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We’ll be getting together with family tomorrow and my mom has been going on and on about the pot roast she’s making. 😂 Before this week, I had no idea making a pot roast for your loved ones was the ultimate heartfelt gesture.

I’ve heard Karla say several times to Juan that he should want to support her financially. She currently is homeless (not sure where she would be living if the a show didn’t provide her with an apartment) and just wants to work a few hours here and there doing reiki and cutting hair but not a full-time job. She finally says she wants to be an “entrepreneur” and own her own business, but I think that’s to appease Juan, as being an entrepreneur is his big thing that he’s constantly talking about. But I definitely heard her say to him early on that she doesn’t want a 9-5 because she wants to travel the world. And he was all how are you paying to travel? And she was basically like you’re my husband and I expect you to pay for what I want. She even said she’d travel on her own when he said he was too busy establishing his businesses to take time off. I don’t have the exact quotes, so maybe I am reading into it. But I definitely feel like I’ve heard Karla say in so many words that now that she’s married, she expects Juan to financially support her. And not like someday when we have kids, but today. They’ve had several conversations about it in which he’s like all my time and money are going into establishing my businesses, and I expect you to contribute to this partnership. Michelle and Juan are both looking for their partners to be financially independent, but I think Karla is “worse” than David because he’s not looking for a dime of Michelle’s money, he just would be happy living the financial level he’s already at. Karla is looking to be taken care of at a level of which she cannot care for herself. In my mind, she’s looking for more financially than Michelle is, but somehow Michelle is the one branded a gold digger. Just my opinion that Karla is the stealth gold digger and yet is somehow flying under the radar on that while Michelle gets eviscerated just because she’s more “open to the process” than Michelle is.

Like many of you, I have to agree that the “comedian” on AP and everyone else jumping on Michelle as the biggest gold digger who ever dug gold made me want to defend Michelle. The financial continuum between basement dweller and private jet owner is pretty vast. It sounds like Michelle grew up near poverty level (at least from her perspective), so it’s not unreasonable to want a solid upper middle class life in which you own your own home and can maybe go out to dinner and a once-a-year basic vacation without living paycheck to paycheck. Granted, she hasn’t really described her “lifestyle” goals too clearly, but I get the impression she’s not really asking for much more than that. Karla is the one who keeps talking about traveling the world and being taken care of without wanting a 9-5. Michelle just wants someone to be her financial equal, not support her outright. Honestly, I think if David had gotten his MSW and was a LCSW rather than second-shift (factory?) foreman and had a more white collar ambition/look/persona, she might be more accepting of him, even though social workers aren’t known for rolling in money. You can tell that his SW education has had some impact, as he’s particularly adept at just listening and being patient and trying to talk through emotions. That being said, I can see why going on words alone, they were matched. He is a very decent dude, and I can see why everyone within this show universe is rooting for him and sees Michelle as the “problem.” I do wonder what else Michelle said was important to her that we didn’t see. Maybe she didn’t bring up financial security specifically, but I wonder whether “ambition” or “intellectual” came up at all. Not that David isn’t smart, per se, but I do think it’s the lack of “wanting more” out of life careerwise or not having intellectual pursuits (aka “simple”) that adds to the “lifestyle” disparity. Ikechi is an asshole and a half! And, yes, he was very sexually “aggressive” toward Emem for the first couple of weeks himself before he decided to pretend to be all demure and aghast. Buuuut, I do kind of understand where he’s coming from with her “moaning” and whatnot being too much. I know I’ve commented before how strange it is when he starts quoting scripture and she’s all “OoOoh, yees! Mmmmmm!” Like??? There’s a time and a place, Emem, and it sounds like she’s hot to trot at all times and in every place. So, yes, Ikechi is passive aggressive and a jerk. Yet, I’ll at least give him props for not sleeping with her. He obviously was attracted to her at first but that changed, just like Juan to Karla and Madison to Allen. Michelle is the only one who was all “hell no!” from the jump. The other couples had instant attraction until one partner in the mix decided the “chemistry” was no longer there. But maybe there’s still time to come around for some of them, like Camille did with Tom.

Alright, bunkies. To show my devotion, I’m going to make you all some Love After Lockup surf and turf: pot roast and shrimp Alfredo. Happy holidays to you all!

Seriously?!? She’s calling from her theater that you access via secret passageway but she’s asking him for money?!?! Guess grandma was loaded and something went wrong genetically in the subsequent generations.

Yeah, put your roast in my pot, baby!

Yes, Nyla’s mom was the Mormon who got impregnated behind a prison vending machine.

An Edible Arrangement is way more romantic than a pot roast. Though, a pot roast beats a penis tracing.

Kaleigh is cooking (and eating) for two to make him a pot roast in spirit. I thought she was cat fishing him but apparently they somehow had sex on a visit?? Okay, guess pregnancy test is a possibility for the bingo card.

The problem with signing up your prison boo for an inmate-sugar mama site is that instead of just money, he might find someone with more honey.

I THINK this is the same Salley who ALSO went on The Bachelor but left on day 1 because she had basically called off a wedding to go on the show, and I think it was the day they were supposed to get married or something?? Between that and bragging about sleeping with Shep, it seems like she’s the ultimate fame-seeker. Being friends with Molly who is also bragging about trying to get with two different cast members, has me giving them the side eye to them both. Last week I was going to forgive Molly for pretending to be interested in Whitney because she seemed pretty funny, but Salley is bringing her down in my estimation by association. Hope the embarrassment and (likely?) STDs are worth it, ladies. ETA: Yes, same Salley from Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, Southern Hospitality, and Southern Charm. I’m sure she has pure intentions… https://www.monstersandcritics.com/tv/reality-tv/bachelor-nations-salley-carson-joins-southern-charm-for-season-10/

This seems a little excessive…especially for women who likely don’t eat carbs, toasted or otherwise. Almost as over-the-top as wearing head-to-toe leather and suede at your own damn denim party.

I mean, didn’t Angie have small children doing non-alcoholic shots and making it rain stripper style with stacks of money at her Greek Orthodox Easter last season?

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Kate signed Hunter up for a sugar-mama/prisoner site?!? Now she needs an itemized list of the hoochies who show their coochies so he doesn’t get any more ERC demerits.