- Hi. - Hi there.
- Nice to meet you.
- 10 singles took a daring
Leap of faith to find love.
They married complete strangers.
[cheers and applause]
- I'm a whole wife.
It's official.
All: Arriba!
- Last time, the honeymoon came to an end
In more ways than one.
- ♪ okay, all right ♪
- Lindy and miguel.
- If you give me five months, if you give me five years,
It's just gonna get better.
The depth and connection that we can build
Is [bleep] incredible.
- ♪ extra, extra extravagant ♪
- Krysten and mitch.
- We had a moment last night.
- It would have been very easy
And natural to continue.
But I just want to make sure that we--
We keep going in the route we're going.
That's all. - Yeah.
- Just so you know,
I was feeling it. - Oh, me too.
- All right. - Oh, me too.
- Alexis and justin.
- What did you say?
- I do love you.
- You love me?
[bleep], I can go to sleep now.
She done told me--
She done told me she loved me.
- You're so corny.
I take it back.
I rescind all love.
- Morgan and binh.
- This is gonna be a slow process to, like,
Build back up, but I think we can--
I think we can do it.
I think we can handle it.
- All I can say is I'm sorry, and--and move on, and try
To earn your trust back.
- Yeah.
- Stacia and nate.
- I'm falling in love with you.
And it's real.
- What?
I definitely deserve love, and so does he.
But I come with a lot.
And I don't know if he knows the depths of that.
- ♪ going home, we're going home ♪
- This is crazy.
- And tonight, the honeymoon
Is officially over.
- We'll be a little while.
- And real life is about to begin.
- "I'm the happiest I've ever been.
"one day at a time.
Love, your wifey."
Thanks, babe. - Mm.
- How are you supposed to introduce dogs?
- Do you want to say hello to miss mya?
[dogs barking, whining] - what happened?
- I'm trying to win you back.
- When trust is broken, I'm out.
Gone.
- You've been just telling...
- Surface-level things.
- Surface-level stuff.
It makes me question if he knows
How to even be vulnerable.
- I don't want to know when you're pulling away from me,
'cause then it feels like a punishment.
I need you to keep that to yourself.
- I don't know if I can do that.
♪ ♪
- I'm having a hard time trusting what he says.
It makes me want to just, like, run.
I'm not gonna stay anywhere that I don't feel safe.
- [sniffs]
♪ ♪
- ♪ it's all or nothing ♪
- This is "married at first sight."
- ♪ there's no other way ♪
♪ ♪
♪ it's all or nothing ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Goodbye, mexico.
It's been fun. It's been real.
But I'm ready to get back to like--
- Settle down.
- And I'm ready to get back to my animals.
- Yeah, our babies.
- Speaking for myself, I'm thankful to have
This woman by my side.
I'm thankful that she--
I don't know. What's the word?
I'm thankful-- - patient?
[laughs] - yeah.
I'm thankful that you were-- you've been patient with me.
We're just gonna try to get through this plane ride,
Get home. - Yep.
- And then, apparently move right
Into a new apartment, which is actually pretty exciting.
- Yeah.
- But you know, one thing at a time.
- Baby steps. - Baby steps.
- That's what works for us.
And it's working well, so we're just gonna keep doing that.
- Because I'm a big baby.
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- I honestly think I grew as an individual.
And we grew as... - A couple.
- As a couple, as a marriage.
And I can't wait to move in with you.
- Yeah.
- [snoring]
[upbeat music]
- ♪ a big smile on your face ♪
- How's it going?
- I am excited to see the place.
- Oh, isn't that cute?
- Oh, m and l. I like it with the lowercase.
That's cute.
- Oh, wow.
I love the doormat.
- This is crazy. - I know.
This is a whole house.
- For us.
- The honeymoon is literally over.
And it's time for real life to start as our couples
Move in together.
- Oh, my gosh. This bed is big.
- Yeah, it's king size. - Whoo!
Blessings.
- We provide each couple with a neutral living space
To start their marriage on equal footing.
But cohabitating may not be easy.
- No shoes in the house.
- Dang, I got rules already?
- Yes, we need structure. - All right, that's fair.
- We need structure. - I can do that.
- They got to know each other on the honeymoon.
But there is still so much more to learn
As they merge their lives together under one roof.
- This is an issue.
I generally don't do this--
- Tv in the bedroom?
- 'cause I'm never gonna want to leave bed.
- This first night in their shared apartment
Is the start of a new chapter.
- This gonna be enough room for you?
- For now. - You got that much stuff?
- And only they can determine if it will
Be filled with romance or strife.
- Wish we had our wedding pictures.
- Yeah. I think they turned out good.
I hope they turned out good. - I hope they did too.
- And in less than seven weeks,
They must decide whether they want to stay married
Or get a divorce.
[soft music]
- Oh, wait.
There's only one sink. - So...
- Wait. - Who's gonna share what?
Hold on. - Wait, wait.
Hold on.
- We got to really figure this out.
- Hold up.
Hold on, now.
Like, I want an area for, like, all my skincare stuff,
Toothpaste, toothbrush, all my hair care products.
- What about my stuff?
- Yeah.
You have drawers.
- So you're gonna have all your stuff
All over this little sink.
And I have to put mine in the drawer?
Selfish.
- [laughing] no, it's not.
- It's selfish.
♪ ♪
- Let's just lay down for a while.
♪ ♪
- You got a little excited when we first walked in the door.
- What do you mean?
- You were like, ahh!
- I was excited, yes.
- You was hella giggling too.
I like when-- - it's a new space.
- I like when you laugh.
I like when you laugh because I can tell,
Like, you're excited.
- You like when I get excited?
- Yeah.
- It's a new place.
- It's clean too.
- A new, like, area for us.
It's like real new and modern and clean and white and...
[both laughing]
I like it to be clean.
I like shoes off in the house.
- Shoes off, yeah.
- I don't like stuff all over the place--
Putting the toilet seat down.
- [chuckles]
- Please. - That's easy. That's easy.
I do leave a couple of dishes, like, just hanging.
And I don't like doing the laundry.
So I'll be honest with you, sometimes,
Like, when I'm really tired from the gym,
I just want to lay down.
So that's probably something that you might not like.
- Lay down in the bed, under the covers?
- I mean, those are easy things that I can correct.
- I'm trying to just be a team player.
But I'm gonna be watching.
♪ ♪
- I'm sleeping with my clothes on, that's how tired I am.
- You just gonna stay on your side, right?
- [chuckling] yeah.
[upbeat music]
- So this is gonna be your first time
Living with somebody else? - Yeah.
- But we did go on vacation together.
And I only left the seat up once.
- Once.
- Out of how many days?
- Not only did you leave the seat up, you didn't flush.
- But it was a pee. - And I'm like--
- But it was a pee.
It was a pee, not a poop.
- I'm gonna leave my pee in there
One time, see how you feel about it.
[laughs] - I guess.
- I wouldn't say I'm super clean.
My place looks lived-in, but I'm not messy.
- What time do you normally do laundry?
- Usually, when I, like, wake up the next day.
- Oh, that's perfect. - Yeah.
- Just as long as it's before 4:00 p.M.
4:00 to 9:00 is peak hours.
You get charged the most for that.
- Oh, my god.
[quirky music]
- You probably save, like, $2 a month
If you do it that way. - All right.
This will be our first compromise.
I'll do my laundry before 4:00 p.M.
- That's love.
[laughter]
- I got you.
- Are we gonna have to unplug things after 4:00?
- If you can.
- What things in this apartment
Would you like unplugged after 4:00 p.M.?
- The gaming system.
Actually, you'll be playing it, huh,
During 4:00 to 9:00? Okay.
- Yes. - That's fine. That's fine.
Yeah. - I'm like--[laughs]
- That's fine. - That's not gonna work.
- Okay. - What else?
- The air fryer.
- Okay, yeah. - Minimal lights.
It's san diego, so probably till 6:00.
The sun's up, so we can turn all the lights off until then.
- So no lights on before 6:00 p.M.
♪ ♪
Okay, that's nice. - Trust, trust.
Pinky promise. - [groans]
♪ ♪
- I'm tired. That was a long flight.
- I agree.
- I'm just gonna go, like, take a shower...
- You gonna shower? Okay.
- And, like, pass out. - All right.
I'll turn off all the lights.
And then I'll shower after you.
- Okay. - Okay.
- You do that.
♪ ♪
Are you actually serious?
[both laughing] - I know, right?
- That is ridiculous.
I am showering with the lights on.
Thank you.
[soft music]
- This is definitely nicer than my place,
In terms of amenities.
- Mine as well.
Oh, do you have a dishwasher now?
Me either.
- Getting a little emotional right now.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- [laughing] oh, my god.
- What?
- [laughing] what is that?
- Oh.
Remember in the honeymoon suite when there was,
Like, a bowl of condoms? - Yeah.
- I definitely took some.
- Okay.
That's interesting.
So much has happened in one week of marriage.
We have gone on a honeymoon.
And now we're moving in together,
And condoms are just falling all over the place.
- Oh, this is comfy. This is like--
- Isn't it comfy?
- I feel like the king in the chambers over here.
- I'm feeling optimistic.
And I just have a feeling like real life
Is gonna be really good for us.
I'm almost, like, enjoying our journey even more,
Because it's unique and different and not perfect,
Than I would if we were just like instantly perfect,
And there was no hard times.
Like, that's not the journey that I want
And that I think is right for us.
So I just want to say, I'm just--yeah, of course.
I'm just like really, really, really happy.
- I'm so glad. - Yeah.
- Me too. I feel great.
I mean, I'm just so happy that I don't feel
The way I felt a week ago.
Because every day was torture having that pent-up
Kind of guilt and disappointment.
And just, like, it's so different now for me.
And I just need you to know that like, I'm--
- Good. - I'm really happy.
- Yay! - I'm happy right now.
I feel comfortable.
I'm, like, digging our new bed.
I'm digging our new digs.
- I'm digging it too.
- And just real talk--like, us in our little bed with
Our hubby and wifey shirts, I'm about to--literally
About to puke my brains out. - [laughs]
- But I'm just learning to just accept that side of myself.
It's cute. We're cute.
- Yeah, you have it. - Screw it.
- It's okay. - We're cute.
[soft music]
- What do you think is missing just looking at here?
Like, this is my house.
I'm missing what? - This is my house.
And I'm missing two animals
That should be on the floor right now.
But I like it. It's a high ceiling.
So I ain't going around hitting my head on ceiling fans.
- That's things tall people notice.
- Yes, exactly, that's tall people problems.
♪ ♪
- Are you having concerns about living together?
- Mm...
Not really, not anything that really
Crossing my mind right now.
- Once we start to live in it, it'll feel like home.
- I need to mess it up a little bit, put some dog hair
On the table or something.
- The dogs.
The dogs, that would definitely make it feel like home.
How could I forget that?
I think they could be besties.
- I hope so.
That will probably just be my only concern.
I know, sometimes, like, mya, it takes her a minute
To come around.
It's gonna be baby steps.
And it's just brand new, you know,
And we just kind of throwing them in it, you know.
So that's probably my only concern.
- Kind of like us.
- Yeah.
But I mean, they may not click like us.
You know?
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Oh, my gosh.
We have to talk about tweety bird.
- Yeah.
It's gonna be interesting 'cause I'm allergic to cats.
So we'll see how that--
- So do you take, like, benadryl or allegra?
- No, I just exclude cats from my life.
- Is this, like, an issue?
'cause I'm--that's worrisome.
Like... - [laughs]
- I'm not allergic to cats.
I'm just messing with you. - Miguel!
You are the worst. - Yeah, I am.
That's actually kind of cool, too, right?
Like, it's our new living space, but it's also tweety's,
Like, new living space.
- Oh, yeah.
This is the "we'll see" part in action.
It's real now.
We're sitting here on our couch, in our home.
Arguments are gonna come.
Disagreements are gonna come.
- From my point of view, it's--
We know that there is decision day, right?
Like, we have to see, at the end of the day,
If we can be happy with each other
And truly, you know, make this marriage work.
[tense music]
- Decision day is a trigger word for me.
- Right. - I hate it.
I know we should talk about it.
I can't.
I--like, just don't.
I don't want to hear about it.
And that's real.
The timeline and stuff, that just, it stresses me out.
It puts pressure on me.
- I bring it up very much intentionally,
Because it is something integral.
Like, there's no step of the way--
- There's an end. - No, no, no.
Not that there's an end.
I'm not looking for an out.
I'm not looking for an end.
- So then why bring up decision day?
♪ ♪
- I want to be very realistic.
Will you want to continue this?
Will I want to continue this?
- Yeah.
And I will just reiterate, I did not
Take this marriage lightly.
So to me, it doesn't even make sense,
Because we're having fun.
We're getting to know each other.
We're connecting.
If we keep having that conversation, like,
We could very well have the tendency
To, like, spin out on things.
- So we're not gonna talk about decision day at all?
- No.
♪ ♪
- I'm in this, obviously.
I'm excited to share a living space
With someone that I care about
And, you know, see if it truly works.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I fell in love with a girl I didn't know ♪
♪ yeah, she told me that she'd seen me ♪
♪ in a dream she had before ♪
- It's a good day.
We slept well.
But I walk into the bathroom, and what do I see?
I see the toilet seat up.
Gonna have to work on that, husband.
[laughing]
Oh, this is gonna be great.
- First morning in our new apartment together.
And I just found out that I snore.
I think it's 'cause we're so--
We were so tired after traveling all day yesterday.
- Girl, in mexico, you were snoring too.
- Ah, damn! [laughter]
- I was just trying to...
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- ♪ going to see my house ♪
♪ ♪
- No. - He ain't gonna be there?
- Newton with jackie.
- Why ain't we going to pick him up?
- He ain't that sufficient.
You think he be up there cooking meals,
Taking himself out, like...
He's smart, but not that smart.
- No, he ain't that smart.
- He ain't that smart, now.
- I'm excited to see your place.
- You're excited?
- Our newlyweds are visiting each other's homes
For the very first time.
- Dang, this place is clean.
- Here's one of my treasures.
Oh, [bleep]. [laughs]
- There's no better way to get to know
The stranger they just married,
But I know from experience that every bachelor's
And bachelorette's pad comes with its own set of surprises.
- ♪ this my house ♪
- Groovy, baby.
- Let me park my cart. - All right.
I'm gonna let you give me a grand tour.
- This is my art corner.
♪ ♪
- I like this. - That's me.
- That's you?
- See, look.
- That's nice, right there. I like that.
- This is the vagina that I talked about at my speech.
- That's a nice vagina.
- Yeah.
- You gonna paint me something?
- You gonna pay me?
- Huh?
- You don't get no husband discount.
What you thought this was?
This is a business.
50% off, that's the best I can do.
That's my closet.
I'll catch you if you fall.
- Okay.
[drum roll]
♪ ♪
Good lord, girl.
- [laughing]
- I feel claustrophobic in here.
Help!
But you can't see nothing.
Good lord, girl, you can just start
A whole clothing line in here.
I mean, something can jump out and grab your neck.
Where did that come from?
It's like, you know, you couldn't see me, you know.
I gotta get out of here.
It is claustrophobic in here.
It overwhelms me, because it's just a lot.
And it's just not organized.
So that way, if she's like, baby,
You gonna help me clean?
Not the closet. That's you.
- Can we take this?
- Yes.
- Mm.
I like this.
- I got paw sanitizer for the dogs
When they come in the house. - What?
- I do understand that he is a dog.
But newton is god's gift to this earth.
Like, he's just an extension of my maternal instincts.
- Do you really want to pick out some outfit
For your dog, baby?
- What did you call him?
- Your dog.
- That's super obscene.
- Your four-legged fur baby.
- Divorces 101.
- Divorce ain't happening in this family, baby girl.
- If you keep calling newton a dog.
- What is newton? A creature?
- My child.
Listen, you just woke up and chose violence.
You was like, today, I'm gonna upset my wife.
That's what you woke up and said to yourself?
- Mm-mm.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Man, this is nice.
Mmm, smells good too.
♪ ♪
- So kitchen's right here.
- Dang, look at this.
This is a big kitchen.
- Okay, come on, babe.
- I can do cartwheels in this [bleep].
- What do you think about my--
- Did you stage for-- you staged this for me.
- No. I put that on my bed.
It's just like bedside, like, art--like, decoration.
- You sure?
You were trying to impress me. That's so cute.
- No, I literally have this on my bed every day.
- Okay. That works.
- Can we take this home to the apartment?
- Yeah. Of course.
- Can I put all of this on the bed?
- I mean, this is kind of, like, overdose right here.
This is a lot of pillows.
- A lot of pillows?
It's decoration.
- But this is a lot. - It's decoration.
- Where am I gonna lay?
- You don't sleep on decorative pillows.
- That's cool.
We'll just get, like, a king bed.
We'll make it happen.
- So I can take this with us right now?
- Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
What's in here, bathroom?
- Can I take all this?
- I mean, it's a little feminine.
Can we, like, switch up some of the colors?
So that way, it's, like, a little, like, less girly?
- Sure.
- Bathroom's clean.
Let's see what--
Okay. Toilet's down.
- Yeah. See, we need to--
- Good job. - We need to kind of, like,
Work on that "toilet seat down" type of thing.
- I've been doing good.
- Doing good at leaving it up?
- Yeah. I might mess up a couple times.
But I mean, is that a deal breaker for you?
- It's not a deal breaker.
I just don't want to fall in the toilet.
- Okay, that's fair. Well, I'll do better.
You got to course correct me every now and then.
But I'll do better. - Okay.
- Cool. Deal.
- Deal.
- She really cares about presentation.
And I do have concerns about messing up things,
Like leaving the toilet seat up,
Things like that.
But I want her to be happy within the household.
Happy wife, happy life.
Is this the coffee maker you was talking about?
Something like this? - No.
I don't want that one.
I want a nespresso, the one that's $700.
- So let's really break down if this $700 investment
Is actually a real investment.
- Okay.
- You go to a high-end coffee shop like every day.
You drink coffee every day.
- Yeah. - So let's just round up.
$6 for a latte. - Every day.
- And you drink coffee every day.
So we're looking at around $200 a month.
So you're spending $2,400 on fancy coffee.
Is it really an investment?
- Yeah, because I'm spending $2,400 when I can spend $700.
- All right.
We'll break down the math a little bit more.
- We just did.
It's 2,400 versus--
Okay, let's put an extra 300 on that for milk.
- Okay.
- Or "sugar." - right.
- Okay?
So now we're at a max $1,000.
- But the beans.
- I just added another $300.
- But it's gonna be more than that, you think?
- Okay. What you wanna add?
Another, what, 300 for just coffee?
- Yeah, we might break even.
- Okay.
So we at $1,300 and $2,400.
- All right.
So we're saving $1,000.
- I win. - I don't know.
We got to really break it down. - I win.
- Because we're just making-- guessing this right now.
- No, we're not. - I'm gonna do line item.
I'm gonna bring out the little excel spreadsheet.
- Okay, bring out the excel.
And then when I'm right, we gonna go to the store.
- She is truly a diva.
- It's an investment.
I drink coffee every single day.
- You think it's an investment.
This is our first disagreement.
That's a lot.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- Ready to see my pad, babe?
- I'm ready.
I'm excited.
I love the little neighborhood.
- Welcome to the beach cabin.
♪ ♪
Chez mitch.
- Ooh.
- Usually hang out in here. I got--
- Yeah.
Oh, three surf--four.
- I got three surf, two longboards, one mid-length.
That's the e-bike.
It's my newest toy--
Really been a good addition to my life.
There's even a back seat that-- I took it off
'cause I wasn't really riding anyone around.
But there's a back seat that I put on here, so...
- Luna here, me there.
- Can carry the whole family.
- Do you think it can support the weight
Of me and the 20-pound dog?
- How much do you weigh?
- We won't discuss that now.
- Yeah, I think it can. Might be--
- [laughs] - I might get--
It might be just a calf workout.
Yeah, so bathroom.
- This is the one bathroom, right?
- This is it.
It's not the sexiest room in the house.
My shower looks super dirty.
And it is.
But it also looks dirty because I water all my plants
In it--bachelor life.
And then wetsuits are always hanging
Up there so they don't--
- Oh, my dear lord.
I'm definitely thinking that I'm a much cleaner person
Than my husband.
- Made in the usa.
- Yeah. - Dancing.
- I am starting to feel a little anxiety
Just seeing all the stuff together.
- I just hang on like this for as long
As I can before I start shaking.
This is my water machine.
This is gonna be making us really good water.
I even got fluoride filters. - Wow.
- Because I don't need fluoride in my water,
And neither does anyone else in the entire world.
So yeah, kitchen-- it's pretty small.
It's definitely, like, a one person at a time.
Obviously, it's falling apart.
My stove's kind of gross.
- Question--when's the last time you used this bad boy?
- I mean, you can tell it gets used a lot.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- I'm just curious.
I will not be happy
In a very cluttered or dirty environment.
That is my number one.
- And then this room is just all junk.
- Ah.
- Bikes, bike stuff, surf stuff, old wetsuits,
Tools, back seats to my car.
- Oh.
- I kind of use it as a garage, basically.
- I'm still very optimistic.
But I'm not feeling a lot of peace
And serenity in this space.
- I'm a failed minimalist. [laughs]
- [laughs] - I failed.
- No matter how much I fall in love with this man,
I'm not gonna be able to come back here again, ever.
[laughing]
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
- Yeah, here it is. - Oh, my gosh.
- I know. - How cute.
[door slams] oh, [bleep].
- I know. That always--
That's to wake you up when you walk in.
- I love how open everything is.
- Right? Yeah.
- Okay, okay. Very cute.
I want to see the kitchen. This is like my--
- I know.
This is where the magic truly happens for me,
'cause as you know, I like to cook.
- Oh, my gosh.
Is this all of your workout stuff?
- This dad bod doesn't come easy.
It takes work. - Oh, god.
What is this?
- [laughs]
- What is this?
Miguel?
- That is bacon grease, leftover--
- [gagging] oh, that's disgusting.
- That is leftover bacon grease.
- Oh, please, no.
- Hey, nothing goes to waste in this household.
- You cook with that? - Sometimes.
- It's so bad for your heart. - It's not, though.
- You're not cooking any bacon grease for me, please.
- Okay. - Okay, let me see.
Show me--what else?
Hold on, is this where you work?
- Yeah. - Your desk?
- That is-- that is where I get paid.
- A little dusty. [laughs]
- Oh, it's hella dusty. It's hella dusty.
But yeah, basically, I just play with my toys here.
I just like--
- Oh, is that what you do for work?
You play with toys?
[laughing].
I do see a future with miguel.
And I'm loving seeing how he lives, seeing
That he's, like, organized.
I love seeing all the different facets to this person.
There's so many layers.
And it's fun just unpeeling them.
Oh, my god.
You are, like, the most complicated...
- Yeah. - Meat-head.
- This is 52.5 pounds.
- Am I supposed to be impressed?
- You're supposed to be impressed.
You're supposed to be, like, wanting
To tear my clothes off now. - Wow.
Wow, is this hot in here?
- You're supposed to be like, "take me.
Take me now." - oh, lord.
- Which brings me to this room.
- [laughs]
- I will show you something that I'm super
Passionate about, as you know. - Oh, okay.
- This is my collection of "dungeons & dragons" books
To play the game.
Player's handbook, dungeon master's guide,
And then monster manual.
- These remind me of, like, my graduate school books.
These are serious. - These are my bibles.
- That's a little too sacrilegious.
But I'll allow it.
- But yeah, this book is actually kind of my favorite.
It has, like, all the monsters.
- Oh, wow.
- Lindy is very accepting of all my dorky facets.
And in fact, she welcomes them.
When I'm showing her my place,
I'm not afraid of her perception.
You can keep looking at my stuff, honey.
I'm gonna go to the restroom real quick.
Be right back. - Okay.
- She doesn't want me to feel ever, like, stifled
Or that I have to hide an aspect of my personality.
- Oh, my god!
What the--
[laughter]
[laughing] what are you doing?
What the [bleep] is--
- ♪ feel like an animal ♪
- What is this?
What is happening?
- This is my alter ego.
- What is your alter ego?
- This is bear man.
- Bear man?
- The connection I have with lindy
Has taken me, like, months to years to foster.
And the fact that I have it--
I don't know--a week or two in is amazing.
- You're too cute.
I love it.
It's really cute.
We'll save that for later.
- Exactly, exactly.
- [laughing] I'm just kidding.
I'm blushing.
Okay.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[knocking]
- Oh, hey.
- Hey, what's up?
- Come on in. - Shoes off?
- No, you can leave them on. I don't really care.
Yeah. - No, okay.
That's an asian thing. - Are you gonna take them off?
It's the asian thing, isn't it? - It's the asian way, yeah.
- That's fine. That's fine.
- What does this mean?
- It's just a pig.
It's just cute.
I found it, and it was on clearance,
So I was like, okay, I'll put that in my kitchen somewhere.
- Pineapples? - Pineapples,
Because I know you like pineapples.
- It's my favorite. - It's a sign.
- Top three fruits.
- Top three fruits is pineapples.
- Easily.
- And we're taking the espresso machine.
- This looks like a lot of electricity.
Holy [bleep].
How many watts?
- Oh, my god. - [laughs]
- You're not allowed to take this from me.
- Look how big-- this is triple wire.
- I'm keeping my [bleep] espresso machine.
- That's fine.
- Yeah.
- Let's take it to where the magic happens.
- [laughing] it's a bathroom.
That's where the magic happens.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[voice vibrating] my back is so messed up--ah!
From the flight.
[laughter]
- From the plane?
- Yeah.
- Oh, yeah.
This thing is, like, powerful.
- So you were put into my life to do that to my...
- Oh, that's it? - That's it, I think.
- It's just to massage your back?
- Right now, up to this point, yeah.
- All right. - I definitely appreciate it.
I'll make sure to charge this every...
- Oh, jeez.
- You said you had a cat? - Uh-huh.
He gets really nervous around new people.
So he's probably hiding somewhere.
- Max, I'm home. No?
Oh, where's the-- where's your cat litter?
I actually don't--[sniffs]
It smells good in here. I don't smell--
- I know.
I keep things clean.
Like, I clean the cat litter.
- Does he pee every hour?
Is it three times a day?
Where does he pee?
Is he gonna pee on my basketball shoes?
Is he gonna pee on my gym equipment, on my at-home desk?
[quirky music]
- Why are we so concerned with my cat's peeing schedule?
He isn't like a dog, where I have to, like,
Take him outside.
You know, cats use a litter box.
- So he's gonna go there every time, 100%?
- Yes.
- You know how some girls cycle up with each other?
Like, are we all gonna pee at the same time?
He pees on his own time?
- What do you think a cat is?
Like, what do you think a cat does?
- I rescued two dogs, and they peed on their own time
Wherever they wanted. - Okay.
This is gonna be a learning curve then.
[cat meows]
Oh, come here.
- Come here, son.
- This is kind of nice, right?
Oh.
- I don't know how to pet cat.
- That's okay.
- But this is--
- Just do whatever feels natural.
- Get the ears? - No, that--he--no.
- Oh, sorry. - No, no.
He doesn't like that. He doesn't like that.
- My stepson and I, starting out, he doesn't like me.
Maybe he has to grow to love me.
Stepson, real son, I'm gonna show him love.
I think by the end of this whole thing,
He's gonna be cuddling with me instead of morgan.
- See you later.
He's like, well-- that was good, though.
That's progress.
♪ ♪
- ♪ I want you all to myself ♪
♪ I want you all to myself ♪
♪ I want you ♪
- We're here.
Show me what you're working with.
♪ ♪
- Hello?
Hi, lu-lu.
Hey.
[dog breathing heavily] - [laughing]
- There's the breathing. Come here.
- This place is cute. I like it.
- It's so cute.
Sorry, luna's not feeling very well.
I'm kind of sad about it.
She's got, like, stomach issues.
It's a whole thing.
- Whoa.
- With me comes my little luna.
She snores.
She deep breathes.
She's got asthma.
She's a hot-ass mess.
This is it. - This is the couch.
- There is the couch.
- There's the bed.
- Kitchen.
Shh-shh-shh-shh.
My biggest fear is the cohabitating
With luna, not even me.
I'm thinking him and I are probably gonna continue
Growing our relationship,
And luna's gonna be like...
[mimics breathing]
[laughs]
In the background.
This is probably the most important part
Of the whole place.
- That we came here for?
- Yep.
This is treats.
Oh, are you a good little girl?
Here, I'll let you give her one.
- Oh, luna.
Luna, do you love treats?
- [laughing] - hey, hey.
- Show her.
Oh, there we go. - Oh.
Yeah, buddy. - Yay.
You're gonna need this now.
I usually keep these on lock.
But I mean, if you don't want dog hair on you,
You got to lint roll, lint roll.
Oh, very important-- you don't have to do this.
I will do it.
But we got to clean her wrinkle at least once a day.
- Her wrinkle?
- See where her little nose is?
Because it gets, like, stuff--her food and guck
And all this kind of stuff gets in there.
- I don't know any about this.
I didn't know about the lint brush or the--
- Wrinkle? - The wrinkle, yeah.
- Oh, it's a whole thing.
It's a whole thing.
[dog panting]
♪ ♪
- Your dog is--
Just so much breathing.
- I said, I said...
♪ ♪
- Uh, luna, yeah.
I think it's a great exercise in having a kid, I guess.
It's like--I think I'll learn to love luna.
I hope she takes to me, and I take to her,
And we're all a big happy family.
[mimics breathing]
♪ ♪
Such a weirdo.
- Just like mom.
Is there anything, like, surprising to you,
Besides luna's breathing pattern?
- Yeah, just the breathing.
I mean, you kind of prepared me for it.
- I did.
- Is that, like, just when she's excited?
- It's when she's stressed.
And I knew she was gonna be stressed.
I'm already feeling like mitch is just
Not sure how this is going.
Luna's nervous about it.
Mitch is nervous about it.
I'm trying to mend the minds.
And all I can hope for is that the two
Get used to each other.
- [mimics breathing]
She's a goofball.
- She's a goofer.
You gonna be good?
You gonna drive mitch crazy?
♪ ♪
- ♪ party, party, party ♪
♪ 'cause I feel so great ♪
- Downtown life.
All right, welcome to my humble abode.
- Wow. - See?
- I love the view.
- So right here, this is my raising desk.
- Okay, techie. - Yeah.
Check this out.
I got the little blinds too.
Look at that.
Fancy, huh?
- Okay, I'm impressed.
- And no dishes in the sink.
Oh, wait. Wait, there is one.
- This is nice. - Thank you.
- I think that with the way that I live,
I've been told that I'm uncomfortably clean.
So I know he's a little bit nervous right now
To show me his place.
He just wants to impress me,
And I think it's really cute.
- Queen size.
- Queen? - Yeah, it's a queen.
- I really like it.
Wait, so what's that? - That's my closet.
Not too bad, though, for a guy, right?
- It's, like, just kind of disorganized in there.
♪ ♪
It's, like, real linty too.
What is this towel?
- It's just-- it's just dirty towels.
- I'm trying to just look and not freak out.
It's a little dusty.
And his plant is dead.
That's dirty.
I am starting to see that his clean
Is different than my clean.
Cleaning supplies--empty.
- This is kind of how I roll. You know what I mean?
- Water spots there.
There's no towels or anything.
Loofah is down here.
He is living a total bachelor life.
♪ ♪
There's just trash in here.
11-01-21, that's trash.
What the hell?
Is this like a recycle--
What is this trash?
I'm finding empty oatmeal containers--like, multiple.
They're empty.
Yeah, just a couple things
That just made me go, "hmm."
There is two of them.
♪ ♪
So maybe he had somebody over and was drinking wine.
♪ ♪
Pretty gross.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- We made it.
- We did, indeed.
- Marriage is easier than I thought.
I'm waiting for the punch line.
Everybody was like, "marriage is hard."
And I'm like, well,
If this is what I got to look forward to,
I don't know about that.
Maybe marriage is hard for some people.
But right now, it's pretty easy for us.
- What's up, girl?
Hey.
- Who's that? - All right.
- Hi, baby girl.
- Oh, not you. [chuckles]
Off.
- You were not talking to me like that.
Mya was like, he can't be talking to her.
- No, I was telling you to sit down.
- Well, why didn't you-- that was weird that you--
- Sit down.
Mya was like, "I got you, daddy.
I'm here."
- You know what's happening right now?
- What's happening?
- We're in the kitchen-living-bedroom
All at once, like...
♪ ♪
- You wanna--give you a tour around here?
- Yeah, give me a tour from beginning to end.
- Okay.
Bedroom, living room, kitchen.
♪ ♪
This is where I spend my work days.
- Out here? - Mm-hmm.
- Let me see.
Oh, I hear the planes, though.
Golly, flight path?
- Mm-hmm.
So yeah, when I have friends over,
Because my place is so small,
We all come out here and play games.
There it goes again-- every three minutes.
- Three?
- It feels like it.
- Does anybody, like, kind of complain?
You know? - Nope.
If I was dating justin, and I went back to his place,
I would be like, oh, okay.
Cool, cool, cool. I'ma head on out.
I'ma go back home.
- I was a bachelor,
And I thought it was good for a bachelor.
I'm no longer a bachelor.
So it's time to look for something new.
- The small space is not compatible
With my living style.
Where's the gym? Where's the pool?
Where's the other room?
I cannot see myself living here.
Good thing we don't have to.
- What's this?
- That, there, is for mya.
Watch.
[exciting music]
♪ ♪
Wait, stop.
You're messing with her.
We gotta take that.
[gasps] hi, baloo.
I forgot you even had a cat.
- That's who you gotta win over.
I'm looking forward to this new chapter.
There's about to be so much happiness.
I think the only thing that I'm really nervous about
Is how mya's gonna react to her dog.
- All right, children.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Okay, lu, your new home.
- The start to married life is becoming real
As our couples face the daunting reality
That they are living with someone they barely know.
- Is this max's stuff? Or is this coffee?
- That's coffee stuff. - Okay.
- Yeah.
- Figure out where to put this thing.
- We will?
- The potential for failure is huge.
But the payoff, if they are successful,
Is even bigger.
- I know. - Stop pulling.
- Look at this.
I know.
It's so exciting.
I know!
I know. Look it.
You finna eat newton?
Look at her.
- Good girl.
- Come on.
Newton gonna be shook-- like, what is happening?
It's a whole zoo.
♪ ♪
[soft growling]
How are you supposed to introduce dogs?
We should have googled it.
- Typically, you're supposed to give them time
To come around till they get used to each other.
- Our house ain't that big to have all that happen.
Say, hi, sis.
I'm your brother.
[dogs barking, growling]
- She don't like him. - That's not a loud noise.
- See? Newton chill.
He don't do nothing.
He just minds his own business.
- He avoids her, which is perfect.
Is newton an alpha? - Yeah.
He got big-dog energy.
- This is gonna be interesting right here.
Two alphas don't typically get along.
That's your new brother.
You're gonna see a lot of each other,
At least for the next eight weeks.
♪ ♪
- Where do you want the painting?
- That, I want to put inside my bathroom.
- Ew. [laughs]
- I mean, I ain't mean it like that.
Let's put it in the hallway, right there.
How's that?
- Oh, right where you walk down?
- Yeah.
That's perfect.
- Perfect? - Mm-hmm.
- Mya!
Hey, girl.
Hey, puppy.
Uh-oh, there's mr. Newton.
Hey, mr. Newton.
You want to say hello to miss mya?
[dogs barking]
- What happened? [newton whining]
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. What happened?
- Nothing happened.
- Okay, you hurt, baby?
- They just got into it.
- I know, you scared.
- He's all right.
Is he okay?
- Let me see. Nope.
His eye, baby.
He's bleeding.
Cut him.
- [sighs]
- Let me see.
Come here.
Get in there.
Bad dog.
[whispering] I'm sorry, buddy. I'm so sorry.
- Hey, I'm looking for a place to bring my dog right now.
He just got bit by another dog.
[solemn music]
♪ ♪
Hey, are you guys open currently?
So if I had an emergency, I bring my dog there?
♪ ♪
Okay, thank you.
All right.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna change.
So can I close the door? Okay.
♪ ♪
I have to bring him in.
- I'm so sorry.
Can I go with you?
- No, I'm good.
- Please?
- Justin, like, you knew how I feel about newton.
- And that's why I want to go with you.
That's why I'm really upset.
That's why I'm hurt and I'm sad
And I'm frustrated, because I know how you feel.
And I know how important he is to you.
- I can't right now, justin.
- I think I underestimated my dog.
I wanted to sort of integrate them slowly.
But I think I was a little bit too confident in my dog.
[sighs]
I understand how she feels about her dog,
Because I'm the same way.
Mya is my baby.
It was just kind of breaking my heart.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ it's all or nothing ♪
- ♪ babe, with you I can relax ♪
♪ because I know you've got my back ♪
♪ ♪
- My guy. What's going on?
- What's up?
- Come on in.
- [laughs]
[laughter]
- Oh, my gosh.
- How are you?
- Good to see you, girl.
- It's so good to see you.
- Look at you guys, all married.
What's up?
- Let's go.
- Our couples have only known each other
For just over a week.
Pastor cal. - Yay!
- What's good, everybody?
And I'm meeting with them
To dive into the tough topics
That will help build a foundation
For their marriage.
- This is our love child. - She looks just like you.
- I know, right?
Nice and all wrinkled up and weathered.
- It's time to dig deep and explore what their future
Will be like together,
Because in less than seven weeks,
They must make the biggest decision of their lives--
Whether to stay married or get a divorce.
You guys look good together, man.
- Thank you.
- Look at that smile on that face.
- [laughs]
- Yeah.
- I love it. I love it.
- I wasn't smiling like this before?
- No.
No. - Dang.
- Not like this.
- Damn.
- No.
So marriage feels good?
- Oh, yeah, 100%.
- That's very cool.
So I want to talk about what marriage
Is going to look like.
What is your marriage gonna look like?
What do you feel is the goal of your marriage?
- I think the goal of our marriage
Is just to be on the same page, have the same vision.
We want to be a power couple.
And we want to just help each other be resourceful, right?
So she has certain skills.
I have certain skills.
- Okay. Okay.
What is your goal?
- Basically, just to be financially free
And to create generational wealth.
- How do you feel about his salary, stacia?
- I'm fine with it.
It's workable.
- It's workable.
[laughter]
Develop. Come on, give me--
- Expand. - I mean,
You made me give you a number.
And he far exceeds that.
So I was happy with that.
- Okay, so you're okay with each other's income.
- Yeah.
I wanted a relationship where we have a king and queen,
And we help each other, you know, watch the throne,
Essentially. - Okay.
- Yeah. That's what I vision.
So... - Go ahead.
- I mean, I came in this very open.
I promised you.
I promised dr. Pepper.
I did have the conversation with him about children.
He was kind of hesitant.
- What is your hesitation?
- The conclusion was he wanted to reach a certain number
Before he felt comfortable enough,
Financially, to where he felt comfortable
Enough to have a kid.
- You know, I just made this number because--
- Sure. What is that number?
- So right now I make, like, around 150.
But the ultimate goal is $250,000 annually.
- That you want to make. - Right.
- Not the both of you. Not her.
- Just me, myself.
I want to be able to provide 1,000%.
If they need school, done.
If they need clothes, done. - Okay.
Here's the--let me share this with you real quick.
You're at a point right now--if you
Had a baby today, all those things you said could be done.
Am I right?
- I don't know.
I mean, we got inflation.
Who knows what the dollar is gonna be like?
- Just stop it. Just stop it. - No. Uh-uh, no.
You over here, 250,000, that's what your goal is.
But if I do that, and I double that right now.
I make around $415,000.
Are you ready?
- And there's the question.
Are you ready to be a dad?
- I like kids.
- She's not saying, "I'm good, you're not."
- Right. - Am I right?
- Right.
- She's saying, we good.
- Right.
- So I need you to understand, we good.
- Right. - Okay?
Now, that does not mean that you can't
Go ahead and hit your goals.
- Right, okay.
- But don't set these standards saying
Until I hit my goal, we can't do certain things,
Because you can.
You're not thinking like a married person.
- Fair. - Okay?
- All right. - All right.
- Okay. Let's talk about intimacy.
How is that going with you guys?
I mean, I love the fact that you guys are touching.
- We're really affectionate.
We just haven't had sex yet.
But we find other ways to be intimate.
- Okay.
Well, tell me, what's the hindrance?
- I just want to wait until I'm in love with him.
I think, just from my past, it's been, like,
More of a transactional thing.
So for me, it's like I want to be emotionally connected
And in love with you before I give myself
To you in that way.
- And how will you know when you're "in love"?
- I think, for me, I'll know when,
Like, I just can't get enough of him--
Where I feel like I overlook the stupid things
And just really just see him for his heart and his soul,
And to where I feel that in return.
- You're not there yet?
- No.
- How open has she been?
- Pretty transparent. - Yeah.
About her history, about her past?
- Mm-hmm. For the most part, I think.
- And you want the same from him?
- Right.
- You want to see more of his soul?
- Right.
- How comfortable are you with baring that part of you?
- Just, what, unraveling everything?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You know, it takes time to tell
Many stories and everything.
- She is the one.
She is the one who you can feel safe revealing that to.
- Yeah. - You have to almost
Force yourself. - Do I?
- To be deeper.
- Unravel everything.
- Do you feel that way? - Yeah.
Like, I want to know, like, pretty much everything
That you went through as a child.
How did you feel?
Like, the ups, the downs.
Like, I get the, you know, "it was hard."
- She needs to know that part of you.
And you're holding the key to your sexual intimacy,
To your love.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So it's the day after our doggies met.
And here is the baby.
He's okay.
He's a trooper.
But he's got to wear his little cone for a week.
Newton's my baby.
And I know mya's his baby.
So it's a tough situation.
But we're gonna figure it out.
We're gonna, first, take mya to get trained.
So she's gonna be away for the next two weeks
Getting trained.
And newty's gonna be here recovering.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- So we're headed to this training camp.
And so pretty much, they help with specific dogs' aggression.
I'm really doing this for the both of us.
Also, I want to save my marriage too.
- Part of me is just like, I'm wrong
For putting my child in danger.
And now I'm just like, [bleep],
Am I trusting him and believing that she won't attack me too?
I want you to know that I'm afraid.
- You know, I'm trying to do my best to fix this situation.
I love two people.
I love her, and I love you.
The insides of me is just, like, ripping apart.
You know, there-- she's a part of me.
I've had her since she was five weeks.
But I'll be all right, you know.
So I prayed about it,
And I asked god to give me challenges.
And I just look at this as one of his challenges.
♪ ♪
[dogs barking]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ if our time is done ♪
♪ going down like the sun ♪
- You're gonna get cookies.
You're gonna have a good time. You're gonna be all right.
- All of this is a lot of weight on my shoulders.
Like, I don't want to leave my baby, you know?
But I know I have to, temporarily.
[dog whining]
I'm not in a position where I want to give my dog up.
But if this training camp does not help,
Then I told my wife I will.
And I know it's gonna make the marriage challenging.
- ♪ I'll think of our time ♪
♪ ♪
- Uh...
I don't want to talk about it.
I don't even want to manifest that at all.
- ♪ for all of my days ♪
♪ I'll remember you ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Hi! [laughing] stop.
Aw, you got me flowers?
- I did.
- Thanks, babe. How are you?
- Good.
- I haven't seen you. This is the--
- You look cute.
- This is the least I've seen you
Since I've known you.
- Right?
- All day. - Did you miss me?
- Maybe. - Cool.
I missed you too.
All right, let's get dinner started.
- Okay, yeah.
[sizzling]
I'm spilling on you.
I don't know how to do it.
- All right, we gotta work on that.
What if at the altar, you, like, got to me, and I'm like,
"hi, nice to meet you"?
- Stop.
I was ready to accept whoever was there,
Cross-eyed and everything. - Nice.
Damn.
I told you I was looking for a reason--
- You're still looking for a reason.
What the [bleep] you talking about?
- No, I'm not. You're winning me over.
But in the beginning, I'm like...
Mm-mm.
- That's a terrible mentality.
- It could be a terrible mentality.
And I'll probably get yelled at by, like,
Pastor cal and dr. Pepper. - Oh, he's coming in tomorrow.
And he's gonna set you straight.
- But there's also something to be said about,
Like, winning over a skeptic, right?
Like, you literally have taken me from one side to the other,
And like, completely won me over.
- That's sweet.
- See, I think that's special.
But it's true, the only way this works
Is if we are unapologetically ourselves.
- Yeah. - And if we fall in love
With those versions of ourselves,
Like, I can tell, like, you have it in you,
And I have it in me, for me to fall in love with you.
- It's kind of crazy, like, where he was--
How he was like, "yeah, this is just an eight-week experiment,"
Just kind of this, like, harsh [bleep].
And I've turned him into, like,
This, like, loving, like, kind--I don't know.
I'm [bleep] proud of myself.
[laughs]
So I know we talked about how I really don't
Like when you bring up d-day.
- ♪ dum-dum-dum ♪
- So what did we come up-- like, what are we calling it?
- I know we already decided on vow renewal day.
- Vow renewal day.
I love that so much.
That is just--oh.
[gasps] the middle piece?
- I know.
- You really are falling for me.
[laughs]
Thank you so much for cooking for me.
- You're welcome, baby.
- This is amazing.
- Things with us have been very easy, very comfortable.
And I have put thought into why I feel a certain way with you.
I know it's cheesy, but it's that, like,
Je ne sais quoi, right?
The intangible, the thing you don't
Quite know how to put into words.
When it's real, it's real.
When you feel it, you feel it.
- Yeah. - And you know.
- Well, I think for me, with you, like,
I've just never felt so comfortable with someone.
It's because I never have to guess.
You tell me.
And I've never had that transparency
With someone before.
And like, I was worried the wedding day,
Like, taking off all my makeup and, like,
You seeing my natural, curly hair.
Like, those were things where I was like,
I mean, I almost feel like I'm wearing like a mask
Or whatever.
The best moments I've had with you
Are just, like, the, like, unfiltered--literally,
Unfiltered moments.
I don't know.
It's just such an intense connection.
It's, like, annoyingly awesome. - Aww.
At the end of the day, I want all of you.
You know, the you you want to give me.
Yeah.
- Aw, miguel.
♪ ♪
Wow.
That was delicious.
I am so impressed.
You are a 10 out of 10 chef.
What's your restaurant name?
- Linguel's.
- Linguel's?
- Linguel's.
- Oh, my god.
Is that our hashtag?
- You heard it here first.
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
- ♪ it's my life and I did it my way, my way ♪
- Hey, look, I want you guys to talk to me.
We're gonna talk straight. We're gonna talk honest.
We're gonna talk vulnerable. - We've done--
We've done that a lot. - Yep. Yep.
We're ready for it. - This is a "no bs" zone.
- Yeah, okay. - Ready for it. Yep.
- All right, we're ready? - [clears throat] yeah.
- Let's talk about what marriage looks like
For you two.
I know that you did have some sort of challenge
On your honeymoon.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
Let's talk about it.
Let's just jump right into it.
- There was just, like--
I guess a miscommunication.
He thought I wasn't a nurse because I wasn't done
With my bachelor's program.
I had one class left, so he thought
That I wasn't a nurse even though I told him
Explicitly, "I am a nurse."
- You're an rn. - I am.
I have an associate's degree, which allowed me to get
My registered nursing license.
You can look it up online. I got the whole thing.
- I trust you. I trust you.
- And he told justin that I wasn't a nurse.
Justin was very upset about it.
Told his wife.
And then-- - long story short,
I overreacted.
I didn't come to you before coming to somebody else.
- Mm-hmm, in front of--
- And that made you feel how?
- Oh, back-stabbed.
I was upset going into the conversation
As well, because we had promised each other
Not to talk about finances
Or family on the honeymoon.
And we sat down,
And that's the first thing he talked about.
And I think that's why I was really upset.
You kind of, like, went back on your promise,
Went behind my back.
And it all happened at once, too,
And I was just like...
♪ ♪
- It takes time to know how to be married.
- Mm-hmm.
You're coming from single life
To married life in an instant.
This idea of putting your wife first,
It's something that you have to learn.
- Yeah. I do take ownership
For not coming to morgan first,
And be like, hey, can I talk to an outside source
For a new perspective?
I apologize for that
And for being judgmental of your past.
It's not fair. - Yeah.
- Trust me, look, every man has had to learn this.
When it comes to your wife, talk to her first.
Those early mistakes are expected.
So I really appreciate and I'm really proud
That you guys talked about it.
And it looks like you've hashed a lot of that out,
And you've come to, at least, to a place of understanding.
Is that safe to say?
- I would say so.
- How is the trust between the two of you because of this?
- Uh-uh. - What?
What's uh-uh? - It's not good.
It's very, very hard for me to come back
From something like this.
It's very hard.
So I'm, like, trying really, really hard
To, like, be here and be present and, like,
Learn how to trust you.
- Let's talk about that.
Why do you find that so difficult?
- It's a big deal, when I let people in.
When trust is broken, I'm out.
Gone.
- What happened to you to stop letting people in?
- [voice breaking] gonna make me cry.
[somber music]
- Want me to get a tissue?
- [sniffs]
♪ ♪
- I mean, it's like--
Of course, it's, like, childhood stuff.
- Yeah, I know, sweetie.
- Like my dad.
♪ ♪
I mean, it's like...
You let someone in, and they break your trust.
You let someone in, and they hurt you.
And I kind of--that was like the push and pull relationship
That I had with him growing up.
So I know it's hard, like, trusting people now.
- How's your relationship with your dad?
- I gave him the option--
Either do x, y, and z,
Or we're not going to have a relationship anymore.
And we don't have a relationship anymore.
- So how does it feel to you, then, when you see
Somebody like ben... - Mm-hmm.
- Who, as soon as he recognizes that he's
Done something that hurt you--that he's
Just profuse in his apologies?
- Mm-hmm. - How does that make you feel?
- No, it's good.
- If there is no apology,
Then you have some reason not to trust.
But since he is saying, "hey, I screwed up.
I'll never do that again," you have reason to trust.
The other side of the apology is forgiveness.
And that means that I not only forgave the act,
I forgave the actor.
Does that make sense to you?
- Yeah, that makes sense.
- I just don't want your hurt to create walls that infringe
On your intimacy, infringe on you becoming closer,
Even infringe on you growing in love.
That's the one thing that I'm concerned about
Because your future is dependent
On how you handle conflict.
And when I talk about intimacy,
I'm not necessarily talking about sex.
I'm just talking about intimacy in how you're relating.
How is that going?
- It was good until the debacle.
You slept all the way on that side.
So I was like, from that point on,
I kind of read that as like, okay, like, we're on her time.
- If I can't trust you with my emotions and how I'm feeling,
How am I gonna trust you with my body?
- I'm trying to win you back.
It's like, I'm trying.
Like, I'm genuinely trying.
And like, if I could go in a time machine,
I would go in a time machine.
But I can't.
- But it's still, like, my wall went up.
You know? - Yeah, no, you're fine.
- And it's--
- Who's in control of that wall?
- I'm in control of the wall.
- So who could take it down?
♪ ♪
- I can take the wall down. - Yeah.
- That was just one incident.
He just overreacted.
- I do feel like I can start bringing down that wall.
- To forgive someone means that I'm releasing you
From my judgment.
Is that what you're doing? - Mm-hmm.
- You've been released from her judgment.
You're good.
- It feels good.
- And if you're at a good place, then tell him
It's okay to be affectionate now.
Is it okay?
- Yeah.
I do feel a lot better now.
- Is there any snuggling in the bed now?
Is it okay to snuggle?
I'm asking you, for you.
Are you okay to snuggle?
- I am okay to snuggle.
- That's awesome.
- Now, what steps are we going to be making
Towards taking the walls down?
- Pda? Or--oh, the--sorry.
That's right.
- No, is that something that you feel like--
- Yeah, I can do that.
- I feel like that would help, too, just like--
- I got you.
[chuckles]
- Thank you for that.
Oh, thank you. Thank you.
- Okay.
We need to talk, dude.
I want you to be gentle. - Yeah.
- I want you to touch softly,
Not like you're on the basketball court.
Oh, good shot. - Yeah.
Thanks, bro.
- Good shot.
- Fricking cool, guy. - Dude.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna youtube it.
I'll take lessons.
- Dude, no.
You're gonna youtube affection?
No. Talk to your wife. - Oh, my god.
Gotta help you out with that.
[laughter]
[mellow music]
♪ ♪
- Locked the door.
All right. So that was productive.
I'm glad pastor cal came through.
Do you feel, like, better
That he kind of shared his knowledge and wisdom with us?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- What stuck out to you the most?
- I think, like, him saying, you know, go deeper.
Obviously, I've told you that, too,
You know, I felt like in the beginning.
- Yeah, okay. - You know,
I feel like I'm sharing so much, as far as,
Like, intimate details.
- I didn't know I was not expressing myself
In vulnerability.
- So basically, you've been just telling...
- Surface-level things.
- Surface-level stuff.
- Just like, you saying, "oh, you know,
I didn't feel loved by my mom" or something.
Well, tell me about it. Why don't you?
How did it make you feel? - The why behind it.
- When did it happen? Just think.
I'm gonna ask you all of these things.
So why not even just give me the back story--
- Yeah, I get it.
- To begin with?
Does that make sense?
- Yes. - When you say, like,
"I know--I went through something similar,"
Or, "I know exactly how you feel,"
I want to know how.
It's just you're here. - Mm-hmm.
- And I want you to be here. - Okay.
- You don't talk about your mom.
That's the one thing that always chokes me up
And, like, gets that lump in my throat
And fricking makes me cry, right?
Because there's so much pain behind that.
But sometimes, I feel like you don't want to even
Say that there is pain there.
- I don't have any emotional connection
Towards my biological mom at all.
- And I have no connection to my father, right?
- But do you get-- do you get emotional?
- Absolutely, because that's my--half of my identity.
- Right. But I don't.
- You don't at all?
- I mean, she's a stranger to me.
I can't talk about feelings
If I don't have feelings for something.
It's just-- - you detached yourself.
- It is what it is.
- I don't want to feel like I'm interrogating you.
You know what I mean?
I'm frustrated that he's not opening up.
I have the same type of background.
I have the same type of upbringing.
And for him to say that he understands me,
I want to know, but how?
If you can't connect to me, or you can't tell me how,
Then it makes me question if he knows
How to even be vulnerable.
- I mean, with the mom thing, it's just--
It's pretty black and white.
But I'll share more with you.
- Can you give me anything now? Share anything--
- I can't think of anything on the top of my head right now.
But if it comes up organically, I'll share with you.
♪ ♪
- ♪ we can do it just like in the movies ♪
- She will be much happier if I give her food.
- Not all the couples are lucky enough to have
The love--the pug love child that we have.
- [laughs] I'm just so happy
She didn't wake you up last night.
- No, she didn't.
I was outie. - Okay.
- Ready for this first bite.
- Yeah.
It should be cooked perfect.
- Mmm, mmm.
- Oh, wow. That's enthusiastic.
How do you feel like the first few days
Of coexisting in our neutral home are going?
- Worryingly easy.
- I totally agree. I'm waiting.
- You're waiting for me to do something that pisses you off.
- [laughs] you've been great.
I have no complaints about you.
And I think my favorite part is going to bed next to you
And waking up next to you, though.
It's, like, really nice.
And then, of course, like, when you come home from work
And I have dinner ready, like tonight.
That's kind of nice.
- It's definitely nice for me.
- I have a question.
Have you been in love before?
And how did you know?
- I don't think I've been in love in, like,
The mature, adult, long-term relationship sense.
- Mm-hmm. - Now that I'm married to you,
I kind of have a different perspective on it.
- I'll be honest, I've had a lot of boyfriends.
And I always jump in head first.
And it's infatuation.
And it's fiery.
And it's kind of always the same, you know?
And I fall in love really easily.
♪ ♪
- Yeah. I think, for me,
The l word is gonna be about,
I am so much happier with you than I was without you.
- Right. I agree.
- And then I'm seeing a life now.
I'm seeing a life.
And when I think about my future,
And I think about stuff, you're in those thoughts.
- Right, right.
- That would be it for me.
Like, I think we're gonna be in this.
- ♪ oh ♪
♪ I do what I want when I want it ♪
♪ yeah, you know I do it ♪
- Couching it? - Couching it, boo.
- ♪ do it like this, do it like that ♪
- So this is just a little thank you.
Why don't you do the card first?
- "our journey has not been perfect.
"but it's raw, honest, and real.
"you are the most entertaining, selfless, kind, caring,
And thoughtful person I've ever met."
Really? - Yeah.
- Aw.
"every day with you gets better and better.
"I have no idea how this will end
"or even what tomorrow looks like,
"but I love that I'm the happiest
"I've ever been one day at a time.
Love, your wifey."
Thanks, babe. - Mm.
Okay.
Couple things.
These are mason jars that I purchased
That were already used.
And then inside, we have little love coupons.
So cheesy, but they're-- they're funny.
So here, let's read them.
- "yes day." ooh.
"one day where you decide what we do,
"and I say yes to all.
Expires never."
- All right.
Put your eyes back in their head.
- Not reading that one?
- That one does not get read. - Okay.
- "one free bubble bath with wifey.
Expires tonight."
- [laughing]
Well, you're just full of surprises.
- Yeah.
- So I don't want that one to expire.
So I'm gonna cash in. - Yeah?
I think if things get a little steamy between us tonight,
Then I would be ready to take things to the next level.
What do you think?
[laughing]
He's speechless.
- I'm speechless, as I often am with you.
- I'm feeling like mitch has not only told me,
But he has shown me all of the things
I've asked him to show me
In order for me to be ready to take things
To the next level with him, physically.
[scratching]
[laughter]
♪ ♪
I already know I'm gonna fall in love with him.
And your girl is ready to take things home,
If you will.
- Luna, I don't want everyone to see me naked.
Cheers, babe. - Yeah.
It feels right, though. I'm excited.
- I'm ready.
- You seem excited.
- Trying to be cool.
[laughter]
- I hope you liked my gift.
- I love it.
It's the gift that keeps on giving, actually.
- [laughs] bye, luna.
- Bye, luna.
Don't miss us.
We'll be a little while. - [laughs]
Days.
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So how is marriage?
- Marriage is great. - I mean...
- Really? - It's fun.
- It's still so baby and so new.
But I still feel like I have the biggest crush on him.
I can't wait to come home and see him.
Everything's so fun and funny.
But I still--
I want to see-- like, I don't know.
It's, like, not like I'm, like, testing, but I just
Want to see the realness of, like, a conflict
And how we resolve it, and, like,
That just hasn't really arisen yet.
- It will come in time.
- Yeah. - But don't welcome trouble.
- Yeah. - Okay?
I want you to be prepared
And have the tools to handle it.
But don't welcome it, okay, because it will come.
- Right. - Yeah.
- You had said that you were committed
Irrespective of who--
- Yeah.
I mean, I was ready if it was somebody
I wasn't attracted to.
I was ready to put in the work
And try to build the attraction.
I was ready to do it all.
But miguel has just made it easy.
He's a plus.
I was immediately attracted to him.
He makes me laugh every second.
Like, it's just better and easier.
Like, I don't know how else to say it.
But the thing is, is like,
I could be ready to be married forever.
But if the other person is not--
- Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
- So how can I control that narrative?
- How do you feel about it?
- I honestly went into this with, like,
I can give someone my everything for eight weeks.
But to your point, like, you've made this thing so easy now.
And so now it's like, the eight weeks,
I don't really even think about that anymore.
I mean, we rebranded decision day.
We don't call it that anymore.
We call it vow renewal day.
- Yeah, 'cause it was a trigger for me.
He'd bring up decision day,
And I'm like, stop it!
Like, this is longer than eight weeks.
Like... - Right.
- So we rebranded it.
It took a little bit of talking.
And that one was just, like, yes.
This is beautiful.
This makes me feel good. - Okay.
Well, good. Good, good. That's very cool.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- What do you need from him
To even give you more confidence
About the permanence of your marriage
And to feel as though this is something
That can stand the test of time?
What do you need from him?
- I think if there is conflict, or if you do feel like
You're not connected to me, I need you to stay sturdy
And not, like, tell me that.
- From--I wish I could say yes, but I've been
In that position.
And I start to lose--
I fall into patterns and I start to internalize it.
And next thing I know, I'm emotionally elsewhere,
Checked out.
And I have--like, my friends refer to me as a doormat.
[tense music]
I know the slippery slope that it creates in me
When I start censoring myself.
And then, next thing I know, I'm so far gone.
And when I do open up to my person,
I open up to let them know that I'm leaving.
And then they always respond,
"why are you telling me this just now?"
- There are gonna be times when
You won't feel good about her.
That's not uncommon in marriage.
- Right.
- But how or if you communicate that
Is pivotal in whether or not she's going to feel desired,
Feel wanted, or feel as though you're about to leave.
- Sometimes, what you need to do
Is to re-examine your feelings before you say anything.
- I think I'm hesitant, because I have been
In relationships where I was committed,
To your point,
But I didn't have that feeling of being in love.
- Right, right.
- It's just--for me, it's scary,
Because it's like, if it's a feeling, like,
It's so easy to be out of it.
And it's like if I say something wrong
Or do something wrong, it puts so much pressure on me, like,
Oh, he's gonna lose that feeling.
Like, it's not something that just can flip-flop.
It's like--it's the decision and the commitment
And knowing, like, maybe you don't feel warm towards me,
But you know it will come back
As soon as we understand each other
And, like--you know?
Feelings come and go,
And they waver easily.
And if you're going just based off of feeling,
Like, say goodbye, because every time
We're gonna be in an argument,
What, is he not in love with me anymore?
It just--it doesn't make any sense to me.
Like, I don't want to know when you're pulling away from me,
'cause then it feels like a punishment
Of, like, my behaviors.
Like, I need you to, like, keep that to yourself.
- Mm, I don't know if I can do that.
- ♪ all these green lights ♪
♪ are they coming too soon? ♪
♪ ♪
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[doorbell rings]
- Was that the doorbell?
- I think it was.
- Hi.
- What's up?
- How are you?
- Wait, wait, wait, ladies first.
- Oh, thank you. - Hi.
- So handsome, as always.
- How are you? - I'm good.
- Oh my goodness! - Sorry. This is luna.
- This is our love child.
- She has no sense of personal space.
- What's up, man? - Good to see you.
Yeah.
- Please, come over here.
- We prepared our finest chair for you.
- Our finest chair.
- Hi, luna.
- Sorry, in advance, if she jumps on you.
- Hey, gorgeous. - Just take her down.
- That's a face only a mother could love.
- Right? [laughs]
- So let's talk about marriage.
I know the honeymoon went okay.
Well, I mean, there was some--
- It ended on a high note. - Ended on a high note.
- I was just extremely overwhelmed.
I've had commitment issues in the past.
And the kind of--when things get serious,
I may want to, like, cut and run, you know what I mean?
I feel like I had to break down my own walls.
And it just happened really fast.
- Yeah. It was an awesome breakthrough.
And I'm so glad that you guys were mature enough
To weather that storm.
How do you feel about marriage now?
- I cannot believe how much I love this marriage.
The marriage has been exactly what I--
Probably even better than what I wanted it to be.
In very recent days, we have "consummated" the marriage.
[laughs]
- We did it. We did it. - We did it.
- We're there. We're there. - Right.
- We've been there.
We're still taking it day by day.
Like, we're still-- we're not at the point yet
Where we're, like, making, like, lifetime plans.
- But you are making plans beyond eight weeks.
- No. - Not quite yet.
- Not us, no.
The furthest we've talked about is, like, a week from now,
To be honest.
- I believe that you wanted a lifetime marriage.
- Oh, absolutely. I still want that.
- You still want that? - Yeah.
- You put your toes in the water,
But you're afraid to go neck-deep now.
- I just want to make sure one day I don't wake up,
And he is just on a wagon to tijuana.
- Why do you have this fear of him leaving?
- He has said a few times,
"I don't want to feel pressured.
Let's make sure we don't pressure mitch."
[dramatic music]
- What does that mean?
- You know, I just don't want
To lose sight of how I'm feeling.
All of our friends and family both just loved us both
Right off the bat.
I was a little bit afraid about losing myself
In all these other people's expectations.
- Your marriage is up to you. - Yeah.
- There doesn't have to be any pressure.
You know? - Yeah.
- I think big picture, our values I think align,
With family, our opinions on money.
- Have you talked about finances
And what each other makes?
- No. - We can talk about that.
I mean, I don't have anything to hide.
- Whisper in her ear and tell her what your income is.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
- Your turn.
I know she makes more than me.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
I know she makes twice as much as me.
- You went from more to twice as much.
[laughter]
How do you feel about his income?
- I don't know if you remember this,
Pastor cal, what I said to you.
I want someone
Who is passionate about their work.
And I just want them to be able to make ends meet
And not be in massive amounts of debt.
- Excellent, excellent.
How do you feel about her?
- I'm happy that she makes more than me because,
You know, it just takes more pressure off.
[laughter]
I mean, I'm certainly not threatened by it.
- Let's talk about children.
- Honestly, pastor cal, we told you we'd be honest.
We've never talked about it.
- You've never talked about kids.
- Nope. - Not yet.
- Well, let's talk about it. You want children.
All right. So at 41,
When do you want to have children?
- Ideally, in the next couple years.
- Okay. How's that sit with you?
- If it were me, and I was making the decisions,
I'd want to start in the next year.
- Okay.
- All my friends are married with kids.
And I always dreamed that, by this point,
I would at least have one child.
That's what I want.
- You would be surprised at how much you can handle
If you have respect and value
And appreciation for one another,
As you do.
You can handle much more than you think.
I mean, let's just deal with the realities.
Like you said, you're 41.
You want kids. - Yeah.
- Do you have any other prospects?
- [laughs] no.
- You don't have any other mom prospects?
- I got nada.
- Oh, you got any other dad prospects?
So it looks like you two are it.
- This is my one. - This is your one.
So doggone it, start talking about it.
Okay? Act like you're married.
- Yeah.
- You know, you need to get a little deeper
Into the marriage waters.
No one's throwing around the l word?
- No, no.
- Tell me more about that.
Tell me--tell me what is that to you?
- I think we're moving in the right direction.
We haven't fully just put down all the guards.
There's just a little bit of fear, maybe, on both sides.
- Love and fear really can't coexist.
It's more than just a feeling.
It's more of a principle.
It's a decision that you make.
You have a concerned look on your face, mitch.
You okay?
- Well, everything you're saying about
Love being more of a decision and more of a choice,
I'm totally vibing with that.
But I'm also just-- part of my mind
Is like, [bleep], you know, we've only known
Each other for two weeks.
- That's okay.
You don't have to express your undying love
For each other or anything.
- Yeah.
- I'm just saying, I want you to be aware
That love is a part of the process.
You will probably be in love with each other
Before you recognize it.
I don't want you to be afraid to express it
When you believe it.
♪ ♪
[hip-hop music]
[doorbell rings] [dog barking]
- Right on, man. How you doing?
Hey. - This is newton.
- What's up, newton? I get it. I get it.
That's right, I'm a visitor. I get it.
How you doing, man? - I'm good, man.
How you doing? - Good to see you.
- You too.
♪ ♪
- So, married people,
You guys feeling okay?
Let's talk about the dogs.
I know there have been some challenges
With the dogs.
- I think we just have a miscommunication
On what the truth is,
Because we talked about the dog.
- Do you have any concerns about living together?
- Mm...
Not really, not anything that really
Crossing my mind right now.
- I'm like, "babe, you know how important newton is to me."
He was like, "trust me. Newton will be okay."
So when they integrated themselves,
I was really taken back.
Like, I was hurt, because it was like,
"baby, trust me. Newton will be okay."
And newton wasn't okay.
- Yeah.
- You know, the situation shouldn't have happened.
But that's never happened in that situation.
- Right, you thought that mya could handle it
Better than she did. - Correct.
[tense music]
- This was not an issue of lying or truth, though.
- No, but see, pastor cal, he never told me
That mya had been in several fights
With other dogs prior to this,
'cause that would have been a red flag for me.
- But it wasn't relevant, though.
Normally, when she snapped at dogs,
Those dogs were in the wrong.
Or they'll be antagonizing her.
- He thinks telling some of the information
Is the same as telling the truth.
And for me, it's just like,
No, you're withholding information.
So it's not the complete truth.
And it's really frustrating, because in these moments,
I'm reminded that we're strangers.
And it makes me want to go back to my normal ways
And just, like, run.
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- Okay.
- I feel like I'm telling her the truth.
Like, I'm not intentionally lying to her.
I think I'm vague, and I don't realize it.
But from her perspective, it's like, baby,
You're not telling me the full truth.
I'm like, I just gave you all the information.
What you talking about?
- Honestly, with this process,
It's like we have to believe whatever they say
And whoever they show us.
And for me, it's just like, more than ever,
I'm paying attention to every little thing,
Because my heart's in it at this point.
- So who do you think he is?
Do you believe that, at his core, that something's wrong?
[dramatic music]
- Sometimes I don't know.
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He was just like, "no, she just doesn't like other dogs.
"and you know, sometimes she's--
"she'll--we'll be fine.
She'll be--" and I played it down.
So newton was just roaming.
And next thing I know, this bloody scene is happening.
[somber music]
- What's going on?
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What's going on?
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- Well, one, I feel like a crappy owner, for sure.
Like, I should have paid attention to those signs,
You know, the first time that she snapped.
And the second time, I just felt like
I should have did something about it,
Because it could have cost me my marriage.
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- You know, you're very empathetic.
You know, you feel a lot.
But I don't want you to beat yourself up.
It's a mistake.
And I'm glad you guys went through this, honestly,
Because this is a marital test.
- It's definitely a challenge, I'll tell you that.
- And the question is, how are you going to handle the test?
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Is this something you can overcome?
We all have to give each other leeway to be human.
Okay?
And you cannot, ever, have such a rigid
Requirement of each other that you don't allow for mistakes.
It's important to build that foundation of trust.
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What do you need from him?
- I need you to overshare.
When in doubt, communicate.
Tell me everything, even if it might hurt my feelings.
- Okay.
- How you feel about that?
- I can do that. Yeah.
I can definitely do that. - That was simple, huh?
- Yeah, I can definitely do that.
- But here's the deal.
That puts a greater responsibility on you now.
That means that you have to be so sure
That when you tell her stuff,
That it is absolutely the clear truth.
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What about you, justin?
Tell her, what do you need from alexis?
- I need you to give me another chance with mya.
- I just need you to keep your word.
Because you said if it doesn't work out, you're sending her.
I know that's your baby,
But you said it to me. - I did.
- I need you to keep your word. Okay?
- I did.
But also, be aware that, like, it's not
Gonna be an easy decision.
- I know.
- I mean, it's not.
- I thought the decision was already made.
- I've had her since she was--birth.
So like, just giving her away is not gonna just
Be as easy as saying it.
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- If mya continues to be aggressive,
I'm not gonna stay anywhere that I don't feel safe.
So I will not be with justin.
For me, it's like trust and truth
Is everything, you know?
And I'm having a hard time trusting what he says.
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[upbeat music]
- Next time on "married at first sight"...
[all cheering]
- Party time.
- We shall party now.
- She's like, "yeah, like, how about kids within a year?"
Kid is, like, a big variable.
Like, that's a whole lifestyle change.
- I'm trying to be understanding.
I'm trying to make amends.
I'm trying to make it work.
- When you hurt me,
When you burn me, I'm done.
- He's hiding stuff.
He's disingenuous.
He is manipulative in the way of,
He's telling--he's being vague.
You're doing the absolute most. - Okay.
You just want to be heard, and you don't want
To understand what I'm saying.
- You just do whatever you gotta do because I'm not in it.
- Does mitch know about your whole history?
- Mitch does not know anything about that.
- Oh, shoot.
- You can't even extend a hand
To help me see a [bleep] physician.
So how the [bleep] do you expect me
To take your last name?
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