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It's a full time job.

She was fine with a ponytail. Couldn't he just pull it back instead of forward and see what that does?

I get that it's a thing but the last thing on earth I'd pay money for is to make my ass bigger. I have ice cream for that.

That is a shame. He was young...

I figure her social media (really all of theirs) are all part of the marketing for the show. She knows that most of her followers are following as watchers of the show, so that's what she posts about (mostly). The social media and the show feed each other. It wouldn't surprise me if Christine (and the others) had private social media that they use the way the rest of us use our social media - to share kid updates, cute pet photos and recipes.

I don't think that she does much for him. I think all the "compromise" in their marriage is him changing to make her happy. I was surprised she threw a surprise birthday party for him but I guess since it counted for their "housewarming party" it was no more effort than she would have had to make anyway?

I am a social worker so I am picky about this job title. As I understand it, from another poster who found him on LinkedIn, David has a bachelor's degree in social work. That is great. Yay David. But I don't think he has ever been licensed or done any work in social work. I would say he is not a social worker. More importantly, I think the National Association of Social Workers would say he is not a social worker. I'm not sure what his actual job is except that he works for the city or the county and he works an evening shift. I don't think it's in anything social work-y. Back atcha and to everyone here. I think I only keep watching this show that I can chat with y'all here.

He said he quit as soon as she said it was a deal breaker for her. I think he vapes? Agreed. I also though Pia was emphasizing that David could change if Michelle introduced him to the finer things in life, instead of admitting that they are a mismatch and neither one of them should have to change who they are fundamentally. The experts like to throw a lot under the heading of "compromise."

It creeps the shit out of me.

I hope Tom's ex has found her perfect match too. Apart from that, I don't agree with what you have said. Tom and his ex-dated for nine years. Long time. He cheated on her. Horrible. People make mistakes though. And we don't know how long she expected this relationship to end in marriage, or for sure that she ever did expected or wanted that. She could have left, if she decided she was waiting too long for a proposal. She could have left if she felt she was wasting her time. I have several friends who stayed in romantic relationships longer than they should have because they were hoping to marry their boyfriends. I disliked their boyfriends for continuing relationships that, at least in some cases, I suspected was because they were unable to commit to marriage. But I also thought that my friends were making decisions to continue to stay, despite being clear on what they wanted and knowing clearly, that they weren't getting it in those relationships. Every single one of those women eventually said "now or never" and every single one of them ended those relationships. Every single one of them found a better partner. I don't think that the massage thing was an act, beyond sort of the regular producer-driven shenanigans and storylines. I think that Tom came on the show because he wanted a wife and I think he is developing solid feelings for Camille. Of all the couples this season, I think they might be the ones to stay married on Decision Day.

That may be what they are saying to Michelle but I think they are wrong. I think that David is living exactly the life he wants to live. I don’t think that he wants anything different. Michelle got some of the things she wants in David but not all of them. She herself has been driven to change her lifestyle since she was young. She wanted someone with a similar drive and that doesn’t seem to be David. Moreover, she doesn’t want a partner that has to change to make her happy; she doesn’t want to change and she isn’t asking anyone else to either. I do think that people are judging her for wanting more. Pia and the folks on AfterParty have called her “superficial.” The “comic” made a statement about how she should let genuine, good hearted, nice guy David go so she can “marry a rich guy and cheat with the pool boy.” I think all those comments miss the mark.

I don’t know - I think it’s the money. And I don’t like how much she is getting bashed for that. It feels like Pia and then everyone on AfterParty, including Rando Comic Lady, is saying that she can have a nice guy that she truly connects with or she can have a billionaire. I don’t think that she wants a billionaire. I don’t think that she would say no to one outright, but I think she wants a solid upper end of the middle class lifestyle. She didn’t start with that but she has worked her way to it and she wants to keep moving in that direction. There are nice guys out there who are good husbands and good fathers (I know she doesn’t necessarily want kids) and they earn the sort of salary she is looking for. I get it. I like nice things. I could buy them for myself and I wouldn’t have married someone who wasn’t kind, honest, faithful, smart and funny just because he had money. But I don’t think it has to be either/or. I think the lifestyle that Michelle wants costs more than what David makes now and is likely to make in the future. I don’t think that material things are terribly important to him but he’s not a better person than Michelle because of that. Look at me! Sticking up for Michelle! Who would have thought????

I think he maybe is going to have just the one show but it looks like he is working with another doctor and maybe the format will be different? Maybe the episodes won't each focus on one poundticipant but will show them all at the beginning and then all in the different stages? Mostly I think that, for whatever reason, Dr. Now has jumped the TLC ship and is on Lifetime and they gave the show a slightly different name. They will change it just enough but I think it's basically the same thing, sliced a little differently (pardon the pun).

I forgot - I'm happy for Tom and Camille. That massage was genius on his part! My husband took a class in massage and he regularly rubs my back. It is one of the kindest and most generous ways he shows me love. Well played, Tom!

We hospitalize because they are unable to stop drinking alcohol or using drugs. Does that also seem like a waste of resources to you?

Mine too but since a close family member went through an eating disorder, I have abandoned the term(s) altogether. I have instead adopted an "all foods fit" mantra. "Bad" food is food that is spoiled or contaminated. All foods have value; even foods whose most redeeming feature is that they are fun to eat. Granted the poundticipants on this show really need to restrict intake, but once you get sensitive to the term "healthy (healthful) food" you realize how common it is.

Good for her! Wishing the newly engaged couple every happiness!

Nervous tic? I cannot stand Ikechi. He is arrogant and smug and just... ick. I finally have some sympathy for Michelle. She has clearly identified for herself that she and David want different things from life. Neither of them is right or wrong. It's not bad that David wants a more straightforward, simpler lifestyle. It's not bad that he isn't as driven toward material things. It's not bad that Michelle wants nicer, more expensive things. She wants the bigger house and the money to travel or dine out or whatever. I feel like Dr. Pia is judging Michelle as being superficial for wanting what she wants. I don't think she is. Dr. Pia is trying to convince her that David can be "introduced" to a more luxe lifestyle but she is completely overlooking that he doesn't want it. He is happy the way he is and with the lifestyle he leads. David and Michelle just want completely different things materially and that is not wrong. But it does make them fundamentally incompatible.

Another question - when Dex is driving home from Alligator Alley, he says that Mary's earrings were his first trophy and that was a "huge mistake." Then he turns into his block, sees the cops and we believe for a moment that they are there for him. We then learn they are stocking the fridge. So that was a little cliffhanger, right? We didn't learn later this episode why keeping the earrings was a "huge mistake?" I'm guessing we will learn that later and perhaps that mistake is the reason he started keeping the blood slides?

Imagine his rage if they had held him down and forcibly cut it.

I think there might have been a little more overt evil to her that ended up being cut. She was an angel of death but unlike a lot of the "angel of death" nurses, she was judg-y, choosing to kill patients that she felt had made bad health decisions throughout their lives. In her estimation, they didn't deserve to live. Pet peeve - Mary is his ER nurse. And his ICU nurse. Granted, given the shortage of inpatient hospital beds, more and more patients are "boarded" in the ER and spend days there. But that was not the norm in the 90's and should not be the norm now. Harry would have been admitted to a cardiac ICU and done his inpatient stay there (and ideally not discharged straight from the ICU but gone from ICU to step-down to home). In other words, he really shouldn't have been in Mary's care again after his stay in the ER. Yes. But I also have to say that I think that the actors playing young Dexter and young Deb have managed to capture the ... I don't know how to say it - vocal patterns? of the original characters. Not just Deb's cussing; I'll get to that in a minute. But the sort of choppy way that Deb talks and a sort of accent she has when she says "Dex" that is remniscent of Jennifer Carpenter's Deb. Speaking of Deb... how I miss Jennifer Carpenter's Deb. I didn't always like her, but I loved her. Her cussing was prolific and creative. She didn't just repeatedly say "fuck;" multiple cusses were strung together in new and inventive ways. When she was angry they just sort of exploded out of her. They made me laugh out loud more than once. I often wondered how much of that was the writers and how much they just put "string of cuss words" in the script and Jennifer Carpenter just had a gift for ad libbing that particular type of dialogue. In New Blood and now, Deb's penchant for filthy language is reduced to just "fuck" over and over again. It saddens me.

After everything I have done for you!

I guess that it depends on the type of flowers but wouldn't they have had to have planted seeds by now if they want spring flowers?

We have been heavily misled by editing in the past so I wouldn't say he was absolutely anything until we see the next episode.

There have always been rumors that there is a penalty but I don't think there has ever been any sort of factual confirmation.