Marcus Grodd - Lacy Faddoul - Bachelor in Paradise Season 1 - Discussion

I get what your saying Kasha, mabe they can't. For what ever reason.
Aren't they both European? My parents were, they believed what
what we call, " don't air your dirty laundry" Especially to the 
public domain. Everyone will know in time. When they are ready.
Or when someone catches them in someone else's arms

The fake wedding made things more complicated for them. They can't just quietly break up without addressing the fakeness of their wedding or being the first bachelor couple to (fake) divorce.

I still think, to quote Ross "(They) are ON A BREAK!" and figuring things out. I'm sure Marcus joining the military put a huge strain on them. It seemed to come out of no where - 2 reality shows + a public relationship... To the military? Yeah, that's gonna cause strain on a new/public "marriage" relationship.

I really don't know if they are legally married, or if they have problems, but they sure seem to consider themselves married.
Marcus' IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/BEuZtdBG_M2/?taken-by=marcus_grodd

^
The comments to that post from 'fans' are really entitled, even angry, that he and Lacey don't fill them in on their relationship status. I think it's just crazy. Jmo.

Yep ^

If they were A list celebrities they'd get hounded by the media, be on the cover of tabloids and would be asked by publicists to make a statement on the status of their relationship. They have a fan base who consider Lacy/Marcus to be celebrities and want answers. If you put yourself out there and agree to get married (legally or not) in front of millions of viewers on TV all the attention you receive good or bad is part of what you signed up for JMO

Yeah a few sayings come to mind:
You can't have it both ways.
You can't unring that bell.
The cow's left the barn. 
Once you put yourself out there, it's kind of hard to go back. I guess you can, but this is what you're going to get. It's not just this couple. I would expect the same of any of the others. This couple was on tv 3 times, the TB or 'Ette season, BIP and the wedding BIP.

I get scaling back and being quiet on social media. But they haven't disabled their accounts. They still post, just hardly about each other.

If everything was peachy keen, they'd still be posting about each other, recent stuff, at least sporadically. It's 2016. That's what people do, military or not. Especially people that were bold enough to go on a reality tv dating show multiple times. If everything was A-OK, we'd know. I don't think they are completely dunzo, but I don't think everything's perfect. They are probably trying to figure it all out, and that silly fake wedding didn't do them any favors or help their current situation. It just made things more difficult to unravel from that.

Seems like they are in the courtship phase not he married phase . Crazy goons.

Yeah that exchange doesn't come across as saying "married". It reads more like good friends to me.

Yeah I get the odd impression that he may still love her or at least he's trying and she's maybe not so much into it. I don't know. It seems weird; if my husband posted something like that I would not respond thank you for the birthday wishes... I'd at least add something like babe or honey or hubbs or something... maybe I'm just reading way to into it.