Re: Married At First Sight - Season 1 - General Discussion - **Spoilers** Thread #2

[atem]

Awww...Doug's Mom posted on Jamie's Facebook page:

Bonnie Hehner im blessed to have such a wonderful and warm new daughter-in-law - Doug is a luck man and u are a lucky women - looks like you'll have a wonderful future - welcome to our crazy household

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Bonnie Hehner u both take good pictures - I need face lift

, on saying she thinks she needs a facelift.

Ha! Thanks for the update on his mom's post. Doug doesn't seem the type to just take a fake relationship.

[atem]

Have they shown the GMA interview?

[smartcat]

Have they shown the GMA interview?

They just showed that they're coming up in this next part of the show. I'm watching.

[smartcat]

For those of you who didn't see their segment on GMA it was 5 minutes, just a few comments and questions. Jamie and Doug seem very happy, Doug showed his adorable sense of humor saying "she fell in love with me cause I'm an incredible guy" Jamie seems all in. Monet said they didn't find love and that's what was missing. If any one else was watching please add. If you batted your eye it was over.

[atem]

For those of you who didn't see their segment on GMA it was 5 minutes, just a few comments and questions. Jamie and Doug seem very happy, Doug showed his adorable sense of humor saying "she fell in love with me cause I'm an incredible guy" Jamie seems all in. Monet said they didn't find love and that's what was missing. If any one else was watching please add. If you batted your eye it was over.

Yeah, that's typical. LOL Thanks for the info!

[nuts2uiam]

I think they probably cut it since yesterday was the Ray Rice stuff and today is 9/11 and theywere up against going to ground zero.

[ironcat]

For anyone interested, it's posted on the GMA website. It's only about 2-3 minutes long.

[atem]

For anyone interested, it's posted on the GMA website.  It's only about 2-3 minutes long.  

Thanks. I will check it out later.

[mom22boys]

OK, has anyone else seen all of the postings about the possibility of Cortney being pregnant? They showed some pictures of her at the reunion (dress just looks big to me), other pictures on her Instagram and then said that is why she wasn't on GMA. Because she is pregnant. I don't know what I think about this! Any thoughts?

[albean99]

OK, has anyone else seen all of the postings about the possibility of Cortney being pregnant? They showed some pictures of her at the reunion (dress just looks big to me), other pictures on her Instagram and then said that is why she wasn't on GMA. Because she is pregnant. I don't know what I think about this! Any thoughts?

It's possible but I don't think so. It would have been easy to hide it if she were pregnant on GMA the way it was set up. I think it was more likely that Jason couldn't get away from his training.

[nuts2uiam]

Mom,
I am one of the commenters about a possible pregnancy. I also know for a fact that "real news" trumps fluff stuff all the time. Family connection to another morning show that was suppose to show a fluff piece about a family members' milestone, it got lost fast when the real news hit. I am willing to bet that Ray Rice and the NFL story trumped the MAFS piece yesterday and today 9/11 coverage especially that it comes from NY made that piece so short.
My comments of wondering if they are announcing it at the reunion, were purely based upon two observations. Since they are the success story and therefore the face of the show, it seemingly makes more sense to me to have both couples on and given that the fire academy does not allow for absences except for emergencies, I would have thought that Courtney would appear alone and make that very plausible explanation for his absence. Don't know if they had a PR clause attached to the contract but they may have.

Secondly, To my eye she looked a little thicker, a little rounder than on the finale. Of course that could easily be explained too. Those are my observations and that was why I asked if she was pregnant. I could obviously be jumping the gun and actually hope for them I am.

[dw_a_mom]

That article was very enlightening.  So glad to hear that the two successful couples are completely in love and happy to tell the world.  And in a way, the fact that both Jamie and Jason waited until they were sure and didn't succumb to the "time table" before they acknowledged it makes me feel they are even more sincere about it.  No Bachelor Bubble here.

I'm not surprised about Vaughn and Monet, or that Vaughn confessed they didn't even like each other by the end of the experiment; their mutual behavior, which brimmed with resentment and lack of respect, was indicative of that all along.  At least they were able to mutually apologize and leave on relatively good terms, but I doubt they will really maintain the friendship, as they both seem to still think the other was more at fault than they were.

So the experts are batting .667, and the one they were the most sure of was the one that they were wrong about.  Although I think that both Monet and Vaughn misled them about what they were looking for, so it wasn't totally their fault.  And I also find it interesting that apparently part of the problem for Vaughn was a lack of strong physical attraction (or what he called "chemistry") to Monet, not that it stopped him from having sex with her immediately.  Contrast that with Jamie's attitude and it's another good example of one of the differences between most men and women.  

I've assumed that Vaughn was using the term "chemistry" more as a reference to "connection" than to physical attraction. After all, they initially had really strong physical attraction. It was later that they realized they simply could never "connect." Chemistry can be emotional, not just physical, and it was pretty clear they never seemed to have emotional chemistry. They just never seemed to really understand what the other was trying to get at. I could be wrong, and I found it an odd word choice regardless, but that is how I reconciled what I saw to what he said.

I also think that the reason their in-take interviews were misleading was because neither one really understood what they wanted and needed in a relationship, and they both tend to use terminology in a non-standard manner. I think Monet, in particular, associates terms in an uncommon manner; I noticed it a few times. Her reasoning on why things didn't work out ("different places in our lives" "Vaughn isn't ready") didn't strike me was particularly insightful, although obviously as a viewer I don't have the full story. Still, I would have felt better about her future prospects if she had focused more on some of the things she seemed to mention in passing, like her strong independence and how maybe she doesn't want what she thought she wanted.

All in all though, a really interesting show. Very real.

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