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Yes, and it seemed Jamie was trying to "match" him by wearing a jersey material dress with some style to it. Doug seems to consider a t-shirt and jeans dressed-up. I guess in comparison to his sweats that he wears for baseball it *is* dressed up. :)

It's not the difference in career stages that makes Vaughn and Monet incompatible. It's everything together: life stage + goals + marriage role preferences. If Monet wanted one or two kids and wanted to keep working then Vaughn's career goals/stage would matter a lot less. It's the fact that Monet's goal is a raise a bunch of kids and be a Stay-At-Home-Mom that makes Vaughn's career an issue. Vaughn considers his family traditional even while they broke some traditions. (His mother not only worked, she made more money than his dad). So Vaughn thought his career was not incompatible with wanting to start a traditional family. Meanwhile Monet did not consider her lack of cooking/cleaning to be an issue even though it's exactly what Vaughn thought he meant by traditional. They used the same term but had entirely different ideas about what it meant.

Yes, for weeks I didn't understand where Monet's conclusion that "you haven't established yourself as a man yet" was coming from. He's enrolling part-time to get his bachelor's degree in "electronic engineering technology" at 30 years old. It's admirable that he's going to put the work in, but Monet is at a completely different place in her life and career. When Monet says, "he has a lot of potential and would be a good husband in 5 years", I see what she's saying. What she's saying is, she's successful professionally, 33, and wants a big family. If she wants a big family she's running out of time, she needs to start having the babies basically now, she can't wait 5 years until she's 38. It's just the realities of women's fertility. Meanwhile Vaughn wants/needs to put some work in on his career. He's not ready to lead a family yet. Monet and Vaughn may have had compatible personality types but their expectations as to when they would start a family and/or what would be needed to start a family were not compatible. This is similar to how Jamie was brought up short to see that Doug was not as established in his career despite being older. Meanwhile Jason was worried about Cortney's student loans. It's not fair to say someone is a gold-digger or marrying for money when they worry about the other one's financial state. The financials determine when/how you can start a family.

It's just the lighting. The shadows on that side of his face cover it up. The FYI videographers did that sometimes as well. But lighting him so that the moles don't show up without making a moving video look weird is difficult -- sometimes it actually accentuated the moles because it made the moles cast shadows. With that said, he does seem like a very nice, loyal guy very focused on family and he does have a nice body. I can see how he grew on Jamie after initially thinking there was just no way it was going to work.