Well, apparently there's trouble in paradise.
Chantel's not telling me anything. Did she tell you anything?
They're on a marriage retreat right now.
I told my family that I'm going to Arizona with Pedro
for marriage counselling,
and I told Pedro that I'm going to Michigan
for a nursing convention with Winter.
After the miscarriage, Nicole isolated herself.
I think Nicole needs me now more than ever.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Remember when you told me that you are trying with my family
and I'm not trying with yours?
I went to your mum's house and I talked to her
and she thinks that we can work out. She is on our side.
She doesn't decide for me.
How did I lie to your mum?
I told her my side.
I don't know your side because you don't talk to me.
Pedro, listen to me...
..I came here because...
..I wanted to fix the relationship with your family
the way that you've done with mine.
No, that's a good gift from my heart.
You've given my parents gifts before and I'm taking by your example.
No, no.
Exactly. You know everything.
I am a woman...
..who is willing to do anything to save my marriage...
..including come to a different country to a mother-in-law
who doesn't like me... Hey.
..to try to make things better.
I thought that you would see this as something good
that I actually came and sat
and had a conversation with your mum...
..without arguing. She believes in us.
She wants us to stay together. She believes in us.
OK.
This is the only way that I can get your attention.
By doing something drastic. Pedro.
I, I no have to talk for real. Yeah, you do.
You, you stay here. You talk to me.
You stay here and talk to me.
No.
I said no.
Because you're not going to avoid the situation
like you always do.
Oh no. We need to figure this out now.
No. No. Sit right there.
Get you a drink and we're going to fix our marriage
right now.
2 00:10:44.840 -- 00:10:47.280 align:middle line:90% position:50% # Let's dance
# Let's dance! #
Hey. I see you ready to move.
You ready to do some things.
We could stay here and do a lot of things.
Yes, we could.
We've been married for 37 years and we keep our love spicy.
So you ready to go?
Yes, I am. We do date night all the time.
We go every week.
You have an appetite or kind of slight appetite?
Well, you know how I am. I'm too old to eat so...
Well, I'm going because of the company.
I love your company always.
That makes a happy marriage.
Have you heard from Chantel and Pedro or...
She is not really open with me like she used to be.
She doesn't tell me what's going on.
I know there's a problem, but she doesn't give me
enough details so I really can't help her.
Chantel and Pedro are at a marriage retreat.
I hope that they're in the process of getting back on track.
She's so closed lipped. She's not telling.
I never knew they had problems, that's the problem,
I didn't know they had any problems before,
so all of a sudden, out of the blue,
they have this big problem.
Maybe Chantel's being very secretive about her marriage
because we would tell her to take it slow,
you need to watch yourself.
That makes me wonder the reason why she's doing that
because she's waking up.
She's like saying, "Hey, something's not right here."
They've been dealing with each other for six or seven years,
maybe his plan is that when seven years come,
I'm getting ready to try
to break away or something like that.
I don't know. I'm just speculating.
Yeah, well, there is a scam the ladies,
mi amigas, up there at the trabajo,
at the escuela,
they told me about some scam, some of these ladies were from
the Dominican Republic and they brought their boyfriends here.
Their boyfriends have been on the island and they brought them here
and then it was OK, they got married, everything was swell
for a number of years, but after about six and a half years,
the men would start treating them really, really mean.
Just like what Pedro's doing right now,
and I'm not saying he's doing that but similar,
and they told me that's, that's called swanky panky.
That's what them swanky panky men do.
If you come here from another country, in three years,
you can have your permanent green card.
But if a person does that and then runs off on their spouse,
that is highly questionable,
and it makes a marriage look like a farce
so they normally try to stay in at least for five years.
Pedro and I and my family, we, we have a bond now
and we have formed a sort of trust with one another,
so it's hard to fathom that the son-in-law, mi hijo,
that I have come to love would be capable of turning 360
on my daughter, using her,
just like I originally thought he was doing.
It's hard for me to even fathom that a person is that manipulating
and evil because who would believe that a marriage is fake
if a person has stayed in it for six or seven years.
I wish we could plan a retreat for Pedro and Chantel
and show them the ropes and how a marriage is supposed to work.
They need to know about it, Thomas. Right, right.
They know about a lot of things but guess what?
They don't know about us. Right.
Our children have watched us throughout the years
and now they're grown and they're out on their own,
but I believe that through watching Thomas and I,
we've set a good example of a stable adult relationship.
Yes, I would like a martini and a martini for her as well too.
OK.
The secret is always the same, it's time and it's patience.
You have to be caring and understanding.
The secret to a man's heart is to tickle his funny bone.
That's it, as long as you can make him laugh.
I love you with all of my heart.
This is lovely, thank you, Thomas.
Is that why you sit with your back against the wall?
You got me. That's right.
I can see everything and everybody.
I talked to River.
OK, what's River up to?
He's dealing with his music, but there's no new person
in his life though as far as female.
That's not what he told me.
Well, he always says that I have friends.
I have friends and that's why I'm saying no.
He told me it's about two young ladies.
Oh, he did? OK. Yes.
I know Winter's looking for that special someone.
I hope River is.
I hope River's looking and I know River is, I do know River is too.
I do know that.
I would like to say if I had a knife, I would just cut it in half.
What you going to cut in half? Because...
What are you talking about, cutting something in half?
Because no, no here again, everybody needs to take things slow.
We would like to try the Jamaican beef patties.
OK. Thank you.
So Winter, she's lost a lot of weight.
She's lost over a hundred pounds. Yes, she has.
So this online dating, you know, I'm just so old school,
I just can't get with it.
To me, online dating is, is a little dangerous.
I'm not against online dating, but between two people
and one person's not in the United States in another country,
you know, I'm against that, I would say.
If they find the person that they would like to be with
for the rest of their lives, that's fine.
But I don't think they need to go out and try to search
and try to find someone because that someone is just going to come.
Just going to come, yeah.
You're going to know it when you find it.
Just like with you and I. Right.
Right now, take things slow and everything's going
to work itself out in due time.
You were telling me some, stuff kind of like light stuff
over the edges, but what is actually going on
with Chantel and Pedro?
Oh Lord, OK, so Chantel is sad because of how her husband
is treating her but she's strong,
she's trying to handle this on her own.
Right. That's one thing I did teach
my daughters is to be strong women.
Everybody has ups and downs.
Everybody, but I think that Pedro has like a tainted view
of what becoming a spouse in America would be like.
He thought that coming to America, and be married
and a homeowner, was like going to Disneyland.
If he's not treating our daughter with utmost respect,
you know, he needs to come correct.
No.
If you don't want to talk...
...to me then talk to your mum, fine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't want to talk
to your wife and fix your marriage then fine.
Just go, just go.
He really is upset, but my mother came to my house
and Pedro talked openly with her so I feel like I'm just doing
the same thing.
Pedro's mum and I have come to a common ground
of understanding and she supports our marriage, and that's huge.
Why can't he see that?
Hey.
I hope you know that everything that I've done was out of love.
2 00:28:23.320 -- 00:28:26.520 align:middle line:68% position:50% I love gardening. I love it.
I just love, love, love it, I say.
It helps me clear my mind and to think and to order my energies.
My intention is to create and to exist
in a vibrational frequency of abundance
focusing on the creator.
The best part about the outdoor environment, in my opinion,
is sitting around and enjoying the sounds of the day.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello. Hello. Hola.
Hi.
Hi. How is the weather there in Arizona?
It's really, really hot.
I don't know that they have researched what they might
encounter in the desert, so there are a lot of things
that they need to look out for such as tarantulas, scorpions.
A lot of wildlife. Sidewinders.
Sidewinders, yeah.
How is the marriage counselling coming at the retreat?
Well, there's still a lot of work to do.
What kind of activities have you two been doing there?
Tell me. Communication ones.
Communication ones like, like what? Like ice breakers, like energizers.
No, like first you don't talk to each other at all.
If that's what the activity is, you guys could have stayed at home.
You guys could have stayed in the casa.
Wait a minute listen, no, honestly we haven't had a lot
of counselling or any activities yet,
so I've just been in my hotel room sleeping,
because I'm tired.
I know you're tired.
Working in the hospital day and night and then...
..expects you to come home and clean and cook, so rest my dear.
If my mum knew the truth,
she would hop on a plane and be in Santo Domingo
within four hours.
I have to go.
Oh, OK.
Love you.
Toodle-oo.
When I'm ready to talk about it, I know my family will be there
to support me.
But right now, I don't have the stomach to tell my mum
all of the negative things that Pedro is doing to me
because I want for there to be a future with my family
and my husband.
2 00:31:06.400 -- 00:31:11.400 align:middle line:90% position:50% (TENSE MUSIC)
Oh.
What are you doing here?
What do you want? Do you want to talk to me?
What do you want to talk about?
OK. How was that?
Good.
Well, it's hard for me to sit down and tell her that her son
asked for a separation after he brought home keys
with another woman's name on it.
I didn't want to tell her all the things that are going on
with us because that's too invasive.
I came here to make my relationship with your mum...
You don't.
You talked to my mum about what's going on in the house.
You told my mum that I'm lazy and I don't do any work
and I don't clean up.
That's what you told my mum, OK?
I didn't, I didn't go to your mum's house to bad mouth you.
I went to your mum'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.
No because you need to change your attitude.
I feel like I've been fighting for our relationship to work
and it's turned into each of us in separate corners
fighting against each other.
It feels like a twisted game of cat and mouse.
This is not what I've ever imagined,
like I don't want to be chasing my husband for attention
and affection and conversation.
Come in if you want to, come on in if you want to.
We're staying in separate rooms at the same hotel.
I mean, I don't, I don't know.
I don't know, I can't explain that.
I don't have any words to describe that. It's ridiculous.
Now continue to talk to me like a dog like you always do.
The conversation with your mum went really well.
I didn't say anything bad about you.
I just said that you're so busy, and I hope that you don't spend
so much time working that you forget about your family.
That's all I said. That's all.
Why?
What is that going to solve?
What do you want long term, Pedro?
OK, so say we sit down and talk to your mum...
..say she gets emotional about your side of the story,
takes your side or say she takes my side
or say that she takes both sides,
what does that even matter?
It doesn't even matter what your mum thinks,
it matters what we're doing here like what are you and I doing?
Pedro, you're missing the point, the whole reason why I was here
was not to talk to your mum about our personal problems.
They came up.
Whatever. I'll meet with your mum, fine, but I'm tired.
I am tired. OK?
See you later.
(GENTLE MUSIC)
Woo!
At the end of the day, what I'm looking for
is somebody that's very sure of themselves.
What? I love the confidence!
OK, well, good.
Like, "Oh my gosh! He's so hot!"
Pedro puts a lot of stock in what she has to say
in our marriage. I don't.
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