know, she's a Black woman.
I'm a Puerto Rican man,
so we just incorporated black and brown together.
- I picked this because it has a little cheetah on the back.
- Okay.
- I don't know how to be faithful,
so that's why she got the cheetah.
- Oh, my goodness.
- I know I problem keeping my [bleep] in my pants.
In fact, my [bleep] is not even here with me.
That's how much I don't keep my [bleep] in my pants.
My [bleep] is somewhere else.
- How so?
- We had agreement before entering into our relationship.
We don't have the traditional relationship.
We just like to spice things up here and there.
[percussive music]
You know, when we're together,
adding a side bitch here and there.
♪ ♪
- Called her a side bitch, long as she know that.
That's the thing. - Excuse me.
- Side bitches.
I mean, Michael Blackson is a real rock star.
[jaunty music]
- Hearing Rasheeda always say, "Well, you did this,
and you did that," I'm like, "Hey, you need
to kind of be grateful that you don't have a Michael Blackson."
♪ ♪
- I wish my husband would ask me for a side bitch.
I'll be his side bitch. I'll change my hair.
I'll change my makeup.
I'll even change my freaking accent for him,
but I would never allow him
to bring another woman into the bedroom.
- I wore black because love can take you down a dark hole.
[electronic music]
And it can have you spinning around into a place
that leaves you blinded sometimes.
It leaves you, you know,
not knowing what's on the other side.
It'll push you in a place, you know, where sometimes,
you know, you want to hide.
♪ ♪
But I love Princess.
And I'm Black.
- Oh, that's interesting.
[laughter]
- Yandy? - Yes, boo?
- Why is there an extra seat?
- As much as I want this to be a vacation,
I also want us to leave
with knowing that true love exists.
I have a relationship life coach coming,
and she's a really good friend of mine and--
- Oh. - Oh.
- Excuse me. Excuse me.
- Oh, my gosh!
- I'm hearing there was shots before I got here.
- Oh, just take on. We have been taking--
- How you guys going to do shots before I get here?
- How are you? - Hi, vacation.
- Meet my friends. - Hi, friends.
- Yes. - Hi.
- I'm AJ, everybody. - AJ Johnson is legendary.
She's an actress, but she's also now a life coach,
and she gets to help people live a better lifestyle.
- If you don't believe you can have it all,
it's because you've made the agreement with yourself
that it is not possible. It's time to live our truth.
I'm going in.
What'd I miss? What'd I miss?
- So we were just getting started.
- Okay. Okay.
I want to offer some suggestions of how to make
some clear decisions for yourselves
as well as you within the union.
If you guys are down,
you know, we're gonna hang out this week,
and I want you to think about--
where are you now?
Where do you want to be?
♪ ♪
- I actually liked AJ as Baby Boy's mom,
but having AJ here talking about my sex life,
I'm really not with that.
♪ ♪
- Why would I care what somebody else thinks
about my marriage?
The only people I care about in this matter
is myself and Princess.
♪ ♪
- I kind of get where this is going,
which is digging into your [bleep],
and normally, I might toot my nose up a little bit.
Hmm, hmm.
I don't know if I like this, but I'm not even going to trip.
What I'm going to do is,
I'm going to sit back and relax and see where this goes.
- In order for us all to grow,
we have to take responsibility and accountability
for what we're giving, and that starts tonight.
- Tonight? - Tonight?
- You with me?
So you guys go back to your rooms,
change into some workout clothes,
and I will see you outside in 1/2 hour.
- Girl, you throwing me for a loop.
- I'm ready to go to bed and sleep and do stuff to Rada.
[percussive music]
- Look, it's the first day, and now it's time to settle in,
but we about to do activities? We starting too fast.
[percussive music]
♪ ♪
- So this is fun.
I'm excited to see what AJ has in store for us.
Nervous, but I'm excited.
- Now they talking about, put on some work clothes,
go outside do some activities.
- Babe, they said gym clothes. Don't forget, gym!
- Hear that?
- AJ is telling us that we have to do our first activity.
I'm a little excited. I just would hope to, you know,
digest my food before I start exercising and jumping around.
I'm down for whatever because I'm here for one reason only,
and that's to fix my relationship.
- ♪ It's gonna, gonna go down tonight ♪
♪ We got this party ♪
♪ We got the bods ♪
- This look like we about to start
playing football or something.
- It does. - Let's get this over with.
- Uh-oh. Look.
Whoo-hoo. Nuh-uh.
- She got serious face and this serious body.
I'm nervous.
- Hi.
I see you're ready.
- Pretty much anytime
somebody wants you to put on some gym clothes,
that mean we about to go get it in,
and it's competition time,
and I don't like to lose in the gym,
so I got to make this happen.
♪ ♪
- I asked to meet with everyone tonight because now it's time
to dig into some of their relationship issues,
so my goals here are elevation, healing,
making sure that the couples understand that communication,
even if the relationship is great,
it can always be better.
While we're on vacation,
there's some work that we can really get done,
and you can't have a healthy, whole relationship
without you bringing your healthy, whole self.
That's what we have to work on in terms
of what we expect of other people.
It starts with you. Who wants to share first?
Kirk and Rasheeda, how we doing?
- I mean, this [bleep] is so minor,
but it's just like -- - But it's important to you.
- It's important to me.
It's like, we work, work, work, work.
Everything is always work.
And I'm like, "Hey, we got a couple days.
Let's go get a little quality time, just me and you."
I will admit, things can be really, really hectic
with Pressed, with Frost Bistro,
with family stuff that we have going on,
but I also feel like when it comes to our relationship,
there's certain things that need to come to the forefront
so that we can continue to have our bond and our friendship
and our marriage be put as a priority.
When you be like, "Well, we going to do it.
You know, it's going to happen"...
- Yeah, but if I take a certain amount of money
and I'm putting it into a project, if it fails,
then I'm investing my money into something
that's going to fail, so she know me.
I can't go out of town and concentrate and kick back
and get in pools. I definitely don't feel
like I have the luxury to take my eye off the prize.
Right now, the businesses are struggling,
and on top of the whole restaurant,
Pressed and everything, family has been taking a toll on us.
I talked to the lawyer, and Kirk is in a situation.
- Kirk's oldest son, Kirk Jr., got arrested and locked up.
Honestly, this [bleep] is [bleep].
- It's a lot going on. - It's overwhelming.
- There's gonna be a moment in time
where I will settle down,
and I don't want to work as hard,
but for now, I got to get it while I can.
I have kids that are depending on me.
I have no choice but to work.
- It's like, are we business partners,
and that's our marriage, or are we trying
to also be lovers and romantic and friends?
[dramatic music]
- We spent the money. The investment is there.
- But you're still talking all business.
- Thank you.
- That's all I really know.
- We're here to do the work to fix it.
So who's next? Ray J and Princess?
- We're always fighting. We're never on the same page.
I just want to be able to talk to each other, and--
- Have you ever been on the same page?
- No.
No. No.
[dramatic music]
- Okay.
So we got to get a stronger foundation
than just, we're not on the same page to begin with
because what is the relationship built on
if you start off not on the same page?
Where did the love come from
when you're on two different pages?
- It's just there. The love is just there.
- Could it be lust? - No. We don't have sex.
[dramatic music]
- [whispering] That's so sad.
♪ ♪
Can we have one private moment?
- I found out about our divorce on social media.
- Babe, babe. - What do you want?
- I found out about you
when you divorced me on social media.
- I told you I wanted a divorce.
You said, "Put some pep in your step,"
and so the next day, I put some pep in my step.
- But you still didn't tell me. - Yes, I did.
- No, you didn't. I saw it on TMZ.
Me doing it like that was
because you did it like that to me.
- You said, put some pep in your step.
- Ray J, hold on one second. I got one question for you.
What do you want?
♪ ♪
[bass guitar music]
- I got one question for you.
What do you want? Do you want to be with her?
Do you want to be married? What do you want?
♪ ♪
- In your heart and in your soul...
- I Want Princess to be happy
because her being happy makes me happy.
- Princess, do you believe him?
- No.
[melancholy music]
I feel like all he cares about is, like, money and work.
- Do you realize she doesn't believe you?
♪ ♪
- This is such BS.
He can't even answer the question,
and he's deflecting it on me. What do you want?
I want to know the answer to that too.
Like, we're adults. Just keep it real.
- You need a tissue? Come here.
There's so much pain. You know that, right?
- She's lying about all that [bleep].
This [bleep] ain't fun.
[dramatic music]
- I can say a lot of [bleep]
about Princess right now, but I would never do that.
That's my wife.
Of course, she does the opposite
and calls me out publicly.
- Ray, Ray, where you going?
- [bleep] this couple's retreat.
- Ray.
- Every day, we been \h\hgetting homework.
- I came to vacation.
- Whoo!
[laughter]
- The one and only Moddasucka!
- Do you get some [bleep]? \h\h\hWant to [bleep] that?
\h- She’s gonna [bleep] him up.
- Guys, the more mobility
\hyou have in your pelvis, the longer you last in bed.
- You ready to get a [bleep] pregnant.
- No, I’m not.
- What’s your name? - My name is Yandy.
- I’m Ray.
\h\h- We have an assignment to re-enact our first date.
- Chilly in here. - Wait, hold on!
What are you doing?
Been hanging out \hwith Deelishis?
- What do you like to do? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You.
- One of the things \h\hI wanted to do
is to establish a new contract
as we step into this new space.
- I want him to naturally take over the situation.
- Men can be basic.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHe told us a man’s libido can wane.
\h\h\hWhat’s really going on with that?
- She is a medium. \h\h\h\h\h- Uh-oh.
- Was there a baby that was \h\h\hlost between you all?
\h\h- This [bleep] you talking about,
this ain’t going to end well, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMiss Dixon.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I feel like there’s something happening.
- This whole thing is just \h\hgetting a little heavy.
- I don’t care who filed. \hWhat I care about is--
- I don’t give a [bleep] about what nobody thinks.
\h\h\h\h\hIt’s my woman trying to sabotage me.
[music]
You supposed to be \h\ha life coach.
Then why ain’t you coaching me? \h\h\h\h\hYou’re being biased.
\h\h\h\h- Every single parent-teacher’s night,
I cried,
every one of them. \h\h\hIt was hard.
- We’re going in circles now. \h\h\h\h\h\h\hMatter of fact,
\h\h\h\h\hI don’t even want to talk about that [bleep].
\h\h- Well, I’m done shooting. - You don’t want people to see
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhow much of a [bleep] up person you are?
- Each of you, are you in love, or are you just simply loving?
- You want to have a really deep-down
dark conversation with me, huh?
\h\h\h- Have you been entertaining bitches
since you filed for divorce? \h\h\hWhere’d you meet them?