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Believe they went to counseling but didn’t show it on camera. IIRC, the time Jephte took Laura to visit his family because they were fighting Jephte’s brother mentioned it and Jephte said he didn’t want to do counseling again. Also think last year Shawniece suggested they go back to a marriage counselor and Jephte said no, he didn’t think more counseling was the answer.

Declan is a little cutie!!!!! Loved seeing Austin’s reaction to Jessica’s pregnancy test. Otherwise, the content was very, very light.

The show finally hired some good makeup and hair people and Myrla is a snot to them and doesn’t let them do their job. Sheesh. Mikaela and her sisters looked gorgeous! Loved how they all looked complimentary and not bridesmaid matchy-matchy. I have a crush on Gil and feel bad for what he’s about to have to put up with for the next 8 weeks. Myrla is a real pill. WTF with the black glitter tux jacket Jose tried on. Looked like it was made out of wrapping paper.

A few posters have speculated that Jose might be critical of Rachel because MAFS has labeled him “Mr. Perfectionist”.

Agree with others that I expect Jose to be disappointed. It’s like he thinks he’s a 9 when in reality he is a 5. In this pic the tux is wearing him and he looks like an over-eager maitre d at a restaurant I would be desperate to avoid. She is out of his league.

Me too! He has a great smile and looked Frank Sinatra cool in his red velvet jacket. Swoon!

There are people who believe it makes more financial sense to have a mortgage than to have their money tied up in one asset, and / or that with a mortgage they are essentially borrowing money at 3% and can get a better return investing it elsewhere.

Perhaps the ones in quarantine? I thought earlier Sandy asked for a chef, deck and interior person to be put in quarantine so they’d ready to go if she lost anyone. Feel like production is setting it up for casting swaps.

For me its the amount of money and that he was stealing for so long. I think of it like if my partner embezzled $25K I probably wouldn’t notice because our lifestyle would not be that different from others in the same line of work, but if he embezzled $100K I’d be a fool for not noticing that we lived significantly differently from his colleagues. Add to that if he was constantly being accused by a professional board I’d think something was off.

Yeah, Brett and Ryan make zero sense based on what they showed. Interested to see what happens to Bao and Johnny since they are the ones who know each other before meeting at the alter.

Maybe Jen Shah? 😂

Reddit is on fire that Jamie Otis got a $57K PPP payout. Agree that Chris is a lying liar who lies so not believing what he says about Erik and VA until it is corroborated by others.

NPR did a podcast about how cameos were huge in 2020 as people looked for safe ways to celebrate during the pandemic. Gilbert Gottfried said he easily makes $1,000 a day for about an hour of work.

I remember something about failing a grade, too. And she got into trouble for wearing a lot of makeup in elementary school and Farrah was her usual bitchy self about it.

Regarding Cate getting counseling from Bethenny Services. I’m not going to go back and watch, but I remember Cate going to a BS retreat with other teens who chose adoption. I think she turned down a few before finally going to one, at Dawn’s encouragement. And, Dawn regularly checked in with both of them. IMO, BS did what I would expect an agency to do by having periodic check-ins with the birth parents and provide them opportunities to talk to peers and others at their agency. If Cate, or any birth parent, needed true mental health resources that’s not something I think should be an agency’s job. That should be between the minor, their parent and their doctors. YMMV. Where I lived, open adoption was a fairly new concept at the time and not well defined. The general expectation was information sharing via pics and letters. There were people who did in person visits and had extended family type relationships, but that was rare. IIRC, in the beginning Cate and Tyler had to give anything they wanted to send to Carly to Dawn to send on for them. They were not allowed to have any direct contact with B&T or Carly. If this is correct it is believable to me that at the time of adoption Cate understood this and did not expect regular in person visits. I agree with @Tatum that Cate and Tyler developed expectations and a sense of entitlement to Carly later.

The Farrah word salad is strong in this one.

It’s interesting so many of you think Shawniece needs to work on her communication skills. I mean they both do, but I think Jephte is far worse than Shawniece. He makes zero effort to compromise. He wants 4 kids and she wants fewer than 4 so he tells her to come up with a plan to have 4. Uhhh, seems like it’s his way or the highway. She actually comes up with a good list and then asks to hear his plan. He never acknowledges her list and refuses to answer the question about his plan. Instead, he says that the plan was to try for a kid in the spring, she delayed the plan until fall, her decision made him really upset, so now he isn’t going to try in the fall. That would make me crazy too, he is being passive aggressive and laying blame at her feet when she is trying to move forward. To the camera he said that he didn’t want to put the kid pressure on her, but he never said that to her (or it wasn’t shown). Regardless, he isn’t happy and she is constantly on edge and it has been this way for years. They aren’t good together and they need to end it for their and Laura’s sake.

I wish they would show more of Keith and Kristine. Seems like we only see them at home or on vacay. Jephte needs to leave Shawniece. He doesn’t seem interested in what she has to say or how she feels, and does the passive aggressive blame game. Sadly, Shawniece really thinks she is in love with him so I don’t think she will ever make the decision to leave him. Ashley and Anthony make cute babies. I felt kind of bad for Deonna hearing how bad the birth was with her being so close to the end of her term.

I hope the feds take everything except her fugly outfits so we can see this on the people of walmart site when it’s all over.

I feel so bad for Shawniece. Jephte just isn’t that in to her. It was nice to see the NOLA couples so happy.

Say whaaat?! 😆

He’s a grifter and doesn’t have that much money. We saw them filmed for 8 weeks and only saw two suits. Dude can’t even get credit at the Men’s Warehouse. Everything is leased or borrowed will be repo’d if it hasn’t already.

I guess I’m in the minority because I don’t think the Winders and Kimberley are doing this for camera time. They seem earnest to me. Garrick sucks - because it can’t be said enough.

Does anyone know how long after decision day this was filmed?

Amber has a track record of not paying CS. Is there a CS order on file? Do we know how much the order is for and if she is current? I doubt she is paying enough to cover 100% of James and Andrew’s living expenses. TBH, even if she was I would consider it karma because she has not provided appropriate financial support for Leah. While she is earning good money now it is unlikely to continue for the next 18 years. Amber has proven she will not behave like an adult by staying sober, getting a job, and putting the financial needs of her children ahead of her spending whims. She has had 12 years to show us what kind of mom she is and it’s a pretty shitty one. I fully expect the dads to do most of the parenting, including financial support, of these two and any other kids she may have in the future.