Season 6 Discussion

[HappyDancex2]

2 hours ago, Honey said:

Is Eric supporting one child under the age of 18? In NY anyway child support is 18% of wages, so if he is paying $1,000/month, he's making $5,500 /month or $66,000/year.

If he is supporting 2 kids it's 22% of wages, so if he's paying $1,000/month he's making $4,500/month or $54,000/year.

These are what the figures are in NY (the last I knew), I can't imagine they're that much different in WI.

He's making okay money, so where is all of his money going?

Booze.

and Indonesian Cupid live peep shows.

[TrininisaScorp]

Can we talk about Colt-ie’s redneck cousin?!   Umm, bro.  Clean up your own house first before you start throwing stones b/c the look of fear and shame in headbands’ eyes while redneck was yelling was very telling.   It was also very revealing that redneck and Larissa were screaming at each other and the kids were sitting with Aunt Debbie like nothing was going down.  They are clearly used to dad flipping the fuck out and screaming “bitch” and other choice words at a woman. But, it’s all good b/c they got Jesus stickers on the car, right?!  Larissa may not be handling this well, but I don’t disagree that it is her vs. Colt’s entire family, while Colt sits there and says nothing.

I genuinely dislike the hell out of Leida.  She is such a snotty bitch.  The fact that she wants him to just stop paying child support and berates Eric into telling her that she (and I suppose her son…the accessory) is his number 1 priority makes me sick.  Dude, you look like a tail between legs bitch.  The irony of them going for their talk while asking the child who she is trying to cut out to look after her kid was not lost on me.  I wish Eric would just call her on her bullshit:  “Ok, go home to your rich family”, but I think she knows he won’t, so she can play tough girl.  Also. Petty:  I spotted Leida’s Miss Indonesia sash on the dresser knob.  Bitch couldn’t bring toys, except for the iPad, for her kid, but that certainly had to come.

Her and Tasha together are some really classy broads.  Though Tasha said some nasty stuff, you can tell that she is pained by how much her father is under this evil woman’s thumb.

Steven.  Ugh.  "I’m going make my son an American, but I guess your visa is gonna have to wait."  You can tell Olga needed to see her friend, who is clearly seeing through all of Steven’s bullshit and gaslighting.  I love Anne’s pointed “important to be a man”, and I kinda wish Olga and Anne can stay in Russia without Steven and raise the baby.  That is probably best case scenario.

I continue to feel a bit bad for Asuelo.  He just cannot win.

Of all of these people, I think I like Fernanda and BroJon the best.  I can appreciate that she wants to have some family around, and that Jon clearly needs to work through stuff.   I think her words were lovely, and actually a bit mature in how she supported him in his emotional state.  I like Fernanda more and more.  But. Like.  Can y'all do that shit at home?  I go to coffee shops for coffee and to yak with my friends.  A crying Bro is gonna harsh my buzz.  LOL.

I’m going to ignore JamRock dude and that Virginia lady b/c I just cannot be bothered to care.

[liammaam]

Cousin Moobs McFriendly's was WAY out of line there.  Poor wifey was trying to be reasonable, but he wanted to take it there (maybe the giant beer helped loosen his lips?) and just wouldn't stop.  

Eff Colt for just sitting there like a dumbass.  Even if your woman is acting like a bitch, you don't let another man call her one, much less in front of you!

Shame on them for taking the screaming in front of the kids :( 

[HappyDancex2]

What exactly is Steven planning to do with Myson when he gets him back on US soil?   If he can find a job waiting tables who is going to watch him?  Does he just assume he can guilt his relatives into caring and paying for him while he shouts orders and demands of the level of care from his indignant perch of poverty?

[CSS.MD]

8 minutes ago, Major Bigtime said:

Debbie needs to sit her down and explain that the bride’s family pays for everything.

Leida’s own sister would do the job.

Remind her how things are done in Indonesia.

[HappyDancex2]

I’ve finally figured out what is bothering me about Asuelo and Kalani.

When she was on vacation everything she finds grating about Asuelu now was charming.  He was sexy in his sarong...she found his dancing and musicality tribal foreplay.  His accent was twee and the halting way he spoke made her heart swoon.  She loved his simplicity.  He was all man and it worked for her.  

Fast forward to life in America and she hates him in this context.  His sarong is stupid, his dance is embarrassing.  His accent is immature and the obvious fact that English isn’t his first language is tiresome.  His simplicity makes her feel like he will never learn all the complicates ways of the US male.   She’s been polishing his knob but doesn’t think this singularity will sustain a marriage.  

She sucks at life but she’s so busy reminding Asuelu that he’s an imbecile when in fact in the context of America she’s quite the immature imbecile herself.

[Toaster Strudel]

Debbee needs to have her scheming ass shipped off to Speedy Hearse Retirement Community like, right now. She goes over to Cousin Colt go cry about how much she's hurtin' (in the immortal words of Livia Soprano, "poor you") and trash talks her future daughter-in-law, in addition to ganging up against Larissa with Coltee. OH BUT WAIT - Debbee had the nerve to deny she talked to Cousin Colt! Well you conniving old biddy, he spilled the beans on you. I understand Larissa's exasperation, and unlike Coltee, find that she is not at all "irrational."

Larissa goes shopping for a wedding dress with both Debbee and Hippee Cousin (who has clearly been poisoned by Debbee too) with a budget of under $1000 (or more specifically, in Coltee's own words, "as cheap as possible") and it's easy to predict that no dress will be purchased. In part because the show often features dress shopping, without a dress being bought, and because Coltee doesn't want Larissa to spend more on her wedding dress than he spent on Cookie Dookie's. Flapping her bottom teeth against her bare upper gums, Debbee declares that her favorite part of $1000 or less is the "or less" and lets Larissa know how salty she is about the money being spent on her green card application.

I counted 3 packages of 6 giant hot dogs on the counter (total 18), six gigantic meatballs (and not the lean meat), 4 flattened hamburger patties, 16 buns (there were more under the pile but I couldn't count them) and a dozen hot dog buns. Now we know where all the money goes and where Coltee's tittees come from. Not a vegetable or condiment in sight. Just carbs, cheap meat and nitrites.

When Cousin Colt defiantly offered to take on Auntie Debbee to live with them and pay half the rent, I was hoping that Larissa would accept the offer and pack Debbee's bags faster than Leida packed Tasha's. They all ganged up on her in the worst ways, even Colt, who sat there like a bag of liposuction waste. Debbee was hunkering down with the kids enjoying the fireworks that she lit up, looking guilty AF. The hot-headed cousin: "This is HER SON! Your man pays for everything!" Then he has the audacity to bitch about how much another man chose to spend on a wedding ring. He was really worked up over this, good job Debbee. He's making it sound like toe-walking, eyebrow spinning, thunder thigh Colt is some kind of prize. The air is so thick with estrogen around him, you can cut it with a knife. I'm certain Larissa was being sarcastic when she said all that he had to offer for her to "use" is his freakish, graceless, uncoordinated body. "Riches, glory, glam!" rants Cousin Colt. For real??? He's driving an old beater without air conditioning in Las Vegas!  To make matters worse, he takes the cousin's side with the dumbest argument imaginable: "he doesn't understand the situation." He doesn't? Take some initiative and explain it to him then, dopey!

I fervently wish that Larissa's plan to get a Jaguar and hire that douchenozzle as her personal driver comes to fruition.

Whoever goes against the queen will die... here's your ring and go marry your mother.

Edited December 10, 2018 by Toaster Strudel

[magemaud]

2 hours ago, brillia79 said:

Do we know for a fact that he’s paying $1000 a month?

No, that figure was just Leida “doing some calculations” so not at all accurate 

[CSS.MD]

@Toaster Strudel I thought Debbie was cute until she made Larissa pick between the dress and the green card.

I don’t condone fake sham green card marriages or any form of immigration fraud, but that was awful on Debbie’s part. Just cruel. She and her son enjoying calling the shots about having all the power and money in the house. And it’s abusive.

Edited December 10, 2018 by CSS.MD

[kissedbyarose]

46 minutes ago, Splithair said:

Does anyone think that Ashley's psycho ex-friend was the one posting the hate-filled comments on her website?

*raises hands* I thought so from the moment Ashley mentioned it and came out of lurking just to post this (but you beat me to it :) ). I know people can be racist assholes for no reason (been on the wrong side of a few incidents myself) but in this particular instance? I turned to my sister and said, “I’m sure whoever is posting these comments is someone she knows.”

 

Leida is awful but Eric is worse. Also Leida ain’t rich and Tasha is gross. So everyone loses!

 

Can Steven actually bring the the baby to America? 

[millennium]

Tonight's episode made me think of that old mom-ism, "It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt."

There was very little to laugh at tonight.   Steven is trying to carry out a legalized parental abduction.   Eric damned himself to hell by choosing Satan over his daughter.   Tasha stood outside struggling with tears, defending the man who just told her "take your shit and get out" until the reality of the situation caught up with her.   Colt sat by and let his cousin John verbally abuse Larissa.   Cousin John's wife watched in complicit silence as her husband addressed another woman as "that bitch."   Asuelu began to crumble under the stress of a child's mind trying to handle adult situations.  

Meanwhile the show did that edit thing where they try to make us believe none of these unions will be completed, yet we who have watched the show sadly know better.

[bravofan27]

Did Coltee need a wife for his mom to agree to buy a couch? It's like he's never had one before. He couldn't get off the thing to save his life, and he looked oddly content and comfortable the whole time of the fight. I kept thinking he was going to get up-- then- Nope! Just settling back. And then when Larissa threw the ring and stormed upstairs I thought FOR SURE he was going to go after her. NOPE! He just picked up the ring, put it on his finger, and just settled right back in.

Larissa called everyone out, and IMO, deservedly so. She kept her cool pretty well. I think John just couldn't stand that Coltee had the prettier, sexier bride.  

[millennium]

16 minutes ago, Toaster Strudel said:

even Colt, who sat there like a bag of liposuction waste.

Perfect.

[ChiCricket]

2 hours ago, Honey said:

He's making okay money, so where is all of his money going?

I vote for booze and gambling.

[IvySpice]

I'll take the other side of the table here and say that Debbie was being the responsible adult in the situation. Debbie clearly knows Colt's assets and income; Larissa might have been told, but if so, she wasn't listening and doesn't care. If he's got $5000 on hand, then he can't pay for X, Y, and Z that add up for $6000. If Larissa is going to act like a clueless teenager ("You can't put a price on my dream!"), then she needs to hear from a parent figure that 2+2=4 and you can't have everything you want.

I'm an Ivy League lawyer, homeowner, etc., and I got married (my only wedding) looking fabulous in a dress, sash, and shoes that cost about $400 total. I realize that that isn't everyone's jam, but if you're old enough to get married, you're old enough to understand what a budget is.

[LilaFowler]

The problem with Colt and Larissa is that he has all of the power here. No man would ever be allowed to sit there silently while his family members treated me like dog shit and cursed me out in my own home. Colt is buying a hot, foreign blow-up doll but he doesn't really care about her or love her. He also knows that despite her dramatics, she won't be returning to Brazil. She has no job to return to, probably nowhere to stay... she's staying in the US and marrying him no matter what. He'll pretend to look for flights next week to keep her in her place. I sincerely hope that she is with him only for the green card and will split the day it arrives in the mail.

I said weeks ago that Steven would try to steal the baby away from Olga. He's a narcissist and that's obvious at this point. He cares only about possessions and looks and his own desires. He only wanted Olga in the first place because she was "the prettiest girl on the beach." Once that child has an American passport there won't be much that Olga can do to stop him from boarding a plane and disappearing. That abusive scum will think nothing of couch-surfing and otherwise being homeless with a baby. He doesn't like being told what to do and I would imagine that includes following rules from the Russian government and Interpol. It is my dream to see Steven in handcuffs, being led away to spend some time in a horrific Russian prison.

Glad that there wasn't much of Fernanda and Kahlani this week. Kahlani and her man-child bore me, and I've seen and heard enough of Fernanda's social media shenanigans in real time that I can't be bothered to pay her any attention here.

If I were one of Ashley's friends I would be pissed about buying three bridesmaids dresses. Interesting how the racist comments that were threatening violence seemingly weren't investigated. Unless the genius posting them was using a torrent browser or VPN (which I doubt), it should be easy enough to track down IPs and make some arrests. Was this just a plot point of their Romeo & Juliet story line? I wonder how of the messages would trace back to TLC producers.

[millennium]

2 hours ago, Honey said:

 

He's making okay money, so where is all of his money going?

He spends it on a dominatrix who specializes in humiliation and degradation.

Just kidding, he gets that for free now.

Come back in a couple weeks.   Leida will have Eric eating from a dog dish.

50 minutes ago, TrininisaScorp said:

 I wish Eric would just call her on her bullshit:  “Ok, go home to your rich family”, but I think she knows he won’t, so she can play tough girl. 

Prolonged exposure to the inflatable couch has left Eric with an inflatable spine.

[endure]

2 hours ago, CSS.MD said:

I thought Jesse was bad.

That guy was narcissistic and behaved terribly in front of Darcey’s daughters...

But that was when I was young and innocent and hadn’t been exposed to Leida.

Anfisa was at least HONEST about being gold-digger (in contrast, Leida is a covert gold-digger pretending to be rich with a disturbing fixation on getting a man to stop paying child support for his biological children WTF).

Also, even when Leida appears to Ben “honest” about just wanting to “further a medical career in the US”, I still think she’s lying because I think she’s trying to establish herself as an Indonesian “Real Housewives” type with her tall tales about being from a “well-respected, wealthy family” but she’s playing coy about just wanting to be famous.

I call BS about wanting a medical career in the US. Absolute BS.

Leida thinks she’s the queen and in charge of the dumpy rental apartment when she contributes nothing and Tasha is the one on the lease and she all but throws her out and with the support of Tasha’s own father.  Pretty darn pathetic!

Leida may have wealthy parents but she isn’t.

Edited December 10, 2018 by endure

[gavinmac]

3 hours ago, iwasish said:

Tasha said his last relationship ended badly, I wonder if this isn’t his first foray into the world of buy me a wife.

I'm curious about this too. I still have no idea why he would marry an aging, chubby Indonesian woman who bosses him around instead of a younger Filipina or Thai woman who would actually be nice to him every day. 

36 minutes ago, LilaFowler said:

Once that child has an American passport there won't be much that Olga can do to stop him from boarding a plane and disappearing.

Russia has exit immigration controls.  I'm confident that he couldn't take a Russian born baby out of Russia without the Russian mother's permission.  The baby's brand new American passport will have no Russian visa in it, and there would be some red tape to get the baby out of the country even if Olga were going with them.

[Honey]

When Debbie was hounding Larissa about the brides's family paying for the wedding because it's "tradition", I wished Larissa would have said "It's also tradition that a man move out of his Mother's home before he's 33".

Shut up ya old bat!

[endure]

1 hour ago, Toaster Strudel said:

Debbee needs to have her scheming ass shipped off to Speedy Hearse Retirement Community like, right now. She goes over to Cousin Colt go cry about how much she's hurtin' (in the immortal words of Livia Soprano, "poor you") and trash talks her future daughter-in-law, in addition to ganging up against Larissa with Coltee. OH BUT WAIT - Debbee had the nerve to deny she talked to Cousin Colt! Well you conniving old biddy, he spilled the beans on you. I understand Larissa's exasperation, and unlike Coltee, find that she is not at all "irrational."

Larissa goes shopping for a wedding dress with both Debbee and Hippee Cousin (who has clearly been poisoned by Debbee too) with a budget of under $1000 (or more specifically, in Coltee's own words, "as cheap as possible") and it's easy to predict that no dress will be purchased. In part because the show often features dress shopping, without a dress being bought, and because Coltee doesn't want Larissa to spend more on her wedding dress than he spent on Cookie Dookie's. Flapping her bottom teeth against her bare upper gums, Debbee declares that her favorite part of $1000 or less is the "or less" and lets Larissa know how salty she is about the money being spent on her green card application.

I counted 3 packages of 6 giant hot dogs on the counter (total 18), six gigantic meatballs (and not the lean meat), 4 flattened hamburger patties, 16 buns (there were more under the pile but I couldn't count them) and a dozen hot dog buns. Now we know where all the money goes and where Coltee's tittees come from. Not a vegetable or condiment in sight. Just carbs, cheap meat and nitrites.

When Cousin Colt defiantly offered to take on Auntie Debbee to live with them and pay half the rent, I was hoping that Larissa would accept the offer and pack Debbee's bags faster than Leida packed Tasha's. They all ganged up on her in the worst ways, even Colt, who sat there like a bag of liposuction waste. Debbee was hunkering down with the kids enjoying the fireworks that she lit up, looking guilty AF. The hot-headed cousin: "This is HER SON! Your man pays for everything!" Then he has the audacity to bitch about how much another man chose to spend on a wedding ring. He was really worked up over this, good job Debbee. He's making it sound like toe-walking, eyebrow spinning, thunder thigh Colt is some kind of prize. The air is so thick with estrogen around him, you can cut it with a knife. I'm certain Larissa was being sarcastic when she said all that he had to offer for her to "use" is his freakish, graceless, uncoordinated body. "Riches, glory, glam!" rants Cousin Colt. For real??? He's driving an old beater without air conditioning in Las Vegas!  To make matters worse, he takes the cousin's side with the dumbest argument imaginable: "he doesn't understand the situation." He doesn't? Take some initiative and explain it to him then, dopey!

I fervently wish that Larissa's plan to get a Jaguar and hire that douchenozzle as her personal driver comes to fruition.

Whoever goes against the queen will die... here's your ring and go marry your mother.

Yeah all that you said and really Debbee move in with Cousin Coltee and pay half the rent - such a deal, they have two adults, two kids vs one Auntee.......good deal cousin 😏

[endure]

1 hour ago, millennium said:

Tonight's episode made me think of that old mom-ism, "It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt."

There was very little to laugh at tonight.   Steven is trying to carry out a legalized parental abduction.   Eric damned himself to hell by choosing Satan over his daughter.   Tasha stood outside struggling with tears, defending the man who just told her "take your shit and get out" until the reality of the situation caught up with her.   Colt sat by and let his cousin John verbally abuse Larissa.   Cousin John's wife watched in complicit silence as her husband addressed another woman as "that bitch."   Asuelu began to crumble under the stress of a child's mind trying to handle adult situations.  

Meanwhile the show did that edit thing where they try to make us believe none of these unions will be completed, yet we who have watched the show sadly know better.

Where’s the romance?

[Honey]

After Steven gets the baby's American citizenship established, he's going to then need to have a passport issued for the baby.  I hope all of this takes longer than 3 weeks.

Edited December 10, 2018 by Honey

[Splithair]

2 hours ago, kissedbyarose said:

*raises hands* I thought so from the moment Ashley mentioned it and came out of lurking just to post this (but you beat me to it :) ). I know people can be racist assholes for no reason (been on the wrong side of a few incidents myself) but in this particular instance? I turned to my sister and said, “I’m sure whoever is posting these comments is someone she knows.”

 

Totally agree.  It's completely possible it's some random racist asshole, but the storyline so far just seems to be pointing this way.  

[doyouevengohere]

3 hours ago, Splithair said:

Larissa is horrid, but Coltee's cousin is an ass.  Unless a whole lot was edited out of that scene, he instigated the whole thing.  I was shocked at how calm she actually stayed during it.  And Coltee just sitting there looking stupid the whole time, closing blinds, etc.  Then telling her it's her responsibility to prove she's not a bitch and to ask Cousin Coltee about his day.  Tf?!

He did instigate that and I've no love for Larrissa but she was not mad enough by a long shot.  Especially at Colte.  I think John is attracted to Larissa deep down.

[doyouevengohere]

2 hours ago, ChiCricket said:

I vote for booze and gambling.

I haven't ruled out meth in Eric's life as a possibility.

[renatae]

7 hours ago, JennyMominFL said:

I thought it had been a few months. If Im wrong, Mea culpa  and that does make things different

I think he said earlier, when Leida first arrived, that it had been a couple of months since Tasha had paid rent. On this episode, it appears Tasha has actually been living with her boyfriend and just comes back in order to - - what? Meanwhile, Aless has no bedroom. (Which begs the question, when Leida "slept in a different room," where was she?)

I didn't believe Eric at first when he blamed Tasha for the state of the apartment when he returned with Leida, but seeing the squalor in her room, I believe it now. She seems to be passively aggressively keeping her mess there just to assert her control. She has been rude and snotty since even before she was able to learn about that succubus Leida.

Eric gets no passes, either. He is a terrible parent. I'm not in his corner or Leida's. I just feel Tasha is no prize, either. She does, however, deserve a better parent.

[Baltimore Betty]

4 hours ago, gavinmac said:

Russia has exit immigration controls.  I'm confident that he couldn't take a Russian born baby out of Russia without the Russian mother's permission.  The baby's brand new American passport will have no Russian visa in it, and there would be some red tape to get the baby out of the country even if Olga were going with them.

I think Steven would be kidnapping, non custodial parent trying to leave the country with the baby...I could see Steven ignoring the laws because they do not suit him.  

[Alonzo Mosely FBI]

Have to defend Larissa but moreso condemn Colt. Your cousin calls your fiancee "that bitch?" Colt had one job and that was to punch his cousin in the face. Instead he moved less than jello.  He didn't even jiggle. 

Cousin Colt needs a lot of attention as evidenced by the one shirt he apparently owns, to promote that business embroidered on it, the hollering, and bumper stickers on his family van (tm OC OG Vicki) I hate any and all stickers on cars, making Aunt Debbie into a martyr, and calling Larissa out on camera. 

Aunt Debbie was the happiest we've seen her, bidding farewell to the cousin. I love you now go home (until I need you again.) Weirdos. I think oddly Larissa & Colt are benign and equally dysfunctional and could make it. Provided they lose these family members butting in. 

[Baltimore Betty]

Have ever had the fiancés break up and call off the relationship?  

[trimthatfat]

Maybe it’s because in my culture, parents love to have their kids in the home for as long as possible, but I found the treatment of Tasha appalling. She’s 19! She doesn’t have the education or means to comfortably afford an apartment easily. Leida is just a cold hearted bitch. She not only kicked Tasha out, but she did it in front of 2 kids. Eric is just as bad...the tone he took when he told Tasha to get out was terrible and cruel. He needed her to help make ends meet and that’s what he does to her. Tasha is better off.

Edited December 10, 2018 by trimthatfat

[Gobi]

I've been wondering why we almost never see Olga and Skive together when they need to deal with Russian interactions (lawyer, etc.). I believe it's because Skive hates it when Olga is speaking to someone in Russian; he doesn't understand what's being said, has no control over the situation, and feels that he is being ignored. And I think Olga knows this. It may have been editing, but I think it was telling that she and Anna spoke only in English. Not even a "hello" in Russian.

[watchingtvaddict]

I'm pretty sure Russia has strict requirements for one parent traveling out of country with their kid. A few years ago, a friend had to escape Russia whilst still pregnant because she knew she would be unable to leave once she had the baby. I've heard from friends when traveling alone with their kids they need to travel with permission from the other parent. So, I'm not sure Steven would be able to leave, even if the child has an American passport. Plus it would be a red flag for a young 20 year old man traveling with a 2 month old baby born in Russia...They'd probably pull him aside and ask where the mother is. 

[noveltylibrary]

8 hours ago, iwasish said:

Her father said he was covering her rent just since “this month” so she could save for a new apartment. It hasn’t been months. 

So now he can pay the full rent for the future. Even less money for Leida. 

I highly doubt she only missed one month's rent.  I'm sorry when I was 19 I got a roommate and my own place.  It icks me how so many adult children seem to stay at home now. 

8 hours ago, JennyMominFL said:

I thought it had been a few months. If Im wrong, Mea culpa  and that does make things different

I did too.  I thought I heard that.

[watchingtvaddict]

18 minutes ago, Baltimore Betty said:

Have ever had the fiancés break up and call off the relationship?  

I believe during the first season a couple broke up and they put the episode online. 

[millennium]

3 hours ago, Splithair said:

Totally agree.  It's completely possible it's some random racist asshole, but the storyline so far just seems to be pointing this way.  

I had to laugh at Chekov's security camera.   There was no possibility they would install a security camera only to have nothing happen.  Right on cue, somebody's pounding on the door like it's The Haunting of Hill House or maybe Vikings with a log.  Who could it be?   The KKK?  Herky-jerky camera rush to the door!   Never mind, it's just aggrieved ex-friend Natalie and her bruised ego.

[millennium]

6 minutes ago, noveltylibrary said:

I highly doubt she only missed one month's rent.  I'm sorry when I was 19 I got a roommate and my own place.  It icks me how so many adult children seem to stay at home now. 

 

Unsolicited parenting advice: Under no circumstances should one side with a new, abusive spouse against one's child.   There are fairy tales about this kind of thing, minus "take your shit and get out" but the sentiment is the same.

Did anyone think Eric was in a board meeting when Leida called him to bitch about Tasha and maybe that's why he was so upset?

[Kellyee]

I call bullshit on Eric supposedly paying $1,000 a month for one child for child support. He doesn't make that much. I'm betting he pays more like $400, if that. And no one brings up to Leida that in addition to it being a moral obligation, it is also a legal obligation. As in, Eric could go to jail if he refuses to pay. 

And I'm on Team Tasha, no matter what. Its one thing to tell your adult daughter she needs to move out. Its a whole nother thing to do it like THAT, with all the drama, so you can keep your mail order bride, who is going to leave you anyway as soon as she gets her green card and finishes whatever that medical school thing is that keeps coming up. 

And there is no way Eric is 40 years old. That makes him younger than me. He's 50 at least.

[noveltylibrary]

8 hours ago, Wendy said:

It was not Leida's place to confront Tasha nor ask her to leave. Leida was not even married to Eric when this went down so technically the place wasn't hers.  

But then we wouldn't have a show, would we ;p

[trimthatfat]

16 minutes ago, noveltylibrary said:

I highly doubt she only missed one month's rent.  I'm sorry when I was 19 I got a roommate and my own place.  It icks me how so many adult children seem to stay at home now. 

I did too.  I thought I heard that.

I respect anyone who voluntarily wants to live on their own at 19 and who is out there in the adult world surviving, but I can’t criticize anyone who would prefer to live with a parent or another family member at that age. It is sad to me when I see young people struggling to make it in this economy with no support from family. I’d rather my child get off on a more stable foundation with money in the bank for an apartment/home and vehicle. Tasha was not in a space to go find an apartment quickly and her dad knew that.

[noveltylibrary]

8 hours ago, CoachWristletJen said:

I doubt he's making that much money. Leida probably exaggerated how much he's paying just like she exaggerated everything else.  

I do know what his job is, but I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to say that here. Let's just say he probably makes about 18K.

I thought it was quite more than that. 

[millennium]

In real life, the Tasha-Leida showdown probably would have resulted in a domestic incident.  No truck-driving girl I know would have shown such restraint.   

I find myself amazed at just how ugly and infuriating Leida's facial expressions are, even more so than her words.

[trimthatfat]

And since Colt’s cousins think Debbie is the bee’s knees, I vote they move Aunt Debbie into their home. I bet they’d send her back to Colt within a week.

Colt reminds me of jello. He just sits there, unmoving, 90% of the time. He doesn’t seem to give a shit about Larissa’s comfort because he knows she has limited options. There’s something very cruel about that.

He absolutely needed to stand up for her when the cousin called her a bitch and insisted she was a gold digger.

[noveltylibrary]

7 hours ago, CSunshine76 said:

I have a family member who pays $1400/mo for one child, so a thousand is not far fetched.  However, if support is income based I would think Eric pays less because he is obviously broke.

Regardless of his monetary situation, NO ONE should suggest a father walk away from his responsibilities.  And the fact Leida, a mother herself, suggested this is mind boggling.  Would she want someone suggesting that about her child?  Bitch go back to Indonesia and live off your parents.

I wonder if she'd feel the same about sharing his money with past wives if they split?

[SabineElisabeth]

30 minutes ago, millennium said:

Unsolicited parenting advice: Under no circumstances should one side with a new, abusive spouse against one's child.   There are fairy tales about this kind of thing, minus "take your shit and get out" but the sentiment is the same.

Did anyone think Eric was in a board meeting when Leida called him to bitch about Tasha and maybe that's why he was so upset?

Fairy tales about a parent siding with a new abusive spouse against his/her child?  Off to look up the meaning of "fairy tale," because that situation is the antithesis of a fairy tale, as I've always understood the term, at least.

And thank you for starting off my day with the amazing snark.  :-)  Choked on my diet coke at the thought of Eric in a board meeting!!  Pretty sure that mental image will stay with me for a while and prompt a snort every time the thought runs through my head.  ;-)

Edited December 10, 2018 by SabineElisabeth

[Dance4Life]

9 hours ago, Honey said:

Is Eric supporting one child under the age of 18? In NY anyway child support is 18% of wages, so if he is paying $1,000/month, he's making $5,500 /month or $66,000/year.

If he is supporting 2 kids it's 22% of wages, so if he's paying $1,000/month he's making $4,500/month or $54,000/year.

These are what the figures are in NY (the last I knew), I can't imagine they're that much different in WI.

He's making okay money, so where is all of his money going?

When I made $50,000 my take home was closer to $3,000.  Now, it is 6 figures and it is closer to the amount you are mentioning.  Single and no kids, no deductions. You don’t get to bring all that money home.  I wish! 

 

Child support can be unpredictable because a lot of women give their baby daddies a break.  There can be up and downs with employment or they make deals where some things (like schooling or insurance) is paid outside of a ‘child support legal contract.’ 

[millennium]

9 minutes ago, trimthatfat said:

 

He absolutely needed to stand up for her when the cousin called her a bitch and insisted she was a gold digger.

If I'm not mistaken, gentleman Colt also referred to Larissa as a bitch.

I wonder if Debbie has gotten physical with Larissa in the past, because Larissa went straight to "If you put your hands on me I call the police" even though Debbie wasn't within striking distance.

You know who I felt most sympathy for?   The neighbors.

[readheaded]

6 hours ago, HappyDancex2 said:

I’ve finally figured out what is bothering me about Asuelo and Kalani.

When she was on vacation everything she finds grating about Asuelu now was charming.  He was sexy in his sarong...she found his dancing and musicality tribal foreplay.  His accent was twee and the halting way he spoke made her heart swoon.  She loved his simplicity.  He was all man and it worked for her.  

Fast forward to life in America and she hates him in this context.  His sarong is stupid, his dance is embarrassing.  His accent is immature and the obvious fact that English isn’t his first language is tiresome.  His simplicity makes her feel like he will never learn all the complicates ways of the US male.   She’s been polishing his knob but doesn’t think this singularity will sustain a marriage.  

She sucks at life but she’s so busy reminding Asuelu that he’s an imbecile when in fact in the context of America she’s quite the immature imbecile herself.

He embarrasses her and she's ashamed to be seen with him, which is ironic because he cleans up better than her and has way more reason to act like a simpleton than she does.

[Dance4Life]

1 minute ago, readheaded said:

He embarrasses her and she's ashamed to be seen with him, which is ironic because he cleans up better than her and has way more reason to act like a simpleton than she does.

Hahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahaha! 

 

How can Eric have more furniture in his house than Kalani???? Those rooms are straight up EMPTY!  Like, whaaaaaaaaaat?????  

[millennium]

2 minutes ago, readheaded said:

He embarrasses her and she's ashamed to be seen with him, which is ironic because he cleans up better than her and has way more reason to act like a simpleton than she does.

It struck me as funny when Kalani said "My sister Kalini came for a visit."   The only time Kalini hasn't been sharing screen time with these two was during the infamous Cheetos Odyssey from Cali to Utah.