Anthony D'Amico & Ashley Petta - MAFS - Season 5 - Discussion

@dsr and thanks for that detailed recap of their SM!

Great sleuthing on their SM activities, @dsr!
I only look at one indication: their following each other on IG. If I'm not mistaken, the following list is sorted from newest (top) to oldest (bottom), right? CMIIW.
Ashley & Anthony both have each other's IG on the bottom half of their list respectively (can be read as they followed each other ever since they got married).
Nate & Sheila and Cody & Danielle all have their partner's on the top half of their list (can be read as they once followed each other when they met, unfollowed when they separated, and then re-followed when the show started airing).
Just my opionion, though

@clawsteph I hope you're right. They both deserve to find happiness, especially her since she wants a lasting marriage and a family so badly.

Unlike the other pairs of contestants who had a more superficial connection, she really seemed to fall for him. The others unfollowing each other after a brief period wouldn't be so unexpected if they really had no base for their relationship. Perhaps A&A unfollowing each other when they separated, if they actually did, was not done for a variety of reasons, including perhaps wanting to stalk each other's instagrams or something. But good point.

For me, the more I think about it, I am increasingly seeing significance in that Valentine's Day post of hers. Based on the photo information it was posted on February 14 around 8pm Chicago time, which was a Tuesday. There you are, settling in with a good book, ice cream, and wine for one. It's Valentine's Day. You're legally married. What's wrong here? That seems like something you would make time to be there for if you were her husband and/or still living together. It's during the work week. Is there something more important that's going on that's keeping you from being home? I strongly suspect they were separated by then.

Could they have recently reconciled and be back together if in fact they had separated some time earlier this year? Yes this is a possibility too.

dsr wrote:@clawsteph I hope you're right. They both deserve to find happiness, especially her since she wants a lasting marriage and a family so badly.

Unlike the other pairs of contestants who had a more superficial connection, she really seemed to fall for him. The others unfollowing each other after a brief period wouldn't be so unexpected if they really had no base for their relationship. Perhaps A&A unfollowing each other when they separated, if they actually did, was not done for a variety of reasons, including perhaps wanting to stalk each other's instagrams or something. But good point.

For me, the more I think about it, I am increasingly seeing significance in that Valentine's Day post of hers. Based on the photo information it was posted on February 14 around 8pm Chicago time, which was a Tuesday. There you are, settling in with a good book, ice cream, and wine for one. It's Valentine's Day. You're legally married. What's wrong here? That seems like something you would make time to be there for if you were her husband and/or still living together. It's during the work week. Is there something more important that's going on that's keeping you from being home? I strongly suspect they were separated by then.

Could they have recently reconciled and be back together if in fact they had separated some time earlier this year? Yes this is a possibility too.

Also, it could have been producer driven to write it that way to throw readers off.

Ok. I'm 100% sure anthony n ashey are still together. Reasons.... instagram tells a lot. Ashey posts a pic of her nieces bday party. It's at anthonys apartment greem walls. Electric Outlets turned sideways. Anthony has a video of a roomba or whatver it is in same kitchen for weeks ago. Ashleys pic wss form last month. Ashleys easter basket screams husband or bf. Scratch offs and expensive chocolates. Also anthony has a recent video post which is his niece doin gm karaoke. .. passenger seat u can see blonde hair. Also anthony has a video of him walking around a bar or restaurant for a viewing partyin. Pretty sure that's where ashley works or family owns. As for.thr valentine's post... in the background of thr other ice cream post...is Anthonys roomba....1 glass of wine means nothing. I think he travels alot for work

@RTT300 to the board, stay awhile and enjoy the other threads.

@RTT300 Nice job!

Also the mother day collage they both posted on instagram. Someone showed the other how to make that. Apologies for first post grammar n spellin. Thumbs too big for my phone

adamico83



adamico83Happy Mother's Day Mom! You're simply the best!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUFQBlABy28/?taken-by=adamico83

ashleypetta



ashleypetta Happy Mother's Day Mom! thersday

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUEDdU0g3R7/

@RTT300 I agree that instagram says a lot. In fact, I think it justifies the exact opposite conclusion that you make.

Ashley and Anthony moved in together in a new place probably the same as where her sister lives. This is the apartment with green walls and sideways outlets. Maybe they got a Roomba together. Maybe it was her Roomba. Before they met she lived in a South Loop high-rise https://www.instagram.com/p/BGe1LskNAmZ/

whereas the building they moved to is a lowrise building https://www.instagram.com/p/BNmkvyxBXA_/

(look out the window by the Christmas tree). Speaking of the Christmas tree, Ashley and Anthony both have identical pictures of it https://www.instagram.com/p/BOahLoUjRet/ .

In another Christmas photo, Ashley is holding her nephew in a room with a similar floor plan, same walls, same window, but a differently decorated Christmas tree (bows, different presents) and different furniture and decorations in the room https://www.instagram.com/p/BOSR_tyjEdo/?taken-by=ashleypetta .

This is a different unit in the same building/complex. This is her sister’s place. They moved to the same building together just as she suggested.

Anthony’s apartment does not have green walls. This is where he lived before they met https://www.instagram.com/p/BFuoioFTFEX/

(look at the marble). 8 weeks ago, at his apartment, Cubs glass on the same marble https://www.instagram.com/p/BTU9Z-FBaTm/ along with breakfast https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0_620hzqJ/ .

There is a white wall behind the counter with the Cubs glass. Ashley’s/their joint place: green wall behind the kitchen bar top. Go to the second photo taken from in the kitchen at the birthday party https://www.instagram.com/p/BSM2k8BA7df/ .

Also, in the corner of that photo taken looking out of the kitchen, is the same metal shelf that Ashley is facing when she photographs the ice cream container with the Roomba in the corner.

Anthony is fascinated by her Roomba/the Roomba they bought together for their joint place which is why he posted about it. I don’t think it’s his. He is also fascinated by her food saver

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOignWQDUEy/. You can see this on the counter in the surprise birthday party photo that Ashley took looking into the kitchen as well. This is clearly not the same kitchen as the Cubs glass kitchen/Anthony’s, because the walls across from the kitchen are different colors.

Look at the marble around the food saver and at the marble in this photo of the kitchen of their joint place https://www.instagram.com/p/BNmkvyxBXA_/ . That’s not the same marble as what was in Anthony’s photos before they got married and more recently. It’s darker than the photos of Anthony’s countertops before.

Perhaps the woman with light-colored hair in the driver's seat with Anthony's nieces was their mother.

Sure, the Easter basket could be from a husband or boyfriend. Or from a father or sister who also know her well.

Anthony's viewing party was in a bar in Wrigleyville. One of his friends asked him if he was in Wicker Park, because it is near where he lives. The bar Ashley manages is at least 20 miles away from there. Google it.

Ashley has posted collages several times before whereas his Mother's Day collage was his first. Maybe she inspired him. if she showed him how to do it I would expect that his would be in the same format as hers. The layouts are different. Hers has a different number of photos with a white border around them whereas his is a 2 x 2 block without borders.

Ashley and Anthony at least have separate homes. Whether they have separated is something you can draw your own conclusions about. Ashley’s TV is on a TV stand https://www.instagram.com/p/BTCCvQvglus/ whereas Anthony’s is wall mounted above a fireplace https://www.instagram.com/p/BTff73GBSr9/ , which their joint place also didn’t have in any photos. Anthony recently puts a puzzle together on a table https://www.instagram.com/p/BRguCDzhZjz/?taken-by=adamico83 which is different than the table in their joint place https://www.instagram.com/p/BN-fhoMjwJs/ .

Ashley used to live in a high rise in the South Loop https://www.instagram.com/p/BGe1LskNAmZ/ , moved someplace else, a lowrise building to get a joint place with Anthony (same complex as her sister suggested) https://www.instagram.com/p/BNmkvyxBXA_/?taken-by=ashleypetta , and has now moved back, probably to her old place.

Look at this publicity photo taken early in filming on a couch in high rise building https://www.instagram.com/p/BT_xATnAmuV/ . Her place? Note the “best is yet to come” wood cube. Her watching TV alone in a different living room than the joint lowrise place https://www.instagram.com/p/BTCCvQvglus/?taken-by=ashleypetta , same inspirational cube on the bar top, which is also different than the countertops that Anthony photographs his food on or those in their joint place. The high rise is obviously her place. Same rooftop pool deck as before they got married https://www.instagram.com/p/BGe1LskNAmZ/ .

Note that she tells her friend “come over!”. Her recent viewing party with her friends is in the same place https://www.instagram.com/p/BTJk7qvg4qU/ . Note the colored chaise lounges.

Ashley and Anthony had separate places. She had a high rise.

They moved somewhere else with a very similar floor plan as where her sister lives. It had green walls, a big kitchen table, windows looking out on other buildings in the same lowrise complex, a Roomba, a food saver, and dark marble.

She has now moved back to her high rise.

What does all this tell you.

I would really like it if they did stay together but I don’t see that at all.

Wow..wow...wow. you win. Lots of stuff to ponder. I'll have to look st those pics again.

I think there are some very good SM Sleuthers on here. I would love if they stay together. They are honestly my favorite MAFS couple after S1 Jason and Cortney. If they have separated--maybe watching the show will be a catalyst for them to try again. I can see both conclusions from the SM info. I guess because I am going to put other people's SM into account. This leads me to believe that Ashley and Anthony are at least still friends if they are not still together. There have been pictures posted on other cast members public SM accounts where I believe that Ashley and Anthony were in the same place like the MAFS viewing party. The female cast members took a picture together and so did 2 of the male cast members. It looked like they were outside the same place to me. I also saw posted on the MAFS Lifetime official twitter that Sheila and Nate's pictures of each being interviewed by Jamie Otis were posted an hour apart and so were Anthony and Ashley's. Danielle and Cody's interviews were the next day with Danielle's interview picture posted 3 hrs. before.