Bachelor 24 - Peter Weber - Feb 17th - Discussion - *Sleuthing Spoilers*

atem wrote:@Jolena That question should be asked in the General thread.  This is about the episode.

Opps! Sorry about that , maybe one of the mods would be so kind to move it to the proper thread for me ! TIA

@Jolena here you go.

https://www.bachandbachettefans.net/t5313p156-bachelor-24-peter-weber-general-discussion-sleuthing-spoilers#1446556

I think the show is not going to be specific about what Peter is told about VF.

atem wrote:I think the show is not going to be specific about what Peter is told about VF.

Merissa said it's stuff that directly affected her, such as Victoria saying she'd slash her tyres. It won't be about the affairs imo.

Peter Weber’s Ex-Girlfriend Merissa Pence Reveals She Knows Victoria Fuller: She’s Not ‘This Coy Person’

“Our first encounter was that she told me she was going to slash my tires because I was hanging out with one of her ex-boyfriends.”

she just became a very self-centered person and we were all out for our friend’s birthday and she was just acting crazy. Just wanting all the attention and it was very distasteful.”

“If there is a guy she wants, she’s like, ‘He’s mine.’ There is a one-way street there and nobody else is getting involved,” she told Us. “She just thinks that the world revolves around her and she’s the hottest thing that’s ever hit this planet.

leavers wrote:

atem wrote:I think the show is not going to be specific about what Peter is told about VF.

Merissa said it's stuff that directly affected her, such as Victoria saying she'd slash her tyres. It won't be about the affairs imo.

Peter Weber’s Ex-Girlfriend Merissa Pence Reveals She Knows Victoria Fuller: She’s Not ‘This Coy Person’

“Our first encounter was that she told me she was going to slash my tires because I was hanging out with one of her ex-boyfriends.”

she just became a very self-centered person and we were all out for our friend’s birthday and she was just acting crazy. Just wanting all the attention and it was very distasteful.”

“If there is a guy she wants, she’s like, ‘He’s mine.’ There is a one-way street there and nobody else is getting involved,” she told Us. “She just thinks that the world revolves around her and she’s the hottest thing that’s ever hit this planet.

IF he didn't know about her affairs then I'm sure he knows now.  He knew she had alot to hide just by the way that she couldn't look him in the eye, her telling him she didn't want him to have to deal with her "issues" Not to mention the way she walked away from him more then once and had such a nasty disposition. This week she literally snaps at him ( such a B_ TCH ) IMO The producers def made him keep her around way longer then he would've. jmo

Peter says in an interview that people are going to bash him for keeping VF and he said that it was the 'right thing to do' , so I don't agree @Jolena. In fact, it seems like the show is NOT going to bring up the affairs. It's going to be vague accusations. That's it.

atem wrote:Peter says in an interview that people are going to bash him for keeping VF and he said that it was the 'right thing to do' , so I don't agree @Jolena.  In fact, it seems like the show is NOT going to bring up the affairs.  It's going to be vague accusations.  That's it.

But what is he going to say? "Yeah, I should have cut her." He can't admit that the producers made him keep her and he isn't going to admit that he made a mistake. There are psychological studies that show that the more you invest in something, the harder it is to change course. People just dig in and refuse to admit a mistake because they are so invested and they have already shown how messy their relationship was, so he has to keep justifying it. As for the affairs, I think the media is going to let lose with that, not necessarily the show.

Here is a bit of the theory:

Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continues the behavior instead of altering course. The actor maintains behaviors that are irrational, but align with previous decisions and actions.

Economists and behavioral scientists use a related term, sunk-cost fallacy, to describe the justification of increased investment of money or effort in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment ("sunk cost") despite new evidence suggesting that the future cost of continuing the behavior outweighs the expected benefit.

In sociology, irrational escalation of commitment or commitment bias describe similar behaviors. The phenomenon and the sentiment underlying them are reflected in such proverbial images as "Throwing good money after bad," or "In for a penny, in for a pound," or "It's never the wrong time to make the right decision," or "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

@Sprite Thanks for this great information that adds to the reasons why Peter and his ego are stuck in this unhealthy pattern of denial. After all, VF is really good at denial too, so they do have something in common!

Jolena wrote:

leavers wrote:

atem wrote:I think the show is not going to be specific about what Peter is told about VF.

Merissa said it's stuff that directly affected her, such as Victoria saying she'd slash her tyres. It won't be about the affairs imo.

Peter Weber’s Ex-Girlfriend Merissa Pence Reveals She Knows Victoria Fuller: She’s Not ‘This Coy Person’

“Our first encounter was that she told me she was going to slash my tires because I was hanging out with one of her ex-boyfriends.”

she just became a very self-centered person and we were all out for our friend’s birthday and she was just acting crazy. Just wanting all the attention and it was very distasteful.”

“If there is a guy she wants, she’s like, ‘He’s mine.’ There is a one-way street there and nobody else is getting involved,” she told Us. “She just thinks that the world revolves around her and she’s the hottest thing that’s ever hit this planet.

IF he didn't know about her affairs then I'm sure he knows now.  He knew she had alot to hide just by the way that she couldn't look him in the eye, her telling him she didn't want him to have to deal with her "issues" Not to mention the way she walked away from him more then once and had such a nasty disposition. This week she literally snaps at him ( such a B_ TCH ) IMO The producers def made him keep her around way longer then he would've. jmo

Of course he would but it's ultimately going to be irrelevant to what happens in the show. JMO, twt.

Yes, Peter is going to be told about the affairs. BUT, the audience isn't.

atem wrote:Yes, Peter is going to be told about the affairs.  BUT, the audience isn't.

Do we know what he was told?  I didn’t think we knew what his ex told him.  In her interviews so far she hasn’t mentioned the cheating. Imo

Tiggerlgh wrote:

atem wrote:Yes, Peter is going to be told about the affairs.  BUT, the audience isn't.

Do we know what he was told?  I didn’t think we knew what his ex told him.  In her interviews so far she hasn’t mentioned the cheating. Imo

She knew of the affairs, because she ran in the same circle as VF and followed each other on Instagram.  She contacted RS to try and warn Peter about her reputation.

Here is RS post about the whole thing. The producers seemed to not want Peter to know to me.

https://realitysteve.com/2019/10/29/the-bachelor-peter-spoilers-victoria-hometown-date