I hate that things haven't changed for you yet, between you and Pedro.
Yeah. I'm not gonna tell you all of the intricate details
of what's going on between us.
She keeps shutting me out.
This is not how we normally do things in this family.
I'm gonna handle things on my own.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
You ignore me. Yeah.
And I guess that's why you want a separation,
so you can continue to do just that.
I need to show him that I'm willing to do anything
for our marriage to work.
So I have this idea,
I fly to the Dominican Republic
and I try to repair things with his mother.
It just sounds like it's just a recipe for disaster.
I have made effort to appease Pedro.
I have listened to him.
I've supported his new job
and tried to get to know his co-workers better.
It didn't go the way I wanted it to go.
But I have tried
and he doesn't give me any credit for it.
He feels like he's made so much progress with my family,
and I haven't put forth the same effort.
So, I'm making it my priority to go to the Dominican Republic
with the intention of talking to his family
to figure something out.
I'm willing to do anything, at this point.
Nobody knows that I'm here.
I told my parents that I'm going to Arizona
to counselling with Pedro.
And I told Pedro that I'm going to Michigan
for a nursing convention with Winter.
Hola.
When I get back I will tell Pedro where I was,
I will tell him the truth,
and hopefully he'll see that it was the right thing to do.
My very first flight coming to the DR,
I was excited, I was in love.
My relationship with Pedro was good.
And today, I'm at the end of my rope.
I'm at rock bottom, Pedro wants a separation.
And here I am alone...
..trying to make things right with his mother.
I don't know how Lidia's gonna respond to me,
I'm worried actually.
It's easy for me to lose my temper with Lidia
because, you know,
our interactions were not very nice in the past.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
But, I'm gonna try my best this time
to not engage in an argument with her.
Pedro and I are soulmates.
If he just wanted a green card, he would have been long gone.
Pedro loves me, and he doesn't want a divorce.
Deep down I know that he just wants the good relationship
that we had in the beginning.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
I didn't text Lidia or call her, I literally just hopped on a plane.
I don't even know, if she's gonna let me in,
if she's gonna yell at me, are we gonna have another fight?
Is Nicole gonna be there?
I'm only here for one reason and one reason only,
and that's to talk to Lidia.
Desperate times call for desperate measures,
and my husband's not talking to me right now.
So, I'm literally just grasping for straws at this point.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
What's up man? How's it going? How's it going?
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
Hi Pedro.
From a distance.
Oh yeah. No let's not talk about that. Oh man.
Where is Chantel?
Oh OK.
But how is she right now, like overall?
I completely respect her as a female in the sense that,
she felt some, there's some issues going on with you guys for sure.
But the way that she came at Anto, not OK with me.
Pedro, why you come home
with another lady's name on your key fob?
Antonella, do you see how that could get a rise out of me
if he brought that home?
But like at first I was like OK I get where she's coming from,
you know what.
I didn't know that there was personal problems going on.
That was crazy.
Does she just not like you hanging out with other people,
or not like you hanging out with us?
Like, I don't know what the underlying issue is.
It's kind of, you know,
there's a lot of different moving parts to all this,
but at the end of the day it's black and white.
You know, you love her?
It's yes or no?
So, what do you wanna do now? Like you wanna separate?
So you wanna stay with her to just to take care of her?
Sure.
Let's go inside, I'm freezing.
Come on buddy.
Let's go inside. (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
OK.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
2 00:13:04.080 -- 00:13:06.080 align:middle line:75% position:50% (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
Although I do want to have children,
I don't think that that would help anything right now.
I don't want to have a child and raise them by myself,
because I took it upon myself to get pregnant
with a man who didn't want to be a father.
That's what I don't want to do.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
Pedro's mum likes gifts.
So naturally, I didn't wanna come empty handed.
I wanted to respect his mum, and respect for the culture.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
For once, I feel like the best case scenario has happened.
This is as smooth as it could have gone.
And I'm surprised, honestly, I'm very surprised.
There was no arguing, there was no back and forth.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
OK.
I never felt the support from Lidia, for me and Pedro to actually work.
So to hear that come from her mouth,
I'm really, really happy.
She supports our marriage.
I want a good relationship with my mother-in-law.
I'm willing to do anything, at this point, for my marriage.
Hopefully Pedro will see my efforts,
see that I'm trying to make things better with his family,
the way he says that he does with mine.
And that I am willing to put in the work for our marriage.
OK, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, OK now.
OK, look, look. You distracted me.
Exactly. You saw my tactic right there.
Yeah. And I beat you. Just like that, see?
See though, first one I let you win. Whatever.
You know you couldn't, you had nothing on my skills.
I'm going on date with this guy named Trent that I met online.
It was a pretty good vibe.
I was actually very comfortable and he was easy to talk to.
I beat you again. So sometimes I just need to.
See look at you, you're just distracting.
Sometimes I just need to like, decompress so it's a good way.
OK.
You know. You have brothers and sisters?
I have two brothers and one sister.
Nice. What about you?
I have two older sisters. So I'm the youngest.
Oh no. I'm the only boy.
You're the youngest? And the favourite, yup.
Oh no. Yup.
Winter has great energy.
I'm a very calm and collected person so I like her type of energy.
I feel like we kind of bounce off each other.
Being the first time that I've done online dating thing,
so and to even come and, you know, be able meet somebody like her.
I feel pretty lucky, so.
I won.
Ah OK. Yup.
You know when I first saw him, I was like wow, he is attractive.
But what put the icing on the cake
was the fact that he is genuinely a good person.
Vibe is very important.
So number one, like I said earlier, you know,
you have to obviously be attractive but what,
what comes with this attractiveness?
What is your vibe?
I feel like we had a pretty good vibe.
Nice you meet you. Nice to meet you too.
Drive safe. Thank you.
I feel like we definitely had a good vibe
and I'd like to see where it goes.
She seemed like she's down and open for a lot of stuff.
So me too, so I think it will be fun.
River, how's your new bachelor pad?
I miss the boom, boom, to boom, boom, boom.
I do too, I miss it.
I miss the rapping and I miss the singing,
and I miss the music and stuff.
Are you trying to bribe me to come back?
It's definitely luxurious to live by yourself.
I don't wanna share (BLEEP) man,
I was tired of sharing a restroom with Winter.
My parents, they want us all to live together,
as they say that all the time.
They want us all to be under one roof.
Nah.
Once an apartment became available, you know, I jumped on it.
I can't wake up and be fighting my dad over the last cookie.
We got a key.
No you do not have no.
We gonna have a key, you gonna give us a key.
Hell no. Hey, here comes Winter. Hi Winter.
Hey.
Hey Winter. Come on down...
How are you guys? ..join the fun,
we're just out here chilling. Chilling.
Heard you been dating.
Yes. Sit down.
I have been dating.
Get in the hot seat. River, whatever.
I'm free to date as many men as I want, at this time.
That's not good, Winter. What's bad with it?
Yes it is good Winter. I think you need to relax.
I would say Winter needs to slow down,
because she's just gotten out of a relationship,
a long relationship for six or seven years.
I agree with some of what you're saying.
However, look at it, she spent seven years tied down.
So she missed out on all of that young dating life.
She missed out.
I have a roster of men who want to date me, who...
A dad does not wanna hear a roster.
You should wanna hear that all of the eligible bachelors
in Atlanta are trying to date me. No.
She's a smooth operator.
How come it's OK for a guy to be a smooth operator.
But when it's a woman, then that's a problem.
Were you a smooth operator?
You're damn Skippy.
I don't get smooth operator vibes from my mum.
I don't really know what a smooth operator is.
My mother is whatever she wanna be.
Right, like... She is every woman.
Get what I'm saying? ..it's all in her.
It's all in her, you get what I'm saying?
And she'll let you know.
I tell you, I like when we come together
to catch up with what's going on.
I sure wish Chantel and Pedro could have joined us.
Well apparently, there's trouble in paradise.
But Chantel's not telling me anything, did she tell you anything?
They're on a marriage retreat right now.
OK, that's a good thing. OK.
Marriage, it's like a house, there's always something to fix.
And there's always something to maintain.
This is just what they need.
To me it just feels like,
they're getting irritated with each other,
and they just kind of not communicating properly.
But I was really concerned why the hell Chantel left at 4:00am,
like what? I mean really...
Right, that doesn't seem right, that doesn't even add up to me.
Apparently they having trouble about cleaning up or something.
What? That's silly. It's crazy.
It's about cleaning up? Brand new house that's never dirty.
And they're upset about cleaning up.
She came over, I said what's going on?
At the housewarming,
it was just obvious they are on two separate pages.
I'm actually really happy
that Pedro and Chantel decided to go...
Yeah. ..to a marriage retreat.
I think that marriage retreats are healthy.
In my head,
I don't think there's a specialist to teach you how to love.
Like, you either loving somebody or you're not loving somebody.
OK, I think that they're helpful
because it's not, a lot of times,
it's not really teaching you how to love,
but it's teaching you how to communicate.
They give you tools, you know?
To solve a problem,
both of you are in a marriage, in a relationship,
you have to recognise the problem first.
So, so that's a good thing that they recognised the problem.
Chantel and Pedro they just need to have a little more understanding
with each other.
So I would like for them to be in the process
of getting back on track.
Think about it, like a train that comes off the track.
It doesn't just hop back on by itself.
It takes time to get it back on track,
and the wheels lined up.
I hope that they're in the process of getting back on track.
2 00:24:16.080 -- 00:24:17.080 align:middle line:61% position:50% (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
When I got the news that I was going to be a father,
I was very happy, I was excited. I was exhilarated.
I never thought that having a baby is going to get us together,
but it's something that is going to give us more happiness
in our relationship.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
Unfortunately it didn't happen the way that we wanted to happen.
After the miscarriage,
she has been going through depression.
She's going through a lot right now, mentally, emotionally.
I know that we are not in the best situation possible right now,
due to her family's problems against me,
against our relationship.
And even though she's saying that I don't have to go
to the Dominican Republic.
I think Nicole needs me now more than ever.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
After the miscarriage, Nicole isolated herself.
And she was calling me all the time crying.
I was trying to be tough.
I never cry in front of her,
I never show her any like weakness towards the situation.
Was a very hard time.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
After I got my haircut with Irving,
he convinced me that I have to go to the Dominican Republic
and visit Nicole, see Nicole,
even though she doesn't want me to go.
It doesn't matter, I have to try, I have to make an effort,
I have to make sacrifices for the relationship.
My presence will do a lot in our relationship.
Especially with this situation that we are going through.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
2 00:33:49.120 -- 00:33:51.480 align:middle line:73% position:50% I'm still in the D.R. at this point,
because I'm waiting for my next opportunity
to meet up with Lidia.
Knowing how everything went down yesterday,
it makes me feel hopeful.
Her reaction wasn't what I was expecting.
But it was what I was hoping for.
I would like to go the extra mile by spending another time with Lidia
before I go.
Maybe then Pedro will see that this was the right thing for me to do.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
How's the weather in Arizona?
I'm keeping up the marriage retreat lie at least for now.
I don't need her freaking out and making things more difficult.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
I feel like I've been fighting for our relationship to work
and it's turned into a twisted game of cat and mouse.
I didn't go to your mom's house to badmouth you.
I went to your mom's house
to show you that I'm willing to work on our relationship
to make things better.
Sorry if you don't appreciate it.
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