- Whenever you’re ready, let me know.
We’re ready. - Got it.
Okay, here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
Three, two, one.
Last week, the "Married At First Sight:
San Diego" reunion started off with a bang.
- What you gonna do, bro? - Hold on.
Hang--yo, hang on. - I’m here. I’m here.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Oh, no. - That’s [bleep] up.
- I sat down with all the couples from this past season
as they revealed their sides of the story
about what went down in San Diego.
- I realized that I wasn’t ready for marriage.
- That’s what marriage is. Tough point, get past it.
- I think I was kind of just having,
like, a drawn-out panic attack.
- There were some shocking surprises...
Are you together?
- We are... both: Not together.
- I’m attracted to you, and I do have feelings for you,
and I think I always will.
- You made a pass at me twice before the show.
[dramatic music]
- Some moments of genuine affection...
- We love each other.
Everything just works.
- My heart is opening up, and I’m loving you
more every single day.
- And some lingering tensions that might never be resolved.
- I always felt like he truly didn’t
really want to be married.
- I want to feel emotionally connected
on a consistent basis.
- I want to know, like, you feel
the pain that I went through.
- But that was just the beginning.
Tonight, we’ve got so much more to uncover.
There are more secrets to reveal...
- Mitch was on my [bleep] list from day one.
- You tried to make it click in the bedroom.
- I was trying to get all the parts moving and going.
- More conflicts to face...
- I do understand you had good intentions,
but I’m an adult.
Like, I’m capable of making decisions.
- God, you’re like a kid.
- Can both of you just stop?
- More wounds that are ready to heal.
- That was rock bottom.
It’s a breaking point for me.
- He put her through [bleep] hell and back.
- Were there times when you were like,
"Dude, stop crying"?
- Yes.
- We also have the "Married At First Sight"
experts, who are ready to give us
their insight into everything that went down this season.
- She wanted him to be more of an alpha male.
- You guys-- honestly, you quit.
- All that and so much more as the "Married At First Sight:
San Diego" reunion comes to its dramatic conclusion.
- No, no, no, Alexis.
I allowed you to gaslight me for the longest,
and you’re doing it again.
You’re trying to manipulate the truth.
♪ ♪
- Things went south. What happened, Justin?
- She can’t be truthful, and it’s frustrating.
- Justin, you get emotional, and then you get--
- I’m not getting emotional.
I’m just not allowing you to get--
- Like, your whole body language--
- No. No, no, no, Alexis.
I allowed you to gaslight me for the longest,
and you’re doing it again.
You’re trying to manipulate the truth.
I’m just telling my truth, what I saw.
You came on to me back at my apartment one night.
You came from the club drunk. - I never came...
- That didn’t happen? - On to you. Never.
- Girl, compulsive liar is what you are, man.
♪ ♪
- Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Did you go to his house after going to the club?
- No. - No?
- No. I didn’t.
- You didn’t? - No.
- So you didn’t-- you didn’t come up
to my apartment and buzz and say,
"Hey, what are you doing?"
- You say it like I’m drunk, I’m at the club,
I want some penis or something. That’s not--
- You came to my house in the middle of the night.
- I didn’t, Justin.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
- Okay, having watched every second of this,
what is the real problem here?
- I just--
I don’t think she was really here for it.
I don’t think she was here for love, you know?
I don’t think she was really here to--to--
to find love.
- I-- [laughs]
Very much so, I was here for this, Kevin.
Like, I tried everything I had in me.
I already said I wasn’t attracted to him initially,
but I grew past that.
I grew past so much, and I’m just like,
I’m not used to somebody sensitive.
Grew past that. Like, I just keep--
everything that I had in my toolbox,
I pulled out to be the best wife that I could to this man.
♪ ♪
- Am I wrong in thinking you also were like,
"I want physical attention from my husband"?
- Yes. - Didn’t you ask for that?
Didn’t she ask for that? - Mm-hmm.
- So just how could you come up with the idea
that she doesn’t have feelings for you,
and she’s coming to you saying, "I want physical attention
from you, husband"?
- I’m used to energy being reciprocated,
and that energy wasn’t being reciprocated.
I’m no fool, but a man knows when a woman wants him.
And my wife didn’t want me after the honeymoon.
- He is basically saying you performed for the cameras,
and then you went away and under real life--
is that true? - No, no, no.
- So there is no chance for a friendship here, is there?
- Nah, not after today.
- No. - I’m done.
- All right, look, I know that family
is important to both of you.
And we heard from each of your siblings
a few times during the process.
So to help us further dissect what went wrong
between Alexis and Justin, we’ve brought
their siblings here tonight.
Let’s bring out Justin’s brother, Donnell,
and Alexis’s sister, Amber.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Hey, my baby! Hey.
- All right, we’ll put y’all in the seat.
- You look so pretty.
- I love that y’all are still hugging.
First of all, welcome, and thanks
for coming to chat with us.
You questioned, Donnell, whether Justin was
prepared to be married or not.
Was he prepared to be married?
- Do not feel he was fully prepared
for the challenges marriage would bring.
I hope this works out for you.
But if I’m being really authentic,
no, I don’t think you’re ready to be married.
And I’m absolutely gonna hold you accountable.
And I’m gonna tell you when you’re [bleep] up,
or when I think you’re [bleep] up.
- I’m a grown-ass man. I’m 33.
I don’t need you to chastise me.
I’ve been taking care of myself since I was 19, bruh.
- Justin, you actin’ like a little bitch.
[tense music]
- What did you know that he didn’t know?
- So I didn’t know what to expect in this,
but I knew this wasn’t gonna be easy.
I didn’t want him going in headfirst getting hurt.
And he’s a lover.
Like, he wants to love. - Mm-hmm.
- And I felt like he wanted that too much.
- Amber, what did you think of their relationship?
Because your sister kept you filled in
throughout the process.
- From the beginning, I had some reservations.
Lexi’s a spicy one. [laughs] - Yes.
- How do you vibe with her when you’re like,
"I’m more sensitive"?
How do I get to the point where we balance
each other out, where she doesn’t
offend me with her spiciness?
- He told you he’s not hotheaded,
but there was an edge.
He did have an edge, right?
- It’s that edge that gets me,
and I found out he’s a little bit more
hotheaded than he presented.
He’s really good with his words,
and, like, I feel like he had the good intent behind it,
but words really do hurt.
When you say certain things in the heat of the moment,
some--you can’t take that back.
- I just think we’re two passionate people,
and they show in different ways.
I’m more direct and I want it now
and I want to talk about it.
But Justin needs his time and he needs to be patient.
And although we’re communicating,
it’s not a communication that--a style
that works best for one another.
- All right, let’s talk about the unfortunate dog incident.
For those of you watching who don’t know,
Justin’s dog bit Alexis’ dog
when they were first introduced.
- Is he okay? - Let me see.
No, his eye, baby, is bleeding.
- Oh. [sighs]
- Justin, you rose to the occasion.
You stepped up, and you said you were going
to get your dog some training.
And when that didn’t work,
you actually gave your dog away,
which was a sacrifice
to save your marriage, correct?
- Yes.
- Donnell, were you impressed to see your brother
handle the situation in this way?
- No.
♪ ♪
- Why not?
- Mya is a very important part of Justin’s family
and has been.
I have never noticed her to be an aggressive dog.
So when he told me he suggested getting rid of her,
my first thought was, why would you do that?
It would not have been great for their marriage.
’Cause eventually, he probably would have
grown to resent Alexis for that decision that he made.
♪ ♪
- Did you grow resentment?
♪ ♪
- I mean, yeah.
I just wasn’t being honest about it.
I thought I was making the right decision.
You know what I’m saying? - Mm-hmm.
- I was giving him to somebody, you know, I was trusting,
but I was really-- I believed in the marriage.
- So is that part of the reason why you were so upset
when things went south? - Mm-hmm.
I feel like she gave up when--after the dog situation
because the trust never went back.
- You asked him several times
not to hold this against you, right?
- Yes. - Did you feel like
he resented you because of this?
- He resented me, and I felt like he resented Newton
at one point ’cause he had saw Newton all day,
and he didn’t get to see Mya all day.
I know he still had Blue, but I know it was hard for him.
- Despite Justin giving up his dog,
you were still upset with him.
What do you wish he had done differently
following the incident?
- So that’s the thing.
I wasn’t upset about the dog situation,
like, that it happened, because it happens.
We’re not-- - Right.
- We can’t control dogs in that way.
I was just upset what happened after that.
Because if I would have known prior that Mya had been
in three other incidents, I would have
behaved accordingly different.
’Cause Justin had Mya on the leash the entire time.
I just let Newton go because I didn’t know.
So it wasn’t that I was mad about that.
I was just mad about the information
and the not sharing.
It was the moral of it.
It wasn’t really the incident altogether.
- Mm-hmm.
Amber, what did this teach you about Justin?
- He was willing to work on the marriage, even though--
like, ’cause that’s a big step.
’Cause I even said to Lexi when she told me--
when she was, like, really upset.
I was like, "Hold on.
That’s his baby too."
- Where is Mya today?
- Mya is back with me.
- She is? - She is.
I took--I flew to Colorado,
and we made a whole road trip back.
We stopped in Utah, Vegas,
and then made our way back to San Diego.
And we’re in a new place, and she’s happy as ever.
I feel whole again because part of my heart went with her.
[soft music]
- Donnell, what went wrong in this relationship?
- I kind of got the feeling that Alexis felt like
she had to handle Justin with too much care,
and Justin felt like Alexis was
just too much for him at times.
They were just too far-- too far apart.
- I agree.
They were two completely-- even though they had
surface similarities,
the main characters were very different.
- Mm-hmm. - Were very different.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
- How has life been since you’ve broken up?
Are you seeing other people? - Nah.
I--honestly, I’m still healing, you know, from the whole thing.
- Are you healing from it, or if it could be fixed,
would you fix it?
- Nah.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
- Let the man say no, Kevin. Don’t pressure--
- Be honest. Be honest.
- Let the man say no. - Be honest with us.
Hold on. I don’t know if it’s a true no.
I feel like if you all had come in here
and you’d been like, "Baby, let’s work this out,"
he’d be like, "We walk out holding hands."
- Mm-mm.
I think we’re just at different stages.
We’re just too different, you know?
Don’t get me wrong.
I learned a lot about myself, you know, looking at her
and how she operates, that I can take with me.
- Alexis, meanwhile, what’s-- - I moved, yeah.
- You moved to a new spot? - Yeah. Yes, I did.
- Yeah? - I got my loft apartment.
I’m painting a lot. I am sculpting a lot.
I’m having a great time. - Yeah?
- I am so blessed.
- Well, have you been dating since you’ve--
- Not dating.
I just--I think people seeing me
actually get married-- ’cause I was always that girl
that didn’t get married... - Didn’t get married.
Right. Was afraid. The runaway bride. Right.
- So people saw me actually get married, people were just,
like, checking back in, like, "Dang, girl.
You know, I almost lost you," so yeah.
- Oh, so there was folks in-- there was folks
who were waiting in the wings. - They were waiting in line.
- They were waiting.
- They were waiting in line, bruh.
- It wasn’t any of my exes, though.
It was just--just casual--
- So in other words, what you’re saying is,
your DMs are lighting up?
- Eh. More or less.
- What’s--yes or no?
- Ooh. You interested? Look at you.
[laughs] He’s like, no.
I’m joking. I’m sorry.
- What does the future hold for you?
Will you guys talk again?
- I’m open to talking again.
If it happens organically, it happens.
If it doesn’t, no hard feelings and move forward.
- You attacked my character.
I didn’t like that. - It wasn’t intentional.
It wasn’t out of spitefulness. I just was...
- I know, but listen to me. - Speaking my truth.
- That hurt my feelings, but...
- I’m sorry for that. - Like, we can move past it.
I have no problem with talking to you again as friends.
- And I’m sorry for hurting your feelings.
That wasn’t my intention. - Thank you.
- You solved it.
See how quickly y’all can work out your problems?
- We’re just so passionate. That’s our thing, Kevin.
Like, we just-- - We are two passionate people.
- Full--like, we love hard.
We--all those emotions come very hard and fast,
and we just bump heads.
- Yeah, no, you came out here, and things came--yeah.
- And then look at us, back at the end.
- Back at the end. - It’s a vicious cycle, Kevin.
It’s a vicious, vicious cycle.
- That’s why it could have worked.
See, I told y’all. - Oh, my gosh.
- I will see these two back later with the experts.
We have more layers to peel back to understand
what exactly went wrong.
Donnell, Amber, appreciate y’all coming
out here to talk to us. It was great.
i am joined by all the ladies from this season.
Great to have you all here together.
All right, I want to know. Who are the closest friends?
- Just getting right into it. [laughter]
- Yeah, who hangs out? - All right.
- Who hangs out together? - We all hang out.
We have a group chat.
We’re on it almost every day, if not every day.
And we’ve seen each other a bunch of times
since Decision Day.
- Yeah, we all keep in touch. - You keep in touch.
I hear, Alexis, you talk to Krysten every day.
- Every day. - We do talk every day.
- What do y’all talk about?
- We try to keep each other positive.
- Yeah.
- Like, we do it in the group as well.
But me and Krysten, we’re a little unraveled at times,
so we, like, bond over that.
- Trauma bond. - Trauma bond?
[laughter] The trauma bond.
- Yeah, that’s a thing.
- There was a lot of trauma bonding.
I get it, right? - A lot.
- There was a lot of trauma to bond over.
These are my trauma-bond wives.
Like-- - Sister wives.
- Yeah, we’re sister wives.
- Our group chat’s name is Sister Wives.
[laughter]
- Morgan, how was it for you when you were
out of the group, in a sense?
You weren’t filming anymore. Was that hard?
- It was hard, like, not seeing the ladies.
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- But we still kept up with our group chat,
and I was still, like, contacting them all the time,
seeing how things were going.
They were keeping me in the loop.
So it’s like I kind of never even left.
- As a group, you all were very supportive
of each other throughout this.
Alexis, how hard was it for you
when you heard what was going on with Binh
and then you had to decide whether you eat it
or you go tell your girl?
- Morgan actually came to me.
It wasn’t that I just ran and told Morgan.
We were just having, like, a pow-wow session.
- Mm-hmm.
- And she was just pouring her heart out.
And I just saw the pain in her eyes,
and I had the answers to, in a sense,
give her what she needed.
And she just was like,
"Please tell me if you know something,"
’cause she knows that they’re close.
- Yes.
- And eventually, I made the decision
to say, "Hey, yeah, Morgan,
what you’re suspecting is true."
- Binh has been going behind my back
and telling lies about me to other people.
- How hard was that for you to watch, then,
the marriage just fall apart?
- It was extremely hard.
At times, I found myself blaming myself,
but in the end, I found out
it was just the truth, you know?
And if a truth sets someone free, then that’s what it is.
It’s not the fact that I did anything wrong.
It was just me supporting my friend.
I think I made the right decision.
I could have done it differently looking back.
- And I am so grateful-- so grateful
you came to me and told me that.
’Cause I even said this before.
Like, Binh was never going to tell me
the actual truth about what was going on.
So if it wasn’t for you, like, who knows what could have
happened between Binh and I?
I needed the truth.
- And you two are still very, very cool, right?
- Yes. - Oh, absolutely.
- Yeah. - Very much so.
- There’s never been a point where we were ever fighting.
There was never any drama.
We’ve always been friends through this entire thing.
- Mm-hmm.
Krysten, you said that, "I don’t want to meet a man
who is looking for somebody else."
And then in many ways, that happened.
And you kind of fought through it.
- Well, we were married, Kevin, so I had no choice, really.
- There have been people who have called it quits
right off the bat when they don’t feel the vibe.
- Yeah.
- And you really tried to fight for that.
How proud are you of that? - Thank you. Thank you.
I wanted to look back on that experience
and not have any regrets.
While I still have a few, they don’t have anything
to do with not trying hard.
- Yeah, I was always just so impressed
with your grace and your confidence,
the way you handled so many tough situations.
I was always just so proud of you and, like, amazed by you.
You are such a strong person, and I look up to you
in so many different ways.
- Thank you.
- Were you a little fed up with Mitch?
Yeah? - Of course, yeah.
- Mitch was on my [bleep] list from day one.
- Really? - Yes.
I was not having it with Mitch.
- What did you really want to say to Mitch?
- I said everything I wanted to say to him.
- No, no, you said a lot, but I’m just saying.
How did you kind of try to--
- Every time I greeted him, I called him a bitch.
- I was just about to get to that.
[laughter]
- Thanks for making me food, Stacia.
- You’re welcome, bitch.
[laughter]
- Do you mean this Mitch or that Mitch?
- You, bitch. - [laughs]
- Did he earn that nickname?
- Absolutely.
- What did you think of that, Krysten?
- Honestly, I-- there were so many times
when I really wanted someone to call Mitch a bitch.
And there were just so many times
where I wanted someone to be like, "Krysten, it’s okay.
You’re trying really hard. He could try harder."
And these ladies are really the only ones
that did that for me.
So sometimes I couldn’t face it myself,
or, you know, you just start spiraling a little bit.
And they let me know, "This is really not okay.
"And we support you trying to make this marriage work,
but it’s okay that it’s not okay."
And I appreciated that.
- He put her through [bleep] hell and back.
And for what?
What was he really bringing to the table in that marriage?
And it wasn’t much.
Krysten was the one supporting that marriage
and making it work, not Mitch.
- I was trying so hard emotionally, physically.
- Mm-hmm. - You name it. I was trying.
- You tried to make it click in the bedroom.
- I was trying to get all the parts moving and going,
but it was a very one-sided marriage.
I am not going to accept he is attracted to me enough.
I am not going to accept
that he has come far in this journey.
I am tired of accepting his triumph
over eight weeks of needing professional help
to get there.
- Alexis, what do you think about the way
Krysten stood up for herself?
- I was extremely proud.
Because initially, Krysten was the main one
who said Team Mitch. - Yeah.
- Yes. - You know, without that...
- Mm-hmm.
- I think it would have been completely worse.
So when Krysten was like, "What about me?
I think we all were like, "Yes, finally."
- Yeah. Yeah.
- You know, like, it was-- we all felt it.
- The reaction shots were there.
Don’t worry. - Yeah.
- We saw y’all’s faces. And y’all were like, mm.
- Yes.
- "We’re about to beat your ass."
- It was a release for everybody, I feel like.
It was just like, "Oh, thank God.
We don’t have to be Team Mitch anymore."
- We were trying to respect her.
- Yes. - Exactly.
- That’s what we were doing was respecting her.
- They wanted me to get there on my own.
And once I did, they were very supportive of that.
- Mm, but it still must have been tough
to throw that ring down on the table.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
You know, I just felt some sentiment today to wear it,
but I moved it to my pinky finger.
It’s just too beautiful not to wear.
- She got the dream ring, but not the dream man, right?
- Correct.
- Stacia, you were impressed
with Nate’s ring-picking skills, yeah?
- I was. I was very impressed.
I mean, he did a amazing job.
Just like Krysten, I was able to look
on JamesAllen.com to see what type of ring I wanted.
I do like the solitaire, but let’s just try the vintage.
- Yeah.
- And it’s pretty much the exact same
everything that I wanted in this.
- He followed the script, right?
- He did.
- It is a beautiful ring, right?
- Thank you.
It’s just a constant everyday reminder
of the love that we have.
- Lindy, things got pretty tough through this process
between you and Miguel.
We saw you pretty upset about dodgeball
and the way that you talked to everyone
and kind of let things out.
And you also had a chance to talk to your friend, Gabby,
about some of the things going on between you and Miguel.
And can we show those right now?
- I don’t want to watch this.
It’s been [bleep] horrible.
[dramatic music]
Like, horrible.
The criticism and control, like--
- What do you mean? The control like the name?
- The control.
Like, he wants me to act a certain way
and be a certain way that fits his agenda.
And it feels very much like, "You bend to me,
or I’m [bleep] done."
He’s [bleep] just sucking it from my soul right now.
He just shuts down and pushes me away
and makes me feel like a [bleep] piece of [bleep]
over and over and over again.
I don’t know.
I’m like--I’m at my--
I’m [bleep] at my breaking point.
♪ ♪
- How do you feel seeing that?
- Yeah, that’s really hard to see
’cause that was such a tough time.
That was coming off of a really hard weekend.
- Mm-hmm.
- That was--that was rock bottom ’cause it’s--
it’s a breaking point for me. - Yeah.
You know, that is something that cannot be taken lightly.
- Yeah. - And everybody has to look
at it and say, "Hold on.
Do you need to get her the hell up out of there?"
- Yeah. - Because it is--
she’s at a breaking point.
- Yeah, and, I mean, I wish I never
introduced that into our love story,
because it is a love story.
It’s a beautiful story.
We had so much fun. We had so much love.
And it’s hard.
When you say one thing, you can’t take it back.
But that’s how I felt. But I was wrong.
He was never controlling me.
It was me struggling internally with "what if."
I don’t know.
- I’m here with the ladies from San Diego.
So let’s keep going.
Lindy, that couples’ retreat was particularly hard for you.
- Mm-hmm.
- Was there a moment where, during that couple’s retreat,
you were like, "I’m done"?
- I wanted to be alone with my husband
and not have the stresses of everything around me.
So that’s what I was done with.
I was never done with the marriage.
We actually came out a million times stronger
after the retreat because we understood each other
and were able to be really raw and honest
and kind of grow from there.
- Was there any concern for Lindy?
- Honestly, no.
It was almost like things were such smooth sailing,
they kind of needed... - They needed it.
- To have a little bit... - We did.
- Of a moment to work through it.
- I am glad that Lindy and Miguel worked at it
and got past all their issues.
We also know that Stacia had questioned Nate’s level
of commitment to her, which created
some challenging waters throughout the season.
However, her uncertainty wasn’t without cause.
Let’s watch the time Stacia learned where she fell
on Nate’s spectrum of love.
- Are you ready for this love conversation?
I kind of want to know, like, where you are
just based on, like, the spectrum of, like,
you like me, you’re falling for me,
you’re working towards loving me.
Where are we on the spectrum?
- I’m, like, kind of inching towards the middle.
[tense music]
You know, four out of ten, five out of ten, you know,
give or take.
- Four out of ten?
- Yeah, 40 out of 100. It’s the same thing.
- That sounds not-- that doesn’t sound better.
- I know.
That’s why I’m like, "Damn, you’re only at 40?"
♪ ♪
- What about you? Where am I at on that spectrum?
- I’m, like, almost at love.
Zero to ten, I’m probably at, like, an eight.
- Wow.
Dang, I feel like an [bleep] now.
- I’m not trying to put you on, like, a timeline
or anything like that.
I’m not like, "Okay, I want to know
"that you love me before Decision Day,
or I’m like, I’m saying no."
Like, it’s not like that, but it’s kind of like that.
[laughter] But not really like that.
♪ ♪
- I just want to know how you ladies
would have felt at receiving that news.
Krysten, you received worse, so I don’t--let’s not go there.
- Yeah, I’m gonna sit this one out.
I would have been praising God on that one, so...
- Alexis? - I mean, I usually say
C’s get degrees, but 40% is failing.
Like-- - Yeah.
Stacia, what was going through your mind in that moment?
- I was like, damn. [laughter]
Four? - Four.
- What, me?
[laughter]
- It hit you a little bit, didn’t it?
- Yeah.
I was like, "Damn, I thought I was doing good."
And what scared me was that he was in a relationship
for two years and didn’t love her.
So that was like, could that possibly be
our type of situation where we’re, like, married,
and then two, three years later, you’re like,
"Well, I’m still not in love with you"?
- Later on, I’m sure he clarified things, didn’t he?
- Yeah, yeah.
That’s why he went into the whole feeling and commitment,
they’re two separate, different things,
and he’s getting there,
and he’s slowly opening his heart.
- It was beautiful to watch
because we got to see the progression.
We saw--like, we heard the stories
from the bachelor party, you know?
And we just saw how Stacia, in a way, elevated him.
- Let’s talk about something on a lighter note.
Krysten, for some reason, you thought
it was okay to trust your pride and joy, Luna, with Stacia.
- Oh. - You said, "Hey, I’m gonna"--
and you put Luna in Stacia’s care.
- Of course.
You gotta clean the poop up.
You got to.
- Wait, I’m picking up poop?
- Yeah, you know, you put your hand in it,
and you’ll pick up the poop,
and then you’ll turn it inside out,
and then you’ll throw it away.
[laughter] It’s gotta go somewhere.
Very important, I’m gonna clean the wrinkle today.
I need you guys to clean the wrinkle tomorrow.
It’s a once-a-day thing.
She’s gotta have it. I’ll show you.
Lulu. Come here, Mama. [laughter]
Come here. - Facial expressions.
- So you’re gonna hold her like this.
- Wait. Why do you hold her like that?
- It’s the only way she’ll let you get right in there
just like that.
[laughter]
This is important.
I gotta show you how to put on her bra.
Come here. Good girl.
Just like that.
Do you want to give the bra a go?
- Give it a go.
- Yep, yep, you got it.
- Oh. - Yes.
[all cheering]
- Oh, Mitch! Mitch, you see that?
- Well, Stacia was on the struggle bus for a minute.
[laughter]
I just want to show y’all some of the moments...
- Oh, my God. - That happened...
- Please.
- Once Luna moved over to her auntie.
- All right, time to get in.
We gotta put it on her.
Good job.
You like taking baths, huh?
All right.
[laughter]
Ah, he’s little.
♪ ♪
- So how’d that go?
- Thank God I’m married.
[laughter]
He was taking care of her probably 90% of the time.
- Really?
- Yeah, I was, like, taking her out for walks and stuff,
but the bath and the wrinkle?
Yeah, he really stepped up.
She wasn’t bad.
I mean, it was great taking care of her.
She was a great dog. He loved her.
I was like, okay, maybe we can get a dog next year.
- Would you watch Luna again?
- Absolutely. - Yeah?
- Absolutely.
- It’s a lock, right? You’re good with that?
- Oh, of course, absolutely. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want to move on now to Justin and Alexis.
[quirky music]
Why are you looking at me like that?
[laughter]
You guys were all there at that one-month anniversary dinner
when it was very uncomfortable, when he kept
pushing you, right?
- Yes.
When I’m upset, I talk to you, baby.
I talk to you. - Stop.
[dramatic music]
- When I’m upset, you know I’m upset.
- Can I get another one of these, please?
♪ ♪
I don’t think you understand what I’m saying.
- I don’t, honey. I’m sorry.
- We’re all sharing. You know what I’m saying?
So what do you mean? - And that’s my biggest point,
that you want me to share and I don’t want to.
- It’s--I don’t want you to share.
I’m just asking. [bleep] it.
♪ ♪
- How did that make the rest of you feel?
- I was uncomfortable.
I was in almost tears, ’cause I was like,
"Do I say something or continue to let this go?"
- We didn’t know how to help or what to do.
So it was just unfolding before us.
- Our girl was constantly saying,
"Let’s put a pin in this.
We’re not gonna reach a resolution tonight."
He couldn’t just put a pin in it
and enjoy the rest of the evening
with all of us and move on.
- Alexis, you said it was tough constantly being
the backbone of that relationship.
- I felt like I was maternal.
Like, it wasn’t the dynamics of a husband and a wife.
It was a mother and child at some times.
And I felt like I always had to be strong.
There was never a time for Alexis
to have that vulnerability, to share those feelings,
and say, "Hey, I don’t want to talk right now."
I wanted to just be strong and end it,
and I just didn’t have the opportunity.
- So at that moment, did you feel like,
"I wish he would just hold my hand and just let it go"?
- I felt like my boundaries weren’t being
respected in that moment. - Mm-hmm.
- ’Cause I said I didn’t want to talk about it.
I said if there is a issue-- and prior to this dinner,
we had came to the agreement that if we did have a issue,
we were gonna talk about it in our own time.
And we had set these boundaries prior.
So in the event when he was already emotional,
he just kind of threw that out the window.
- Ladies, how do you feel about an emotional man?
- I have my opinions about Justin, for obvious reasons.
And I don’t think I would be able to handle
an overly emotional man.
I don’t know how Alexis did it.
Dear God, you’re amazing.
You’re an amazing wife.
You have the patience of a freaking saint
that I just don’t have.
- It’s good for a man to be in touch with their emotions
and be able to articulate their emotions,
but I feel like he’s just not stable.
♪ ♪
- So were you worried that on Decision Day,
she would say yes and that she’d have
a relationship with a man who was,
in your words, "unstable"?
- No, Alexis got it.
- She got it.
She can handle it, right?
- She knows what she needs and what she wants
and what she deserves, so... - Yeah.
Were there times when you were like,
"I just want to be like, ’Dude, stop crying’"?
- Yes, there were times.
- Did you express that to him?
- I expressed--not in the sense
that, "You need to stop crying."
It was more so, "Sometimes when you’re that sensitive,
it makes me harder to connect and be more sexual with you."
You know, I tried to express it in that way.
Like, my attraction level somewhat depletes,
you know, every tear.
You know, maybe if it’s once a week,
but it was daily almost.
It was almost daily.
I do feel like I was emotionally
regulating for both of us.
And it was very draining.
And I was exhausted.
It wasn’t anything that had to do with me.
It was Justin trying to find himself.
So once I understood that, it didn’t really affect me.
It wasn’t about me anymore.
It was about Justin.
- Ladies, if you had to now go back and tell yourself
something in the very beginning,
knowing that you’re on this end,
what would you say to yourself, Morgan?
- You know, I’d just say, "Hold on tight.
It’s a wild ride."
You can’t prepare for this.
There’s no research you can do.
There’s no amount of therapy you can do
before coming into this to really,
truly prepare yourself.
- Krysten?
- Don’t procrastinate on conflict,
and stand up for yourself more.
- Mm-hmm. Alexis?
- Know what you’re willing to allow,
and draw that line clearly, and don’t waver.
- Lindy?
- I wish I was able to, you know,
keep it together a little bit more.
- Stacia?
- Try and be a little bit less intense
and a little bit more patient.
- Well, it was great talking to you ladies.
That’s it for now, but we will have lots more
to cover when we get everybody back out here
a little bit later.
Right now, I am joined by all the men
from the San Diego season.
Guys, how’s everybody doing? - Pretty good.
- Good? - Good, Kev.
- Now, do you guys still hang out?
- Some of us do.
[tense music]
The four of us hang out.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Me, Miguel, Mitch, and Binh.
♪ ♪
- Yeah?
♪ ♪
Okay, let’s move on.
Binh, Morgan was critical of your friendship with Justin.
Are you all still cool?
- Yeah, we’re cool. Yeah. - Yeah, we’re tight.
- Justin apologized for some things, and then--
and then, yeah, it’s been groovy since then.
- Justin, do you feel bad now, the way things--
- Hell yeah, I feel bad. - Yeah?
- Yeah. - What did you say?
What did you say to Binh? What did you apologize for?
- I apologized because what he told me
should have stayed between us.
And, you know, pillow talking with my wife
got me in trouble.
- And you put him on speakerphone too.
- Yeah, you know, because, you know, from my perspective,
it wasn’t from a malicious standpoint.
It was more from, you know, like,
I’m like a big brother to him.
He’s like a little brother to me.
- Mm-hmm. - You know, so I wanted to do
what I could to save his marriage.
I thought I was doing the right thing,
and it just bit me in the ass.
- You had no idea your wife was getting ready
to drop a dime on you. - I did not know that at all.
- You did not know that, huh? - I did not know that at all.
- Neither did Binh. - No.
[laughter]
- The friendship you guys had was strong in the beginning.
And of course, like all friendships,
right, like, things happen.
Challenges happen.
But it’s how you overcome them and then, you know,
grow closer together.
- Yeah.
- I’m gonna go out on a limb right here,
and I’m gonna say I think
that Morgan and Binh might have worked.
It might have worked out if they had only
just kind of done the deed a little earlier.
You’ll see what I’m talking about.
Watch this clip.
[laughter]
- I just want someone who looks at me and who’s like,
[bleep], you know?
I want him to come on to me.
I want him to initiate.
- Are you gonna have sex on the wedding day?
- If my shirt is off and she pounces me, I’m not stopping.
- Wait. So Morgan, wait.
Do y’all have that sexual chemistry?
- Oh, yeah. - You taking it slow?
You going all in? - Yeah.
Yeah, where we at on that?
- He’s on my ass 24/7.
- Yeah, she’s good at massages.
- Hey. [laughter]
- So there’s been a little bit of physicality so far?
- It was more for the knots.
[laughter] - Oh, yeah.
- Bro, for a second, I thought you said nuts.
I still think you said nuts.
You didn’t say nuts? - You might have said nuts.
You might have said nuts. - Yeah.
- Because he is hot. Like, his body--
- He’s--yeah, he’s a cutie. - Oh, my [bleep] God.
[sensual music]
Dear lord. Like, stop.
[laughter]
You gotta be kidding me.
Like, you know, he sleeps in his underwear.
I’m like, [bleep], boy.
Like, you can’t do this to me.
Oh, my God.
- And her friends tell me she’s a certified freak.
- I’m dead. - I love that.
- Yes. - Was I wrong?
- Not at all.
- Sex was definitely a priority with Mr. Binh.
- Binh, what do you think watching that?
- Can we do the next question?
[laughter]
- And I’m not saying that sex will solve all problems.
I was just saying that it could have helped.
- Yeah.
- It could have been a nice elixir.
- Yeah, definitely.
- Yeah. - A little social lubrication.
- They may have lasted a little longer.
She may have forgiven him a little faster.
- Right. - Right, right, right.
- It is, yeah.
- Some extra favors, you know?
- Looking at him--
- She was--she was ready to eat you alive.
- Binh, you good? - Yeah, I’m good.
[laughter]
- Hey, at the bachelor party, Mitch,
your face was priceless when you saw Nate
with the stripper. - Oh, yeah.
- What was going through your brain?
- I’m a meme. It’s a meme. - You are a meme.
- Get on your knees right now.
- Oh, lord.
♪ ♪
- What were you thinking?
♪ ♪
- I wasn’t thinking anything.
I just thought Nate--
I was surprised how he took the reins on that.
[laughs]
- You know, all the other guys were kind of,
like, a little bit more relaxed.
I was like, I’m about to turn up, [bleep].
- [chuckles] You turned up.
By the way, how did your wife feel when she saw it?
- She didn’t care, you know?
You know, she’s very transparent
about boundaries and stuff. - Mm-hmm.
- So she wanted me to have fun, so she wasn’t mad at all.
- A lot of people had an idea that, like,
"Nate, here comes this player.
He’s going into this thing for the wrong reasons."
Did you have any misconceptions about him,
and what was different once you got into the process?
- I think, yeah, for me--and thank you for looking at me.
I’ll start. [laughter]
We definitely had-- - "Curated."
- Yeah, you came across just, like, always so reserved.
Like, you always kind of had, like,
the right thing to say at the right time
and, like, always suave and cool.
And to be honest, I think maybe a part of me
was a little jealous.
I’m like, this guy-- how is this guy always
saying the right thing at the right time?
I’m always, like, putting my foot in my mouth.
And then I was like, "I wonder if he’s, like, curated.
If he’s going in with, like, this agenda."
- Yeah. - And then once I--
but that died quickly
after, like, a week. - Yeah.
- After I actually got to meet you.
- Appreciate you. - Yeah, I was like,
"Oh, this guy’s in it for the real reasons, yeah."
- Yeah, and I think a part of that comes with me
not opening up all the way.
So I might be a little hesitant to be crazy vulnerable
and just super transparent.
Like, I’m focused on one thing, which was Stacia.
So, like, I wasn’t here to make any friends.
So if all my stuff was surface level, like, I apologize.
But I was just trying to stay focused on the prize.
- Yeah. - And that’s it.
You know what I mean? So...
- Any other thoughts?
[tense music]
- I ain’t got nothing to say. - Okay.
Justin’s like, "I’m not saying a damn thing anymore."
♪ ♪
By the way, it is no secret that, Justin,
you’re an emotional guy. - Oh, very.
- It’s endearing. - Mm-hmm.
- From the beginning... - Mm-hmm.
- You know, you--
you put those emotions on display.
- No shame. - Let’s watch.
- No shame. - No shame.
- I’m sorry I’m getting emotional, bro,
but, like, I just thought
that you was gonna be super excited for me.
♪ ♪
- This too much for you?
♪ ♪
You’re sure? - Mm-hmm.
Out of all the grooms in the mix,
he wanted this [bleep] as bad as I did.
And so, like, to see my friend...
- I know. - Hurt...
- I know. - You know what I’m saying?
Like, it breaks my heart, and I feel like I gotta step up
and back them off with that.
- What’s going on?
♪ ♪
- Well, one, I feel like a crappy owner, for sure.
Like, I should have did something about it.
♪ ♪
- That was cold. That was cold.
- Not at all. - No.
You know what, man?
More men should cry.
- I never saw it as an issue, personally.
I had my bout of, like, dealing with my own internal emotions
where I did-- I would cry, like, ugly sob.
And for me, it was beneficial to just, like,
get all that out.
- I’m on your side, man.
I mean, I hope a lot of guys watch and learn from Justin.
I know that if I was more comfortable crying
and I cried more--
just it’s an emotional release, and like...
- It is. It feels good.
- I would probably be a better person if I cried more.
- Not that much.
I thought it was weird.
- Hey. You know what?
This is exactly why your wife said
you need to get in tune with your emotions.
You can take some notes.
It’s that short man syndrome.
♪ ♪
- I mean, I think you just cry too much.
- You know what? I own up to it.
- Yeah. I mean, you’re you. I’m me.
- Yeah, big facts. Big facts.
Two of my favorite people are here right now.
They’re the ones that handpicked and match
these hopeful singles season after season,
and I think they do a heck of a job.
Dr. Pepper and Pastor Cal.
[upbeat music]
- Hey, hey.
- Hey, hey, hey. - How you doing, man?
- Good to see you. - Good to see you.
♪ ♪
Listen, you were 2 1/2 out of 5 this season.
- 2 1/2? - I’d say 2 1/2.
[laughter] 2 1/2, okay?
2 1/2 out of five. - Who did we cut in half?
- Give us the half.
- I give a half for Justin and Alexis.
A half. - Okay. Okay.
- We’ll take it. We’ll take it. - All right.
- But what do you take away from this season in San Diego?
- Well, how long you got? [laughter]
You know, we think that they’re some great people.
I feel like we had some people here who really tried.
I feel like we had an early train wreck
that we both feel bad about.
- Yeah.
- But I think for the vast majority of our couples,
they put their heart into it.
- I would agree.
I think that everybody was so willing.
There was so much emotion and so much hope,
you know, when they started.
But look, you can never prepare people for this process.
Much as I tell them, you know,
"This is gonna be difficult," "Oh, yeah, we got it."
No, you can’t prepare.
- All right, we’re doing something
a little different tonight.
First, you’re gonna meet with the men who didn’t make it
past Decision Day, Mitch and Binh,
and second, Krysten and Morgan.
And after all that, we’ll get out here Alexis and Justin
to see if there’s any hope, if we can salvage
any of the magic of that marriage.
It’s not looking great right now.
I’ll be honest with y’all.
But if anyone has a shot,
it’s these two right here, correct?
- Okay. - I’ll accept that.
- Yes. - Okay.
Let’s welcome out Mitch and Binh.
- Hi, there. - Hi.
Good to see you. - You’re all dressed up.
It’s good to see you.
- Yeah, you know, I’ve got shoes on and everything.
- What? - Wow!
[laughter] [indistinct chatter]
- I love it. - There he is.
- How are you doing, buddy? - Good.
How are you doing? - All right.
- He said shoes and everything.
- Yeah, I was shocked. [laughter]
- I want to turn it over to the experts.
- Well, tell me some of the things
that you each have discovered about yourself
or about marriage.
- I mean, I’ve got a nice laundry list
of things that I did wrong.
I mean, I definitely dropped the ball in the beginning.
I freaked out.
She maybe seems, like,
a little more, maybe, mainstream than me.
I’m much more attracted to a woman
in her natural kind of state than, like, you know,
super dolled up for a wedding.
As soon as she took her heels off,
she seemed more like a real person to me.
I still don’t like that she’s gotta drag around that dress.
All that stuff is so stupid to me.
I should have definitely, like, watched more previous seasons
to really, fully understand
what I was getting myself into.
So that was a big mistake.
And then just my inability to, like, play it cool
when I was panicking during the honeymoon
really set-- it kind of really started
things off in a bad way.
- You dropped some bombs, man.
[tense music]
- Maybe, you know, I may not be feeling
that physical attraction with you.
Well, that’s kind of weird. [laughs]
- Why is that weird? - I don’t know.
Sorry.
- Did you lose your ring? - No.
- Okay. - It’s right here. Sorry.
I’m married again.
- I want to flip houses.
- Rising housing prices in San Diego
and everywhere else are really pushing...
- Yeah. - So many people out,
and it’s really only the rich who can afford houses.
- Well, I’m gonna pour another glass of wine.
- I kind of went into Dad Mode.
I’m like, okay, who’s messing with this girl, you know?
I want to come and strangle you, you know?
Because--you know? - Yeah.
- If you had to do that over again, what would you do?
- I would’ve played it cool,
not said anything about attraction
or anything like that, you know, especially ’cause
I have this opportunity to watch myself on TV
along with everyone else.
That’s a pattern I’ve seen multiple times
throughout the marriage.
You know, I tend to freak out
and then just spill it out of my mouth
in, like, the worst way possible.
I’ve always been kind of different
or, like, kind of an outcast,
and I never really fit in my whole life.
I kind of lash out because I’m always feeling attacked.
And this whole experience was--
helped me realize, like, how deep
I had fallen into that bubble and kind of maybe
lost a little touch with, like, just...
- Good. - Normal reality.
- Yeah. - So yeah.
- Let’s talk to Binh a little bit.
- Mitch is like, "Thank God." - Yeah, I know.
[laughter]
- Binh, the one thing that we all agree with here
is that you have no problems admitting you’re wrong,
falling on your own sword, and saying, "Okay, fine."
- Yeah. - What can I do to get better?
- You broke my trust.
- I’m sorry for, I guess, overreacting
and then telling Tree about it.
- Yeah. - All I can say is I’m sorry,
and move on and try to earn your trust back.
I apologize for that, for being judgmental.
I’m sorry I hurt you again.
And it wasn’t fair to project that onto you.
And I’m just genuinely sorry.
- And that’s a great quality, man.
- Yeah. - It’s a great quality.
I think you have to be careful, though, that you’re not losing
your own personal confidence.
You know what I mean? - Mm-hmm. Yeah.
- You’re a smart guy. You’re a good-looking guy.
I mean, you have the body of a Greek God.
But, I mean, come on.
- Cal’s a little envious here, but--
- Well, hey, no shame.
All that being said, I mean,
you have a lot going on for you.
- Yeah.
- I don’t want you to lose yourself
in your own feelings of despair.
- Yeah.
- Have you also worked on this perfectionism?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- Can you allow a woman to not be perfect?
- It’s hard for me.
It’s--I’m working on it, for sure.
And that’s why I’m working on myself.
And every time somebody asks, am I dating somebody,
no, I’m not.
Like, right now, I really am working on myself
because I don’t want this to happen again
and do things like that and perpetuate
insecurities and ego onto another woman.
- Mitch, you said you’ve always thought
of yourself as an outcast.
- Yeah.
- If I were to say anything to you, man,
it would be that you can take yourself
out of that category, you know? - Yeah.
- Because during this entire process,
you were not an outcast.
- No. - Yeah.
No one looked at you as though you were--
well, maybe sometimes a little strange,
but, you know, generally--
[laughter]
Generally, you’re not an outcast.
In fact, people included you.
- Yeah.
- Give yourself permission to be normal, man.
And the same with you, Binh.
Give yourself permission, man, not to be perfect.
You know, I think you would need to go
and do some imperfect stuff.
- Just hang with me. - Yeah.
[laughter] Yeah, there you go.
No, but I have a lot of hope for you.
I really do.
I think you both are great guys.
- I mean, Mitch and Binh, I hope you take
the advice from Dr. Pepper and Pastor Cal.
to chat with the ladies perThanks for being out here.
who left this process all alone.
Krysten and Morgan, come on out.
[upbeat music]
- Hi, guys. - Hello.
- Gorgeous. Gorgeous. - Great to see you.
- How you doing?
- It’s been a minute. - Hi.
- All right, let’s sit down and chat
because I’m gonna turn it over to the experts.
- Well, I guess I want to hear, first of all,
how are you feeling now, and how do you feel
about what you’ve been through?
- I feel good.
I feel like we learned a lot.
It was really unique to be married
and not throw in the towel at the first sign of conflict.
And then I learned maybe to speak up a little bit more
about what’s bothering me.
- Yeah.
- Sometimes avoiding conflict creates more conflict
in the end, so I learned that.
- What about you, Morgan?
- Something that I’ve been working on more recently
in therapy is reactivity
and maybe not to react with my emotional side of my brain
and react more with my logical side of my brain.
- I’ll tell you, if you can learn not to be reactive,
you’re gonna solve 50% of life’s problems right there.
- Yeah, mm-hmm.
- Krysten, at the final decision,
we thought you guys were going to stay together.
- Yeah. - We were surprised...
- Yeah. - That...
and then you walked off hand-in-hand.
- Yeah. - What?
Tell me. What was that all about?
- Yeah, confusing. I’m aware.
- Were you guys kissing in the car as you left?
- We did kiss in the car after that.
Yeah. - Okay.
- Again, confusing. I’m aware.
We don’t make sense, guys. We don’t make sense.
- Okay, you’re saying that, present tense,
we don’t make sense, or we didn’t make sense?
- Both. I’d say both.
- Okay, I’m sorry. I have to follow up.
- No, I want to know more too. I want to know.
- What is going on with you and Mitch right now?
- It has been good to see him.
I have not seen him since Decision Day.
It was hurtful watching our wedding
’cause it didn’t look the way I thought.
- What do you mean by the wedding didn’t
look the way you thought?
- Oh, I mean, I thought that was a great wedding.
I was so happy on that day, and watching him
in his solo moments and the way
he spoke about my family and me,
I didn’t see any of that.
- So at first glance, I think she’s really pretty,
but I wasn’t, like, right off the bat blown away,
like, attracted to her because my type is
less physical and more lifestyle.
- I thought it was a good day.
So it was hurtful. - Yeah.
- Dr. Pepper and I talk about it,
that you two are very just lovely women.
And we know that you had every desire to make this work.
For you, Krysten, I felt like a dad
because I’m like, how are you gonna tell her--
how are you gonna--I’m sorry.
- No, I get it. No, no.
- I’m serious. - We--we--we--
- It’s just like you just wanted
to slap some sense into him.
- I wanted to slap some sense into him.
- It was like, bro. - Dude, what are you...
- Wake up. - Thinking?
And he had every opportunity, and you gave him
opportunities to make up.
And he just did not.
I felt so bad for you.
And I was like-- and I feel even bad
because we put you together.
[laughter] - Right.
Well, as you--there are things to love in Mitch.
You found them. - Of course, absolutely.
- Yes, there are things to love in him.
- And so we saw those things, but we didn’t see was
where he is oppositional and defiant...
- Yeah.
- And that he reacts in ways that I think he doesn’t feel
particularly good about. - Yeah.
- I think what happened is, he didn’t get
whatever his imaginary woman was.
- That’s it.
And if we had told you to come down barefoot
and, you know, tussle your hair up
and put on a burlap sack, you know--
- He would have loved that.
- It could have worked, right?
Then it could have worked, damn it.
- It would have been rocking. - Right.
- Yeah. - Honestly, maybe.
- But that’s not who you are, and I still believe
that you could only improve his life.
- You have so many things
that you demonstrated to me about trying to make
that relationship work.
I think you should only be proud of yourself.
- I appreciate that very much. Thank you.
- Morgan had a different story.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay?
- Just a little bit, yeah.
- Just a little bit different. - Small.
- I mean, you, on the honeymoon,
also had some challenges... - Yes.
- With our man, Binh. - Yeah.
- But how do you--how-- now looking back at it,
how do you feel you reacted?
Do you feel like there could have been
more grace given to him?
- I just don’t think so.
And it wasn’t just one time he went to Justin.
It was day after day after day after day.
So at this point, how can I really, really, at this point,
trust him to not keep doing that after we’ve
gone through it the first time and now you’re doing it again
multiple times?
- So of course, you felt betrayed.
- Mm-hmm. - And I get that.
But then what we would have hoped is, you say--
would have had that vision, which is,
"We are under-- in a very strange circumstance,
"and some people don’t handle it well.
How can we get this back to just you and me?"
And that’s where love and time help that happen.
- Yeah.
I mean, it is disappointing, of course,
especially ending in how it did and ending it so early,
but, you know, here we are.
- You should know that we think you’re both wonderful people.
We hope that what you’ve learned here
will help you find the man that you can stay with for forever.
- Yeah.
- And we really have nothing but admiration for you.
- Absolutely. - Thank you.
- And I want you both to know also--
Morgan, I’m so proud that you--
that you’re taking a proactive step, you know,
and--and taking care of you. - Mm-hmm.
- And I’m so happy to see the person that you’ve become.
- Mm-hmm. - I mean, it’s really awesome.
- Thank you. - Krysten, you’ve learned.
You now know what you want, and you know
what you don’t want. - Right.
- That was a great way to put it.
- Yeah.
- Krysten, Morgan, thank you so much...
- Thank you. - For being here.
I’m Kevin Frazier, and I’m here
with Dr. Pepper and Pastor Cal.
And it is time for the experts to chat
with the couple who split right after Decision Day--
I mean, like, literally after Decision Day.
Let’s bring out Alexis and Justin.
Come on out and join us.
- [laughs]
- Oh, yeah. She came--she came--
- Amazing. - Okay.
- Hi. - Hey.
- It’s good to see you. - Good to see you guys.
- I’m gonna turn this over to the experts.
- Okay. - Well, you know,
the last moment that the four of us were together,
there was a happy moment when you guys
had decided to go forward.
- My answer is yes.
I do want to stay married to you.
- I can’t say yes to forever, but today,
I can say yes to time, yes to growth, and yes to you.
So I’m saying yes to stay married.
- And then, almost immediately, things blew up.
- I still don’t see what was the cause of the breakup.
’Cause you didn’t want to break up.
- No, I didn’t.
- Justin’s great for someone.
I’m just not that person.
I don’t think we’re compatible.
[tense music]
- Well, tell me specifically why you’re not compatible.
- In the beginning, I thought it was balance.
- Mm-hmm.
- But it’s actually conflicting because Justin is
so sensitive, and he is, like-- wears his heart on his sleeve,
and I struggle with that.
It gets frustrating at times when he is very emotional,
and then I’m just like, okay, I have to kick in
the maternal instinct, you know?
I have to nurture. - Mm-hmm.
- And then I know he gets frustrated sometimes
when I’m just cracking jokes
and, you know, things like that.
So it’s just like, at certain parts,
it takes away from who we are.
- Okay.
- So for me, it’s just like,
I don’t want to be in a marriage
where I don’t look like the person I came in as.
Like, he don’t want to lose his heart
and his sensitivity, and... - No.
- Part of me doesn’t want to lose my spice.
- Right, but--
- So you felt you couldn’t be your snarky self?
I mean, what are we missing here?
- He genuinely asked me to not tell jokes anymore, you know?
Like, that was a part of our relationship.
You know, he asked me--you know, there was times that--
- He’s not agreeing with that.
- No. - You asked me that, Justin.
- Context matters.
Context matters. - Oh, gosh.
- I did, to an extent.
I asked for her not to--
to roast me in public... - Right, right.
- Because I was like, there’s 2 1/2 million people
gonna be watching, you know, and--
- Fair enough. - That’s fair.
- It’s very fair.
I’m just saying, you know,
there’s other things to where it’s just--
like, our normal selves.
We weren’t normal with each other.
We weren’t.
And then we got into another heated argument
for--over some silly stuff on Decision Day,
like, immediately after.
- Yeah, we did.
- And it went right back, and I was just like,
what happened to all the progress?
So for me, it was just like, okay.
So I was like, I’m still good.
That night, I was like-- wait, Kevin, stop it!
- I just can’t believe people actually think
you don’t argue when you get married.
- No. - Like, this is
the craziest thing.
- You’re not supposed to, right?
- Right. I--yeah. - No.
So we did, and I just--
I think I got so hopeful
and then it got snatched away again.
I love hard, and it just kept hurting.
It kept hurting, and I was tired of hurting.
So I left.
- Well, you know you weren’t single.
So... - I know, but that’s not--
- So when people get married, they do change,
and the person that’s--
- For the better.
- Yes, but you gotta stay together
long enough to see the better.
- We were friends, Pastor Cal.
You remember that one time two minutes ago
when we was friends? Now I feel--
- You feel what? You and I? - Yeah.
- We still will be friends, but sometimes--
girl, the truth hurts, but--but--
[laughter]
- Okay, so you’re saying we could have stuck it out more.
- Oh, I’m saying you didn’t give yourselves
time enough to see if the thing could work.
Because every trial that comes, if there’s a big bump,
if there’s an issue, if there’s a challenge,
"Okay, we’re not compatible. We’re not compatible."
And in every marriage, people go through times
when they say, "Oh my God, who are you?
Who are you," you know?
Kev, am I--Pepper?
- I’m with you. - Let me say this.
You heard Alexis say the night after that whole explosion
when they decided to get divorced,
"I feel horrible about this.
I feel terrible." - Yeah.
- "I shouldn’t have done this."
Were you willing that final day to work on your marriage more?
- Yes.
- Why didn’t you fight for it?
♪ ♪
- Because I wasn’t fully honest with her
when I gave my dog away, if I’m being honest.
I wasn’t fully honest with her. - You didn’t want to do it?
- I didn’t want to do it.
And so when I did it, you know, I didn’t want to lose her,
but I knew I wasn’t gonna be fully happy, either.
- So it almost sounds to me as you’re saying this--
and I thought about it at the time--
that it wasn’t her losing trust in you.
In some ways, it was you losing trust with her
because you had to give up your dog.
And that may have damaged your commitment
to what else you would do for the marriage.
- I guess, roughly, yeah.
- Can I ask y’all something?
What is the real problem here?
What really happened, in a professional analysis?
- Well, if I was gonna be dead honest,
I would say that she wanted him to be more of an alpha male
and that she backed away from him when he was not.
And one of the most difficult things in marriage,
which happened here, is, you get reactive to each other
rather than problem-solving.
- Yeah.
- And then it blows up. - Yeah.
- This process is so accelerated,
and you got to know each other so quickly and so deeply
that it was good and bad.
The bad was that you got to know each other’s issues.
And because you’re so emotional and you’re so intense
that you just almost emotionally vomited
on each other just early on.
And that’s too much to take
when you don’t have a foundation.
And then when you started to build the foundation,
it was like, "Oh my God, this is too much.
"We can’t do it.
You know, I can’t do this."
And so you guys--
honestly, you quit.
♪ ♪
You quit.
You quit, and you confirmed it.
You gave up.
- Looking at those two-- and I feel like
if Alexis was willing to work on this,
Justin would be willing to work on this,
that they could have worked this out.
- I think so.
- Yeah, I agree. - I do.
- We’ve seen couples here who split up,
and we are like, "Good." - Clapping.
- Thank goodness. - You know?
- They need to get away. - Really.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s like, okay, fine.
- Yeah, you know, really. - We’ll take a L on this one.
- Right. That’s right. Run. - We’ll take an L.
- Save your life, you know? - Right.
It’s like, okay, we thought
you guys are gonna be good, but no.
- Yeah, not so much.
- That’s not you all. - No.
- That’s the only reason we’re saying this
is because that’s not you.
- You’re good people of goodwill with much to offer.
- Yeah.
- Otherwise, we wouldn’t be going around on this.
- Yeah. Yeah, that’s it.
- Look, I am glad that I feel like
we finally got down to the problem--
what the problem was, you know?
And that problem could have been worked out.
- It could have. It still can.
- Listen, thank you both for sitting down with the experts.
And, of course, we’ll see you back out here
a little bit later with the rest of the group, okay?
All right, thanks.
- It was a pleasure, sweetie. - I’m sorry.
- Thank you. [indistinct chatter]
- Thank you. - All right, guy.
- I gotta reach here.
[laughter]
- I just need to know from you two.
Is there any hope for those two?
- You know what? I’m not gonna say never.
I will not say never because I think there’s a possibility
he could woo her back.
- Yeah. I’m gonna agree with you.
- I would like to see that. You know what I’m saying?
- If he--but he’d have to do--
forgive the expression-- a full-court press.
- Yeah, he’s gotta do a full-court press.
I mean, he’s gotta go hard in the paint.
- He has to convince her that he could be a protector.
- Yeah, exactly, ’cause that’s what she needs.
- Well, thank you so much, Dr. Pepper and Pastor Cal,
for coming out and trying to help these couples.
It’s so important.
And congratulations on another great season.
You did a great job matching these couples up,
and, you know, you’re winning.
- Yeah. - You’re winning.
That’s all you can say. - Yeah.
This is my favorite part.
I have the entire cast back out here on the stage.
All right, the time has come to talk about Shirtgate.
[laughter, cheering] Let’s watch.
- Hi.
- How are you?
- Okay, there’s no-- there’s no way.
Just--our wives playing us here, bro.
[laughter]
- Mitch! - Mitch!
Why did you change your shirt?
- That’s the better option? - So it’s gonna be a thing?
- This was a thing, and you kind of changed it.
- Speak your truth.
- When you buy someone a physical thing,
it’s kind of like you’re putting that on them,
and it’s a responsibility that they have to take on.
I don’t really like to buy people stuff
that they might not want or didn’t ask for.
To me, it’s kind of materialistic.
- I think it’s weird to not wear
a shirt your wife gets you.
[laughs]
- Why couldn’t you just wear the damn shirt?
- I don’t want to defend it, but I think, at the time,
I just felt like I was being set up for something.
And so I sort of got extra defensive.
- What could that have possibly been
that you were being set up for?
- It’s less about the shirt as it is about the trigger
of--of me being forced to do stuff
I don’t want to do and being put in these situations.
- Do you think marriage requires you to do stuff
you don’t want to do sometimes?
- Yeah, absolutely. - Okay.
It really bothered me that he would think
that I would set him up for something.
When you ask me, you know, why we said no on Decision Day,
I’m just gonna bring up things like this.
- Mm-hmm.
- To be honest, in your defense, actually,
I also felt like I was being set up for something.
You just took it too far. - Yeah, I just overreacted.
- Yeah.
- And I just felt like I was being trapped in a corner.
- It’s a fun joke, and it wasn’t
a controlling, "let’s control our husbands" kind of a thing.
We were just trying to have a little fun joke
on the guys, you know?
- I know I overreacted.
- Nate, what about you? Your thoughts on the shirt?
- I was clueless.
I saw somebody, like, wearing the same shirt,
and I was like, "Oh, damn.
Like, you got the same shirt too?"
Like, I had no clue what was going on.
So she just got me a gift,
and I was like, "Okay, I’ll wear it."
- Does anybody see the irony in the moment
that, Mitch, you said you don’t want someone
to tell you how to look,
but then you wanted to tell your wife how to look?
♪ ♪
- Yikes.
- That’s not--you know, it’s not like I did tell her that.
- You intimated that you would like her to wear less makeup.
You would like her to be more beach girl.
You’d like her to dress a little differently.
So you see that that is kind of, like,
the same type of thing.
- I wouldn’t buy her all the things
that I kind of, like, would want her to wear.
I just would never-- I would never do that.
I think it’s-- I see your analogy, but it is--
it’s a little different in my mind.
That’s all.
♪ ♪
- It’s not that far off.
Are you proud of the way Krysten handled it?
- Krysten is immaculate.
And I think that that’s why they’re completely opposite,
’cause Mitch is so direct and gung ho,
and Krysten, she’s more tactful and decisive.
I’m proud of her. - Thanks, boo.
- No problem.
- Lindy, if you were in Krysten’s shoes,
how would you have reacted?
- I’d be like, "Well, [bleep] you--your shirt!"
It would be a disaster, so--
[laughter]
- What did this-- this teach you?
And do you think you would have never,
ever presented him with the shirt?
- I’m being tactful trying to answer.
I was just very much confused all the time.
He wouldn’t wear the shirt I got him,
but that hat he always wears, he wears.
So I just can’t--I don’t know.
I never know what is okay and what’s not okay.
- I also want to talk about who came up with the term
bitch instead of Mitch.
- Stacia.
- I mean, it rhymes with my name, so it’s been around.
- Because it slipped out one day.
I was like, did she just say bitch and not Mitch?
- It rhymes. [laughter]
- I mean, that’s been around my whole life.
- I think it slipped one time. - I--did that hurt--
I want to ask you honestly.
Did it hurt your feelings?
- It did surprise me, and it did hurt a little bit, yeah.
♪ ♪
- I’m sorry, Mitch, if I hurt your feelings.
- Thank you, and I accept that.
♪ ♪
And I do act like a bitch sometimes,
so maybe I deserve it, you know?
[laughter] - Just own it.
- Let’s just take the spotlight off Mitch now,
’cause I want to talk about Alexis and Justin.
I, for one, was very upset to hear they were unable
to keep their marriage going.
After spending so much time with them,
I’m curious what you all think.
Should they have fought harder for their relationship?
- I think they both did their very, very best.
I mean, all the way to Decision Day
and then a little bit right thereafter too.
- At the end of the day, it just didn’t work out.
And again, that’s okay.
- And they both really wanted it to work.
- Mm-hmm. - They really did, yeah.
- It seemed like they did. - It seemed like they did.
You know, one of Alexis and Justin’s biggest struggles
was Justin’s discomfort with Alexis going to the club.
- It’s not just the club.
We live together. I see him every day.
All I was asking for was two hours once a week,
and that was too much.
- I think it’s okay for her to go out and have fun,
but, I mean, I think I just feel like
every weekend is a bit much.
- So you think instead, she should be home with you?
- It’s every weekend.
♪ ♪
- I don’t even have to go to the club, you know?
Like, I don’t-- we could go anywhere else.
I invited him on several occasions.
Some nights, I stayed in and played video games with him.
Like, I was giving-- I was looking up
the cheat codes while he was playing video games.
It was a team. But I just--
- That was fun. That was a fun night.
- Yeah, like, we built a fort one night, you know?
We stayed in. But I just--life is so fragile.
And I just-- I want to live my life.
I just needed that breath.
I needed that time to myself.
- Do y’all understand that?
I mean, Miguel, you have your friend--
your "Dungeon & Dragons" friends.
And sure, Lindy has joined, but she’s not there
every single time, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- You understand that, right?
- Yeah, we respect that.
And we--like, we encourage it both ways.
And I love that about our relationship, how, you know,
you’re like, "Yeah, have fun with your friends."
And I’m the same way.
"Yeah, have fun with your friends as well."
It’s healthy-- it’s healthy for us.
- It also feels like there’s a level of trust
between the two of you
that maybe might not have been here.
Stacia, how about in your relationship?
Do you guys get to spend time apart?
- Yeah, absolutely.
I--you know, I don’t give him a hard time
when he wants to go out and go to the gym
and go out, hang out with Binh.
I don’t--I mean, I’m never like, don’t do it.
I want him to go.
- Justin, did you overreact to this?
She’s a grown woman. She’s been in the club before.
So what was your big fear about her being in the club?
- It was just--
I couldn’t tell if she actually wanted me.
And so that was frustrating me
’cause I--the way it made me feel
is, I’m like, "Oh, maybe she’s just
avoiding me to go to the club."
- Do you think if he had been a little more giving on that,
that it might have helped your relationship?
- Yes, I do. - Yeah?
- I do. - I mean, that’s--I’m learning.
You know, I’m learning right here.
So now I know.
I want to talk about Morgan and Binh.
Nobody could have predicted
you two would clash the way you did.
Everyone had an opinion on this marriage
that was over before it really began.
Let’s take a watch.
- I’ve been talking to Justin behind her back
and lying to her face about it, but it’s tough for me
because, like, I really felt like I had no one to talk to.
And so, like, I admit,
I definitely went behind her back.
- The fact that you’re gonna talk to your friends
about your experience being married to a stranger?
That’s [bleep] normal, dude.
- I personally don’t think
Morgan was ready to be married.
I think Morgan was looking more for somebody
to listen to her and watch her vent,
but she didn’t really want to reciprocate it.
I don’t think she ready for marriage, in my opinion.
- All you had to do was just come and talk to me.
I’m like, you-- it’s always been about
you, Binh, this entire time.
The reason why you lied to me the first time
was to save face for you.
- Binh is in a different place in his life.
He’s figuring out himself and what he needs.
And that’s just not the place
you want to be in when you’re starting
a marriage with a stranger.
I don’t--I don’t know how else to say that.
Like, figure it out, bro.
Like--
- Morgan, the guys felt like
Binh was blaming himself for everything.
What do you take responsibility for in this situation?
- I am a reactive person, so I really wish
I could have taken a step back,
and processed the information,
and then come back afterwards, and maybe not have had
an overreaction to everything.
- Mm-hmm.
Binh, now seeing the ladies’ reaction
to this, what do you think?
- Lindy was right. I wasn’t ready for marriage.
Like, I thought I was. I was naive to think that.
I fumbled it multiple times,
went behind her back a couple of times.
And yeah, I shouldn’t have went to Justin.
That’s the facts.
- Does that give you some satisfaction
hearing that, Lindy, that you kind of hit it on the head?
- Well, I mean, it’s unfortunate.
Like, it’s the truth,
and I’m, you know, proud of your growth.
You’re incredible.
And all of us want you guys to be happy individually.
- Morgan, what do you think about the guys questioning
your readiness to be married?
- I mean, it makes sense.
Of course they’re gonna have his back.
You know, these are all of his friends,
so it’s completely understandable.
- Clearly, there was a divide.
The guys were on Binh’s side.
The ladies were definitely on Morgan’s side.
Do you agree, Krysten? - Yeah.
I mean, that’s our girl.
We were getting her side of the story,
and Morgan values truth.
And once you break that trust, it bothers her.
And if you break it again,
she’s got a big problem with it.
- Mitch, has anything changed now that you saw that?
- I don’t want to say I did a complete 180,
but I definitely felt there was more to the story
than what we had heard before.
- And just so we’re clear,
like, it wasn’t like-- when Binh was talking to me,
it was not like I was like, "Ooh, Alexis,
let me tell you what Binh"--
it was more of like, I’m laying in the bed
and I’m telling her, like, "Oh, yeah, I talked to Binh.
And he’s going through X, Y, and Z."
- Also, you put him on speakerphone.
- That’s true. - Yeah.
- That is true, but again, it wasn’t in a malicious way.
But at the end of the day, he told me
to keep it between us, and I should have done that.
- And I should have-- I didn’t--in that moment,
I didn’t prioritize... - And I’m sorry for that.
- My commitment to my husband and not saying anything.
All I saw was Morgan hurting in front of me,
and I wanted to help.
I would do it differently if I had the chance, yeah.
- At the end of the day, if I didn’t
go to Justin all those multiple times,
none of this would have happened.
So I take full responsibility for my actions,
and I’m learning from it.
And I’m trying to handle it better
for the next relationship a long time from now.
A long time from now.
- And our divorce is our divorce.
Like, it was two people-- - Yeah, it’s my fault. Yeah.
- No, it took two people for that divorce to happen.
We just don’t mesh well together, and that’s fine.
- Let’s keep moving.
You know, back on the honeymoon,
Stacia’s mom gene kicked in when she found out
Lindy and Miguel had sex.
Check this out.
- There’s a lot of inconsistency here.
You know, you shared that Miguel,
he had tried, you know, to have sex with you, right?
- Mm-hmm. - That’s not what you wanted.
You wanted to build this connection.
How did that switch to where you felt comfortable?
- We’ve been getting to know each other, asking questions.
I feel so connected to him.
He makes me feel comfortable and confident.
- I just wanted to make sure that it was your decision
and you weren’t being pressured or anything like that.
- [gasps] Oh, my--no.
- You were looking out for your girl, Lindy.
What made your radar initially go off?
- She first said, you know, when we got there,
that she wanted the emotional connection first.
So when she told me that she did have sex
a couple days later, for me, it was like,
how did you build that connection
within 24, 48 hours?
And that’s why I just wanted to come to her and talk to her.
And that’s what I did.
- And Lindy, we all obviously know how open
Stacia is about sex and her sexuality.
So I don’t think she was looking down on you.
I think she was kind of looking out for you.
Do you understand that and appreciate that?
- I do understand you had good intentions,
but I’m an adult.
Like, I’m capable of making decisions.
And I was ready.
And it happened very naturally. And that’s the whole point.
Like, I am able to say no, and I am able to say yes.
- The night in which we consummated the marriage,
things got heated, as they were so many times prior to that.
And I remember pausing, taking a beat,
because she made it clear,
she communicated to me that she did
want to take things a little slower.
I remember stopping and saying, like, do you want to have sex?
And she was like, yes.
- No doubts now?
- I mean, I’m trying to give them sex swing lessons.
- Right, you did try to give them a swing.
- She’s our sex coach. - I have no problem with that.
I can talk--like--
- She brought the swing in, yeah.
It is interesting, Miguel, that you two were believed
to be the first to consummate your marriage.
- Yeah. - But now Justin has said
that they were the first to consummate their marriage.
[tense music]
- Here we go. - No comment.
- Let us have the win. - [laughs]
- Justin, were you the first to consummate your marriage?
- We consummated the marriage, yes.
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- Alexis, do you have something to say?
- I do not. - You gave me the look.
I know the look. What do you want to say?
- We--we had some fun.
We stopped, for whatever reason.
I found out that I intimidate my husband
sexually sometimes, you know?
So, you know, we worked it out.
I put some negligee on, and we worked it out properly.
- Mm-hmm.
- And we consummated the marriage.
- But not on the honeymoon?
- That’s what I’m personally saying,
but we can agree to disagree.
- Yeah, we kind of agree to disagree.
- Because this is a very touchy subject,
and I don’t want to get into it.
- Same.
- I’ve heard Justin has said a few things about you
that you have deemed untrue.
What are those things? - How much time do you have?
- We got time. - Well, first and foremost,
I did not come on here for clout.
I did--I did genuinely come on here for marriage.
This whole sex thing, I have never had shame about sex.
And that’s not really important to me.
But in my opinion, it’s untrue.
Oh, the going out all the time thing?
That’s--that’s a untruth.
I even invited you on several occasions,
so you decided not to go.
And I even mended to you, saying,
"Hey, you know, let’s do something else."
And I appeased to everything that you enjoyed to do.
- And if that’s the truth, then, you know, Justin,
you told me something different because...
- Nate, she’s talking. - It seemed like--
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I just understand a little bit more
how she was approaching it.
- I don’t even want to hear what you have to say
’cause it’s just--I don’t.
I don’t take it from a mutual standpoint
because you have animosity towards me.
So what you say, I take it with a grain of salt.
- So--and I never held anything against any of you all
because it was just like, I understand--
- But don’t talk to me, okay?
Sorry. Not you. Don’t talk to me.
I don’t want you to say nothing else to me, all right?
- Okay. It’s okay. It’s okay. - Don’t talk to me.
♪ ♪
- Okay, all right.
Just from where I’m sitting, she really gave her all
to make this work.
- And I didn’t?
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- I’m just saying.
If there’s anything you want to apologize to her about,
here’s the opportunity.
- The major thing that I really want to apologize for
is not taking your feelings into consideration and stuff.
And that’s something I’m truly working on
’cause that truly bothers me
when I do hurt you, even though we--
we aren’t married anymore.
You know, even as a friendship, I catch myself.
I’m like, "Damn, that might have hurt her feelings."
And it’s some [bleep] that I’m working on.
And I ain’t perfect, but I’ma get there, you know?
And I just pray--
- You gotta work on the lies, bro.
- Shut up, man.
♪ ♪
You talk too much. - Can both of you stop?
- I’m just speaking my truth. - Can both of you--
- God, you’re like a kid. - Can both of you just stop?
♪ ♪
- Thank you. I appreciate you.
♪ ♪
- All right.
Let’s do this. Let’s end on a happy note.
We all need to laugh and smile, so let’s take a look
at some of the most outrageous, laugh-out-loud moments
of the season.
Take a look. - Thank you.
- Welcome to San Diego.
Surf’s up, bruh. You bunch of kooks!
[laughter] [all cheering]
It feels like we are just one, big,
sometimes dysfunctional family.
[upbeat music]
- [laughs]
- [yelling]
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- In my mind, it was so much better.
- I mean, it fits well.
- Yeehaw!
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- Hey.
What’s the next question?
- Okay, next question, please.
- I got married at first sight.
- So I could do this. - [laughs]
- Everyone can catch the waves like this.
[laughter]
- I’m crazy!
Rub it. Kiss it. - So gross.
I don’t know what’s happening.
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- Yeah. - Did I do that?
- Oh! - Ah!
That’s a spider. [bleep] that.
- This whole experience has been such a whirlwind.
I think my mom is gonna have a heart attack.
- "He did what?"
- Yeah, so apparently, I’m on a TV show,
and it’s gonna be on TV.
But we can cut some scenes out.
Maybe this is not gonna make it.
I am never gonna tell any of my friends about this.
- I gotta dance. I’m sorry. I’ve gotta get it out.
Work it. - I like to dance.
It’s just that simple.
[all cheering]
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[all cheering]
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- Wait. Miguel, your mic.
- Where’d that come from? What is this?
Have I been miked this whole time?
It’s a wrap, fellas.
[laughter]
- What was your favorite part of this entire eight weeks?
Miguel, I’m gonna start with you.
- I’m not even-- it’s gonna sound cheesy,
but I think it’s meeting Lindy,
just falling in love with you,
and you are my favorite part of this.
- It’s just really special, yeah.
- It took going through this experience
to really know more about
who I am, what some of my fears are.
You know, it wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t always pretty,
but I’m thankful for that.
- Me too.
- This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
So I’m thankful for all of you guys.
- So my favorite part was really just learning
about myself and allowing my husband
to show me things I hadn’t seen.
- Secretly, the mermaid stuff was cool too.
[laughter]
- As the San Diego season comes to a close,
I’m excited to share an exclusive sneak peek
of the upcoming season when "Married at First Sight"
goes a bit country.
We’re a little country. That’s right.
We’re headed to Nashville.
Take a look.
- Pepper, we’re in Nashville, Tennessee.
This is the perfect spot for our next season
of "Married at First Sight."
- Why are you getting married at first sight?
- While dating has been successful,
getting to that next step has not.
- I want to share my life with someone.
- I want that feeling where it’s like,
forever isn’t long enough.
- This is quite the risk and a reward
I can’t even imagine.
- Love makes me cry.
- Finding the right person, it’d be great.
- You’re off the market as of today.
- Oh, my gosh. I’m in shock.
- You are getting married in two weeks.
[both laugh]
Don’t run away. [laughs]
- Congratulations, my man. - That’s awesome. Thank you.
- Colby, you’re gonna have a mom.
- This is a pinnacle moment.
I’ve got goosebumps in 113-degree weather.
- To new beginnings... - New beginnings.
- And a new son-in-law.
- You are going to be married in two weeks.
- I’m gonna be a wife!
- This is the ultimate journey for an adventurer like me.
There’s a lot at risk.
What if things don’t work out?
- I’m ready to be a wife.
I have so much love to give.
[dramatic music]
- My mind is just going so many different ways.
I’m scared as hell right now.
- You got this.
- He’s waiting on you, girl.
He’s already standing there waiting on you.
- All of my nerves are just running over me right now.
I may be a runaway bride.
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- Hopefully, my dreams come true,
and we have a long, lasting marriage.
- My life is about to change forever.
- I mean, that looks like it’s gonna be incredible.
Nashville is gonna have some colorful characters.
We cannot wait.
I just really want to thank you all for being here tonight
and telling your side of the story.
I think it’s important, and I know it’s hard.
I mean, this is not easy, to put your life out there
for the entire world to see.
But we truly appreciate you sharing your journeys with us.
And we wish you all the best in the future.
That does it.
We have covered everything and more
on the San Diego season of "Married at First Sight,"
but you’re in luck because this season isn’t over yet.
Next week, we’re heading back to San Diego
for the "Where Are They Now" special.
I’m Kevin Frazier.
Thanks for watching, everybody, and thank you guys.
Good night, everybody.
Next time on "Married at First Sight: Where Are They Now"...
- Oh, my goodness.
- Join us for an all-new episode
when we’ll catch up with the couples
and see how their lives are today.
- What’s the future like for us?
- I’m confident you’ll find everything you’re looking for.
- I just--I do care about you.
- We’re gonna go on a double date.
- I’ve asked a couple girls out.
They didn’t say yes.
- How do you feel about single-use plastics?
- We just hit a pretty bad rough patch.
- I asked Nate for a separation.
- You told the world that I couldn’t get an erection.
Alexis is dead to me.
- Thinking of starting a family,
I just hope that we’re ready.
- Yeah.
- This is the same cycle that we’ve been going through.
- This is the truth, and she doesn’t want
to deal with it right now.
- I’m not apologizing for my actions towards Nate.
- It was [bleep] up because I never said
anything bad about you.
- Oh, wait, guys. Justin wants to say something.
- Um...
[dramatic music]
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