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It does take two and I agree they've had this weird dynamic for her entire life. But at this point, Candiace is aware of the fact that it's not normal, she doesn't live with her mother (well, most of the time), she's in another state, married, and even has the benefit of seeing how it plays out on tv. I think everyone has some crap that they have that follows them around in their lives, obviously some more than others, and at some point we have to say, listen this is just not working well for me. For Candiace, the relationship with her mother isn't working because she feels like her mother is controlling and every time she tries to push back, her mother holds the house, the wedding, whatever she's paying for over her head. The answer, then, would be to remove the control she has from her, because then she could say, I get that you feel that way, but this is what I'm doing. If mom isn't paying the mortgage, she can't threaten to foreclose on you. She can be mad, but she doesn't have any actual power. This is where Candiace needs to step up and say, ok, I'll deal with whatever changes it requires, even if it's a loss of lifestyle/equity/etc. This is what I was trying to say. Candiace was clear when she came on the show that her mother paid for EVERYTHING. She paid for her pageants, she paid for her business. She paid for a portion of the mortgage. She said that she'd been paying all of her bills up til now, and she was going to pay for the wedding and she basically didn't see any reason why it should stop. It was like "teehee, I'm so cute, I'm a pretty pretty princess!" and it was just a given that everyone would make sure Candiace gets what she wants, no matter the cost.

They are buying cheap stuff from China and then they are saying that they "designed" it and passing it off as if they have sat down and put together a whole collection from start to finish. For Lu in particular, she could have worded it as she curated/sourced a collection of necklaces that she has for sale on her site and then it wouldn't have been such bullshit. It's not like she sat down with a pencil and paper or even sat down with a jeweler and said I want something tribal, maybe in silver with some green stones, but not pointy, round, but not huge, etc, and then worked to kind of sketch out ideas. There are companies where you can private label things, like Gretchen Christine Beaute. There Gretchen had an account set up and she would choose the products she wanted to order, say a pink lipgloss. She would name it "Rosebud" and then she had a GCB logo and she'd decide she wanted 250 of them. They'd ship out 250 pink lipglosses labeled GCB Rosebud. And you can also have companies that you work with, where they would present you with options and you maybe tweak it a bit and then you've "designed" stuff. I think we saw that with Nene in the past. She wasn't starting from scratch with the jeans or the ponchos she was making, but she'd say I want this neckline bigger, let's do this color instead, etc, and then she had a clothing line. Or you can also have products created from scratch, but this is the most expensive and time consuming thing to do. That's why most of them go the easier and cheaper route. They all try to pass the other routes off as this one, though.

She took pretty much everything except the kitchen sink! She was in there packing forever and I've never seen anyone have that much stuff with them on a boat. Also did anyone else see the trays of eggs in the corner of the stateroom when she was packing? She had food shoved everywhere! This is really strange and I do think that it's more on Travis and Jack because Colin gets along with everyone. He was able to get along with Joao last year, he's laid back and does whatever is asked. I can't see him having changed that much since last year. If you look on twitter you can see them talk to each other about the various episodes. He is, unfortunately, a fan of hers. I know a few people (by that I mean, a few different couples), who decided to say screw it all to "the rat race" and bought sail boats, saved up and then set off to sail into the sunset. That life is not for me, but it's kind of interesting to learn about the challenges with it. That said, though, obviously you have to fund it somehow, and one of the things that the one couple did during their saving up phase was to get themselves prepared to do boat type jobs. He has the ability to be a scuba instructor and also pilot other boats if someone needs their boat moved from one place to another. She is certified in a few different types of exercise (yoga, pilates, etc), and completed culinary school. They did a few other things as well, so while they are out and about they could be in port somewhere and maybe pick up a job for a bit doing something to supplement their savings here and there. Anyway. I could see this happening in other areas as well. I was surprised he just sat there and smiled while his dad said it, though. I know that if either of my parents had done something like that to me I likely would have told the person to ignore my parent, that they are simply senile and evidently today wasn't the best day for me to have taken them on an outing. (Yes, I'm sarcastic if you are being inappropriate about me in public. This is how my family rolls) She's either vegan or vegetarian, though, isn't she? I wonder if that played a part in her not thinking about the doubling up on starches. We do occasionally eat dinner that late. As a kid we didn't have a set dinner time, we ate when my dad got home from work. If it got too late (like approaching 9 pm or later), then we abandoned that rule, but generally, we would wait until he got home. Now it's the same with my husband and I. We eat when he gets home, if he is home at 4, then we'll probably eat around 7, but if he doesn't get home until after 9, then I'm having dinner at 10. His schedule is just unpredictable.

I should be doing about 20 other things tonight, but I got curious to see if I could find any of the others. And so, a few more pieces from the Countess Collection: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Fashion-women-choker-necklace-Jewelry-2016_60696309288.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normalList.15.5ed6133fmOUXtA This one comes in black OR green on her site. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Vintage-bohemian-choker-statement-wood-necklace_60817840137.html?spm=a2700.galleryofferlist.normalList.80.7940133fYemebO The thing that really strikes me as messed up with this is that Luann has lived in different countries and she has traveled around the world. I'm not a fan of Lu's taste in jewelry, and in fact I'm generally wearing my wedding ring and a pair of earrings I rarely change out of, but I do like to buy costume jewelry for occasions when I want to dress up or even if I'm just going out to dinner with my husband. I'll throw on a necklace, maybe a bracelet. A lot of these things are things that I've found when I was wandering around shops while traveling, and it's something I like to do because then when I put on this bracelet I can think of Paris, those necklace remind me of Havana, that necklace of Mexico, etc. None of them cost a lot, but they're all pieces that were made by local people and I liked and found on my trip. The items Lu buys (and is pimping), are designed to look like those sorts of pieces in many ways. Lu has a somewhat built in audience between the show and her cabaret and for the people who were going to buy something to support her, they will spend a decent amount of money on the items. She could have easily found people to partner with to have the items made where she was working with people in an area that needs development and help women start businesses making her necklaces to support their families. It may have increased their pricing a bit, but not THAT much more and they would be better quality than the crap that she is selling. The people that she is targeting with her product/show is a crowd that would likely be willing to pay a bit more for something that is supporting a good cause. If her items were something I would wear and wanted to buy and I had the option to purchase it from her (knowing it was imported from aliexpress/alibaba), or knowing that it was handmade by a small business and would cost $20-$50 more, I would pay more. There is a jewelry company that I buy stuff from once in a while that has everything handmade in the US by work at home mothers. It's not even more expensive, but it's given women the chance to help support their families, so to me it's a win-win.

I'm not suggesting that I know for sure, obviously. My speculation is because he was obviously working and supporting himself before the show and Candiace. He still has a dayjob that is a pretty demanding one. He had to live somewhere before, and I imagine it wasn't the same level as that house. He was also in favor of scaling things back for the wedding, while she was insistent that it had to be bigger. She just strikes me as the one who is more attached to the money than he is. I think both of them should pack their shit and support themselves, it would end ALL of the drama with her mother.

It certainly isn't "These are necklaces I designed, inspired after some of my favorite pieces I've owned over the years" like she tried to say in upstate NY.

I agree that he should shoulder blame for not moving out, but I think we aren't seeing all of their dynamic. Things between Candiace and her mother are messed up and the obvious answer would have been for Candiace to say a loooong time ago, no problem, I'll move out of your house, pay my own bills and then I will live the way I want. I have actually had to, on occasion, gently remind both my mother and mother in law that we're adults, we pay our own bills and it's fine for them to have opinions, but at the end of the day, unless you are paying our bills, you don't get the final say in what we do. I'm tactful but there are boundaries. So if someone wanted to try to jerk the strings, fine, I'd cut them. Done. Now I suspect Chris has probably suggested this, multiple times. Candiace, on the other hand, has spent a few seasons telling us all about how fabulous she is and how she deserves the best! So at the moment she and Chris might only be able to afford an apartment, wouldn't be able to spend a ton on clothes or whatever. And again, I'm guessing Chris would be ok with this, but Candiace? Nope. She'd rather not give up what she thinks she's entitled to, and so she plays the games. But that means Chris is kind of stuck if he wants to stay with her.

This isn't the only one. Seeing this prompted me to do some digging. This one (pearl branch): is on Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32258809618.html This one: Looks remarably like this one on Overstock.com: https://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/Passiana-Clear-Crystal-Chain-Bib-Necklace/10611217/product.html And this one: Also on overstock: https://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/Passiana-Metallic-Branch-Statement-Necklace/10884125/product.html Or perhaps we could just go to the source for most of them? http://www.passiana.com/List/ByType/2

I have never suffered a catastrophic loss, which Camille did, even though she does have other properties. This was her primary home and even if she had 30 other ones, she lost her home and her belongings. Insurance doesn't cover everything. By the time you get into rebuilding, then purchasing every single item you had, from the ground up, it's not going to cover it all. Camille is in good shape, though, because it's not like she isn't going to be able to afford a new couch because the insurance money will only cover clothes for her kid OR new furniture. I still feel compassion, though, as it's devastating to just look at your home, your belongings and your life in a pile of rubble. And there have been times in my life where if a camera had been with me right after a big event, I'd have said something that I maybe didn't really mean, or that came out in a way I didn't mean it to. I can see how Camille did that here, and I can't hold those comments against her.

You know, I've given this some thought and I think Lu would be best served by not going back to being herself. The old, pre-jail, pre-Tom, Countess Lu wasn't such a great version, really. She should just burn it to the ground and start fresh.

I didn't really feel like what Camille said in season 1 about Kyle being jealous about being married to the realtor was so much of a knock against Mauricio, because it did happen to be true. Also Mauricio pretty much told Kyle that he didn't give a shit what Camille said or did, she needed to go in and apologize and make sure she didn't lose him the listing. For all the times that Kyle touts knowing "the game" in Beverly Hills, she's pretty dumb about it, don't piss of the people who own the properties your husband can sell. I really doubt Camille was an asshole to people who could potentially hire Kelsey for something or buy one of the shows they produced back when they were married. PK didn't call Camille the C word, true, but he had absolutely no issue trashing her in the scene prior to the Beverly Beach trashbag reveal. I know Camille has no way of knowing that when the dinner happened, but having seen it, my response is "eh" to Camille's dinner comments about PK. She did get told by most people there what their issues with her was and they tried to get a reaction, they just didn't expect the one they got. Camille isn't in a hotel, she has a trailer on her property at the moment and is in living in that while they are rebuilding. My initial reaction was that Denise had nothing really to worry about, as her house was fine, but then it did occur to me that they would need to have a remediation team come in and deal with the smoke damage for their belongings, so that sucks. It is a PITA, but it's going to be much easier than what Camille has to deal with at the end of the day. It sucks for both of them, though, and many, many other people. The whole situation was just catastrophic.

Michael may have owned the house prior to their marriage, but Ashley IS married to Michael now. Being his partner and living in a home that he owns is different than being a grown adult and living in a home that your parent is subsidizing. It's not like she has a family trust or comes from some sort of big money family. It seems like her mom does pretty well and Candiace feels that even though she's somewhere in her 20s and married, she's still entitled to her mother's money. She shouldn't have to suffer and struggle with whatever she and her husband can afford on their own, there shouldn't be any sort of comedown in the princess's standards. Nope, mommy should simply keep forking over the money to keep her in the style to which she's become accustomed. To me, that's something vastly different than living however you live with the person you married, if one/both of you are working to provide it. Pay your own way (either or both partners), and you can do and live how you want. But if you need a third party to help pay the bills, then it's not the same to me. Seeing how he responded tonight, just stepping in and removing Candiace from the situation without saying a word to anyone else make me really wonder what she is like behind closed doors. I know they had that argument last year about him "holding her purse" and it seemed weird at the time, I don't often leave my purse with my husband, but if I asked him to hold it for a minute or two if I ran to the bathroom, he would have no problem with it. She went low really quick in that fight, and if I remember correctly I think he was just asking her to wait a second because he was also trying to call an über and didn't have a free hand. If it was my purse, she would have required medical attention. I carry pretty much everything and the kitchen sink. I learned it from my mother, who, thankfully did NOT hit us with her purse. She would have been like Tyson with that thing if she did. I don't remember them specifying that it was one of the husbands until Robyn said that last night. It didn't make that much sense when she said it, either, because Juan wasn't at that party, white Chris was, but he clearly wasn't the person it was said about. If it had been the black Bill Gates, I'm pretty sure Karen wouldn't have had the salt room moment with Ashley, and I don't think Monique's Chris was there. So I don't know which husband it could have been. Plus wasn't the whole incident with him this past year supposed to be him allegedly assaulting someone from the production crew? But then he was cleared?

I will say that I am with Dorinda in wanting to know if the dog felt the same after it was defrosted. I wouldn't have actually asked Tinsley that, but, I am curious. You know, for science. And if it had been my dad (not that he'd have frozen the dog and then thawed it for a viewing), I would have asked, because my family is pretty casual about death behind closed doors. The inquisition was a bunch of bullshit, though. Even if Tinsley has an arrangement with Scott where she's putting out and he's paying her bills, that's her business. They don't need to count her money. But then I think they should also take the original show and retool it a bit and put Sonja in it. Sort of like paper dolls, take the dress of one housewife, put it on another, keep the tour going! Lady Morgan and Friends! I don't even think she's that subtle about it. She spends a lot of time talking about what people "do" and what they "don't do" She also has some pretty specific opinions on everyone else's life, while she spends most of hers drunk off her ass. I thought he was a bit rough his first season, or maybe more accurately, I thought he had a rough first season, but I've softened quite a lot on John. I think he's likely a great guy and the situations that we saw the first season aren't indicative of his typical behavior. That's because Ramona does the bare minimum unless you can advance her on the social ladder. Did she even have any food besides the 2 cakes? Bethenny clearly take the time to arrange food, drinks, entertainment and gifts. She puts a lot of thought and effort into the events she throws. Ramona got some balloons and bossed some people around. I was calling him Gay Skippy from Family Ties. He was WAY to into the show. You can't possibly mean the joggers. You need to have a prescription for an Epi pen and prior to this incident, her allergy wasn't an anaphalactic one. If you don't have that type of reaction, you don't have an Epi pen, you would just carry benadryl. Once you have a serious reaction, or something that gets close, then you get them and you keep it with you. But I saw this with a friend of mine as well, they had an allergy that was annoying but not a big deal, so they just dealt with it until one day, it was a MAJOR deal and then they had to get an Epi pen and absolutely have to avoid the food. She said that he went to get the benadryl from her stuff in the other room. Hannah isn't 6, though. She knows her mom has a boyfriend and it's not like Richard was even her father. He's been dead for a while, so Hannah needs to grow up on this. I get it, when my biofather was alive he dated this woman I could not stand. But I also realized that I was an adult and while I hated her, it didn't actually matter. I only had to deal with her on rare occasions and there was no need for me to think twice about her any other time. Weirdly, I have given this subject a lot of thought over the years. I think it's fair for there to be levels of privacy, BUT. LOL! So I think kids are generally always off limits and could and should be kept private. I have no problems with them being kept off a show like Bethenny does with Brynn, like Sonja does with Quincy, or even like Heather Dubrow did with her kids as they got older on OC. They would be "around" maybe playing in the background or something, but not featured, not really talked to or anything like that. I'm fine with this, because they are kids and they should be able to have privacy. I am also fine with people keeping a relationship off camera. This is where my BUT comes in, though. If someone is dating a person and they don't want to be on camera, I don't care. Take Cameron on Southern Charm, her husband is not on camera, occasionally you hear him on the phone with her. I am fine with that. Bethenny has dated people who did not appear on the show. I don't care. Where I do have a problem is if someone puts someone on the show and then tries to pull the relationship off because they don't like the way it's going. Vicki tried to do this with Brooks and got upset that they didn't let her and I thought that was fair of Bravo to say. You wanted everyone all in on the relationship at the start, you can't pull it off air because he is being called out as a scammer. Tinsley needs to just stop talking about Scott if she doesn't want questions about him. She did create a bit of a mess by gushing about him all the time and then they were back and forth so frequently, so now people have questions. That doesn't justify the crap that Sonja and Dorinda pulled in this past episode, but if she had held some of the cards a bit closer all along, she would have fewer questions now. When I first met my husband he had some unfortunate facial hair that I wasn't a huge fan of. It is his face, so he can do whatever he wants with it, but when he asked my opinion I told him. I later found out that his mother also hated it and had been trying to convince him to get rid of it for a while. The previously mentioned husband who no longer has the unfortunate facial hair lives to play with statistics. For some reason, he loves these things, if he didn't have a big project at work, I'd try to convince him to do this.

Without my glasses, I can't see the chart. LOL!

I am in this same boat (waiting for my vision to stabilize before I can have lasik), the issue at middle age, though is that everyone tends to get somewhat far-sighted at middle age. So if you had lasik at age 25 and had 20/20 vision, when you hit 40 you would likely require readers, which isn't any different than someone who never had glasses in the first place. For me, since I'm hugely near-sighted, as I've gotten to my 40s I've seen my prescription ease down a bit towards "normal." I am so far from 20/20 vision that there is no amount of age related far-sightedness that can correct me to normal vision, but I'm hopeful that in the next few years I'll be able to skip the readers stage if I have lasik then.

The things that would be the hardest for me (and I imagine for most people), aren't the things that would be replaceable by insurance. It's the random item that was owned by a relative, something a parent gave me, something a sibling gave me. A few years ago I moved and because it was for my husband's job, we had a relocation package that included movers coming to pack and move our things. After we were settled in our new place, we emptied the boxes and I realized that I couldn't find three things. Two of them were like, eh, whatever, it's annoying, but I can replace them. The third, though, was something a set of coasters that a sibling had bought for me on a school trip years ago. I'd had them forever and I was heartbroken that they were gone. Thankfully, they later turned up in the bottom of a box that had been labeled with stuff from another room in our previous home. But if you had asked me what stuff I would grab if I had 30 minutes to evacuate my home before this, they aren't something I ever would have thought of. And there are probably more of those things, none of them are terribly expensive, they're just invaluable to me. I don't think Teddi does directly confront people with her own feelings. She does a lot of the "I'm confused, why are you saying this?" Rather than just laying out what she means to say and being direct. She also didn't just go directly to LVP and say I think you told them to have me out Dorit with this, why did you put me in this position. She went to Kyle and showed her the texts. She went to Dorit and the others. Then she sent Kyle to tell LVP that they all knew it was her. I somehow deleted the space between the post above, so what you do with the food you bring back is toss it off your balcony onto the balcony of one of the other women in the château so it makes it look like they are nasty pigs who hide food. I don't understand why Kyle didn't give better directions with regards to the food in this case. If you arrange for a chef, wouldn't you think you'd have to give some sort of preferences, like you do on Below Deck? They would be able to let them know that this is pretty much what they will eat for breakfast so they aren't putting out huge platters of food that just gets wasted. I was in France last year and made it a point to have macarons every day. They are worth it! I think this is one of those things that depend on how you've seen Kyle in the past. Personally, I've always thought that she was fairly two-faced and haven't liked the way she came across all the time. Other people, however, have viewed her as very genuine and a great friend, etc. For someone like me, I just see this as Kyle being Kyle and she may be shown as herself more this season now that she can't whine about how LVP is manipulating things anymore, but nothing I'm seeing is all that different from what I've seen from her in the past. But for people who have previously viewed Kyle as a great and loyal friend, well, I can see how this would seem like she's gone downhill.

Yep, it has. There was the huge fight in an early season where Jill was planning her charity event and Ramona told her it was "declasse" to put your own business on the step and repeat at the event. Ramona brings up the Social Register and Jill asked her where it was leaving Ramona blinking. Things were all about what was right, what was done and what was NOT done. Like men coming to girls night, where you were seated at a fashion show, etc.

It's that they are soo short. I can't stand having my toenails long but they at least come close to the end of my toes, not halfway up my toe. If they were any shorter, the poor kid would be bleeding.

I don't know that the stains were all from Barbara spray tanning in the room. I think some of them were from her coming into contact with the furniture. She likely leaves a trail of tanner behind the way you would lipstick on a glass and if you don't have an all white environment, it isn't as obvious. I'd also venture a guess that she's going heavier on the tan due to being in bathing suits and on camera, that she might not go that heavy on it normally.

Perhaps he was the donor? If her arms were highly polished wood, then she totally would be a double for my grandmother's couch in the 80s. I just want to know why it looks like someone is gnawing that child's toenails off. The nails on that foot look like the nails of someone who has a chronic nailbiting problem. I adore post it notes to an unhealthy level. I hoard them, collect them in different sizes, colors, etc. I get very excited when I come across a new kind (double strength glue? yes please! flags? More!), but despite that quirk of my personality, nothing about that game sounds remotely sexy to me. I'm pretty much the target market, I'd think and it's like the least sexy thing I can think of. It's ok, it's not like she even knows what she's making. You're right, of course, but she seems to be under the impression that she's making fries, yet she has a pan full of diced potatoes. They're not going to magically regroup themselves into stick form. So when she gets a big puddle of mush, it won't really matter.

This would be ideal. Also have Andy ask them the real questions about proof and stuff. Like since ROL has come out and said it wasn't LVP how were they SO sure? They said they had proof it WAS her, but then it was just "well, she said the word nipped and the article said nipped" so, case closed! Yeah, not quite. And ask Teddi how it was that she KNOWS LVP was making her do it when she didn't even discuss it with LVP? And why she would even be willing to do it? Oh and Dorit, exactly what IS the name of the woman who you gave the dog to?

I agree with what you are saying in general, you shouldn't have to placate someone who is badgering you. But I do think there was no point in trying to be direct with Kyle. She was beyond having any sort of conversation with, the best way to deal with her was to tell her they'd be honest in the morning, as anything else would be going in circles.

I have mixed feelings about this. While I think it would be kinder to spare LVP people being assholes to her while she's grieving the loss of her mother, on the other hand, that's also protecting the people who had absolutely no compassion for her while she was grieving the loss of her brother and struggling with it. She's been open about how hard it was for her to deal with his loss and how she should have taken the year off from the show to recover. They didn't give her an inch and instead ganged up and demanded that she bend to THEIR "truth" Well, why give them the cover now? If they went through with the reunion sticking to their take down, then let it all out, show them for who they are. Don't give the bitches the chance to pull back their words now, so they can cluck about their care and concern when they didn't have it last year.

I have always thought that Lu was a somewhat functional alcoholic. There have always been the stories and rumors about her being totally different off camera and my thoughts were that it was sort of like the person who doesn't drink Monday to Thursday nights because they have to get up for work the next day, but they spend Friday night through Sunday afternoon packing away the beer or other booze. My take is that for Lu, this was work and for years she would drink and get happy, but still keep her wits about herself because it WAS work and she wanted to have some control over how she was behaving, much the same way that I have a 2 drink rule for myself at any sort of work function. But over the last few years, she's had a harder time keeping her control and so the drinking escalated. She's had a pretty tight grip on the fact that she was a smoker, too. In all of the years that she was on the show, I think there's been one scene that showed her smoking. So she's careful with how she's filmed. Carole was filmed smoking more than Lu was. I know that death photography used to be an actual thing, but I want to say it was more a turn of the century thing? I know that side of my family only did it because my grandfather wasn't able to go to the funeral. Well, to my knowledge anyway and I'm sticking with that. Now when we had a funeral for a grandparent on the other side, a cousin I hadn't seen in decades showed up and apparently thought it was time to play photojournalist. I didn't know until a few weeks later when I got a disc of pictures from my mother. It was like an instant replay of the morning, photo by photo. Thankfully they were cremated, so it was less traumatic than my first experience. I'm thinking it's a sort of side gig, not a full on income. Probably a cash only service, like $50 per mourner kind of thing. Although it is amusing to think of people making up a menu of their mourning services.

It never ceases to amaze me how anything Jason says or does is altruistic. So while I'm sure it will be explained away: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bethenny-frankels-ex-jason-hoppy-mocks-her-jewish-faith-during-custody-trial