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Oh, I disagree. Matt and Caryn were delighted to be the grandparents of choice in prior seasons. Caryn smiling wide with her arms open gathering the little ones, the little ones who pointedly ignored Amy for fun with Chacha? Matt building stuff for Jackson and riding around with Jackson as his lil buddy and going on about how he loved seeing his grandson on his farm (that he spent a whole lotta time and money driving Amy away from)... yeah Matt and Caryn lording how they were the fave grandparents was happening in prior seasons.

As a married couple they file taxes as a married couple. Legally Chris can make medical decisions for Amy. If she does not have a will, legally as her husband, he inherits her assets - depending on the state, either all or some since she has children from a prior marriage. As two singles, Matt and Caryn file taxes separately. As an unmarried couple, Matt and Caryn both would have to take special legal steps for either to make medical decisions for the other. Technically if either gets ill, the family can restrict the partner in an unmarried situation from even visiting in the hospital. Without a will specifically naming Caryn, if Matt dies, Caryn as his special life partner gets nothing. I'd also mention that Amy and Chris live together while Matt and Caryn pointedly maintain separate homes and make it very very well known that they do NOT share a home. That means that even if Oregon had common law marriage - it doesn't - Caryn wouldn't be considered a common law wife because she does not share a domicile with her life partner. Matt and Caryn are dating. They're not even engaged. They are two single people dating long term and that is vastly different legally when it comes to assets and legal rights of married couples. The very fact that Matt and Caryn could simply break up at any time with no legal repercussions and no longer be "life partners" simply by declaring it means their commitment to each other is not the same as a married couple's commitment. Marriage isn't really about assets, its about commitment. Amy and Chris are married, if they decide to call it quits, its a formal divorce. If Matt and Caryn decide to call it quits.., they just walk away.

But Matt is equally a dumbass who cheerfully smiled at all sorts of unsafe shit. I mean the kids Matt had were raised on the 2000s not the 1970s. Pretty sure in 2003 that riding in a tractor with your kids in the scoop was considered unsafe then. So was letting g your kid ride on the roof of your atv (thats something Matt was grinning over in early episodes) I mean, for safety reasons Jackson really ought to be in a car seat or at least buckled up when he was three and four zipping around with Matt on the Mule. This wasn't happening in the olden days when kids could blow their hands off with M80s.

Except that isn't really doable. Canada can STOP accepting new American or Gilead refugees.... but they can't deport refugees they've accepted without due process. They can't pitch them out willy nilly without facing massive issues with other countries.

Yeah how awful, a married couple enjoying sex games! :)

Yeah I don't see why this was so hard. Luke hasn't had prior legal issues, and his wife was attacked. I mean realistically he should be able to join June in Hawaii or wherever after talking to the cops but really, why did everyone have to get on a train with no baggage and depart Canada?

It would matter in the court of public opinion. I personally don't care if they ever marry but some of the flak Matt is receiving is because he brought his girlfriend to what's perceived as a family meeting. Tory catches no flack for attending because she is Zach's wife, but Caryn does because she is Matt's girlfriend that he isn't engaged to and that he doesn't live with. Judge Judy talks about this scenario a lot in her court cases - Matt and Caryn are "playing at marriage". They want the privileges of being married but don't actually want to get married. In Judge Judy's cases, it makes for difficulty. In this case, someone said it here earlier, Caryn can walk away at any time because she's not married to Matt. They aren't married and she has no financial interest in the property so why was she there? Me personally? I would have brought a lawyer with such a large piece of property in play instead of a girlfriend but thats me. I do think, based on Caryn expressing regrets over what was said to Cowboy Bob's wife in the most recent episode, that Caryn was not wholly silent and unfairly taking punishment for Matt's behavior. But it does say something about Matt's level of caring for her if she is genuinely innocent and he's letting her pay the price publicly.

Agreed. I thought this when I saw that scene in last night episode with Zach, and the one that aired right after it, you remember? The family footage of a younger Matt on his tractor with one, two, three toddlers in the bucket of the tractor Matt was wheeling around his property. Matt was beyond stupid and reckless and Zach clearly learned that poor parenting from Daddy Matt.

Its a TV show about the Roloff family. Chris isn't asked questions about his family because they apparently live in Idaho and aren't interested in being filmed. Not everyone wants to be a reality show where after all My own suspicion is they are probably middle class boring :) If there was anything as cool as a stint on America's Most Wanted, you can bet the Sun would have done an article on it. They were totally on top of Caryn's son being arrested for harassing her.

I imagine that's all so private as far as she is concerned. It is interesting that she says people in her family get over stuff when based on arrests, it sure seems like her son has some anger issues.

I mean, as a realtor, why wouldn't he be interested? I was surprised that Chris said Matt set the price much higher than he had discussed with Chris... and if he's discussing pricing with Chris then he made it Chris's business in my opinion. Matt shouldn't have discussed pricing the place with Chris if he also wants Chris to mind his own business.

This discussion is also an indicator that something that might not reflect well on Caryn for saying it got said. "We didn't mean it like that" tells me she has some idea that she said something unkind. Personally, I think she should - if she's genuinely bothered - reach out to Tory and ask that they have a sit down talk at a neutral setting with no kids and no Matt or Zach present, and try to apologize. No one is being the better person here by everyone simply refusing to talk.

Well, the garage was built on the whim to draw attention away from Amy's wedding and to irritate her so it may not have been well planned. I know the design at one point was that Matt wanted a covered attached walkway from the garage to the new house. Personally I always thought this meant the new house had to be placed in a pretty specific spot but in this episode, Matt alluded to the idea that instead of going with a dream house designed to his exact specification, he is going with something where the plans are already made and it can be adjusted a little. This may mean no covered walkway from the massive garage. Matt took out a mortgage of 875k. Thats a monthly bill of approximately 5k+ a month. That's a lot of Airbnb rentals to break even.

She likely doesn't have a dwarf gene recessive or dominant, if that's what you're thinking. Zach has achondroplasia and its dominant. Any child he has with any average height woman will have a 50% chance of inheriting his dwarfism. He likely also carries the gene for dystrophic dwarfism which is Matt's form. If one of the kids had dystrophic dwarfism then Tory would also have to be a carrier as it is recessive. But all the kids are achondroplasic so its all Zach's genes.

Hilariously at about eight minutes into the new episode Matt states that he never sat down with both Jeremy and Zach over the farm. Even though he's been running them down for refusing the great offer that he made to them. Which is it, Matt? The contrast of Chris playing with the kids versus Caryn talking about not seeing the kids was an interesting editorial choice. Chris also teases Amy pretty well. He is interested in the farm sale and was surprised at the price. Caryn does concede something got said in the meeting that she wishes they could discuss because she didn't mean it "that way". Matt meanwhile hangs with his old friend Cowboy Bob and maintains now that while he repeatedly called the place a legacy to the family, he never said "inherit". The convo with Bob seemed really forced, like Bob had a list of questions and comments to make. Matt also now says he assumed all of the kids would work together to work at and live on the farm as a team. It seriously seemed staged for Matt. Very little actually happened.