- Six weeks ago, ten courageous individuals
put everything on the line in order to find love.
[cheering]
They married as total strangers.
- ♪ But what you get is what you see ♪
- Last time, our couples asked the tough questions
they had about their spouses.
- ♪ This isn’t your lane ♪
♪ You can’t change me ♪
- Noi and Steve.
- When you’re talking about kids,
what time frame were you thinking of?
- I would love to have my first child within the next year.
- That’s something I’m definitely comfortable with.
Yeah, totally. - Oh, really?
- ♪ What you get is what you see ♪
- Jasmina and Michael.
- I don’t really know you as a person.
- Mm-hmm. - You know?
Like, I wanna be able to know my husband
inside out, front, back, side to side.
- I’m at a place with you where I’m willing
and want to have those conversations.
- Okay.
- Katina and Olajuwon.
- That’s one of the best things
I love about my marriage and I’m not in love.
- Love is making a decision
to commit to fulfilling another person’s legitimate needs.
- I can’t know if I could say the L word yet,
but, um, I am 100% committed to my wife.
- Lindsey and Mark.
- If I didn’t see enough good in you,
I wouldn’t be here. I ain’t going anywhere.
- It’s really nice to hear
exactly what I wanted to hear.
This feels exciting. This feels hopeful.
♪ ♪
- And tonight... - Let’s do this.
- We’re sending these couples to Vermont...
- Oh, wow. - Oh!
- On a retreat that will help them collectively bond...
[all cheering] - Got it!
- Have fun, and ultimately strengthen
their individual marriages.
- Who is most likely to start a fight?
- I chose Lindsey.
- Lindsey. - Lindsey.
- Oh, boy. This is not gonna be fun.
- How much more do you have left in school?
- Two years.
- So how you gonna have kids in two years
if you’re just coming out of school?
- This is hurting our marriage,
and this is hurting me and--and it’s hurting us.
If everybody’s telling you
something’s wrong with what you’re doing,
then you probably should listen.
- Since I have known you,
pieces of your life have been falling apart.
- Kind of a dig right now.
Oh, [bleep], here we go.
- Love me. I got God in my heart.
I don’t give a [bleep] what y’all think.
- Do you really want to be married to me?
- ♪ It’s all or nothing ♪
- This is "Married at First Sight."
- ♪ There’s no other way ♪
♪ It’s all or nothing ♪
- ♪ We are the young, the young at heart ♪
♪ Change the world to save it all ♪
♪ Oh, whoa ♪
- Road trip time. - I know.
The moment you’ve been dying for.
- Decision Day is just two weeks away
and our remaining four couples
are about to go on a retreat together.
- You gonna show them your cooking up there?
Your cooking skills you developed?
- Oh, my God. You know I don’t wanna cook
for a group of people. - [laughs]
- You know where we going, right?
- To Vermont.
The weekend. - Oh.
- Do you know who you married? [both laugh]
- What was our packing list?
- Warm clothes.
- All right, I got my Vermont look.
Get ready for it.
♪ ♪
- Awesome, okay. That’s nice and warm.
- Maybe if you’re lucky I’ll let you wear the coat.
- It feels weird to not have Sushi here.
I was sad to say bye to him. - [chuckles]
- And then everyone’s like, "Is he dying?"
I’m like, "Oh, my God, no.
I’m just going away for the weekend."
- You gotta be careful about
what you post on social media. People really might
get the wrong impression... - Yeah, whatever.
- About, you know, what things are.
- Whatever.
- The couples’ retreat will be an opportunity to share
and learn from one another as they prepare to make
the biggest decision of their lives:
whether to stay married or get a divorce.
- This is a two-day trip. Yeah.
- Yeah, okay.
- Whoa! - Hey.
- Hey, guys.
- Hopefully you still think you caught me.
Still call me your husband after this.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Road trip.
- Yup, road trippy.
- I had all the systems.
We don’t wet willy while we drive the car.
It’s a rule in Massachusetts.
- You don’t touch your wife’s hand while she’s driving.
You’re touching-- - I didn’t touch you!
You can’t touch me. - I’m not touching you.
- I’m excited. I’ve never been to Vermont.
I get to go to sleep while you drive.
- You’re not falling asleep. Let’s get that out of the way.
That’s not happening.
- You think anybody’s gonna get sloppy drunk?
- Me. No, sir. [both laugh]
- Who am I gonna talk to?
- God.
- Daskin Road.
My first boyfriend lived off of here.
- Of course, he did. You have boyfriends in every--
every single highway exit we drove by.
Sounds like some commitment issues right there.
♪ ♪
- Read the sign, read the sign.
- What--what sign? - Oh, you missed it.
- What it say, "bear crossing"?
- No, it said, "Moose next 5 miles."
- [gasps]
No, it didn’t. - I swear.
It doesn’t mean there’s gonna be a moose
in the next five miles-- - But that just means
that they’re around. - They around, yeah.
- Oh, my God. I’m so excited now.
- Yeah, yeah.
Me and Jas have made a lot of progress
that we should be proud of.
We’re having more conversations.
What are you the most excited about?
- I like sitting by the fire pit.
- Mm. - And telling scary stories.
- But we still have, you know, a lot of work to do
because, you know, we’re both happy at where we are,
but I’m still not sure if this is enough to say yes.
Given that we only have two weeks left,
what do you think we need to focus on right now?
- Building a deeper connection.
- What does that really look like?
- It’s just a feeling that I feel with someone,
and it can happen at, like, any moment.
- So where are we at now?
So one being...
we’re enemies in life. [both chuckle]
one being we’re enemies
and we really don’t rock with each other.
Five being just in the middle. It can go either way.
Ten being Will and Jada.
- Chill, you’re so aggy.
I would say we’re right in the middle.
- Five? - Yeah.
- Do you feel, like, the chemistry
has to be at a ten on Decision Day
for you to feel comfortable for us to continue?
- No, I don’t feel like it has to be at a ten,
but I would have to be more than at the halfway mark,
for sure.
♪ ♪
- ♪ To New York ♪
♪ To Long Island ♪
♪ To the summer house, to the summer house ♪
- Ooh, how pretty.
I want that bedroom with the big clear window.
Let’s do this!
All right, babe, divide and conquer.
They’re not far behind.
Ooh, I’m not gonna care about my shoes
’cause it’s not our house. - Lots of towels.
♪ ♪
- Okay, one bedroom here.
Oh, I found it! Right here.
Oh, this is it. This is the one.
- Let’s do this.
- Oh, my God, it’s so big.
Damn, Lindsey and Mark beat us. - Oh, this is dope.
Oh, they’re here already? - Yes.
- Oh, [bleep]. - [chuckles]
♪ ♪
Hey, you beat us.
- We made sure we held spots on the bunk beds
for the two of you.
- Get the hell outta here. - There’s not bunk beds.
- You better-- you better go quick.
♪ ♪
- Right here is the best room.
- Did you grab it? - No, I took the--
it’s the second best rooms, okay?
So the second best rooms are here.
- Ooh.
- Is this room taken, or no? - No.
Put something there and claim it.
- [grunts]
All right. So far so good.
[energetic music]
♪ ♪
- How do you feel about
Decision Day just around the corner?
Feel like there’s more you need from me?
- I feel like we made some good headway.
I don’t know. Don’t you feel like we are closer now
because of that conversation? - Yeah.
- I think so too.
- I mean, the only unresolved thing I feel like
needs to come to some type of, hopefully, an agreement
or hopefully some type of understanding
is just the social media stuff, really.
- Oh.
- You posted you deserve better.
So whether or not it’s about me,
people are gonna assume that it’s something
that you’re going through now that you’re married.
- It wasn’t about you.
But sometimes I feel that way
in our marriage.
- [sighs]
Well, though the thing is,
the posts that I have a problem with
aren’t about you, they are about me.
So if it was something that was more specifically about you.
If you were saying, you know,
"Hey, I’m having a hard time in the relationship.
Relationships are tough."
You know, or it’s speaking in general terms,
or even if you were talking about the things that you--
- But they weren’t general though.
- They weren’t. They were pretty directed.
- They were not.
- It was--it was you deserve more,
and you were in reference to me or you--
- But that’s how you perceived it. I-I--
- This isn’t-- this isn’t good enough
and it was in reference to me. - Okay, Steve.
But that’s your perception of it and I literally told you
it wasn’t about you... - I know you--you--
- And you were still like, "No, it’s about me."
I was like, "Okay." - You told me it was about me.
- It wasn’t really but if you want me to say it
just so you can, like, have your arguments.
- It is. Because you had an issue with me.
You--you were upset with me.
- Not everything is about you. - But you said it was though.
- I have other relationships outside of--
- So who--so who’s it about then?
You think that somebody’s gonna read that
and not think it’s about me? - I don’t know.
Maybe they’ll think it’s about you.
Maybe they’ll think it’s about something else.
- If somebody reads your post, you think that
they’re not gonna think it’s about me?
- We can go back and forth about this all day.
I can tell you that it wasn’t about you,
’cause it wasn’t about you, but you can just,
whatever, keep thinking it’s about you.
- So you’re saying that you are unwilling
to make an adjustment
to--to respect my need for privacy?
- And you’re unwilling to make adjustments to understand
that I wanna have freedom to express how I feel?
- Certain things, I’m very okay with
that you can post online about our relationship.
But our problems-- - You don’t have to be okay
with things I post and don’t post.
- All right, well then, we’ll always have a problem
in our relationship.
- I guess you will. - I will? No, we will.
- I guess you will. - I guess we will.
Because you’re gonna do something
that I’m not okay with.
You know, like, you’re actively
doing things that hurt me and I’m expressing that
and you’re saying, "I don’t care."
♪ ♪
I’m a bit surprised that Noi still has this stance
after not only talking to me, her husband,
but Pastor Cal, a marriage and relationship expert.
It seems like she just isn’t receiving it from anybody
because she has made up her mind.
But if everybody’s telling you something’s wrong
with what you’re doing,
then you probably should listen.
If this is something that is going against the marriage,
this is hurting our marriage and this is hurting me
and--and it’s hurting us,
it’s an unresolved problem.
- Okay.
That’s great.
[chill hip-hop beat]
♪ ♪
- I mean, I’m battling, like,
being upset from the fight that we just had
because there’s still a lot we need to address,
but I’m not ready to discuss it
with the other couples at this point.
[screams] - Hey.
- Hi.
- What’s going on? - Hi, guys.
- How was your ride? - I fell asleep.
- After she fell asleep, I took a little nap too.
[laughter]
- You know, we’re not here to fight.
You know, we’re here to have a good time
and just move forward.
So for now,
I’m just gonna pretend everything is normal.
- I think this is good.
- Yeah, don’t worry. Just search the place out.
No, I’ll be up--I’ll meet you.
Don’t worry. I’ll get there eventually.
- Hey. - What up, what up?
- You didn’t tell me you were here.
Wow, this is gorgeous. I love it.
- Mansion. It’s a mansion. - A palace.
- It’s like ten rooms, five bathrooms.
- A hot tub, a heated pool, and a fire pit.
- Go ahead, girl.
[snorts] Just kidding.
♪ ♪
- Oh, I got you, baby.
- Ooh! You have cold hands.
Thank you.
- There is stairs, you know.
- Oh, my God.
- It feels nice, right? - Ah.
- Oh, hey girl. - Hello.
- Come join us.
- Oh, this feels nice, guys.
- What are the guys making? - I have no idea.
- What do you cook, Mark?
- Huh? - What do you cook?
- Cold cereal.
Toast. [both chuckle]
- I wonder what they making. - Probably spaghetti.
You know that’s--you know that’s men’s go-to, spaghetti.
- The men are cooking for our ladies.
Mark said he’s a good cook. Steve said he’s a good cook.
Mike says he’s a good cook
but Jasmina said she had raw shrimp at one point.
So I ain’t going with Mike.
- Okay, I’m putting together a pasta,
with some meat sauce and shrimp and Alfredo.
You down? Is the water boiling?
- Yeah.
- Um...
- I feel like I contribute more over here.
I’ll do the tasting. I’ll say it needs more salt, gentlemen.
More salt.
- So how’s everything gone since volleyball?
Since we last saw you? You know, how do you feel?
- I feel like--I feel like it’s been interesting.
I mean, we got two weeks out and it’s been three days
of just peace where we haven’t argued.
Everything’s good so, like, you know.
I mean, I said in the beginning,
I mean, granted, on day one, I was like,
"Yeah, I would love to be in love at the end of this."
But throughout the weeks, two week, three week,
I was, like, "I don’t have to be in love,
but it has to be, like, "I enjoy so much of you.
I wanna see where it goes."
As each week was happening, I’m like, "Damn,
it’s literally so hot and cold."
I’m not gonna say no. I can’t say yes.
- Yeah.
- So, like, Mark has been hit with life so hard.
At every angle.
Eviction, job,
and so, like, I can’t even think about two weeks
’cause I got all this stuff next week
I gotta help him with in order for him
to just be able to breathe.
But, like, there has to be a balance.
I just can’t come in as the role
of mother and caregiver. - Yeah.
- And many positives.
She’s there for me no matter what,
she’s there for my mom, she’s there for my cats.
There’s nothing she wouldn’t do.
So I’m thinking she’s a good partner.
If we can stay healthy,
I feel good about my connection to continue.
- He has a really good heart
and I wanna help him because of that.
But man, that’s a full-time-- that’s a job.
I wasn’t really looking to sign up for it.
- Yeah.
- I definitely think Lindsey is a dramatic person.
I go back and forth
on whether or not they will stay together
because they do have a lot of conflicts
and sometimes I feel like they can get through it
and sometimes I feel like they can’t.
- I don’t know what the hell I’m gonna do.
- You and Jaz are definitely getting closer.
- It took some time. - I even prayed on it.
- Did you really? - Yeah, I’m dead serious.
- For real? - I’m dead serious.
- It’s like we’re in a good space,
but damn, if only we could have been here...
- Earlier. - Earlier.
It’s almost like now we’re, like, racing the clock.
- To getting better. - We’re at a point where
we can’t stall, we can’t go backwards.
- Okay, okay. - So if there’s steady progress
all the way to Decision Day,
then I’m gonna assume
that we’re gonna reach that next level where we both
can comfortably say yes on Decision Day.
- But I would recommend, you know, when you’re saying
"steady progress," you also gotta remember
the dips can be progress too, right?
’Cause you dip and then you can--
if when you come back, you’re stronger,
that’s progress.
- So I guess-- - I feel like so
in my situ--usually I would agree.
- Hmm. - Yeah, usually.
- Like usually, I’d be like, "Yo, you are right."
But in my situation,
we don’t even have time to dip.
- Your dip is so deep.
- Yeah, we can’t-- we can’t dip right now.
- You think a dip would be a cliff?
- Yeah. We can’t dip.
- You’ve come a long way in these six weeks, girl.
- Haven’t we? - I know.
- Yeah. - You came a long way.
- I mean, I’m nervous that I won’t have,
like, any feelings for him
and, you know, like, we have two weeks.
I’m nervous that Decision Day is gonna come
and I’m gonna be, like--
- You still not sure. - I know.
- I’m just not, I’m not sure.
’Cause, like, when you think about it,
we didn’t have two months. - Mm-hmm.
- We had one month of, like, no talking.
So this month we really had to, like--
- Dive full in.
- Yeah, like, so it’s really just me going off of--
- This month. - This month.
You know, and-- - How do you feel?
- Yeah, where would you rate this month?
- Like, this month has been good.
I’m still hopeful, like, at the end of the day.
We still made a promise that,
you know, every day, we treat it like Decision Day
and we really try.
And I see him, you know, trying for sure, so.
- Hopefully, this weekend, some sparks.
- Yeah. - It can get--
- While you’re-- - Can get ignited--
- While you’re trying to build that fire,
you’re gonna ignite your passion for each other.
- We gon’ be like this over y’all.
- We’ll give you guys plenty alone time.
You guys can have the hot tub. [all chuckling]
- We’re gonna leave you guys alone.
- It’s nice to see that everybody’s, like,
alive, alert, feeling good.
- There’s been one more issue though.
Let me--let me get your guys’ feedback.
All right, so the main thing is
can we resolve our issues without
Noi bringing it to social media?
- So what do you mean? Like, write on a status and say,
this is what’s going on like that?
- No, no, it’ll be like subliminal, right?
- It’s just, yeah, it’s a story.
And it said, "When you feel like--
the moment you feel like you deserve better, you do."
Right? So, like, for me, it’s just like,
I’m saying what you’re doing is hurting me
and she’s like, "Well, you’re--
"you’re constricting what I’m saying.
You’re censoring me from expressing myself.’
I mean, if you guys--you guys agree with her at all?
Can you see where she’s coming from?
Or is there a way that there’s a middle ground?
I just don’t feel like there’s a middle ground, really.
- Hurt your feeling-- if it hurt your feelings
in some type of shape or form, it needs to stop.
Definitely, when you say, "I feel like I deserve better."
That’s a-- that’s a strong statement.
- Seriously, man.
- Maybe she doesn’t realize how strong it is. That’s why.
- Decision Day is right around the corner, right?
- Absolutely. - I feel like I’m out here
doing the most, right? - Yeah, bro, you do your thing.
- This is what I’m doing, like, you know...
- Keep doing your thing. - Five nights a week.
And then I’m like, "This is not good enough?"
- You do this five days a week? - I do it often, man.
I do--I cook a lot. So I’m just like, I don’t know.
This is--this is tough
because I haven’t been able to get through to her
and I have no idea what to do.
It’s really hard to give her feedback
without upsetting her.
And I need to know if we can resolve this
before Decision Day.
♪ ♪
- ♪ You just got what it takes ♪
♪ I’m thinking we can make this happen ♪
♪ Are you thinking we can make this happen? ♪
- Mark, we sitting here?
- You can sit there. - I will.
- [laughs] I think you’re sitting there.
- You guys can sit next to each other if you want.
I understand this relationship. It’s okay.
- My dawg.
So the guys were supposed to cook dinner today,
but if I’m being honest,
Steve really did most of the cooking,
but me and other guys are really sous chefs.
Breaking the pasta and putting it into the water.
- Thank you, Stevie. - Yeah.
- And sous chefs. all: Cheers.
- [chuckles] - Why are you laughing?
Why are you laughing?
- If people hear that you broke the pasta...
- I boiled the pasta. - You’re gonna be judged.
- I boiled the water, put salt in,
which is still an important part of the process.
- Is very important. - It is.
- Ooh, these vegetables look good.
You cut the onions, didn’t you? - Yeah.
- Mark, no noodles?
- Somebody’s getting nice and trim.
I’ve been watching you lately.
- No carbs, Mark, or what?
- Or it’s ’cause his wife started limiting
his salt intake? - That too.
- He told me he hasn’t been this fit
since his twenties. I was like, man,
your wife’s the best thing that ever happened to you, Boo.
- Dang. - [chuckles]
- You down into your twenties weight?
You’re in fighting mode.
Mm-mm! Mm!
- So who here needed this couple retreat?
Do you guys think it’s gonna, like,
help with your marriage, with bonding, you know?
- One of you will not be leaving this weekend.
[laughter]
- [laughing maniacally]
- Girl.
- [laughter continues]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, I [bleep] love a good murder mystery.
[laughs]
- Your laugh is crazy, girl.
It’s scary. Stop! [both laugh]
Uh...
- Never know who’s gonna say what.
[laughter]
- Lindsey is quirky and funny
and kinda loud.
It’s a lot. It’s a lot.
- Since the last time we seen you guys, since volleyball,
how’ve you gu-- how you guys doing?
- I would say one of the issues that we’ve had
was Jasmina felt like she didn’t know me enough.
- Yeah.
- She felt like we weren’t having, like,
deep conversations of where she felt like
she understood who I was
and that I wasn’t opening up on her.
- Yeah. - I would say since then,
I would say I’ve done that more.
You can agree or disagree, but I feel like
we can connect more because I’ve been doing that.
- Disagree. - What?
[tense tone]
- I’m joking. [laughter]
- Oh, my God. I was like, "Damn, dawg."
That was so beautiful.
Mike and Jasmina, it seems like
the communication’s getting better.
The energy is getting a lot--
you see how close they were sitting next to each other?
- Mm-hmm.
- Come on, I know everybody’s seen that.
- I feel their energy.
- What about you guys? - Yeah, what about you guys?
- I thought-- - What about us?
- I thought we had-- we’ve had a good week.
- Yeah. What I really like about Mark is, like,
I had a week a few moments ago
where I let myself get the best of my head
and I kind of get in that negative cycle
and he’s like, "Hey,
this is just a blip. Don’t get into that."
And so what I value about Mark is that he’s able
to pull me out in that moment. - "A blip." I like that.
- I like that. - I’ma start using that term.
- It’s a blip. - It’s just a blip.
- Taking that to the streets.
- That’s street. I love it
- You know, me and my shorty had a blip.
- I’m a trendsetter.
- She out here, blipping out here, trippin’.
[laughter]
- Well, I’m glad you guys are in a--a better place.
- Mark is smiling right now.
- He’s so pretty. - He didn’t give the eyes.
Like, wondering what she was about to say--
- He does that. Big eyes.
- No, he didn’t do it today. - I know.
You see that, Pastor Cal? [chuckles]
- What about you guys? - How’re you guys?
- I feel like we’ve been doing really good.
We haven’t had any issue--
- Blips. - Blips.
- No blips.
Not to be boring.
- I’d say the same thing, like, we have any blips.
- I feel like we’re on, like, a good, like, streak.
- I’ma give Katina most of the credit
for our marriage being so smooth.
I’ma do that tonight.
Katina has held it down,
put an effort in,
put in effort every--
I can say that every week,
your effort has reached higher and higher.
- Thank you.
- It’s nice to see that. I’m happy for you guys.
- You disgust me.
- I know. I’m over here like, "Ew, feelings?"
[laughter]
- This is the first relationship I have been in
that I’m not a leader
but it works better when I-I--
- We’re in a partnership.
- Yeah, when I’m in a partnership,
I appreciate you. Thank you, Katina.
- You’re welcome.
- What about you guys?
’Cause, you know, the last time we saw you,
remember you said Noi-- Noi’s not here
so you didn’t wanna mention something--
- You had one question that you tabled.
- Ooh, now that she’s had that drink,
she’s ready to spill the tea. - Look at Noi’s face.
- So, all right, it’s around the--the social media one.
- Yeah. - Do you want--
are you comfortable talking about it
or do you not wanna talk about it here?
- Um, I’d rather not, no.
- All right, any reason?
- I just don’t feel like it.
- Okay. Um...
♪ ♪
I’ll just say one thing about it though.
Like, the nature of it is kind of, like, you know,
what somebody else is saying in, like, a public setting
so it’s kind of, like, a bit strange
that you don’t wanna talk about it here
but you’re okay talking about it there.
♪ ♪
- I feel like he’s intentionally
trying to ambush me in front of all the other couples.
It really makes me so mad.
Honestly.
- I know we didn’t come to a resolution, we know,
we at least get to talk about it further down the road,
which is good.
I--you know, if at least we’re talking about it,
I feel like that’s progress,
but we do not need to talk about it
if you don’t wanna talk about it.
- Okay.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[gentle upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- I can’t believe you brought those candles.
- Gotta keep the vibe going.
Put that on your side.
♪ ♪
- [indistinct], baby.
- Pumpkin.
- [laughs] Stop. - Gonna get under the sheets?
I’m fine--I’m pretty good. I’m on top of the sheets.
Come on, this is PG.
This isn’t NC-17.
♪ ♪
- This is a nice big bed, huh?
- Yeah.
[sighs]
So I know you didn’t really wanna talk about it at dinner.
Are you ready to talk about it now or would you rather?
- I don’t really wanna talk about it
because I feel like it’s something that
we’ll just go back and forth about
and I don’t wanna bicker in front of, like, everyone.
So I just don’t think it was a good time
or place to talk about it.
- Do you know a good time
and place when we could do that?
- Probably just not when we’re on a trip
with the other couples. - Okay.
Um, I mean, I agree.
I think we came a long way in the last couple of weeks,
especially this last week.
And, yeah, you know, we haven’t been able
to resolve this one,
but it doesn’t mean that this weekend at all
is the place that we need to do that.
It’s--you know, this is a retreat,
so it can be good if we can just get back on the same page
and have a great time while we’re here.
- Mm-hmm.
- I know you originally said
you wanted the left side of the bed.
Are you good over there or do you wanna swap out later?
- Oh, yeah, I’m on the wrong side of the bed.
I think we should switch spots.
- All right.
I don’t wanna go to bed mad and wake up, you know,
in that awkward tension between us.
I’d just rather do our best
to leave whatever happened in that day
and continue to work on it if need be
or come to a resolution.
Can you come here for a minute before we go to bed, at least?
I don’t like to go to bed with an issue
and we can have a really fun day tomorrow.
- Thank you.
You’re still--you’re still crossing your arms though.
Can you--can you let me in a little bit?
- ♪ Closer to the dream ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Good morning. Today’s the first day
of our couple retreat
and we’re excited.
- We’re doing some activities today.
- Mm-hmm. - We’re gonna have a picnic.
We’re seeing some-- something with animals again,
but I’m excited.
- We’re gonna have fun. - Yep.
- Let’s go play with some animals.
- Oh, God.
- Good morning.
How’d you sleep?
- Like a baby.
- Yeah? What are you looking forward to today?
- I’m looking forward to field day.
- Yeah, I’m excited for that too.
[clears throat]
I’m a little nervous about this medium though.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I’ve never done anything like that before.
- You didn’t even know what a medium was.
- I know.
- Do you believe in stuff like that?
- I do.
What resonates with me, I’ll take.
What doesn’t resonate with me, I’ll let fall off.
What do you think?
- I just want you to be mentally prepared
because a medium is no joke.
A medium can say things that
only you would really know.
It’s something that you really have to be
mentally prepared for and ready to receive.
I’m excited ’cause I’ve, you know,
watched a bunch of shows about mediums
and I believe in stuff like that
so I do believe that this will bring me closer to Michael
and vice-versa.
You know, just talking about our past
and also to see what the future might look like.
But, at the same time, I knew doing this that
he’s somebody that’s very reserved,
especially when it comes to his feelings and emotions
so I just wanna make sure that if he’s doing this,
it’s for himself and not for me.
- I’m going open.
- I’ll be there.
I’ll fight her too. Just kidding.
- You made him cry.
- I just don’t want you to feel like
you have to do something like that.
♪ ♪
[cheerful music]
♪ ♪
- [whispering] Good morning.
- Can you stop?
- It’s time to wake up, love bug.
- Okay.
- Stop, please.
This is not how you wake me up in the morning.
- How would you like me to wake you up?
- Just give me like a, "Hey, it’s time to get up."
You don’t have to kiss me like I’m a piece of candy.
I’m not licorice.
Stop.
- Is it? Okay, why don’t you get up
and go on the porch?
I’ll meet you there in like an hour.
Go ahead. - [chuckles]
I need somebody who’s got more life in them.
- Okay, well, you have a little bit--
you have enough life for seven people in one person.
- I’m just the type of person that I like to get out of bed
and make the most of my day.
- You’re not gonna get any coffee
if you can’t act like an adult.
- A what? A what? - Stop, stop.
Stop means stop.
- So trying to get my husband out of bed for hours.
That’s a challenge.
- This is black. - Thank you.
I mean, he’s the first one to go to bed,
the last one to wake up,
the first one to crawl in for a nap.
It’s just--
there’s gotta be a medium.
- We’re having a sound bath today.
Calm the day. To relax.
Because you get so hyper,
it might be nice... - Okay.
- To-- - That’s rude.
- How’s it being rude?
Come on, I’m joking.
- I think that’s rude. - I was joking around.
- Okay. I’m telling you that’s rude.
So are you trying to be insulting?
- No, I was joking.
- Well, it wasn’t a joke.
There’s no funny ha-ha.
- It was funny hee-hee. It wasn’t funny ha-ha.
♪ ♪
How’s the coffee? - It’s okay.
- That’s it?
- I’m sorry, I don’t really wanna talk.
I’m not interested in a conversation right now.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- I just thought that was really rude of him.
There’s a difference between, like, being fun and playful
and then just making rude comments.
- I wasn’t being rude. I’m sick of ’em, frankly.
It’s just constant. All morning.
Since the minute you got out of bed.
- Oh, okay. A little sensitive.
- I told him like, "You keep taking digs at me
"left and right, and I-I brush them off
"and I don’t say anything, but they still affect me.
"And then I try to laugh and make a joke of it
"so, like, we can move on
but I just feel like a punching bag."
- Oh, my God.
Always about her.
It’s okay for Lindsey to get rambunctious
and I tell her to stop and she doesn’t listen.
But if I make a joke,
now you’re gonna turn this around
and make this all about you and just be pissy.
If you’re gonna stay in a funk
and just be pissed, then stay pissed
’cause I wasn’t trying to go that route.
- I learned really quickly in life
that if I based how I felt on the way others spoke to me
that I wouldn’t feel very good.
I’ve stopped allowing people like my mother into my life
because of that
and this might just be another one of those situations.
I’m gonna help his cat on Wednesday
and then send him on his merry way.
That’s it. Bye.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Somewhere out there, in the air ♪
- ♪ There’s someone like you ♪ - ♪ All along ♪
♪ Don’t be scared, take that dare ♪
- ♪ There’s so much you can do ♪
- Got me out here in the wild.
Even though, riding a horse on our honeymoon
probably wasn’t the best idea...
Uh-uh-uh, slow down. You’re gonna see a--
ooh, you’re about to piss me off.
Olajuwon, he really loves animals
so I really wanted to, like, put my best foot forward
and, like, even though I was freaking out on the inside,
I really wanted to, like,
have some, like, more self-control.
You know, I wanna be fearless like him, so yeah.
- Oh, you’re gonna love walking these guys.
They’re very, very docile
and we just-- actually, something awesome
just happened here at the farm.
We just had a little alpaca baby be born.
both: Oh, wow.
- Like, literally 15 minutes before you came.
Only about 2% of all alpacas are born in captivity.
- Oh, wow.
- And there’s only 50,000 in America
so what you’re about to see is very, very rare.
So if you wanna come over and check this out.
- Oh, wow.
- Look at that little baby right there.
- Yo. - Isn’t that beautiful?
- Wow. - Wow, so cute.
- They’re beautiful animals.
Baby, baby’s coming over.
- You see how close we are--
- Yeah, close to the house.
- She’s so cute.
- She was--she just born-- - Oh, [bleep].
- Oh, holy-- - She just born--
- Oh, [bleep].
- Oh, hold up, hold up.
- Welcome to the farm. Welcome to the farm.
- Whoa, what is that? - Look at that.
- Look, she’s delivering the afterbirth, the placenta.
- Ooh.
- The dogs are gonna rip that apart.
- Look at-- - Oh, my goodness, God.
- Oh, my God. Be a lady.
No, I’m joking.
- She’s never gonna wanna have children now.
Never. That’s it.
- I’m over here like "Holy [bleep]."
[laughter]
- So it’s the first time I ever seen a placenta.
In just in ne--in general.
I thought that was cool. I was more freaked out
that he said that the dogs were gonna eat it.
Well, he’s gonna wanna go this way
so why don’t you go that way-- - All right.
- And hold him like that and have fun.
- Come on, Hershey. Me and you.
Me and you are done with the streets, bruh.
[cheerful music]
- Oh, nice. No, look how nice.
Hold, hold, hold it. He’s not--he doesn’t even pull.
It’s like literally a baby-- - I don’t wanna play this game.
- I’ma walk with you.
There you go, baby.
- I’m the captain of this ship now.
- Yeah, slow it down though. You don’t want him running.
- ’Cause I will release him.
[both laugh]
Wait. - You go first, you go first.
Katina, you go first.
- I know. - You got it.
- You do it, you do it. - All right.
Come on, Hershey, come on, baby, come on, come on.
- I can only walk him straight. That’s too much for me.
- This is actually cool.
This is called-- this is called rich living.
We don’t even walk dogs,
we’re walking-- what’s this called again?
We’re walking gazebos. That’s definitely not it.
It’s llamas, I don’t know. It’s one of those animals.
[chuckles]
- It’s called a alpaca.
- ♪ I believe in love ♪
- ♪ This is my deal, we walking kinda funky ♪
♪ But I don’t care ♪ - ♪ Don’t care ♪
♪ Now I believe it ♪
- I can’t wait. Mike ain’t gonna believe it.
And you got him galloping up there?
- Oh, [bleep]. Ah!
- I got you, I got you, I got you.
It’s--it’s going great.
Seeing my wife with the animals.
She’s engaging, she’s fully involved.
The last time we were with animals,
we were with horses and my wife didn’t want any part
so for her to be in--be so involved in this right now
with the animals, it’s so sexy and so attractive.
- ♪ I believe in love ♪
- ♪ This is my deal, we walking kinda funky ♪
♪ But I don’t care ♪ - ♪ Don’t care ♪
♪ No, no, no ♪ - ♪ Now I believe it ♪
- ♪ Yeah, I believe in love ♪ - ♪ Ooh, ooh, oh, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ - ♪ I believe in love ♪
- Well, that was fun. - That was definitely fun.
- Bye, Hershey. - See you later, Hersh.
- Hey guys, thanks for coming. both: Thank you so much.
- Enjoy Vermont. - Thank you, thank you.
You ready to eat? - Let’s do it.
Gotta get you away from Hershey before he steal you too.
- Being in Vermont,
I’m loving where we are in this getaway
because I feel like we’re having a real, like,
unplugged moment.
- All right.
- Okay, so we have some cheese and crackers.
I just feel like we’re just hitting, like,
a new level together in our relationship,
and, yeah, we popped a bottle.
Cheers to our Vermont getaway.
- Mm-hmm.
To more to come. - Mm-hmm.
- What else do you wanna experience
while we’re here? - On this weekend?
I would say just having, like, deeper conversations with you.
- As in?
- You know, about our future and everything.
- You know what I was thinking? I know you want--
you say you wanna have kids in two years, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- How long--much more do you have left in school?
- Two years.
- So how are you gonna have kids in two years
if you’re just coming out of school?
- People have kids all the time.
- Well it puts a hold on your career.
- No, maybe my mindset is a little different
because I grew up in a single-parent household.
Like, you can have a family and still have a career
at the same time.
But I understand what you’re saying.
You’re saying it would be a strain.
- Yeah, because when I was in my first two years of my career
it was huge and I made it so I have no bills, nothing.
School, everything is taken care of.
House, everything is done.
Now, it’s just me enjoying what I-I sacrificed.
You did the opposite.
You enjoyed your life these last five years
and now you’re trying to like,
"Hey, it’s time for me to lock in."
And it’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with it.
- I know. - A lot of people do that.
I know, I just don’t want you to get offensive
or feel like I’m coming at you. - I’m not offended.
- ’Cause I’m not.
It’s just something that I’ve been thinking about.
- You’re saying I might have to adjust my timeline?
- Yeah, or something. I don’t know.
Because it affects me if you have kids right when you start,
because you’re not fully established on your own.
- Mm-hmm.
- I’m not gonna put that load on me
because that’s why I banged out all these bills
so I could live the life I live.
- Mm-hmm. - And I know you’re older.
I know you want babies at 32, 33.
Talking about traveling and all that, it’s not realistic.
- It is, it is realistic.
- But I wanna travel. I wanna travel a lot. - It’s definitely realistic.
- Okay. - I literally waited five years
without doing anything. - Mm-hmm.
- So like I could go on two or three--two trips in a month.
- Okay. - And, like,
I’m not saying you can’t do it.
I’m saying is that it’s-- - I know what I can do.
I know.
- Within two years, I want a baby,
but I want a woman that’s in her career.
And I don’t want a kid where I’m--
I’m taking care of a kid and somebody else.
But I like Katina. We’re deep.
That’s why I haven’t walked out of this
because I think she’s worth it.
But our timeline is not meeting and at the end,
you know, these are--these are decisions that I have to make
when it gets close to Decision Day.
- He’s very, like, militant
in the sense where it’s like,
"This needs to be this way, this needs to be this way,
this needs to be this way".
As opposed to me, it’s more so like,
"Okay, when two years comes,
we’ll see what our life looks like."
But if he feels like that’s something that
he needs to consider to figure out
if he still wants to be married,
then that’s what he has to do.
- Our time’s limited now
so if it’s something that you really want,
you should think about it for yourself too.
Does my timeline need to change?
of course, I want you to say, you know,
you’re happy being with me and all that but
I want you to be realistic, that’s all.
[tense music]
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
- [laughing] Are those the slides?
That looks so cool.
I usually like really fun adventurous dates so...
I think this is it. - All right.
- It’s something that’s right up our alley.
We’re both pretty playful, adventurous people.
I’m actually really afraid of heights
but I love doing this stuff.
- Yeah, let’s do it. - Whoo.
Where are we going?
- We’re going up.
- This isn’t that bad yet.
I think it’s going slow enough that, like,
I’m not freaking out yet.
- But if you look back though--
- No, I can’t do it.
[exciting music]
Whee! - ♪ Can’t stop ♪
- Oh, no!
♪ ♪
- ♪ Can’t stop ♪
- Whoa!
♪ ♪
[screams] [both laugh]
♪ ♪
Whee! - [laughing]
- I’m getting tired. [laughs]
This is a workout.
♪ ♪
- You ready for some swinging? - Oh, my God.
This thing is going all the way up.
[screams]
♪ ♪
[both laughing]
Oh, my God.
[sighs]
That was fun. - Yeah.
- Did you have fun? What was your favorite?
- I liked the slide.
I think that was probably my favorite.
- Yeah, that was pretty fun.
- I’d say this one was probably your favorite.
- Yeah, it’s fun, right? - Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
- I think it’ll really be important for us
to continue, like, setting up time
where we can go someplace fun and different
especially ’cause we didn’t have that time
to do that stuff.
We just, like, got married which was fun,
but then it was just serious discussion.
- Yeah, I agree.
I think there’s definitely time to resolve our issues.
I just would like to find the middle ground on
our main unresolved issue, you know.
I think Noi wants to sweep past
the whole social media conversation because,
you know, she-- she really wants to hold on
to certain rights to post freely.
And it’s still a lot of tension when it comes to that.
- Yeah, that’s like last night.
I just didn’t feel like talking about it.
Because we still have so much tension about that topic,
for me, I just didn’t feel like,
"Okay, I’m gonna now tell
"all the other women about this
"when we haven’t really come to a place
where we can even talk about it without like fighting."
- Is that fair though?
You’re--you’re saying you’re free to say whatever you want,
regardless of my feelings, on social media,
but here I couldn’t talk about
what I wanted to talk about for your feelings.
- But you did bring it up. You said,
"Oh, I just think it’s a double standard
that you can post, but I can’t talk about this."
- I definitely brought up that fact. I totally--
- That is bringing up the issue though.
- That’s--that’s not the issue.
That’s not the issue.
I just feel like it’s--
we just have to have an expectation of what’s fair.
What are we okay with sharing outside our marriage
and what are we not okay with?
- I think we’re still learning how to trust each other.
[tense music]
- ♪ Sometimes it seems like they won’t change ♪
♪ No matter how hard they try, they’re still the same ♪
♪ People always let you down in time ♪
♪ ♪
- It’s pretty good, right?
- Uh, I’ve seen better.
♪ ♪
- First solo fire.
- I’m not happy with you.
- Why don’t you sit? Enjoy the fire.
♪ ♪
- I think I’m just getting frustrated.
It’s just hard for Mark to understand
how he’s hurt me when I try to make the best of a situation
’cause he thinks, "Oh, look, it’s all better."
The damage is still done.
I do find you to be more negative
than positive at times,
and this morning was definitely one of those times.
I’ve been taking that advice Pastor Cal
gave you of saying like, "I’m not going to take that.
That’s not okay," and walking away.
And--and that’s why I just was like,
I’m going to avoid this energy completely right now.
- I didn’t mean to joke with you
if you were gonna get upset.
Even if I’m joking,
she shifts the attention to her to make me the bad guy.
Which I’m not trying to be the bad guy.
I was just joking with her.
Now she’s gonna be all pissy.
- Okay, Mark, you’re so quick to say, "Oh, it was a joke."
Or, "I didn’t mean that."
Or, "You took it the wrong way."
When really all I need to hear from you is "I’m sorry."
And I don’t even think you’re really aware of it,
but it’s wearing on me.
It’s literally constant little digs.
And the way I look at it is that you just think less of me.
You speak to me like that,
I feel like it’s your way of trying to put me down
and belittle me to make me feel less than
so that you can feel better.
- You thought all of that
from that small interaction upstairs?
- Yes.
- I feel a little annoyed.
This is the [bleep] I don’t want to deal with all day now.
This is what happens when she gets in a mood.
So have your mood, have your temper tantrum
and continue to be pissy.
- I just had this really great morning.
I’m feeling really centered.
I think that might intimidate you at times
and you kinda wanna put me down when I’m in my power.
- You don’t intimidate me. I don’t try to put you down.
But I didn’t mean to upset you.
So I’m sorry if that upset you.
- Thank you.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Hi. - Hey, how are you doing?
- I’m Jasmina. - Nice to meet you.
- Mike. - Hi, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you as well. - I’m Lauren.
Don’t worry. I’m not gonna scare you.
I promise. - It’s too late.
I’m already scared. [laughter]
- So nice to meet you guys.
- Nice to meet you as well. - And congratulations.
both: Thank you. - On your wedding.
What could I do to help you and make you feel comfortable?
- I would just say whatever you feel,
you should tell us or wanna tell me or us
and I’m open to it.
- So my whole thing is helping people, you know?
It’s like being natural and being, you know,
helping them to heal.
So you know, there’s a lot of healing for you
that needs to be done. - Mm-hmm.
- There’s something about three to five years old for you.
Was there anything life-changing
that was huge for you?
- Yeah, my brother passed when I was like five, six-ish.
- There you go you go, three to five.
- Yup. - Okay. What happened?
- Uh, he got shot.
- Was it in the chest? - Yeah.
- ’Cause I feel like there was a traumatic
blow to the chest. - Yeah, yeah.
Mm-hmm. - Okay. Was there like a 13?
What was it a 13 year difference?
- 13. - Or--
- Hold on. Hold on. Hold up.
Damn, yeah. That’s 13--I’m sorry.
Yeah, there was a 13 year difference.
- He’s good. - Okay.
- He said but it took him a while
to get to the other side. - Mm-hmm.
- You have had some messages from him
and he’s telling me you have seen him
in dreams. - Yup.
- He’s just connecting to you through that way.
- Okay.
- That is very shocking to hear
that, you know, she knows all of this stuff,
but it just makes me put my trust in--in her
even more and really listen to what she has to say.
- Anything with prostate stuff
going on with your family at all?
- Yeah, my father. I wasn’t too close to my father
but that’s how he passed.
- Oh, okay.
’Cause I just heard that. All right.
That makes sense.
- I’m feeling myself getting a little emotional
as Lauren is talking to Michael
about his brother and how his dad passed.
I’m worried about how this might take a toll on him.
♪ ♪
- So are there a lot of boys in your family?
- Actually, a lot of girls in my family.
- Okay, ’cause I feel like you’re gonna have some boys.
Lots of boys. - Okay.
- So do twins run in the family at all on either side?
- I have triplets in my family, not twins.
- Ooh. I’m hearing twins.
I do see twins a year and a half from now.
- Hey, oh. - Is that--
[laughter]
You’re like, "No, don’t do that.
- A year and a half? Man.
- I’ve always said that I wanted twins.
I just know that they don’t run in my family.
So in a way I was like, "Damn, how’d she know that?"
- Why do I see you, like, in--you’re in--
are you in a sunny state?
I see you living in like California.
Are you planning on moving there
or were you talking about it at all?
- It’s--I’ve always had it in the back of my head
that I would eventually end up in a sunny place.
- Hmm.
What’s your with the boat
too--guys getting a boat or what?
- Are we getting a boat?
- Oh, we got a house in California, we got a boat.
- What’s about to happen to our life?
- Damn, we got some money.
- I’m seeing a boat too. - Oh, wow, a boat.
- Okay.
- In terms of you two,
you two really have a beautiful bond,
but he was really scared to do this.
- Yeah.
- But when you did see her,
you did fall in love with her right away.
That was a moment-- that was love at first sight.
It literally was love at first sight.
- ’Cause, you know, I say he was crying on our wedding day.
He said wasn’t. - I didn’t cry.
- You--you loved her the moment you saw her.
Come on.
- I would-- I will say I did, like,
my breath was taken away when I seen her.
- I really feel like it was, you just were like, "That’s it.
That’s the girl. I know it."
And you--you can always say no,
I want people to be honest with me.
- I’ll give you that, yeah. - Okay. All right, good.
All right, what else do you wanna know?
What do you also wanna know? Anything.
- We have, you know,
two more weeks until our Decision Day.
- I really feel like
you are supposed to be together.
You’re really not gonna find anybody else like her
for a very long time.
You’re gonna have like five years, my friend--
Five. Five.
Before you find somebody else that’s gonna be like her.
And with you, Jasmina,
I feel like you decide you don’t want to stay,
I feel like you’ll meet somebody
about next year and a half or so,
but you’re gonna really regret
the moment of not staying in this marriage
because you’re gonna say, "I really did love him."
And he’s gonna stand by your side
and it’s gonna take time
but you’re gonna have a beautiful relationship.
And it’s--it’s mutual.
This is really mutual but you just don’t both know that yet.
- ♪ Yeah, I finally found ♪
♪ A reason to believe ♪
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[bowls ringing]
[sustaining flute note]
- [coughing]
So today, I set up a beautiful day
for me and Lindsey to do a sound bath.
And I don’t think she will like it
- You guys ready? - Yeah.
But I’m hoping that they’ll relax her
and kinda calm her down.
Which way do we lay? Facing up this way?
- Yeah. I mean, that’s totally really up to you.
- Maybe it will relax the mood from this morning.
- You ever try yoga or anything like that?
- Um, not that often.
- If you know anything about your chakra system
and your metaphysical body,
every note represents a different chakra.
So that’s what the sound bath is gonna be focusing on.
Just relax and focus on your breath.
Try to clear your mind
and just make sure you’re comfortable.
Starting with the root chakra.
[deep note resonating]
[relaxing music playing]
♪ ♪
- The sound bath is really relaxing.
I am surprised that
what is triggering within me
and the emotions it’s bringing to the surface.
- And the next is your third eye.
♪ ♪
- The minute we hit the third eye chakra,
I just had this overwhelming sense
of my grandfather’s presence.
♪ ♪
And he was a really special person to me.
Like, I could feel his aura and his energy
and how he made me feel so cared for and loved,
and it’s comforting.
It was beautiful.
♪ ♪
- All right, so whenever you guys feel comfortable,
you can sit up.
- You have a spider on you. - Oh, my God.
You put that there. - No, I didn’t.
I wish Mark could have met my grandfather.
He was very stubborn
and set in his ways and difficult.
Oh, my God. I’m so used to difficult men.
Wow, foreshadowing.
- ♪ Will you stand, will you fall ♪
♪ Will you care through it all ♪
♪ Will you go ♪
♪ Go your own way ♪
♪ ♪
[hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
- Beyonce’s here. - Beyonce?
- There they are.
- They love to sing and dance. [laughter]
- All right, ya’ll.
- Today, we are the hostess with the mostest.
- That’s so corny.
I can’t co-sign that.
Hostess with the mostest.
- Hello.
Nice to meet me.
- Today, we are the hosts of field day.
We are the bosses of field day.
- That’s right, "the real boss" and just "the boss."
- I’ll take it.
We have three different games.
We have flip cup, dodge-ball, and we have kickball.
- Were gonna split up into two teams.
Michael and I are gonna be with Noi and Steve
and you four will be on one team.
- Let’s do it. They didn’t want this power.
This is what I--this is what I didn’t want to happen.
Now it’s gonna get real.
- If we have any questions who do we go to?
The--which boss--to the?
- The real boss. The real boss.
- So of course, we’re assuming we’re gonna win.
That’s the plan. - Off bat.
That’s why we’re in uniform.
We mean business, we got the shades on.
We’re not playing with them today
because when these shades come on, there’s no joke.
It’s no joke. - No joke.
My eyelashes is low key touching my shades.
[both laugh]
- We’re gonna call ourselves "The Undertakers."
- We’re called "The Grave Diggers."
[rock music]
- ♪ Ow! ♪
- This is how you start. You go down, tap, down,
and start drinking, all right? - NFL style.
[exciting music]
- One, two, three go.
- Drink.
- Yes, sir. - Boom.
- Go, go, go, go.
- Wow, you’re spinning that badly.
♪ ♪
Watching you flip cup is like
watching a man need a [bleep].
- We can’t use that. I’m sorry, we can’t use that.
- He was just trying to find clitoris.
- Okay. - Good.
- Uh! - Come on, come on, come on.
- He’s gonna lose.
- One shot. Watch that. Boom.
- There you go.
- Oh, no, no.
- Yeah, go.
all: Oh, no!
[cheering]
- That’s one. - Way to go.
- That’s one. - Who’s the shirt?
The real boss. - Yes, yes, yes, yes!
- A’ight, so we’re gonna move on to the next game.
♪ ♪
- Let’s go, Katina.
♪ ♪
- Go, girl. - Go get it. Go get it.
- Wow.
♪ ♪
- Oh, [bleep].
Oh, now it’s our turn now.
♪ ♪
- Run, run. Jasmina, go, go.
- Two, three.
- You guys got three. Three to two.
♪ ♪
[laughter] - That’s out, that’s out!
- [bleep]. - You guys know that!
- I was fixing myself. That don’t count.
- That’s out. - That a foul.
- I think that I’m doing the worst
because I’m not really doing anything.
- No, but that’s still important to the team.
You need that person.
So I wouldn’t say you doing the worst.
- Okay. - I would say--
- So then I will say Mike is doing the worst.
[laughs]
- Two, three. We score three. One more.
Give them a shark special.
Here it is.
♪ ♪
- Oh, oh!
All right, you guys won this round.
- All right.
- Was that hard to say? [laughs]
Babe, who’s the most competitive couple besides us?
- Jasmina and Mike. - Definitely.
We’re The Undertakers
’cause you’re about to go to the funeral home.
- [laughs mockingly]
Jasmina and Mike came out with all the freshest gear.
- But their game-- - Not as good.
- Not as good.
- Ready!
♪ ♪
- Set! Go!
♪ ♪
- All of a sudden, I’m falling...
[screams in slow motion]
And nobody notices that I fall
and I get back up. - Except everyone notices.
- And I continue playing.
You noticed and you didn’t help me?
- I saw you in the corner of my eye but I can’t go back.
It’s too late. The game started.
- This is not working with him. This is my husband.
♪ ♪
- Shot my wife! Oh!
- [screams] - Oh, my God!
- Hold on, hold on. - Oh, my God.
- If somebody catches it what happens?
- Shot my wife. - Hold on, hold on.
- Man, I went down.
Why every time we play a sport, I fall down?
- Steve gave you a sucker hit. That’s what happened.
- Oh! - [screams]
- Oh, my God! - Oh.
- Boom, got you.
I got you, baby.
- Noi and Katina are out.
- It hit your leg.
- Oh! - Ah!
♪ ♪
- Got you.
- You got my man out? - Yeah.
- Get him. - [screams]
[laughter]
all: Oh!
- My dawg! - Whoo!
- We won.
- Good job. - Good job.
- I’m feeling good.
Mike and I have been in a good place.
I know that there were times
where I did hold myself back
and I know that I’m not in that place anymore.
And I think now we have every intent
to get this marriage right
so I’m excited to do it, for sure.
For sure. I feel it. - I feel it too.
- Can’t believe I didn’t catch that.
That was right in the hand zone.
- ♪ Breathing in, breathing out ♪
♪ Make you scream, make you shout ♪
♪ ’Cause there’s nothing that you can’t do ♪
- Yo, taste that, taste that.
- ♪ And it’s our time, don’t waste it now ♪
- That’s the thing.
- ♪ And it’s your time ♪
- Can I have your attention, please?
- Yes. - For what?
- So we’re gonna play a game tonight, okay?
It’s called "Most Likely."
- Oh, I get it. - Oh, that’s fun.
- Okay, I will give you an example.
Who’s most likely
to get drunk and get arrested, right?
You take your board, you write the person’s name down,
we’ll show it.
And whoever has the most "likelys" loses.
- Yup.
- I’m excited to play this game because,
you know, we know each other as a partner,
so we’re gonna see how well we know each other as friends.
So I think it’ll be very interesting
to see what we all think of each other.
You guys ready? - Ouch.
- You understand the game? - Mm-hmm.
- Who is most likely to have cosmetic surgery?
[playful music]
♪ ♪
- Let’s start with Lindsey.
- Oh, I almost--
- Sorry, baby.
I love you. [laughter]
- We ’bout to fight!
- I was just [bleep] around with you.
I put me too. [laughter]
- I love you.
- And I’m glad I didn’t go first but same difference.
- Next question is,
who is most likely
to be the best liar in the group?
- It’s pretty funny.
- Who is most likely to be the best liar in the group?
♪ ♪
- I picked Noi.
- "Worst liar too." - What?
- Worst liar and best liar.
- Well, you know what? I picked you too.
- I said you.
You don’t lie, but if you did lie,
I feel like I wouldn’t know that you’re lying.
- She’s smiling like she knows it’s the truth.
Making her nervous.
- Jas. - Wow.
- Oh, ooh, Jas, you lying over here, girl?
- It’s that poker face.
- Yo, Mike, watch out, man.
- She’s probably better than what we thought.
[both laughing]
[laughter]
- What!
- I don’t like that you’s laughing--you laughing.
I don’t know how I should feel about that.
I should be terrified, right?
- I’m not a liar,
but I know that if I had to lie about something
I would be pretty convincing, you know?
[crickets chirping]
- Hmm. - Sorry.
- Who is most likely
to spend the most money on their partner?
♪ ♪
- All right, Noi you wanna go first?
- I chose Lindsey.
- I chose me too. - I knew you did.
- I’m in that bag, you know.
I like nice [bleep]. I buy my boo nice [bleep].
- I’ma roll with myself. - I have your back too.
- 100%.
- Ooh, Mark.
- Talk yo’ [bleep], Mark.
- [laughs]
- All right.
- [laughs] Sorry.
- What was so funny?
- Yo, is this jokes?
- No.
If you need something, I’d buy it.
- Okay.
- Next question is,
who is most likely to be a stay-at-home parent?
♪ ♪
- Okay, I chose myself
’cause I would like to raise my kids.
- You saying that working moms don’t raise their kids?
- No, I just, like, would like to be
home full-time with them. - Yeah, and just hands-on.
Nothing wrong with that. - We get that. I get that.
- Would you be okay being a one-income family?
I’m a two-income family kind of bitch.
- Um, yeah, if Steve makes enough money...
- Okay. - For that, but yeah.
- Right now, he’s got zero income.
You’re gonna make enough money to support her at home?
- She wants three kids. That’s a different story
so that’s--that’s a different amount of money.
- To be continued. - Yeah.
- A jobless husband and the stay-at-home mom.
Good luck, huh? [laughs]
I wrote Mark. - Mark?
- ’Cause somebody’s gonna bring home the bacon
and somebody’s gonna cook it.
And I’m bringing it and he’s cooking it.
- Everything Mark feels is on his face.
- [chuckles] You can see it.
- Yeah, Mark’s face is like...
♪ ♪
- Next question.
Who is most likely to lie to their friends
about their sex life in their relationship?
- [laughs] - Very specific.
- What kinda laugh was that, bro?
- I’ma say me.
- I said Steve.
- What? [laughter]
- Steve’s hurt about that.
- Steve saying what?
Why do you say Steve? - I don’t know.
There’s just something about it that’s not rubbing me right.
I don’t know. [laughter]
Can’t answer that right now.
- Lindsey? Ahh.
- Wait, Mark, why do you say Lindsey?
- Just--
[silence]
- [laughs]
[tense music]
- Damn, bro.
♪ ♪
- Lindsey, come on, man.
- My husband is kind of selfish in bed.
That’s not the way to do it.
We could refine that improvement.
- Why do you say Lindsey?
Mark has the floor, please.
- I feel she would maybe paint a picture
that I maybe wouldn’t agree with
and talk about it in a way that I would talk about differently.
- Okay, that’s fair. - That’s fair.
- There’s room for--
there’s room for improvement and growth.
- Who is most likely to start a fight?
- Who hasn’t started? - Yeah, O hasn’t started.
- Yeah, yeah. I’ll start it off.
I’ma choose Lindsey.
- Katina? - I said Lindsey too.
- Um...I chose Lindsey too.
♪ ♪
- I chose Lindsey.
♪ ♪
- Why?
- I chose you only because
I know of certain things that have started
because of things that you’ve said.
♪ ♪
- Does that mean that Lindsey started the fight
on the airplane? [laughter]
- Steve, gosh.
- Steve, are you gonna keep saying
these [bleep] things all day?
Am I gonna have to come for you next?
Noi, you gotta keep him in line.
TWo [bleep] comments. Third one’s--
- Lindsey-- - Apologies, Lindsey.
I didn’t mean to get under your skin.
- I can tell that Lindsey’s getting a little bit upset
about the topics.
But I feel like it’s just that awkward tension in the room.
- The loser is...
the person who is most likely to lose this game.
[drumroll]
- And I’m like, "Oh, boy.
This is not gonna be fun."
- It is...
Lindsey.
[all cheering]
♪ ♪
- I don’t give a [bleep] what you think about me.
I love me and I love--
I go to sleep great at night
and I wake up early, refreshed.
And I got God in my heart and in my soul.
And like, I ain’t ever [bleep] with bad mentality.
Never in high school, never in college, and never now,
and that’s why I’m rising to the top in life, y’all.
So take note.
I don’t give a [bleep] what y’all think.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Did you walk away to join all the production
and leave me alone?
- I walked away ’cause of what you said.
- Oh.
’Cause you wanna be part of production now, right?
- No, I walked away ’cause-- - I get it.
- Cool. - Got it.
- I’m done with you.
- Cool, okay.
♪ ♪
- I generally do not know about
what is going on with Mark and Lindsey.
I’d left for two seconds, came back.
They were in a whole commotion, a whole fight.
But it’s kinda on brand.
It seems like they’re up and down a lot.
So I don’t know what’s going on,
but I can’t say I’m-- I’m ridiculously surprised.
What’s going on?
- So I go outside,
sit with Lindsey.
She’s like, "Let’s build a fire."
I’m like, "Okay." We grab logs.
And then she brought up
the kerosene that was hers outside.
- Okay. - And that
she was pissed that I used some of it.
- Okay.
- And she, you know, flipped out.
"These are boundaries. You’ve crossed boundaries."
- Wait, because you used the kerosene?
- I used the kerosene.
I was like, "I--I didn’t do it to hurt you."
And then she grabbed my arm
and she was, like, talking to me directly.
And I’m like, "Don’t grab my arm
while you’re talking to me." Then she’s like, "[Bleep] off."
I’m like, "All right, I’m good. I’m leaving.
"You can’t control your emotions.
You wanna fight with me? You wanna get tough?"
Like you-- you’re just pushing me.
- Right.
- Like, just keep making the night awkward.
- Is that something that happens a lot?
Like, those types of fights? - Yeah.
- Stuff like that? - Yeah.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Like, you--you can’t do that.
You can’t just take it to that level
over kerosene.
- I don’t think it’s that the kerosene is a real issue.
That seems like such a small thing.
I don’t think that’s the real issue.
Personally, I would go to Linds and say,
"What’s going on? How are you feeling right now?
What’s really happening?"
We all know it’s not the kerosene.
- I think this argument that we’re having right now
could be a mixture of the game we just played
and that maybe Lindsey’s name was chosen
in a bunch of situations.
But I don’t know.
It’s tough, but I know I have to do this
to figure out, like,
where is this [bleep] really coming from?
[grunts]
- [sniffles]
- Why are you crying?
- Yeah.
"And what I desire...
And I still have to grieve that loss."
And he’s like, "I hear you, Linds.
"But like, it still hurts him.
"I could see it, as his friend, that that hurts him
and I changed his energy."
And I was like, "I don’t know how to honor him
"and still honor me.
"’Cause I feel as though I am honoring him,
but who’s gonna honor me?"
- I just--I’m listening
but I have no clue what Lindsey’s trying to say.
I have no clue.
- I’m constantly feeling like I have to give to you.
Like, since I have known you,
pieces of your life have been falling apart.
- Kind of a dig right now.
- Is that? - Yeah.
It’s not funny.
I think you should relax right now
and I don’t agree with your statement.
- About what? - That my life’s falling apart
and I should look at myself.
- Really? - Yeah.
- How so?
- Okay, since you wanna get up and look at me,
I don’t need you to say [bleep] like that to me.
I don’t point out [bleep] in your life
that’s not going good and your--and your--
- It’s all over again.
- Awesome. Great. And your life’s perfect.
- It’s not.
But I’m saying
this is a pattern I see
that gives me pause.
- Like, I wanna be there for her.
But every day is just so hard.
So it doesn’t give me fulfillment
that we’re ever gonna arrive at a good place.
- I can’t run around in circles any longer.
- Okay, that’s fine. - It’s exhausting.
- Okay.
- I can’t. - Okay.
- It’s too much work.
- Okay, I--I feel the same.
[tense music]
I’m trying the best to give you
what I can give you,
and if it’s not enough, that’s all I can do.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- I woke up this morning at 4:00
really sick to my stomach, writhing in pain.
I think I got something I wasn’t supposed to eat
that I’m allergic to.
Oh, I’m not gonna make it the whole way.
- I’ll grab everything.
- I would just drink fluids, but I can’t get fluids down.
And that’s why I have to go to an Urgent Care.
- Your phone.
- Oh, yeah, of course.
- Of course.
- It’s okay. I want you just to get better.
Lindsey’s not feeling too good.
She hasn’t felt good all morning.
I feel bad that she’s sick
and there’s nothing I can really do,
other than just kinda comfort her.
So we’re going over to Urgent Care
and get her taken care of.
Do you guys-- you got IV fluids?
♪ ♪
Can you check? Can you check for me?
♪ ♪
As long as she knows I’m there,
no matter what happened yesterday,
I’m still gonna, you know, help her,
no matter what we go through.
Window okay? Okay.
No? Window’s not good?
♪ ♪
- [groans]
♪ ♪
- Gonna get out?
♪ ♪
- Stop.
♪ ♪
- Go around me.
Go around me.
Go around me, yeah.
- ♪ ’Cause I’m sick in your, sick in your game ♪
♪ I’m sick in your, sick in your game ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
- Is Mark here?
- No, Lindsey went to Urgent Care
’cause she was not feeling well when she woke up.
- Oh, I hope she’s all right. - I knew she was sick.
I didn’t know it was that bad. - Oh, I didn’t even know that.
- That’s crazy.
- Lindsey was supposed to make a nice, I think, Italian dish.
But because she’s not feeling well,
I’m just gonna take over in the kitchen.
- ♪ I’m feeling like this ’cause ♪
♪ You taste like a liquor on my lips ♪
- Can you bring these outside, please?
- And I’ll be supervising the whole operation.
Make sure everything goes smooth.
Make sure she doesn’t poison anybody.
I’m just a supervisor today.
- All right.
♪ ♪
[dishes clinking]
- I would ask how’s the food, but everybody’s--
nobody’s talking, so that means it must be good.
- It’s so good. It’s so good.
- Thank you, thank you.
- I’m not looking forward to going back to work.
I wish we had like a few more days out here.
- Yeah. - It’s been a really nice trip.
- This is a really special weekend
that we’re all lucky to have. - Yeah.
- I had a lot of fun just trying to
appreciate that this is, like,
the last time we’re all gonna be together like this.
- In this in this way. - In this way.
So I think I’ve been trying to take in every moment,
saying like, "Let me have a lot of fun and be present
because we’re not gonna have this again."
Not in this way.
I mean, of course, we can get together on our own.
And after Decision Day, of course,
but this feels-- this feels different.
- Mm-hmm. - Definitely.
- I asked Steve a question. I asked, you know,
"Do you guys feel a pressure to, like, stay together?
’Cause you’re looked at as like the paradise couple?"
- Um, I don’t know.
I think we’re still working on our trust in each other.
I think it’s not all the way there yet.
And I would like us to get there
before Decision Day, but I’m not sure
if that’s going to happen.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, I mean, for me, there’s, like,
so many levels to trust, right?
Like I trust her not to, you know,
disappear in the middle of the night with all my stuff.
Yeah, but that’s simple enough, right?
Do I--yeah, do I trust her with my emotions?
Do I trust her to keep my secrets?
There’s all these other things.
It’s like, there’s so many levels of it
and it’s constantly fluctuating and it’s, like,
the only way you can build that is with time.
- Hmm, interesting.
[all chuckle]
- For us, I feel like
it’s just like having more deeper conversations.
- I mean, me and Katina are having those real conversations
and it’s not--it’s ugly. It gets ugly.
It really does.
But-- [clears throat]
She is strong,
and I like that, you being real.
- What was that word you’re saying?
- No, I said there could possibly.
- Did you say love?
- You said it’s possible there’s love there.
- What was the word you said? - I think he said "love."
- Oh, my God. - So you know what I’m saying?
- You got something to tell me?
Aww...
- Drum roll. - Drum roll.
- Hit your brakes, baby. Hit the brakes.
Hit the brakes, baby. Hit the brakes.
- Damn.
- I think for me, meeting with the medium
was like the first time that I really felt like--
like, "Damn, Jas really-- she cares for me."
You know, because like even before
we went to the medium, you was just like,
"I need you to understand what this is about to be.
"I need you to understand that you might not be
"in a mental space to handle
"whatever the medium is gonna say.
So make sure that you’re okay with this before you continue."
And you mentioned how, like,
you said you want me to open up.
But you let me know that I don’t have to feel like
I have to go to this extent to open up to you.
And it just made me feel like
she’s really looking out for me.
That was powerful. So I really appreciate that.
- [whispering] You’re welcome.
I just don’t ever want you to feel like
you have to do something that you don’t want to do, so.
- I didn’t even know how much I trusted Jasmina
until the medium was talking about,
you know, things about my brother
and my mom that passed.
So having Jasmina there was comforting.
And that’s a level of trust
that you would have to have with somebody
to feel that comfort.
I’ve seen a compassionate side of her that,
you know, I’ve--I’ve never seen.
And I felt like that was another turning point for us.
So I would say if we stay on this streak,
then I can definitely see us,
you know, growing old with each other
and getting the life that we always wanted out of marriage.
- I praise you on that. For real, like...
- Thank you. - You being open.
- Yeah. - Being vulnerable.
- Yeah, I could tell you guys grew
a lot closer this weekend. - That’s great to see.
- Yeah, I mean that--you just know she’s looking out for you.
- Yeah, that’s love.
- Y’all love throwing that word around, huh?
[all laughing]
- She got a favorite word over there.
- That’s y’all’s favorite word. - I know.
- ♪ This night I was running like stars in the sky ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [whispering] She’s been sleeping
for, like, 45 minutes.
She’s not shivering.
She’s getting some good sleep.
We got her taken care of.
[dramatic music]
I hope when she wakes up she’ll feel all better.
I think she’ll feel better.
♪ ♪
Oh, there’s the patient.
- I wanna say, I am very dehydrated, so.
- So long Vermont.
Adios. I’ll miss you.
- I’m not excited to go back to Boston.
Decision Day’s two weeks away. I’m nervous.
I’m confused, mixed emotions.
Those unanswered questions still dangling in the air.
But I also have so much passion and love
and just so much care for this woman.
So I’m all messed up.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- We’re heading back to Boston.
Before Decision Day,
we should at least have a conversation
about how our living arrangement situation
would be post Decision Day.
- Yeah.
- Expectations, you know,
like timetables, just, like, have that conversation.
- Mm-hmm.
It’s kind of scary ’cause it’s like,
yeah, I know we got married
and have committed ourselves to one another
and that’s beautiful.
But there’s one final step, which is saying goodbye
to the life you had before getting married.
Like, I haven’t fully processed everything.
- You know, it sounds like you want your single life,
you know, and that’s not married life.
- I don’t necessarily miss my single life.
It’s just that I tend to, like,
put all the needs of, like, my partner before my own.
And like, would this last relationship in particular,
like, I moved cross-country for this, and I didn’t--
like when I came out here, I didn’t have a job.
I didn’t have my family.
I had never even lived on my own before.
It was like my first time that I did anything for myself.
♪ ♪
I consider my studio
to be my safety net,
because it was the first place I lived in by myself.
So I don’t wanna make you feel like it’s anything to do with,
like, me not trusting you
or not trusting our marriage.
You know, it’s just like, a big life change for me.
There’s a part of me that wants to hold onto it,
just in case something doesn’t work out.
And, you know,
that’s a bit of-- [clears throat]
The fear that I have.
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I’m just emotional because it’s like,
it was just a lot, like, to get here.
And I feel like so much has happened
in such a short amount of time.
Even, like, leading up to getting married.
And now having to,
I don’t know, move again.
I think I’m like scared too, you know?
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- I think forever is a big thing in her mind.
I think she still has some fears about marriage.
If you’re gonna
take some time after Decision Day.
and, you know, be proud of your accomplishments
and honor this part of your life,
and as far as you came,
I think those are all good things.
A part of me is a bit concerned because it may be a signal
that she might not be taking the marriage seriously.
It’s just aside from everything that you’re telling me
about the general concern of,
"Hey, I want to be married to you,
but I don’t wanna live with you is," okay,
do you really want to be married to me?
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- ♪ Ain’t nobody ♪
♪ Gonna love you like I do ♪
♪ Ain’t nobody ♪
♪ Gonna show you the things I showed you ♪
♪ So if you wanna leave, leave ♪
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- Next time on "Married at First Sight."
- Are you [bleep] me?
- With less than two weeks before Decision Day...
- Are you excited to see where I come from?
- Our husbands and wives will get a glimpse
into each other’s pasts as they try to build
an even stronger bond with their partner.
- Why no kissing and touching?
- I don’t have, like, the urge.
- It’s hard to hear from somebody that you wanna be
in a relationship with to tell you that.
- If we don’t move in together,
I don’t think this can work.
- You don’t wanna care. I don’t wanna care more.
I don’t--I’m not gonna let you hurt me.
That’s it. The walls up. You’re out.
- It could be draining for me personally.
- Jeez, can you just shut up for a second?
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- [exhales]