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Some pregnancy tests show both lines after they’ve “dried.” Not sure why but they aren’t necessarily “accurate” after they’ve sat around for awhile (I can’t remember the brand I used but I definitely wasn’t pregnant and after a couple of hours, it looked positive). So that’s a possibility too!

That would kinda make sense (not that I believe it necessarily- I think he was just hoping she’d bite and confess something) - he did say she did it before the wedding, in Jamaica, still does it...fits with continuing to purge.

He’s playing the victim? HE’S playing the victim? You gotta be fucking kidding me. I hate these people.

Hasn’t given his all? He hasn’t given anything!

Aww poor Taylor. Now she’s the victim. Fucking crocodile tears. And why the hell is Pepper trying to guilt Brandon into staying? She did something very wrong and won’t admit that it’s wrong. I just can’t with that bitch.

HOW does Taylor not see that video as hurtful? I probably would’ve left too honestly. She literally said she was single. And she keeps going on about how he was an asshole and she’s still going on about Panama and they’ve tried to put that behind them a million times. So...she doesn’t want him because he’s a gas lighter and all that. Uh, so yeah he left. It sounds like that’s what she wants anyway. To be single. Ughh this woman is killing me.

Robyn was all “psh well if you wanna get real Meri, let’s get real then” Like was that not the point?? It seems to me that Meri may be climbing a bit up the totem pole simply because while Janelle is more practical financially, often Meri is more practical emotionally particularly with regard to the emotional state of the family and her relationship with Kody. Once she finally just kinda gave up and said it is what it is oh well...she has been kinda point blank about some issues. Christine and Robyn are by far the most emotional and I think that often bugs Kody.

I presume they got married in NC, where they currently live...to get a marriage license there, you have to indicate 1) that you have been married before and 2) the date of divorce (or death of spouse). This is on the form to fill out for a marriage license so there’s no way Glenn didn’t know. (Source: got married in NC to a divorced man)

Yeah, it’s pretty unprofessional if not downright unethical. I know there’s a gray area due to the nature of the actual “counseling” that went on and the public-ness of it but it’s a pretty big no-no for a therapist to date a client. Huge issues with power imbalance...this person has deep personal knowledge of you, you’ve exposed sensitive and vulnerable parts of yourself and they’ve given a very clinical and objective response. The boundaries between therapist and client exist for a very good reason. Both legally and otherwise.

For awhile I was a Danielle/Bobby defender - but the more I see of them, the more I’m starting to get super cynical about her. It’s starting to feel to me like she saw an opportunity to snag someone who would truly do anything and everything for her including paying off her debt and funding her lifestyle. She doesn’t strike me as the type to get accidentally pregnant, especially not in this situation and being someone so career-oriented so it makes me wonder if she decided a baby was the way to lock him down for good so she could relax the “love” act knowing he’s not going anywhere now that she’s got his kid. I dunno. That’s super cynical of me, I know, but she’s really starting to get demanding and very gotta have things her way, making small concessions here and there to keep him on the hook but I get the feeling that the major ones she’s going to beat him down on. Ugh.

I decided to go back and rewatch some of the older seasons today and I started with Boston/Jephte and Shawniece. Wow. He really was never that into her. My husband and I were talking and think that because his dad skipped out, he feels a kind of duty to stick around for his kid in the way his father didn’t. But dude. You can be there for the kid and even support the mother without actually still being married to her. In some cases, it’s better honestly...there’s no way you guys are modeling a functional relationship for that child! It’s always been...ok at best. Children don’t exactly add less stress!

Didn’t Anthony say he wanted to wait until Sept 1 to learn the sex of the baby? I remember in their season they celebrated the “major holiday” (according to Pastor Cal) Labor Day together fairly early, before the 1 month mark. Given that it’s their anniversary, they can’t be more than a month away from Sept 1 anyway and Ashley SERIOUSLY couldn’t wait a couple more weeks? I get that it’s producer manufactured drama ultimately but...come on lady.

Wouldn't even have to be ovulation tests. Just used (negative) pregnancy tests left sitting out for awhile. Evaporation lines. After the urine evaporates from the test strip, the second line can become visible.

This pregnancy nonsense REALLY burns me up. I am not her doctor. I do not have access to her medical records so I am speaking purely on statistics and what is just...likely and makes the most sense given...logic. I'm not even an OBGYN, but I did do an OBGYN rotation years ago. Ha. So, this idea that it was a false positive...those are so unusual. Pregnancy tests are simple. They check for the presence or absence of a hormone in urine. If you're pregnant, it's being produced. Once you've been pregnant long enough, it's present in high enough concentrations that those pee tests can catch it (long enough is a couple of weeks...right about when you miss a period). A couple of other things can produce this hormone, though. But they're mostly cancers. The typical cysts you see in PCOS are not one of those things. As a matter of fact, there is a type of cyst that can cause a false positive/can cause this hormone to be released but you *have to be ovulating to have this kind of cyst.* The cyst is called a corpus luteum cyst and it occurs when the little sac (the follicle) in the ovary that held the egg, has released the egg but wasn't broken down and reabsorbed into the ovary and gets filled with blood/fluid and sealed off, creating a cyst. Oddly enough, these usually happen during pregnancy. But not always. The corpus luteum (that sac) releases that pregnancy hormone and tada! False positive. Now, how this relates to Whitney. Well, it makes me think she's a liar liar pants on fire because due to a myriad of factors, I would be flat fucking astonished if she was ovulating at all. First, she says she's on birth control. But she's shit at taking it. Fine. But she hasn't had a period in over...how long? Over a year? You're uh, gonna have those if you're ovulating. And frankly, at that weight, just medically speaking, statistically I would not expect her endocrine and reproductive systems to be functional and healthy. My armchair (I'm actually laying on the floor right now) diagnonsense is no ovulation, no corpus luteal cyst, no cyst caused a false positive. If she is being truthful about a false positive, she needs a much more in depth medical work up. I'd be looking for bladder, ovarian and uterine cancers, as well as endocrine disorders particularly of the pituitary. TL;DR: false positive? I call bullshit.

Haha this is slightly pedantic on my part but on the whole an enormous pet peeve of mine. Calling someone an animal cannot at all suggest they are less than human because humans ARE ANIMALS. I don't know why that makes me crazy and my husband can tell you that every time anyone on tv says something about how "oh they're treating us like animals..." I will inevitably launch into a tirade about how it's impossible not to because you are. Yes, I know what you mean but I spent so many damn years having scientifically specific/correct language being beaten into my head that I can't let that one go. That and "she had her whole life ahead of her." Yeah, well, we all do. Every last second of the rest of your life is ahead of you. Even at 97, the whole rest of your life is ahead of you. Where else would the rest of your life be? I digress. I can't imagine how much all that eating out costs. Before we got together, my husband ate out literally every night of the week. He's now amazed at how much money we're saving by me cooking. And we don't eat nearly as much as I would assume it would require to maintain that weight, as together my husband and I weigh nearly 100 pounds less than Whitney (no exaggeration, he's about 150, I'm about 115-120). Don't get me wrong, we go out once or twice a week still but I cook more often than not. And there are no Starbucks in town. Have we decided whether or not this will be back for another season or not??