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The second Monica realized she wasn’t the center of a conflict she switched gears to become the victim and demanded everyone’s attention. She also made her daughter’s prom plans about herself. Then she made a private family matter (her daughter’s birth father, who I’m assuming is dead) about her with a dash of this fake thing she has going with her own mom. It’s a little act her and her weirdo mother cooked up because they’re desperate for money and attention. It’s all fake, fake, fake. Worst of all, they’ve sucked kids into this charade.

F you're overreacting, then I am, too. That scene seriously bothered me. It was wrong, wrong, wrong and not a bit funny.

How dare you call her a Xanax addict?! Are people doing coke in your bathroom? :)

Last November was really rough with the election. I don't know if I'm ready to re-live it with these ladies. I watched Scary Island but watching Election 2016 play out again this time on reality tv, just might be too much drama for me.

If you get a chance to see that scene again with Rinna at the table alone with that man, you'll notice it's pre-meal. Napkins are neatly folded on clean plates. Looks like she spent time alone with that strange little man before dinner, during dinner and after dinner (if she's not lying). Why is she blaming Dorothy for that?

Foil pans and Styrofoam tray-plates! What the heck? There were a total 5 adults there. We're talking using and washing 5 actual plates. It's not like they were serving a crowd. Are they going to serve patrons on those cheap, tacky Styrofoam tray-plate things at the restaurant?

If I were Dorit I would have demanded Erica apologize for flashing my husband. She intentionally wore a short dress with no panties. She should be humiliated and contrite. She played the victim well. While she's apologizing to Dorit and PK she should apologize to her own husband and fire that glam squad. Also, it was downright dirty for Erica to demand an apology from Dorit and her husband and then when she gets what she wants from Dorit she says it's not good enough. Rinna is ugly inside and out. Apparently she can't control those fat lips or those bony fingers.

Sorry if this has been mentioned but Jack lied to Rebecca. His blind date was at 7:30. The register opened at 8:30. He told Rebecca he stood up his blind date when he heard her sing. Randall's recent mental breakdown is going to be a hurdle to adopting but his father dying and his unemployment are not a problem.

First, SKB. He's everything. Second, as the white, adoptive mother to a young black boy, this show hits close to home. I'm not supposed to know anything about my son's birth father but I got nosey and I know who he is. I've even seen him before. Now I keep this secret. Am I taking something as wonderful as what Randall and William had away from him or am I saving him from heartache and is it even my job to save him from heartache? Gahhhhh! Cousins! Am I keeping my son from cousins!? And then throw in "You are my sunshine" on top of that? The first moment I was alone with my son after his birthmother handed him to me I sang that song to him. C'mon This is Us! Anyway, the acting in this episode in particular was phenomenal. I had to keep reminding myself that these were actors.

Nicole and Mechelle are from Michigan. Here in the "Mih-hen" state we don't pronounce the two ts in kitten or button (or mitten). If there is a single t in the middle of a word we pronounce it as a d sound. City is cidy. We also like to think we don't have an accent and all of you are actually the ones mispronouncing these words.

I know that scene with Dorinda and John was highly edited but I noticed that she didn't mention that the psychic told her that she'd re-marry but it wouldn't be to John. And the psychic didn't tell Dorinda that Richard said he wanted John to make her more safe,. The psychic said Richard said that John was good enough for now and didn't make Dorinda safe. I'm curious how John would have reacted if he knew this. Of course if you're dating someone who desperately wants to marry you and a psychic says that you're not going to marry them you can either say the psychic is full of nonsense or break up with that person. I noticed Dorinda did neither.

Tom Girardi likes LVP and Ken. He wasn't offended by Ken's comment. Tom was horrified to learn that his wife had been talking shit and/or misconstrued his private conversations about LVP ("it could have been a positive). Whether Tom thought LVP would have been a good influence on Erika, or he just likes her for professional or personal reasons, Erika, by talking shit has ruined her chances of being Tom-approved friends with LVP. Now Tom is pissed. At the Habitat House Erika needed someone to blame for her indiscretions so she blamed Kathryn. She couldn't tell the ladies what's really going on at home so Kathyrn gets to be the bad guy.

You do know that DDS stands for "Doctor of Dental Surgery", right?

My husband and I adopted our son through Bethany Christian Services and we have an open adoption. Other than what we've seen on 16 and Pregnant, I can't say what Dawn specifically told Tyler and Caitlyn or Brandon and Theresa, but I can tell you what the counselors at Bethany told us and our birth mother in our presence. It was made very clear to us that Bethany strongly encouraged open adoptions but they were not legally enforceable (we are in Michigan). Our birth mother specified the level of openness she wanted and we stated the level of openness we would be comfortable with before we were even matched (matched meaning we voiced an interest in her profile, she reviewed our profile and a book about our family and chose our family based on everything she saw and read). Yes, Bethany does paint a rosy picture of one gigantic happy family where birth mothers visit and even babysit the adopted child in the adoptive family's home. In some situations that actually works out but as wonderful as this sounds in theory, it's difficult to have two mothers and two fathers. It is entirely up to the birth parents to set guidelines for contact and to even end contact completely at any point for any reason or no reason at all. In my experience with Bethany (and there is a lot of things I don't agree with them on politically), no one was taken advantage of. No one lied to a teenager to get a "blond, white baby" (our baby is neither blond nor white and our birthmother wasn't a teenager). While we were all in a room together we discussed a plan for openness. Everyone had a voice. I'm an attorney and I was very concerned that our birth mother understood what was happening. One on one I asked her if she understood and if anyone was making her do this or if she felt uncomfortable or had any questions or reservations at all. Our birth mother simply wanted pictures and a letter with updates once a month for the first year and then periodically after that. We send twice yearly updates now. Our birth mother knows our full legal names, our address, our telephone numbers and our email addresses. She knows our son's full, legal name. We are not afraid she wants to take him away. We were lucky. From what I've seen, if Brandon and Theresa have kept their last name and hometown private from Tyler and Caitlyn, they made a wise decision. I would have cut Tyler off a long time ago and I wouldn't have felt one bit of guilt. My number one priority is what is best for my child. Tyler is a threat to Carly's well-being. So, not every experience with Bethany is exactly the same, but I don't think they are evil. I think the adoption process is a very emotional time for everyone involved. This isn't a business and adoptive parents aren't buying babies (as a side note, our birth mother received no monetary assistance at all even though we were told by Bethany we should be prepared to pay rent, buy diapers for other children or buy phone cards, our birth mother wanted nothing).

We adopted a newborn who is now 2. A happy, healthy, beautiful 2 year old boy. We couldn't ask for a more ideal birth mom situation for our family than what we have. She's selfless and currently doesn't want to be involved in my son's life. In my heart of hearts I'm scared that one day she'll want to know him or he'll want to know her. We've taken a different approach than Lisa and Max and told our son he's adopted and we've told him his birth name. We'll keep telling him these things and more and more details that we know as the time comes. Still, it's a scary thought. I felt Lisa and Pandora's pain when they kept saying "buy he's ours!" They know that his ancestry or heritage is the one thing that makes him not theirs and it's a scary step for any adoptive family to take. Whether you're Lisa VanderPump or plain old me, whether your son is 2 or 20 or 60, I imagine the fear is always there.