[Luke] Previously on Love in Paradise.
Why you would choose donation over relationship?
It was hard to find someone that actually liked me.
It makes me understand him a little bit more.
Do I have your consent to cuddle with you?
I'm trying to make this work.
I hope I don't regret this.
Do you feel comfortable talking to him
about money or your concerns?
[Alliya speaking]
You're giving this pleasure so much power
that you toss me to the side.
And I think that I am the best opportunity that you have.
My friend Brian texted yesterday,
saying he heard a rumor about Maddie.
I'm worried because this isn't
the first rumor that I have heard.
[crying]
[Luke] After everything that's gone on,
I don't know what to believe.
[upbeat music playing]
-I'm so excited. -Yes.
-Yeah. -I'm excited for you.
I can't wait to see it finished.
Today, I'm getting my head braided with extensions.
It's a long process, and it can take around eight hours.
So how was Shawn after the waterfall?
Was he annoyed that I asked so many questions?
Everything that we were talking about that day was,
I think, good for me to think about it.
And I think he's probably, like, thinking more about it now.
How are things going, like, since he's been here, been visiting?
How has, like, the sex been?
What? Since he's been here?
-Yes. -You haven't had sex at all?
-[chuckles] No. -Why... Why?
My concerns about the open relationship.
Do you have an open relationship?
Yes.
Oh.
[Alliya speaking]
You didn't know that you guys
-were in an open relationship? -Yeah.
Do you wanna have sex with other people?
No, it's not something that I think about.
[Jackie] Like, I can see, like, your face.
The situation hurts you.
Technically, it's like you caught him cheating, right?
Do you feel lied to?
Yeah, in that moment, I felt that.
I feel just as shocked as Alliya probably felt
when she found out that they are in a open relationship.
And Alliya found out in a really uncomfortable way.
I think it was a typical response to be like,
"Oh, you've caught me doing something that
you're uncomfortable with and I shouldn't be doing?
Well, you know, we've been in an open relationship,
and you just didn't understand."
That should be a big discussion that you have that you both agree on,
and not one person just finds out.
I would describe the power dynamics
in their relationship as pretty one sided.
I think it will be really hard for Alliya
to stand up and ask for what she wants.
You don't have to be in an open relationship.
Especially now you're engaged, like,
if it makes you sad or makes you uncomfortable,
you have the power to say,
"I'm your fiancé, you're not doing this anymore."
Yeah.
You're supposed to be the one that matters,
at the end of the day.
So, if you don't like something and you're not okay with it,
you can change it.
[tense music playing]
We're in Guatapé.
This is the place that I proposed to you.
It's a magical, magical place.
And I wanna enjoy it with you.
[in Spanish]
[Luke in English] Madelein and I are on a mini vacation.
I was hoping to have some fun
and focus on the love in this relationship.
But Madelein's upset
because I asked her for a prenup.
And what makes things worse is I told her that
my friend Brian agrees with the prenup idea.
[Brian] Luke?
Hey, buddy.
[Luke] So, now Brian and his wife are here,
and we're going to this really cool water park.
This is the first time that Madelein is seeing Brian
since all of the prenup drama.
-[Brian] You here? -Papi!
[in Spanish]
[in English] And I hope that everyone can keep their [bleep] together
so we can have an amazing day.
[in Spanish]
[in English] I don't wanna be with Brian or Luke right now,
but I am in paradise, I gonna to try to have fun.
I deal with these idiots mens later.
Oh, my gosh, yes.
[in English] It looks like a kiddie park.
This water park is extremely unique.
It's basically like an inflatable obstacle course.
[indistinct chatter]
-[upbeat song playing] -[shrieks] Ah!
[singer vocalizing]
[shrieks] Ah!
Ooh!
-Whoo! -[indistinct chatter]
I was really nervous coming into this
with tensions with Madelein and Brian
being at an all-time high.
But surprisingly, we're all having fun.
[woman cheers, laughs]
And I'm just so thankful that
we can enjoy our experience together.
[Madelein speaking]
And painful. [laughs]
I'm so tired.
Me too.
Brian, I need to talk to you.
Talk to me.
Why you like to be inside my relationship?
Hmm, I try to avoid being inside your relationship as much as possible.
[bleep]
So why you say to Luke to get a...
A prenup.
Well, Luke was expressing to me his concern with money.
And if you really love Luke,
a prenup shouldn't be the end of the world.
But this decision is Luke and me.
I don't wanted to get married with you.
[Brian] So, the bottom line is I don't trust Madelein.
And I think now is the right time to tell Luke about
things that I've heard from a close friend
that Luke doesn't know about.
My goal is that Luke can kind of wake up
before he loses complete control
of the situation that he's in.
Madelein, I've always went to bat for you,
but I lost my trust in you.
[bleep] told me that he spent one night
in your apartment in the same bed--
-In my apartment? -Yeah, and he said that
you were topless while he was in the same bed with you.
He was in the-- You slept in the same [bleep] bed?
Is it true?
I want you to know...
[Luke] Were you naked?
Were you naked?
[Luke] Brian says that there was a guy
who claims to have slept in bed with Madelein
while Madelein had her top off.
And now I'm just [bleep] pissed.
Like, now I feel like I'm in a [bleep] situation,
and I wanna fly back to the U.S.
and go [bleep] figure it out.
[sniffles]
It's my [bleep] apartment.
I pay the rent, and I don't want anybody...
-[in Spanish] -...any other guy in my [bleep] apartment,
you understand? Let alone in the bed.
[yells] That's not okay!
Even if she didn't cheat on me,
even if she wasn't naked, there was another man
in my bed, in my apartment,
with my fiancé.
I don't wanna be with anybody who's sleeping in bed naked with anybody else.
I think that that is cheating.
I'm done.
I don't even know who Madelein is.
I can't even [bleep] look at her right now.
You bring another guy back to the apartment that I pay for?
I'm done.
[in English] Luke, just come here.
-I don't want to be with you. -Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke.
I just need some time.
[Adriano speaking]
Let's go to dinner with one girl.
I don't want a threesome thing anymore.
Either let it go, or you know what you need to do.
[upbeat song playing]
♪ Thanks to you♪
♪ You will find out how I'm feeling♪
♪ Thanks to you♪
Typical day, I wake up
and I take my supplements to increase my sperm count.
[chuckles] Uh, last night, uh,
short story, it's me and Ani,
uh, we had sex for the first time.
It was romantic. It was different
'cause it wasn't necessarily, you know, having a baby.
It was just, like, more, like, romance.
It was like making love, essentially.
We were just kissing a little bit and,
you know, we were getting ready to, you know, whatever.
We were building up to it, and so,
I kind of just took my shorts off a little bit,
and we were still kissing and stuff,
you know, getting in the mood.
And then she's like, "Oh, my God!
That's the longest penis I've ever seen in my life."
[laughs] And, you know, I got on top of her
and we were doing missionary.
And then, God, she got so loud,
I was scared the neighbors were gonna, like, call the police.
You know, it's like, 'cause she was groaning.
It was good. I think it was great.
We didn't use protection.
Uh, I...
We didn't bring that up.
[whimsical music playing]
[Ani speaking]
Do you have a bag?
Thank you.
I'm looking now for the test.
So, the test takes usually between, like, five or ten minutes.
So, I wait now.
You know, it's a really strange feeling
because, like, seven months ago,
I would be happy to have been,
like, getting pregnant by Kyle
because that was what I wanted.
But during the last months,
I feel like I don't want to do it alone.
I just feel like that's just not right for me.
Um, so the test says,
it's a very, very faint line.
So, it's more likely to be negative.
I'm still not relieved really because I wonder if this test
really can be showing me correct.
I just wonder.
[sighs]
I don't know, like, what would make me relieved?
Probably just having the pill, the morning after pill.
The morning after pill postpones your ovulation
and just avoid pregnancy.
I'm going to call Kyle.
Kyle is heading over to my house later for dinner,
so I can ask him to grab
the morning after pill for me.
-[Kyle over phone] Hey, what's up? -Hey, Kyle. How are you?
[Kyle] Ooh, good, now that I'm talking to you today.
[laughs] Okay.
So, I have been just doing this ovulation test.
-[Kyle] Uh-huh. -And it's, like, a really, really faint line.
I just want to make sure that nothing is happening
because we are just so fresh in our relationship.
So, would you mind, like, buying me the morning after pill then?
[Kyle] Okay, but you know you're not ovulating.
-You know that, right? -Yeah, I just feel like
it's much more safer to take it.
Just for me to feel better, you know?
[Kyle] I mean, it just is kind of weird 'cause,
you know I am, like, a sperm donor. [laughs]
And it's like, you know, typically,
you're trying to get pregnancies, not prevent pregnancies...
-[indistinct] -Yeah, but I'm not one of your recipients, Kyle.
[Kyle] Yeah, I know, I know, but it's, like, the first time trying to,
-like, prevent... -But you have to respect my feelings.
Like, you know, I think you not respect me right now.
-[Kyle] I am respecting your feelings. -No, you're not.
-Okay, let's talk about it later. -[Kyle] I think...
-Yeah, we'll talk about it later. -[Ani] Just get me the pills
and then we talk later, okay?
-[Kyle] Yeah, okay. -All right, bye-bye.
[Kyle] All right, bye.
I was very disappointed by his reaction.
I would definitely hope that he would be
more understanding and showing respect,
and just accept what I want.
This is not about you.
If I got the morning after pill,
I just can feel, like, relieved and peaceful again,
because right now I'm just feeling like a hot mess.
I would be happy if I can put this just behind us.
[upbeat music playing]
Before we actually meet up with my cousin and Gaetano,
I thought I should mention this.
Um, so, this week has been a very hard week.
You know, there's been a lot of mixed emotions.
Happy, sad...
Um, and so, I kind of wanna enjoy ourselves on the beach.
I have been in Italy for a week
with my boyfriend, Adriano, and it's just been a mess.
We've been arguing about threesomes, religion.
And last night, we had an intense dinner at his mom's house
and got into a huge argument in the car.
Yeah, and we can share this moment together.
I love that.
-[Adriano speaks indistinctly] -Thank you.
Nothing has been figured out, but I still love him.
And I want to believe that
this relationship is worth saving.
-Oh, that him over there? -[Adriano] Yeah.
[Alex] Oh.
[Gaetano speaking]
Hi, Gaetano. How are you doing?
-[Alex] I'm doing well. -[kisses]
[Gaetano speaking]
[Adriano] Oh, you came prepared.
[whimsical music playing]
-[exhales heavily] -Um...
[speaking in English]
Oh, my goodness, I don't want to hear this.
This is a whole another conversation.
I'm tired of talking about this.
And I wish Adriano would just tell Gaetano to stop talking about it.
Let me lay on the beach in peace.
That's it. That's all I want.
-[speaking in English] -[Alex] Okay.
[speaking in English]
-Uh, the ragu. -[Gaetano] Yeah?
-Hey! -Hello! Hello!
Hello!
-[Adriano speaking in English] -Thank you.
-[speaking in English] -I have... I try.
-I do what I can. -[speaking in English]
-Well, hello. -[speaking in English]
Thank you.
Look like y'all was into some deep conversation.
Oh, we was talking about ragu.
[speaking in English]
Yes, it is.
[Adriano speaking in English]
-Let's get in the water. -[Tiffaney] Let's go.
I'm just going to put my feet in the water, though.
-[Adriano speaking] -Um, thank you.
-[Alex exclaims] -Ooh, don't you do that.
Just might be too much thickness for you.
[Gaetano and Tiffaney laugh]
[Alex exclaims] Whoo!
Buy one kiss, another kiss.
I felt like some tense vibes between them.
But seeing Adriano and Alex jumping in the water,
being happy together, smiling, kissing each other,
there was like a chemistry between them.
I'm happy for them in this situation.
[Tiffaney] I'mma run to the restroom.
-Are you gonna come with me? -[Gaetano speaking]
Bye.
-[Alex] Don't have too much fun, though. -Okay. Okay, girl!
[Gaetano and Tiffaney laugh]
[Adriano] Me and Alex, we have a lot of fighting,
We have a lot of really big arguments sometimes, but I'm fine with that.
I think if you're in a relationship, when you win every argument
and get everything so easy, it makes you lose the interest
and the feelings and the vibes.
I like to fight for what I want.
I like stimulation in my relationship.
So...
[speaking in English]
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
[speaking in English]
-So? -Let's go to dinner with one girl...
No.
...and see how the situation...
-No. -...few glass of wine, beautiful night.
-And if you feel like it, we're going to. -No. No. No.
I'm serious when I say I don't want the threesome thing anymore.
[in English]
[Alex] Here we go again. [sighs]
I can't believe after all the fights,
he has the nerve to bring up threesomes again.
Like, it doesn't stop, does it?
[speaking in English]
It's a no for me. All the way.
[speaking in English]
I can just feel my whole body just shaking
because I'm so angry because it's like, "Why are we talking about this?"
At this point, it's so much bigger than the threesomes.
It's about respect. He's not respecting me and my boundaries.
And if he's not able to do that, then we really don't have a future together.
You got two options here.
Either, let it go,
or if it's really that important to you,
you know what you need to do.
[speaking in English]
I was still having the open relationship.
We didn't say we weren't going to do that.
I didn't assume we were having a monogamous relationship
because we really only saw each other a few weeks and in total.
[Alliya speaking in English]
Can you help me? I need to do something with my hair, like, to sleep.
-To put up or do something. -Yeah, yeah.
I have an idea. Let me get some stuff over here.
[speaking in English]
There are some things that I was thinking about...
[Shawn] Mmm-hmm.
...that I'm having some concerns about our open relationship.
[Shawn] Mmm-hmm.
[speaking in English]
[Shawn] Well, I just needed to have an open relationship
with you not being in the same country.
There's usually like eight months in between the times that we see each other.
So not knowing when would be the next time we'd see each other,
it just didn't make sense to me.
When I first met Douglas on a dating site,
we both talked about wanting a long term relationship.
But being that we met during the time of COVID, there was no traveling.
I didn't assume we were having a monogamous, exclusive relationship
while we were trying to even figure out a way we could even meet.
Then as we met and got together,
we really only saw each other a few weeks in total.
And during the first two years of our relationship,
we never had a discussion where it was like,
"Oh, I'm committing to you. We're going to be monogamous." Nothing.
And I think the moment only came because
he saw, like, a dating app on my phone.
[speaking in English]
I was still having the open relationship
because nothing had changed with that.
We didn't say we weren't going to do that.
We had the discussion, and Douglas reluctantly
agreed to being non-monogamous.
It wasn't his dream, but I don't want to be alone for 8 months out of the year.
Well, for me, my love language is touch.
So I knew in my heart, that if I made the commitment
to waiting for us to be back together physically,
that I would resent Douglas and I think we would have broken up.
[speaking in English]
I'm not saying I don't find you attractive, I don't love you.
But for me to feel sexually empowered
I need to feel more that I'm the man in the relationship.
At least in the bedroom.
If you're treating me like you're, you know, "My man. You're my everything,"
then for me, that's sexy, and I can handle the persona, you know.
[speaking in English]
You have a persona now that's, "I'm Alliya. That's it."
Like, entitled.
Douglas was so much more shyer and quieter.
I would describe Alliya's personality
as outgoing, very sassy and bossy.
[speaking in English]
Yeah.
And so my biggest issues with Alliya
have been this attitude that Alliya has as a woman
versus the attitude that Douglas was as a man.
It doesn't feel comfortable to men or loving or sweet.
You could be the boss bitch.
But you can't be the boss bitch of me.
[speaking in English]
I'm hoping that we can find a mutual acceptance of what's happening.
[Alliya speaking in English]
Did you get my pill?
Well, about that, based on my experience,
you know, with getting people pregnant, it's just not realistic.
But you said yes on the phone.
And how I can trust you if you say yes here,
and then you're already betraying me?
-I just asked you for one little thing... -I know, but--
...and you couldn't buy it for me.
I'm really bad with this cooking.
Okay.
[speaking in English]
[Kyle knocks]
-Hey! Good. -[Ani] Hello. How are you?
-Looking sexy tonight. -[Ani] Mmm.
-How are you? -Well, better than you.
[Ani] All right.
So this is my kitchen.
[Kyle] Very nice.
Yeah, it's lovely, right?
Look at me. What I have prepared for us.
Wow. You made that yourself?
-[Ani] Yeah. -[Kyle] You're kidding.
Even though if it's not good, you just say "it's so delicious."
-Just grab some stuff. -[Kyle] Okay.
-Did you get my... -What?
...My pill.
Well, about that.
Well, the thing is, you're,
-you know, the test was really light, right? -Yeah.
It has to be really, really dark to really be ovulating.
Yeah, but maybe tomorrow I'm ovulating. Who knows?
Based on my experience, you know,
with getting people pregnant, it's just not realistic.
Usually when I have sex and I'm getting somebody pregnant
and so I don't pull out, I just like, stay in [bleep], right?
So when I was doing it with Ani I kind of like pulled out
but, like, I don't know how to like, pull out really, so, you know,
it did seem like I may have got some sperm in there.
But Ani is clearly overreacting.
She's an older woman. It's a much lower chance of pregnancy.
And she wasn't ovulating. I knew this.
[Ani] You said yes on the phone,
and how I can trust you. If you say yes here,
and then you're already betraying me?
Making babies is what I know, right? I knew you weren't ovulating.
I know your body really well.
But how you can know my body? You don't even know me.
I know your body very well because I tracked your cycle.
Oh, my God, Kyle. I just... You're freaking me out really.
-[Kyle] It's not even logical. -[Ani] But it's just not normal,
like, I don't tell you all the time how my cycle is.
You know, I'm not one of your [bleep] recipients.
But this is going based on what I know.
Yeah, but it's always about what you decide and make and do.
I'm starting to realize that maybe he wants me to be pregnant by him.
And maybe him donating sperm,
it's not really about helping women in need.
It's really just like a desperate act to
spread all your seeds everywhere in the world.
I just asked you for one little thing and you couldn't buy it for me.
I can't be with a man who is so controlling over my body.
It is just so disrespectful.
I don't want to be pregnant by you right now, but do you understand that?
Do you even [bleep] care?
[Luke] Somebody was in my bed.
She's not acknowledging that that shouldn't have happened.
Do you want me to give you another opportunity to gain my trust?
-[speaking in English] -[Luke] If you say no, then we're done.
Okay, then we're done.
[Madelein speaking in English]
I have trusted you but now, I don't have any trust in you.
[speaking in English]
I am so [bleep] mad right now.
Brian just dropped a bomb on my relationship with Luke.
And I can't believe Luke is believing this bull [bleep].
[speaking in English]
[Brian] We're gonna go.
[speaking in other language]
[Valeria speaking in other language]
[in English] Bye, guys.
[speaking in other language]
[in English] I wanna go.
Go.
[Luke] Madelein denies cheating on me.
But she doesn't deny that somebody was in my bed.
I don't deserve this.
[Madelein speaking in English]
It's bothering me that she's not taking responsibility
and acknowledging that that shouldn't have happened at all.
Do you want me to go back to the United States?
[speaking in other language]
[in English] Do you want me to give you another opportunity to gain my trust?
-[speaking in English] -[Luke] If you say no, then we're done.
Okay, then we're done. We're done. Where's the car?
In any healthy adult relationship,
you should be able to empathize with your partner.
But Maddie doesn't seem capable of even doing that.
This is a teenager high school drama.
I want to be with a woman. I do not want to be with a girl.
Madelein, if you want to come, you can come now.
[speaking in English]
Okay.
[Madelein speaking in English]
[Shawn] Next time on Love in Paradise...
He want to have some threesomes?
[speaking in English]
Christie is my aunt, and she will give it to you straight.
No, I kind of had my doubts,
especially when he said that he wouldn't mind
-having a threesome with me and Tiffaney. -[Tiffaney] Girl.
Oh, hell, no. [laughs]
Girl, you lying.
[speaking in English]
[Shawn] There's one person that's been in my life
that has been friends with benefits.
I don't want to be, "No, I can never see you again."
I just can't wrap my head around that part of things.
I won't tolerate hearing those things again.
Trust to me is earned, and with the rumors,
it's just hard to trust unconditionally.
Why are you crying, Madelein?
[Madelein speaking in English]
I feel like I don't always wanna be hurt by you.
And you never tell me things.
And I've been always so honest about my ex-boyfriend.
While I was dating Kyle through video chat,
I dated, briefly, another guy and I was very transparent
and open about it with Kyle.
You don't tell me everything.
When was the last time you guys hooked up?
That's so complicated.
It's bull [bleep].