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I keep waiting to do this story because part of me wants Jessica Parido come to her senses. It seems that if she ever does come to her senses she is going to do it much too late. It’s already too late for her face. The poor girl who used to be a natural beauty is now just another plastic-faced girl in Beverly Hills. Another sad story. Another fake relationship. What could possibly be going on with this girl where she would change everything about herself, her face, her religious beliefs, he morals to be with a man who is superficial even by Los Angeles standards. A man who describes his engagement by noting that it involved a four carat diamond ring and her saying she was going to be his wife so “it worked out perfectly.” A plan well executed. The superficial groom and Jessica were in Australia a couple months ago where Mike’s comments included a comment that there are no ugly people in Australia and that Jessica can’t keep her hands off of him. Clearly, Mike is not closer to having any sort of personal insight and growth that most global travelers experience in new cultures than he was in Turkey where the call to prayer transmitting from the mosque had quiet the opposite reaction on Mike as most travelers regardless of religion. Tomorrow, Jessica Parido will become Jessica Shouhed assuming everything goes according to the plan.
Last July, I began to get a number of tips and contacts with very detailed information on Mike Shouhed cheating with women that he met on social media. There were specific hotels mentioned. Hotel staff confirmations. Text messages. It all appeared to be very legit. This was problematic. Shahs of Sunset was one of the first shows I was really excited about when I began this blog. I learned a big lesson by interviewing them prior to the show airing and finding them all charming. It’s best not to get too close to your subject. Especially if they are on a reality TV show you are covering. Because they change (Reza) and it becomes difficult to point out the bad behavior when you like the people doing the bad behavior. And they are all bound to do something that needs calling out. But this wasn’t the same as one of your favorite housewives changing and becoming someone who airs their tampon string in public and becomes violent and generally unlikable in public. This was someone allegedly having numerous sexual encounters with women who are not his fiancé. I did not want to be this messenger. I sat on it for a while and I put out some feelers to sources in production. The show was expected to air last October until a post production editing staff decided to strike for health benefits which would ultimately push the show to its new 2015 airdate. It was made clear to me that Mike’s indiscretions would be a major storyline. It would be public. Everyone was about to know. 
So I posted this blind item on Tamaratattles.com and nearly immediately received emails with the subject line: Your blind item about Mike Shouhed. I always forget that when random sources reach out to you, they are probably talking to other sites as well. Thankfully, it was out there somewhere for people to be watching for new stories.
I posted the blind in mid-July and there were things I would not know about until much later. Like the week or so before I posted the blind, Jessica and Mike had a HUGE engagement party. Jessica wore multiple wedding gowns at the party. It was a very over the top wedding reception without the wedding. There was a first dance and cake and the whole nine yards. Everyone was there. Every account I’ve heard of this event, every single one, included the phrase, “over the top.” To me, the timing seemed suspect. Mike had to know the story was about to blow. Remember, filming for Shahs was done. Mike was well aware of the situation with GG. But at this time, I only knew about the random social media girls.
And the random social media girls were not particularly believable to be honest. At first they provided texts between Mike and other women, at that time Mike was involved in a get rich quick pyramid scheme that was mentioned. But the sources seemed a little to eager to have things put out there. Was it just revenge? Or something more? It all became a bit too skeevey for me. I decided to wait a couple months to cover it when the show aired. And then the show was pushed. The timing of this seems incredibly fortunate for Mike. It gives them time to push the wedding up. I am told that the post production strike was just one of those things that happens. A stroke of luck and the two situations were unrelated.
This explains to me why GG is bringing up something that happened a year before taping when she did. If I heard about all the other allegations, surely those close to Mike had heard too. GG wanted to figure out what to do since Mike was about to propose on the show. So that brings us to where we are. There are three more episodes until Mike proposes. Then another three until the skeletons start not just falling out of the closet, but walking into the room.
Perhaps after tomorrow’s wedding in Los Angeles, the couple will fly away from all the media attention and enjoy a quiet honeymoon. But I doubt that.
ON WWHL GG and Reza made digs about something happening with that “Four Carat diamond.” It is supposedly not the ring they are currently using. Also, where I come from, getting married on any day besides Saturday is a sign of someone watching their budget or someone who has decided to change the date and the venue is already booked on the Saturdays in the new time frame. Both the questions about the ring and the venue make me think something is a bit forced about all of this. Is Jessica demanded to be married ASAP? or did Mike want to move it up before all hell breaks loose on the show?
But the big question is why is Jessica willing to marry Mike. He is not a financial catch by anyone’s guidelines. Especially in L.A. Why is she having so many plastic surgeries? What is it that is worth all of this public humiliation? I’ve asked everyone this.
After Mike was on WWHL with Brandi Glanville and Jessica was not with him in NYC and Andy never mentioned the wedding that was only FIVE days away…I thought that the wedding was surely off.
I reached out again to multiple sources. They assured me the wedding was not off. They were unclear on whether the wedding would be filmed. It sounded to me like a partial crew might be there. It is not a filming season for Shahs. It does seem like all of them including Reza would be there. Except for GG who seems really pissed at Mike still.
So why? Why is Jessica doing this? Oddly, it is because she wants the “fame.” This is what I am hearing. She loves the media attention, the name recognition (even though we no longer have a face to put with it) and being on the show. The engagement, the religious transformation, plastic surgeries, the marriage it’s all just part of the plan for her as well.
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
The thirst is real.
Meanwhile, Mike Shouhed is shit-faced.
Tamara,
EXCELLENT article. Very interesting. This reminds me of a player cousin of mine. All we kept hearing about was the HUGE ring… and how the wedding was going to be the event of the century. He screwed anything that walked, and his fiancé ignored it because he was wealthy.
She got pregnant, and they got divorced. Silly girl… thought she was going to change him.
We’ll see how much of a door mat Jessica is, and how much she will take/overlook.
DJ, Did she get child support and spousal support? Maybe that was the plan all along….
YES!!!!!!!!! Huge! I think she really did care for him, but she was set after the divorce.
Good reporting, TT. If Jessica is willing to sacrifice her dignity, her looks and her future for this sham marriage and her 15 minutes, who are we to judge? But it’s sooo hard not to want to shake her and tell her, “wake up, girl! It’s not worth it!”
I’m bad. I judge. And I think she is an idiot. I wouldn’t have ever touched Mike in the first place, but now? Ewwwwwww!
Is Mike telling her to get the surgeries? Her face reminds me of a rhino now. Yuck.
See, I said I hated her and I knew there was some intuitive reason why! She’s a fame-whore and I guess I sensed it. Not worth it! Five minutes after Shahs is done, no one will remember her.
But who are we to judge?
Ooops.
Agreed, but five minutes after Shahs is done she’ll join the Real Housewives franchise lol. This is her investment.
I judge as well. This is a woman who was once appealing and then for some reason took off like a speeding train to catch her “man”. Since her doing that Mike has become increasingly arrogant, aggressive, and negative about his being pursued and badgered into marriage. Jessica beware, it is the sweetest thing to be courted by a man who truly wants you. Never chase, never change, and by no means never seem desperate to land a looser like Mike. Her family has money, she will be fine no matter the consequences.
Judge away. I did. I suppose I need a sarcasm emoticon now.
Oh juicy juicy!! Mike is a pig and has absolutely no redeeming qualities!
I don’t doubt anything you write about Mike’s extracurricular “activities” (he seems the type) and Jessica is a young girl desperate to get married and I think she’ll regret this.
BUT, Jewish people don’t marry on the Sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday). Now many Jews marry Saturday night — but it has to b after sundown and many Jews marry on every other day of the week including Sundays. Maybe with Day Light Saving Time and sundown coming so late, time they wanted to avoid having the wedding start so late in the evening. What I’m trying to say is: I don’t find the fact that a Jewish wedding ceremony is being held on a day that isn’t Saturday.
*last sentence should have been: “I don’t find the fact that a Jewish wedding ceremony is being held on a day that isn’t Saturday suspicious.”
Again, that makes one of us. I’ll note your lack of suspicions under irrelevant information.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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It’s a Persian thing. /sarc
Actually, I specifically asked about the whole Jewish aspect. It has nothing to do with anything. But thanks….
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Oh so they aren’t having a Jewish ceremony? Interesting.
No one said they aren’t having a Jewish ceremony. They are not getting married in a temple.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Its insulting to even casually observant Jewish people – hes using the veneer of religiosity for a showy ceremony while cheating, (allegedly) doing tons of blow and being “Meanwhiled” for the past two seasons of the show.
Exactly. Where were all of these Jewish theologians when Mike was being storylined as a practicing Jew when that meant stopping for Shabbat dinner at someone’s house in between banging hoes? Now people want to show up and explain this debauchery with scripture religious principles? I don’t see what part of “the Jewish religion played no part in the decisions about his wedding” is so hard for people to accept?
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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This is fascinating – thank you for the sleuthing! Also, while I hear you on the Sat/Sun wedding timing (I got married on Sunday for that exact reason and saved $3K!), from what I’ve learned from my married Jewish girlfriends, practicing Jews can’t marry on Saturdays because the Sabbath is their holy day and infringing on that with a wedding wouldn’t be kosher (pun intended).
Sorry, while typing angienc beat me to the Sunday Jewish wedding explanation!
Four times the irrelevant and uninformed…
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I am sorry, I was just trying to be helpful. Of course as a reader I am inherently uninformed compared to you, the author – you’re the one with the informants providing information for your stories. This is why I come to read and inform myself on your site.
From the tone of the parapgraph about the wedding being on Sunday, I sensed some puzzlement about why that might be, if not for purposes of penny pinching or expediting the event. I thought I could offer another plausible explanation and so shared it here. I did not think it would be irrelevant because I did not know that your sources had already ruled it out as a possibility. Now we know, so thanks for clarifying.
Regarding the Jewish aspect of weddings on Saturday, I was told that even Rabbis will marry on the Sabbath these days, that many Jews do not practice Shabbat, that even those who do often prefer to marry at Sundown.
I also inquired about this being the beginning of Passover and was told that none of that was a consideration. *FYI they are not getting married in a temple but at a more “celebrity friendly” venue. *
I reiterate there were questions about the wedding occurring on a Sunday, when there were MANY MONTHS to plan the event and there is another issue surrounding the ring or rings as it were. It is important that these points not get lost in a pontification of Jewish wedding rituals irrelevant to these questions. These questions are not for you, the commenter to answer when the sources who are close to the situation who have raised the questions have either opted not to answer or do not have the answer for. Should I need a primer on Jewish Wedding rituals I’ll let you know.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I hardly consider my post ‘a pontification of Jewish wedding rituals.’ As a commenter I thought offering my thoughts on potential alternative explanations might prove fruitful for discussions. Without knowing what you already cleared up with your sources (since your original post didn’t mention that the Jewish thing was a non-factor), I can’t possibly predict my comment being irrelevant (I maintain we’re all uninformed at baseline as readers). I don’t comment very often, and did this time because I genuinely believed I had something worthwhile to say. I am sorry that you disagree. By no means did I anticipate my innocent remark to cause such a stir. I will know to keep my comments to myself moving forward.
Her mom passed away in 2011. Her dad has a new family. Maybe she is having identity issues. God bless her and this roller coaster ride that is starting in 5… 4 … 3…. 2…
First, it’s important to admit that I started watching this show late (I’ve still never seen season 1) so the changes in “personality” i.e. Reza I can’t speak to… However, Mike has always seemed dirty and corrupt and dishonest to me. I find it so sad that Jessica is willing to change everything about herself for any man, let alone Mike. So often, I just want to grab women and tell them that they are worth more than they accept for themselves! I truly hope Jessica realizes that – even if it is after the wedding. A marriage is never permanent, but losing who you are at your core sometimes can be.
Reza was great the first season. Ever since he was so venomous toward MJ at the reunion, he lost me as a fan. He let the fame swell his head (just my opinion).
Jessica’s new face looks like Danielle from Jersey housewives
That photo of Jessica is mindboggling. After all the plastic surgery, instead of looking like the girl next door when she 1st appeared on the show, she now looks exotic (i.e. Persian).
ETA: I’m curious if that was at her or Mike’s request (to the surgeon) → give me (her) a Persian nose/eyes/face?!
I am confused on the new face! I have been watching this season and thinking that Jessica looked super bland, very little makeup, not pretty. I thought that she was much more attractive in earlier seasons. This new surgery must have happened after filming this season? Or just different makeup and weight loss???
I don’t know with any sources on that but to me it seems she has had a lot of surgeries over time. I literally kept saying I did not recognize her during these episodes. Y’all know I’m bad with faces though, so I thought it was just me, but her Instagram pics don’t match this season either. It just seems like she’s had A LOT of surgery. Like witness protection amounts of surgery.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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@RVA I was going to say she was shooting for a Kim Kardashian(ish) look, but I see your Danielle Staub(ish) in her look. She was a nice looking girl in the beginning, she ‘s trying too hard. And besides, Mike will just keep on looking at all the attractive women around him, and tasting samples when he can.
Where, in Los Angeles where the wedding venue be?
There are women who accept this. Jessica must know he will never be faithful. My guess is he will be a bit more discreet after they marry. Maybe. He is a dog but she has been warned. Her choice. I wonder why GG cares to expose him so much if Jessica doesnt care. What is the motivaton?
You are assuming Jessica doesn’t care.
Remember the ?first? episode this season when Jessica yelled at MJ “I’m the only one who’s been sucking his dick for three years!” (Not a direct quote, but something close to that.) That would indicate she believes he has been faithful to her.
I chuckle thinking that all of Mike’s indiscretions will be aired as the happy couple honeymoons and enjoys their first months of wedded bliss. Or weirded bliss. Mazel!
I’m not chuckling at all. I think it’s awful and I don’t understand why anyone would knowingly do this. Jessica KNOWS what is coming. She lived it. Now she is going to marry the dude right before the entire world finds out? Most people (who don’t read TT 🙂 ) will have no idea about Mike. Lots of their fans will believe Mike over GG! They will be congratulating them on their wedding And then like six weeks from now they will watch it all go down…. Then they get to do a reunion show about Mike’s indiscretions?
Who does this willingly? Is this more or worse humiliating that being pissed on by Ray J in a porn tape?
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Okay, after a couple beers and a nice little on topic chat with LibraryGirl ( Thanks LG) I’m no longer plotting a homicidal spree.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
> I’m not chuckling at all. I think it’s awful and I don’t understand why > anyone would knowingly do this. Jessica KNOWS what is coming. She lived it. > Now she is going to marry the dude right before the entire world finds > out? Most people (who don’t read TT 🙂 ) will have no idea about Mike. > Lots of their fans will believe Mike over GG! They will be congratulating > them on their wedding And then like six weeks from now they will watch it > all go down…. Then they get to do a reunion show about Mike’s > indiscretions? > > Who does this willingly? Is this more or worse humiliating that being > pissed on by Ray J in a porn tape? > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Tamara Tattles [email protected]> wrote: > >>
Mike has admitted (repeatedly) that he’s a big flirt including this week on WWHL while he was advertising his “Golden Dool”! After all Jessica’s done to make herself more appealing (i.e. marriage material), Mike has remained unchanged. HUGE mistake.
I lived with my 1st husband, a real “charmer” & a massive flirt for several years before he proposed but had no intentions of marrying him. After he promised he would change & we would start a family, I was young & naïve (or just plain stupid) to believe him. The night before the wedding I went to my parents (who were not paying for the wedding) & told them “I can’t go through with it, I don’t love him”! My mother’s response → “Damn, I knew this would happen, you’re going through with it / you’ll learn to love him”! → Huge mistake (& proof mother’s aren’t always right). I ended up catching him in several extramarital affairs & each time he cried & swore he’d never do it again (& bought me many expensive gifts). After the last affair (“it was just a BJ”!), I had enough, filed for divorce & walked away leaving him with his dick in his hand (or her mouth).
Jessica will learn (the hard way) & for a while she may even close her eyes to his dalliances, but this marriage will certainly not last. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Perhaps because Gigi was not happy with a trusted, engaged friend propositioning her. This has nothing to do with Jessica. Mike apparently made a choice to be aggressive with the wrong woman.
Mike’s face actually changes when he drinks. He has such evil looking eyes. Most women know intuitively when their man is cheating on them and some of them choose to ignore it. I think she’s chosen to ignore it because there is something she is getting out of it. I never thought of her wanting the fame though. I mean it’s not really that much fame–fleeting at best. But it never surprises me when people sell their soul for it no matter how inconsequential their celebrity. Bravo has quite a collection of souls.
It’s funny I didn’t like Reza the first season and only watched occasionally. He annoyed me to no end. This season I like him and I’m starting to enjoy it but they do look for a fight at every corner. That will be tiring and soon I’ll tune out again.
I love that quote Tamara. These are some thirsty folks.
Read my response to Josie (above).
Denial. Denial is real. It causes you to believe lies, even the ones you tell yourself.
I agree. I also think that there is SO MUCH EXCESS in this group. This was what the Iranian communities initial complaint with this show was. It fosters negative stereotypes of excess, egoism, bigortry and being marginalized/separating into their own community in Beverly Hills as somehow “other” than the rest of LA.
Jessica is NOT Iranian yet she too suffers from the whole problem of excess. It would appear that her sad loss of her mother, her father’s quick moving on (allegedly, I honestly do not know the details) has resulted in an EXCESSIVE engagement, EXCESSIVE surgery an EXCESSIVE Wedding and an EXCESSIVE quest for fame.
Jessica Parido is the next Jocelyn Wildenstein. What pretty young girl would chose to be know for plastic surgery and divorce?
It’s just sad. And I hesitate to bring up the J word again, but now that everyone is safely blocked, that is some serious commitment for a scrub who can’t keep his dick in his pants and is on national TV having a Brandi Glanville level alcohol issue.
WHY? What is wrong with all these people who want FAME?
I would never want fame. I won’t want anyone at all if they would just let you go get a colonoscopy without someone to drive you home. BTW, I am currently auditioning people to play that role. I’m wondering if I can bribe an Uber driver…
Who needs this much attention?
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I may be missing more info on this, but my whole take on the ring thing was that the four carat ring was for show (on the show) and Mike really gave her a smaller one.
Poor Jessica is one dumb bunny. Who on earth would want a ridiculous mean angry drunk underachiever as your husband and sperm donor? Her father must be as stupid as she (to allow or pay for a wedding to proceed). Talk about digging a big hole……..
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*Shalom.*
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Hahaha!
lulz
I was just watching Shahs of Sunset and I have to say my favorite one is definitely Asa’s mother. I love that cat woman. Calls Asa weird and cusses like a sailor. Love it.
“Asa, you are really Vierdo”. That was classic!
“Boyz to the men.” Love her.
I love Asa’s mother. She seems so sweet and gentle.
When Jessica was first introduced to us ..She was just out of nursing school and her whole demeanor was so different! I thought surely this girl has a career of her own and should she stay with Mike maybe only be seen on camera once in awhile.As time went by it happened the hunger for fame , money & fakeness got her she became addicted to it! I can’t believe she didn’t figure Mike out especially since his brothers are dentists and one is an attorney and his parents seem disappointed he quit law school!!! I’m too involved in this forgive me LOL! As always Tamara you rule girl!!
GREAT article, T!
I’ve chosen to view Shahs as a cautionary morality parable wherein narcissism is an STD, passing from Reza and Mike to Adam and Jessica.
As crazy as it may sound, Jessica may be determined to “prove” to someone that Mike loves her and is dedicated to her despite all of his infidelities. I have known people who have married the worst spouses imaginable out of a warped sense of pride because said person does not want to hear, “I told you so or We were right about him all along.”, from their family and friends. Chasing fame and things is an addiction just like alcoholism or drugs, but ultimately the user has to admit they are an addict in order to change their addictive behavior. I just hope this couple does not have children because they would become props or helpless pawns in the Shouheds quest for fame. Yikes…….
As crazy as it may sound, Jessica may be determined to “prove” to someone that Mike loves her and is dedicated to her despite all of his infidelities. I have known people who have married the worst spouses imaginable out of a warped sense of pride because said person does not want to hear, “I told you so or We were right about him all along.”, from their family and friends. Chasing fame and things is an addiction just like alcoholism or drugs, but ultimately the user has to admit they are an addict in order to change their addictive behavior. I just hope this couple does not have children because they would become props or helpless pawns in the Shouheds quest for fame. Yikes…….
Just a thought…maybe she is marrying him because she loves him. Thats why it’s called “crazy in love”. We have all been there. We think we can change them, and mold them into the perfect man. I do believe that Mike loves Jessica, and I do believe that he thinks very highly of himself. He thinks all the women want to have sex with him, including GG and Brandi, if they got the chance. GG I question, she did flirt with him in the first season, and you could tell she liked him. I want to know when he came onto her, and offered her sex, was he drunk? Was she drunk? How did she react? Did she slap him and was offended? Or did she laugh it off? Did she kiss him, how far did it go? I dont think GG is as innocent as she pretends to be.
The SoS are all over the top acting people. They must all be very wealthy (at least appear that way) because I don’ ever see them doing anything meaningful like actual work. Yeah there is MJ and Reza and Mike in their “real estate” scenes, but it looks staged. All they seem to do is party, plan parties, or take trips to parties. Reza is sickening with his whiney voice that goes from little boy to wanna be ‘gangsta’. He looks like a portly Saddam (to me). GG is pretty and petty. MJ is sloppy acting. Asa as her mother puts it is weird and wears TOO much makeup. And what is with this worship of the excessive golden everything? Not being funny, but is it a Persian/Iranian thing or something?
The Ring Doesn’t Mean a Thing should be their wedding song.
So when Mike was in NYC for WWHL he did an interview with the local NYC station where he says that the rumors of him getting married this week are a myth.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Mike-Shouhed-Talks-Shahs-of-Sunset/297268531
He also says they might do it on TV. Have they changed the date AGAIN?
TT meant that if the engagement ring was supposed to be a symbol of commitment and fidelity it’s not.
Another one bites the dust. Between the Jewish Theologians and the Book Salesmen, there will be very few of us left. Which is fine with me.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I am southern Baptist girl who is ignorant to Jewish traditions etc. What I am not ignorant to is, TT has stated multiple times that the “day” is irrelevant. ( or maybe I am ignorant about this. Too much time at Busch Gardens with the bf and 3 kids under the age of 9)
*** Please stop with the “Jewish don’t marry on A.B.C. etc” TT if you end up in jail, I will bail you out. Even if Sunday is a day of rest:) I am hypocritical like that:)
I think Jessica fell in love with Mike in the beginning. He liked having her as a girlfriend but had no intention of marrying her. He told her she had to do certain things for him to marry her. Mike figured Jessica would give up rather than do all of the things he asked. Every time Jessica jumped through a hoop, Mike would add another. He’s finally run out of them and she’s done everything he’s asked. Now she’s demanding “the prize” of marriage. I think she knows she’s not getting what she thought she was getting but after doing all she has done, she feels like he owes her this. Maybe she doesn’t know the extent of his infidelities, but she has to know he can’t be trusted. She can’t be that completely blinded. I think TT is right. It is now a matter of fame for Jessica. She feels like she should be wifed for all she’s had to endure.