S14.E10: Mighty Mighty Boston Bonds

[Emma Snyder]

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The stakes go up for our Boston newlyweds as they seek to strengthen their bonds of trust and intimacy.  The couples consult an expert, ask tough questions, and try to improve their emotional and physical closeness.

Airs Wednesday, March 9, at 8:00PM EST

[Gator Stud]

What a bad episode name.  It should be Mighty Mighty Bostoners.  Or Mighty Mighty Boss Stoners.

Edited March 10, 2022 by Gator Stud

[LennieBriscoe]

TMI, Lindsey. 🤫 As usual. 🙄

[Mindthinkr]

Yes, let’s embarrass your spouse by telling the down and dirty of your sex life on national tv. If they are still together, this might be the last straw for him. 
 

Edited March 10, 2022 by Mindthinkr

[Straycat80]

Is this going to be the season sex episode? Not sure I want to watch this, I might switch over to Survivor. 

[JenE4]

Lindsey starts taking about how she was laying there and Mark started taking off her clothes so she “thought they were going to have sex.” So was he doing laundry or something?? Oh, they did have sex, just not to her standards.

That was some toaster analogy that the friend came up with! He wants to take it apart and figure out how it works—before putting the bread in!

[Straycat80]

Sorry O but Dr.  Vivi has your number. If Katina is crying then he’s pushing his expectations of her too hard. He wants a maid and a cook, he should have just stayed single and hired someone to come in weekly and do that stuff. 

Edited March 10, 2022 by Straycat80

[LennieBriscoe]

Olajuwon has some very odd and obstinate notions of marriage, "wife," and the "duties" attendant. He accuses Katina of being about "I," when HE is the lazy egotist in this marriage. Every jot and tittle must be in accordance with his definitions, his expectations, his needs. 

Intolerable. I hope Katina dumps him. 

Edited March 10, 2022 by LennieBriscoe

[Elizzikra]

4 minutes ago, Straycat80 said:

Sorry O but Dr.  Vivi has your number. If Katina is crying then he’s pushing his expectations of her too hard. He wants a maid and a cook, he should have just stayed single and hired someone to come in weekly and do that stuff. 

I wanted to like him, but he's a dick.

[Mindthinkr]

Olaj should have married June Cleaver. 

[kikicat]

O wants a maid, not a partner. Chauvinist p-i-g.

Lindsey may be too-blunt-for-TV, but she has a point. A guy who satisfies only himself is selfish and thoughtless.

[LennieBriscoe]

13 minutes ago, Straycat80 said:

Sorry O but Dr.  Vivi has your number. If Katina is crying then he’s pushing his expectations of her too hard. He wants a maid and a cook, he should have just stayed single and hired someone to come in weekly and do that stuff. 

She is giving it to him straight, for sure. "Archaic ideas." Olajuwon  keeps saying "expectations."

GET OVER YOURSELF, PAL!

Edited March 10, 2022 by LennieBriscoe

[Elizzikra]

O. doesn't need to work on his energy and his tone. He needs to stop it with the "cook and clean" or you're not a real woman and a good wife bullshit.

I do like Dr. Viv's makeup this evening. That lip color is particularly good on her.

Edited March 10, 2022 by Elizzikra

[kikicat]

3 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

Olaj should have married June Cleaver. 

Even June would go after him with a cleaver.

[LennieBriscoe]

20 minutes ago, Straycat80 said:

Is this going to be the season sex episode? Not sure I want to watch this, I might switch over to Survivor. 

Might be the better choice, given what's in some previews of the couples' assigned "games."

[Straycat80]

Here we go with the sex questions and I don’t think some of these couples haven’t had sex yet. Why do they push sex when most of these couples already have major problems outside of the bedroom. 

Edited March 10, 2022 by Straycat80

[kikicat]

Hold the phone. Jasmina and Michael are smiling and laughing!!!

[Elizzikra]

O. is full of shit. He's not upset because he doesn't think Katina is vulnerable and opening up. He is upset because she doesn't cook and clean the way he wants his 1950's era wife to do those chores. Ugh.

People are looking good tonight. That pink shirt is good on Lindsey too!

[Auntie Anxiety]

I’m late to the shitshow party because last week was such a friggin’ slog. I’ll try to catch up.

[LennieBriscoe]

Her "like, like, like" is an-NOI-ing!

[JenE4]

The After Party is actually going to be directly after this episode! Hooray!

 

[Crashcourse]

There is nothing calming or reassuring about Olajuwan at all.  He makes me nervous just looking at his ass.  

[Auntie Anxiety]

Dr. Viv, don’t give up your day job (barista at the local Starbucks), because you are an idiot. Just saying.

[Straycat80]

Oh Steve cooks, cleans, maybe him and Katina should trade places, maybe then O would be happy. 

[Auntie Anxiety]

Olajuwon is so incredibly inarticulate. What the hell is he trying to say?

[honeywest]

If Olajuwon’s expectations of a wife are so limited and old-fashioned that he’s likely to be divorced more than once, isn’t that something the experts should have caught beforehand?

[Mr. Miner]

Would it kill someone to hand Katina a tissue? She’s going to take an eye out with those claws. 

[JenE4]

“Ever since I’ve known you”?! Ma’am, you’ve known this man for like 3 weeks. Steve enjoys doing all of the cooking and cleaning—he’s the perfect match for Olajuwon! Wife(Husband) Swap crossover special! 

[Auntie Anxiety]

Katina cries, Olajuwon rolls his eyes. What a great guy.

[VioletNevermind]

Oh, Steve.  No one is going to be okay with you staying home, especially if there are no kids.  I was a single mom with a full-time job, a clean home and I cooked every single (goddamn) night.  It can be done, even if the meals aren’t “as good.”  Give me a break.  

Edited March 10, 2022 by Suzy Rhapsody

[LennieBriscoe]

9 minutes ago, Auntie Anxiety said:

Olajuwon is so incredibly inarticulate. What the hell is he trying to say?

"I thought this was 'Getting a Maid At First Sight'!"

[Mr. Miner]

Steve’s an adventurous free spirit. 🙄

[Straycat80]

Here I thought Mike was the problem, no. Jasmina interrupts him and talks down to him like he’s five years old. 

[Elizzikra]

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Oh, Steve.  No one is going to be okay with you staying home.  I was a single mom with a clean home and cooked every single (goddamn) night.  It can be done, even if the meals aren’t “as good.”  Give me a break.  

O. should have married Steve.

And honestly, I disagree. I think that plenty of couples are fine with one spouse being a full time homemaker and one being a full time breadwinner. I think there are women who would be fine with Steve being a full-time homemaker; but Noi isn't that person. They have to agree on it together and right now, each of them is just focused on what he/she wants individually.

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Here I thought Mike was the problem, no. Jasmina interrupts him and talks down to him like he’s five years old. 

I thought it was pretty crystal clear, too, that he was hurt by Jasmina laughing at his embarrassing story and expressed that clearly; but Jasmina kept laughing and didn't apologize.

Edited March 10, 2022 by Elizzikra

[LennieBriscoe]

Steve is absolutely refusing to understand Noi's "Financial Type." She is cautious, wary of future financial insecurity, not a risk-taker.

AND you, Steve, are showing her that you are a BIG risk. Asking Noi to just trust and accept is a no-go. 

This is not a situation for compromise, IMO. I believe these different outlooks and values are ingrained. 

 

 

[Mindthinkr]

What! You don’t even put the cats food in a bowl? I’m trying to figure out if they are bad cat owners, lazy or what? 

[Elizzikra]

Why is one of Mark and Lindsey's cats wearing a nicotine patch???

[LennieBriscoe]

14 minutes ago, Elizzikra said:

O. should have married Steve.

And honestly, I disagree. I think that plenty of couples are fine with one spouse being a full time homemaker and one being a full time breadwinner. I think there are women who would be fine with Steve being a full-time homemaker; but Noi isn't that person. They have to agree on it together and right now, each of them is just focused on what he/she wants individually.

I thought it was pretty crystal clear, too, that he was hurt by Jasmina laughing at his embarrassing story and expressed that clearly; but Jasmina kept laughing and didn't apologize.

Well, then Michael needs to remove that stick, because a story of a 6-year-old weeing in class IS FUNNY. 

Dang! I had a classmate who did that, and another boy actually made a paper boat and floated it, I kid you not. 

7 minutes ago, LennieBriscoe said:

 

 

Edited March 10, 2022 by LennieBriscoe

[Straycat80]

3 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

What! You don’t even put the cats food in a bowl? I’m trying to figure out if they are bad cat owners, lazy or what? 

Those looked like treats, not regular cat food. 

[Auntie Anxiety]

Noi and Steve: Noi wants her husband to have a full-time job. There’s nothing wrong with that. She gets anxious about finances because of her childhood, so he needs to respect that.

[Straycat80]

I’m glad Dr.  Vivi told Lyndsey she was being rude, she’s more crass IMO.  I wonder who put the carved wooden shark picture on their wall. Wedding gift? 

[Crashcourse]

Michael's story about the peeing incident at school confused me.  When he first started telling it, I thought he meant it as a joke and that's why Jasmina started laughing.  Then he looked hurt.  My issue with Jasmina is that she kept on laughing when she could have said, "I'm sorry, I thought you were telling the story as a joke."  

[spunky]

Olajuwon doesn't need a wife, he needs Merry Maids. So Steve wants to be a house husband. Got it!

[kikicat]

Jasmina got The Tone.

[LennieBriscoe]

I don't like Michael, either. He's  bossy. Journal this, Mikey!

[Elizzikra]

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Well, then Michael needs to remove that stick, because a story of a 6-year-old weeing in class IS FUNNY. 

It was funny but I think it was also clear that it really hurt him at the time and he was expressing that clearly and noticeably. All she had to do was notice his obvious discomfort and apologize - so she was laughing with him and not at him.

[Auntie Anxiety]

Dr. Viv to Jasmina: Your EYES are smiling now.

What comes to my mind: Tyra Banks. SMIZE!

[Mr. Miner]

A tumbleweed just rolled through Jasmina’s living room. It’s really dry in there.

Edited March 10, 2022 by Mr. Miner

[ECM1231]

I'm tired of looking at Jasmina's sour face. Please, Jasmina, just put yourself and us, out of misery, and pull the plug on this marriage.

[Straycat80]

Has O done anything nice and thoughtful for Katina beside clean up from that party that he then bitched about? I see her now trying to do something thoughtful for him, is he going to reciprocate?