Ben Higgins - Lauren Bushnell - Bachelor 20 - Discussion - #5

hae1001 wrote:So Ben is supposedly in Portland, as he liked a tweet asking If he was at the airport in Portland, Lauren has supposedly either left mexico, as she liked a tweet yesterday saying someone saw her at the airport, and posted today that she didn't want to leave, Ben has denied rumors that they were split up, Lauren has snapped a photo of her B ring and captioned it Benny Boo, all of their closest friends have come out and shown support for their relationship in their comments and some have slammed said rumors, Radar online, the "most credible" gossip site "got an exclusive statement" from Ben saying he couldnt comment (which could have meant anything, i.e. He couldn't comment on reality Steve or even just a comment from his publicist saying he couldn't comment on Ben's personal life, we will never know), when e online, Us weekly, and people magazine didn't, (not suspicious at all) and Ben tells Lauren happy birthday on twitter which is supposedly not good enough because he should have been more over the top romantic to shut down rumors he already denied. Maybe Ben has decided to give a big eff you to trolls and sm. Maybe he doesn't feel the need to validate their relationship with long sappy posts on sm, which him and Lauren have both never done, so why start now just to try to appease trolls on sm (and to clarify, I am not referring to anyone in here , but the many trolls that comment and harass them daily on their sm accounts) and then be accused of putting up a front? IMO, for months now, they have been accused of putting on a facade. If they are still together in 6 months, the same accusations and nitpicking will still keep onIMO. They have even been accused of potentially just getting married to prove people wrong, and are settling. It really makes me wonder how long do they have to be together before their relationship is "real?" All just my thoughts/ opinions while playing catchup.

Kashathediva wrote:Valid points. I think there are members such as myself just taking a wait and see approach.

ReneeM wrote:IA, none of these people OWE anyone, a look into their private lives. But they did 2 reality shows, and they post on their public SM accounts, and by doing that, they themselves invite the questions and speculation IMO.

bleuberry wrote:Yeah. I'd argue that he's more high maintenance with the amount of coddling he'd need. In the HEA clip when he kept asking Lauren what was wrong with what he said during the live taping with CH (or whatever), some interpreted it as Lauren being controlling but I thought he was looking to her for validation (ie good job, Benny ) like children often do. If he does that in every aspect of his life then how draining. JMO.