[Douglas] Previously on Love in Paradise...
My best friend Steph is here for a few days to meet Kyle.
He had his past donating.
Yeah, he's still doing it.
The question is if he's stopping it or not.
I want to have like a proper relationship.
-That's what you deserve. -Yeah.
-It's a glass half. -Let me talk.
This has everything to do with my future.
If Madelein isn't eventually able to have a mature
and adult conversation about this,
we're really going to have a problem.
[all cheering]
This will be one of the most crucial moments of our lives together,
but we both know that there's things that need to be discussed.
It's just complicated.
[Spanish music playing]
[Luke] Baby, I don't really know what to wear,
but I think it's like some Rico Suave stuff.
How's this look? I'm ready for salsa.
You don't like it?
Okay, I'll try another one.
[Kyle] Okay, another option.
No?
Like, you're going salsa. This is not salsa.
You look like my grandpa.
How's this one?
Okay, I found one. Yay!
Thanks for the help.
♪ Let's go ♪
Are you excited to dance salsa?
Super excited, baby.
Look at this place.
Salsa dancing is huge in Colombia,
and since Madelein and I have met,
she's been trying to get me to go dancing for the longest time.
Cheers, baby.
I love to dance, but there's just something
about salsa dancing that's a little intimidating.
All right, show me.
So, you move this one here, and one, two, three.
This one here, and one, two, three.
-I can do this. -Don't move too much.
It's just a little bit.
I can't do the one, two, three.
Look at what I do and do the same.
You make it look so easy. What the [bleep]?
[Madelein] I love dancing because I feel free.
-Like, little. Like it's small. -Do you even touch the ground?
[Madelein] Exactly.
[salsa music playing]
What, you don't like my dancing?
It's okay.
[laughs]
But on this one, you're close to date.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on. Go do it.
[speaking Spanish]
Oh.
[whoops]
Luke tried really hard to make me happy.
And despite all the drama and all the fighting,
we have true love.
But are you still thinking about the prenup?
I don't know where we're going to go from here.
Oh.
I told you every day, be careful with my nails.
Be careful with my nails.
When you want to change?
[Kyle] I don't think I did anything wrong,
other than dance maybe incorrectly.
Anything wrong? What the [bleep] is that?
Oh, okay, aside from that. But, yeah.
I'll try better next time.
[laughs]
Let's come back next week.
[speaking Spanish]
[upbeat music playing]
-[laughs] -Morning.
-Good morning. You want your coffee? -Yeah.
I'm feeling super tired and so hungover
because I had a lot of celebrating last night.
Shawn asked me to marry him.
[Shawn] Did you have fun last night?
Yeah.
Fantastic.
I...
[knocking at door]
Hey, come in.
-Hey. -Hey.
-Love the scarf.
Good morning.
I love this ponytail. It looks great. I love this hair.
Get the princess going, and we're out of here.
Let's do it.
[Jackie] So now that you guys are engaged,
you're going to come to the States, right?
Yeah, probably. I hope so.
Shawn, what's going to happen next?
Where will you guys live? New York? LA?
Where?
We'll live in LA and set up a room specifically for her
so that she can design it the way she wants
and make it into like a glam room.
-And then... -Like your own dressing room, Shawn?
That's really thoughtful. That's really sweet.
I'm glad you're going to try to make her comfortable
because it's going to be like a hard transition, right?
You'll have no family, no friends yet.
You know, it'll be difficult, I think.
[Jackie] Okay.
Have you thought about, like, prenups or things like that, what will happen?
We haven't talked about that yet,
but since I have three kids and I've established my life,
we'd have to have something in play for that.
Just some common sense.
[Jackie] Shawn has done very well for himself.
And Alliya hasn't had much, you know, life experience
when it comes to relationships or, you know, legal documents.
And I'm sure she's going to have to sign a prenup.
And I don't want her to sign something without even having
an idea of what it might be.
Does everything get left to his kids and then
she doesn't have anywhere to live because they get the house, you know?
And then because, you know, like, you're a little older...
You mentioned that you have kids and things,
so you want to make sure that they're taken care of.
Will you make sure that she's taken care of as well?
-I'm sure, I mean... -Like, do you have enough life insurance policy, Shawn?
I do have a life insurance policy,
but I'm not literally thinking about it 24 hours
after we got engaged.
Just asking, you know.
I feel like Jackie has her heart in the right place.
She wants to look after Alliya,
but I would never leave Alliya high and dry.
You know, what would give you the feeling that
I would screw over or discard her?
I find it, like, inappropriate,
and I feel like I want to put Jackie in her place.
I know that you're her financial consultant
and lawyer and whatever else you might be,
but it's not been the first thing on my mind
to worry about my eminent demise
the day after I got engaged, if you don't mind.
-Nice to meet you. -You too.
Does she know I get people pregnant? Like, I do that?
Donating doesn't really hurt anyone.
[Steph] Well, her...
[upbeat music playing]
Cheers.
My best friend Steph has been listening to me
talking about Kyle for the last seven months.
And I'm so grateful that she's here.
Cheese.
Since this is such an unusual relationship,
it is even more important for me to have an outsider opinion.
Am I being crazy?
Or is this relationship with Kyle worth fighting for?
Kyle is leaving in three days and I just need to
figure out everything.
Hey.
Hey, how are you?
-Oh, my God, so this is Stephanie. -Hey.
-Hi, nice to meet you. Thank you. -You too.
-Are you from Germany? -Yeah.
-She's from Germany. -Two Germans.
Did I tell you I actually have a German kid?
I think he's like six now.
Does she know?
I get people pregnant, like I do that.
I'm assuming you know that.
-I know it, yeah. -You knew. Of course you knew. Of course you knew.
And I see your smile on your face when you talk about that.
Yeah, I like it. It's a joy.
Obviously, Steph knows that he's a sperm donor,
but I'm a bit shocked that just within seconds
he comes up with the story of him donating,
rather than just getting to know her a little bit.
How important is it for you, all this meeting with
-other women and the donating? -Pretty important.
Yeah, I'd say it's important.
You always want the interaction with a woman?
So a clinic would never be an option?
Well, it's just too cold and clinical.
Sperm banks are very clinical because at the end of the day,
it's just a number on a vial and you have no idea
where that sperm is coming from.
But with me, it's on a deeper level
because you actually get to connect.
And so I do feel kind of obligated in that sense
that there is women that are counting on me.
You know, but the donating doesn't really hurt anyone.
[Steph] Well, her...
Just like the way you talk about it,
it's like you have this "shine" in the eyes.
So I can see how happy you are about it at one side.
And then on the other side, I wish you would never do that.
[Steph] The thing is...
Or does it have to be part of your future?
I'm getting older, and so I'm trying to do better
to figure it out.
-That's what you try. -Yeah, like attempting,
trying to figure things out right now.
And Ani is the first person who inspired you for that.
Stole my heart. Stole my heart.
-I was going to say stole my heart. -[laughs] Stole my heart.
I wonder, like, did you ever love someone?
Like, did you ever love any woman?
-But, Ani, why does it matter? -But, I just--
Even if you were the first one, why does it matter?
We have this, this, we have this.
-What do we have? -This one.
-Spiritual connection. -We have a spiritual connection.
Yeah, we have that.
I'm working on myself...
for you.
-He's touching you. -I'm trying to be affectionate.
Affectionate. That's the thing that I need to work on.
She wants to be more affectionate.
What I need from Kyle is, like, the security that
you are in it with me and, you know,
-like this. -Yeah, I could do it.
[laughs] I could do it.
Did you hear that? You said he can do it.
[Ani] Yeah.
How do you want to continue with Ani?
Doing this, building on this love and affection.
-Oh, my God. -Okay, cheers.
-Yeah, we're making up. Okay. -Cheers.
I spend a lot of time thinking,
and I realized that donating, people just need me
for one reason, and that's making a baby,
whereas Ani needs me for a relationship.
And I think that's pretty meaningful to me.
This is like a raging wildfire,
not like a little tiny spark. This is like a wildfire.
[Ani] Wow, that's good.
-What I see in you two is that you have a little connection. -[Kyle] Spark.
-Stop it, really. -[Steph] Wifey?
Wifey.
[Steph] That's sweet.
Kyle seems to me like a very warm person.
I think that the sperm donation,
that's important to Kyle, but seems to me that
he's willing to change.
There are lots of questions you have to figure out still,
but I think you fit really well together.
-Really? -[Kyle] Are we a sexy couple?
Yeah, you are.
Oh, okay.
No, we kiss. We kiss.
-That's what we do. -[all laughing]
[Ani] Maybe I have been thinking of my relationship
with Kyle from the wrong perspective.
Like maybe I'm not wasting my time.
Maybe there is...
There's something good coming out of this.
Kyle wants to work on our relationship,
and that makes me more hopeful and open to see
where this can potentially go.
I just hope he doesn't end up hurting me.
-Kyle, it was so nice to meet you. -You too.
See you later.
-Okay, bye-bye. -Bye.
All right, let's go.
[upbeat music playing]
More stuff?
Baby, we're so late.
We're running behind. I just want to get to Guatape.
How can I help?
Ugh...
Today, we are leaving for a little mini vacation in Guatape.
Okay, I'm going to try to help because we've got to speed up.
It's about two hours away from Medellin,
and it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
And that's where Madelein and I got engaged.
Okay, you have everything after this?
I'll hold them.
We've planned this trip for a while,
and it could not have come at a better time,
especially with us arguing and things being so tense.
Okay.
Let's go.
So I'm hoping that we can turn this thing around.
♪ If you wanna be my baby Come on let's ride♪
♪ You may Hold the front too long We back outside ♪
♪ Let's get it, let's get it ♪
♪ Whatever type of time You wanna win it ♪
We are staying at one of the coolest places in Guatape
for glamping.
And when you're someone like me who can't really afford
a luxury resort right now, this is truly the way to go.
Everyone gets a dome that you live in.
-You excited? -Yeah.
This is literally paradise.
I don't know what else I could ask for.
Let's get it.
Oh, it's so cute.
I've never been glamping like this.
This is so legit.
Oh, my God.
I love the view.
[Luke] Oh, my God.
[Madelein] It's so beautiful.
It's really romantic.
I want to believe all the bad things is behind us.
And this trip will be about us love.
Now look.
Berry.
[screams]
[Luke laughs]
I just love it here.
I think that was the best day of my life, baby.
Yeah.
[both in Spanish]
[Luke] If all goes well over the next couple days,
I can confidently go back to the United States next week,
knowing that my relationship is stronger now than
it was when I arrived.
But I'm starting to worry that that might not be the case.
Right now, everything is perfect.
[Spanish music playing]
Our friends Brian and Vale are coming up for the day tomorrow.
And on my drive up here, Brian texted me saying
he had something to tell me about Madelein.
He said that there's a rumor going on about her.
And he wouldn't tell me over the phone.
He wants to tell me in person.
I honestly don't know what to think.
I'm worried.
Do you feel comfortable talking to him about money
or your concerns?
[upbeat music playing]
[Jackie speaking]
[Douglas] Today, in order to celebrate our engagement,
Alliya's taking Jackie and myself
to her favorite waterfall in Rio de Janeiro.
Let's go.
Unfortunately, on the van ride to the waterfall,
Jackie was asking me a lot of questions.
If there's going to be a prenup,
what's happening with my money?
If I drop dead, what's going to happen with that money?
And I felt the questions were really inappropriate.
Oh, it's really pretty.
Yeah.
[Shawn] Like a tropical paradise.
But now that we've arrived here in such
a beautiful location, I'm trying to put all that aside.
It's the day after my engagement. I want to have fun.
Alliya.
Look all the way back.
[Jackie] Love it.
Turn to the side a little.
[Shawn] Great.
It is great, yeah. Good job.
[Jackie] Put that knee out to the side.
Yes. Yes, Shawn, get the angle.
You look really good in the photos.
Thank you for making me not only your hairdresser,
but your photographer, your makeup consultant.
[Jackie] My job is much easier.
I'm just like third wheel and that's it. [laughs]
I mean, I know you're looking at it for her best interest,
but I feel like you, if you have concerns like that,
should be asking me and we should be talking about it.
Do you feel comfortable talking to him about those kinds of things?
Like, you know, money or your concerns
or anything like that?
I know that Shawn loves me, but what I'm doing, it's scary.
I'm moving to other country.
I will be in his house, and I will not have a job.
I not, like, have my own money.
So I will be totally dependent,
and that's really scary.
I always listen to you.
You don't like something, I say, okay, what do you like?
So in our experience of three years, do I say,
I don't care what you say, I have the money,
I have to say, you do it my way, or no?
No.
Never. Once?
-Never. -No.
I think you're creating a fear,
the more that we're not together every day.
Most of my life, I lived with my grandparents,
and I was dependent on them.
So I had to live by the rules and be someone that I wasn't.
And now, for the first time, I feel like I have power.
I think that I am the best opportunity that you have.
If he think I stay with him like opportunity,
what is the point of this relationship?
[upbeat music playing]
Whoa. Whoa.
[groans]
[grunts]
Oh, [bleep].
I win. [laughs]
Madelein and I are in Guatape on a mini vacation.
Waking up and seeing the beauty in her face
and the beauty in the surrounding nature...
is magical.
And I'd love to do this quite a lot more if I have the opportunity.
[Madelein speaking]
I need you.
[in Spanish]
Our friends Brian and Vale are coming to visit today,
and we have plans to go to an awesome water park.
I was really looking forward to this,
but Brian texted yesterday saying he heard a rumor about Maddie.
I'm now worried, especially because
this isn't the first rumor about Madelein.
You're such a teenager.
About six months ago, there was a rumor going around
that Madelein had hooked up with another guy.
She denied it, and I chose to believe her.
So I'm a little nervous to hear this again.
You excited Brian and Vale are coming?
And say what?
I'm just hoping we could have a good day, baby.
I want you to be okay.
You think I am okay?
I had hoped so.
I had hoped that we had some time
to think and I thought we had some really good conversations
and I had tried to explain my point.
Brian didn't tell me to do anything.
He had mentioned it and we talked about it.
Okay.
I didn't bring it up just because Brian had told me.
We would have had to have this conversation sooner or later, Madelein.
This is a fail-safe, just in case
something goes bad.
If you can make a leap of faith with me,
I will continue to sacrifice and try to give you everything
that I possibly can.
You think this relationship is a sacrifice?
I sold everything so that I could buy an apartment here
to get my visa so that I can move here to be with you.
-I didn't have to do that. -This is something you want to do.
Yes, correct. Yeah.
And I also--
100% is a sacrifice.
But in order to make it work, I had to do things.
[sniffles]
Okay.
Because I think that I am the best opportunity that you have.
I love you and I chose to be with you for love.
The only reason I am here is because
I love him like I never love nobody.
If he think I stay with him like opportunity,
What is the point of this relationship?
I'm sorry that I wasn't careful about my words, Madelein.
Why you would choose donation over relationship.
It was hard to find someone that actually liked me.
These sperm donations make him feel like I'm wanted.
It makes me understand him a little bit more.
Do I have your consent to cuddle with you?
I'm trying to make this relationship work.
We could move to the bed.
I hope I don't regret this.
[upbeat music playing]
Let's see your place.
Yes, you've never been here yet.
It's this one.
All right.
Here we go.
Is that the whole place yours now?
-Yeah, yeah, this whole place is mine. -What, really?
-Okay. -Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, how do you like it?
-So, okay. -Isn't that nice?
Okay.
Kyle's been here for over a week,
but today is the first time I'm seeing his apartment.
What is this one?
That's the trash.
Why is it on your... You didn't put it out?
I'll put it over here.
So that's over there.
It's very clear that he never had
a serious girlfriend in his life.
And what is this, Kyle, really?
Is this like your wardrobe?
That's my little wardrobe case.
Why you don't put it on the hangers?
Because, I don't know, because it's just going to go in my backpack.
-Oh, my God. -So who cares?
-Yeah, we make it-- -Oh, my God.
There has never been any girlfriend in his life
telling him to keep your apartment tidy
when you get a visit from a woman.
What do you want to hang out? You want to go to the couch?
Yeah, we can try that, but we need to make the light a bit more cozy.
I feel like this is like a doctor office here.
Okay, well, okay. I'll go do that right now when we get to the couch.
Yeah.
I've been so confused and conflicted about
the relationship with Kyle.
But earlier this evening, I introduced him
to my friend Steph, and now I have a little bit
different perspective on things.
-Is this good? -Yeah.
Okay.
So...
Come here. I want to make you comfortable.
Oh, God.
So first, I need a warm pullover because I'm cold.
-Okay, I'm going to get this. -You should always ask me, are you cold?
Are you cold, baby?
Yeah, I am. Can you bring me a pullover?
I will. For you.
It is so difficult to find someone you can truly connect
and love, and I believe I found that in Kyle.
And Steph made me thinking that our connection is
all that matters.
Oh, my God. This is like the American style.
-I'm turning now into the American. -Yes.
It's American.
So I'm trying to give this relationship
every opportunity to make it work.
-[exhales] -Let me get closer to you.
Let me move these pillows.
Okay, but not too close.
I wonder, like, what important conversation we could have.
-What do you mean? -That's not comfortable, like, for me.
Can you move a little bit maybe here in this?
So I go like this.
This moment is so much different than when women
normally come to my place for donation because
it's very emotional or like, you know,
being a little "cutesy" stuff.
It's definitely kind of awkward,
but kind of nice at the same time.
Right now, I feel like a real couple.
-I feel like a real married couple. -What? Really?
'Cause we're sitting on the couch and not making a baby.
[Kyle] I don't think I've ever experienced
something like this before.
So I'm in uncharted territory right now.
It feels, like, real.
It's, like, magical.
Oh, my God.
I just wonder why you would never had a relationship, kind of.
Because I was saving myself for you.
No, no, no, you're not. Just don't say that.
I just, I feel like it's important to just understand
why you would choose donation over relationship?
I did put an effort into finding a relationship for years,
but, like, it was hard to find someone
that actually liked me.
-Really? -Like, I know it's hard to believe, but,
like, I just couldn't find someone.
-But you were, like, 22. -I was 22.
So you are saying, like, that you just made
the decision when you were so young about
the donation just because you couldn't have any relationship?
I think also a lot of women didn't want to have kids back then.
At 22, to me, it was just fear of not having kids and stuff.
You know, some people get, like, 60 they never have kids, and they regret it.
Yeah.
I'm realizing now that he had a couple of bad experiences
that made like a hole inside of maybe low self-esteem.
And these sperm donations make him feel like
I'm wanted, you know? There's people out in the world, they want me.
Maybe another woman doesn't want to have
a relationship with me, but these women,
at least they want the baby with me.
I guess it makes me understand him a little bit more.
I just want to make you happy tonight.
Tonight is all about pleasing you.
Do I have your consent to cuddle with you?
Yeah, of course.
Well, we could move to the bed.
So, but I'm just cuddling, right?
-Yeah, we're just cuddling. -I don't want more for now.
Okay, no, no, no, no pressure.
Okay.
And I can always call you a cab later.
I still don't know if I can be with Kyle
if he doesn't stop donating.
But I'm feeling like everything is so natural
between him and me.
I'm going to close this right now.
[Ani] Bye bye. [laughs]
And I feel my heart is telling me to stay the night.
-Now I can cuddle with you. -Yeah. [laughs]
And then we can see how things are progressing.
I hope I don't regret this.
-Okay, I'm going to turn off the light. -All right.
[Kyle] Next time on Love in Paradise...
How has, like, the sex been?
What? You haven't had sex at all?
-Do you have an open relationship? -Yes.
Let's go to dinner with one girl.
-And if you feel like it, we're going to. -No.
I don't want the threesome thing anymore.
Either let it go, or you know what you need to do.
[Luke] Our friends Brian and Vale are here to spend the day with us.
Madelein, the good friend, told me that he spent one night
in your apartment and that you were topless
while he was in the same bed with you.
He was in the, you slept in the same [bleep] bed?
I don't even know who Madelein is.
I can't even [bleep] look at her right now.