Married At First Sight BREAKING NEWS

No, it’s not that Vanessa Nelson and Tres Russell are preggers. (Although there is much speculation about this topic right now.) The big news is that I was in Hotlanta (which is apparently a very annoying way to refer to Atlanta – sorry natives! lol) last week chatting it up with every single person from season 3 of Married At First Sight. FYI is going to air our chats immediately after each episode so yall have the chance to hear from the participants themselves. They share exactly how they felt and what they were thinking while they filmed each episode. And let me just tell you now, I found out things that are so surprising and shocking my mouth hit the floor. Other things I heard filled my heart with joy and happiness – but of course it wasn’t hunkey dorey for all of them – there was some sadness revealed while filming these episodes, too. No doubt I was on the edge of my seat hearing from these couples. You guys have got to watch this! Set your DVR’s to record “Married At First Sight: Unfiltered” every Tuesday night!

The Struggle Is Real

Back to the recaps. Neil Bowlus and Sam Role are still having a tough time getting on the same page. They don’t have their own home yet. (HUGE red flag if you ask me.) And when trying to work on their intimacy homework Sam literally cannot sit still and look her hubs in the eyes for longer than a few seconds before she wrinkles her nose and goes cross eyed. It’s not just intimacy that’s an issue. She complains about Neil being passive-aggressive, too.

Neil is beginning to break. He shares “It hurts my feelings that … Sam is making faces and making light of the situation. I need someone who is going to take me seriously.” Ahh, my heart hurts watching these two struggle as newlyweds.

Thank God for having more than one homework assignment to lean on during the experiment. While this couple sucked at quietly connecting while touching knees and hands they find better luck with their next assignment. Greg encouraged them to cook a traditional jewish meal (Sam’s roots).

Believe it or not, these two actually NAILED IT! It’s not just that they didn’t burn the food – they were chatting and laughing and having a grand time TOGETHER. And that matzah ball soup and those potato latkes looked delish – just sayin’! (Random Fact: the first time my hubs, Doug, was sick while married to me was a few weeks after our experiment ended. I had been kinda dating a jewish man prior to marrying Doug so I had matzah ball soup mix in my cupboard. I made it for Doug and he fell in love with the jewish soup (and I began falling in love with him) … neither of us are jewish. Ha.

Growing Closer

While Neil and Sam were enjoying the meal they just cooked together Sam begins to open up to Neil. She confesses she never thought she’d run out of time with her grandmother. When her dad encouraged her to come home to visit her grandma she kind of just poo-poo’d it thinking he was just overreacting. She shares her heartbreaking story about never having the chance to tell her grandma what she needed to tell her before she died in her arms.”She started to deteriorate, and then the day that I went and saw her, there are things that I never got to say to her that I always wish I could have said, but it was too late. It was too late,” Sam cried. “I am telling you that as much as you think you don’t need to say certain things or you don’t need to express certain things because you’re going to be able to have that time, it’s not true.” Neil looked at Sam with empathy. But you could also see a bit of ‘OMG, my wife was just serious and emotionally intimate with me!’ They had a GIGANTIC breakthrough. Who knew matzah balls and potato latkes could break through so many walls? Who knew? Greg knew! 😉

Will Sam Begin To Fall For Neil?

I hate that I kinda know the ending now because I can’t share my predictions anymore. I don’t want to spoil it for yall so let me just quote Sam on this one “I feel myself growing closer, I feel we actually are a unit now.” 🙂



MAFS Cooking

Is it just me or is the third season of Married At First Sight killin’ it in the kitchen compared to the first two seasons? (Yes, I can admit I am just now learning how to cook!) *Hangs head in shame* Lol. No, but really! These guys have some serious cooking skills. Even Tres, the self professed bachelor, has some yummy recipes up his sleeve! He made a taco salad that looked amazeballs to me! Vanessa wasn’t digging it, though. Maybe it was the Doritos. Or maybe it’s because she actually knows how to cook. Lol

Doggy Love and Painting Fun

These two continue to make me swoon. I mean, c’mon, Tres is willing to go to one of those BYOB painting classes with Vanessa. So adorbs! And, when it’s obvious little Nola needs some dog training (she’s pooing and peeing everywhere) they bring the pup to the trainer together. They seem to be a match made in heaven to me! Vanessa agrees, “I feel like we are finally a real married couple.” WOAH, it’s only been one month! It took Doug and I took nearly a year to feel that way. Apparently it’s not too fast for this couple. Even Tres says he “prays to God to bless our marriage everyday.”

Stop it, you two. Just kidding. I love it – keep it coming! You give me hope in love at first sight. I wasn’t a believer, but if you two make it I will become one.

Unattraction and Awkwardness

More Breaking News: Ashley Doherty isn’t attracted to David Norton. Ok, so it isn’t exactly big news for me or you or anyone else for that matter, but apparently it was for David. (C’mon buddy, you couldn’t tell before?! The ‘I can barely look you in the eye let alone let you kiss me’ vibes she was flaring didn’t reveal any subliminal messages?!) 😉 He hated the way he found out: Dr. Joseph telling him. He said he would’ve preferred his wife telling him. Well, this is awkward. How do you tell your new hubs that you just aren’t physically attracted to him? If you were me you’d just blurt it out in an awkward conversation off camera. Ashley has way more grace (and genuine concern for her stranger hubby’s feelings) than I did when it comes to this. Too bad it bit her right in the behind.

“I’m more hurt that I find out from someone else,” he argued with Ashley, who said that was the exact thing she was trying to avoid and why she hadn’t brought it up. But that didn’t cut it for David who snapped “So you had someone else do it?!” He continued, “I didn’t sign up for Best Friends at First Sight. That’s not what I wanted. I wanted a wife.”

This sounds like a lose-lose situation. The bottom line is that it hurts and sucks when there isn’t immediate physical attraction. How do you get past it? (I’m writing a book that touches on this topic.) When a couple is doomed with the lack of attraction from the beginning it’s either just never going to work out OR they will come out of the experiment with a bond that is built on friendship, respect, and loyalty – and love can grow from there. (At least that is what happened for Doug and me.) We shall see with these two.

Will Ashley grow attracted to David?

Again, it really stinks that I know the answer to this. (At least I think I know. Things can always change for the better or for the worse.) I’ll let Ashley answer this question: “I can’t answer that right now, but I can say that I feel like things are stacked up against us.”

If you were in Ashley’s shoes how would you have handled the “I’m not attracted to my husband” scenario? What would you think if you were in David’s shoes? Sound off in the comments below!

Married at First Sight, is on FYI tonight at 9 p.m EST! And don’t miss the new Married At First Sight: Unfiltered! It airs immediately after only on FYI! I’ll be tweeting and periscoping and snapchatting LIVE with yall! Woohoo!