Today’s DVR schedule is so busy that I can’t get to this MAFS Recap until the reairing at 11 pm. I am literally just sitting in here trying so hard not to get spoiled by leaving the admin forum. I am really excited. The weird thing about MAFS is that, for example, this episode is an hour and a half long on the first showing and like 59 minutes on the repeat. Why is that? Overall, I just wants to know who breaks up and who stays together. Here are our predictions.
Okay it’s finally time. First up, Greg and Deonna. These two are a good match. Oh they get right to it. Greg and Deonna stay married. Because, yes. This quick scene means more drama ahead with the others.
Iris & Keith
This one troubles me. I need Iris to grow the fuck up. If Iris didn’t have her virginity, what would we have learned about her? This is all we talk about. Holy shit. Keith asked for a divorce. I can’t blame him. She is childish and thinks the world revolves around her virginity as if it is 1942.
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But they are such a good match on so many other levels. I’m sad about this breakup. But, gurl. You can’t be a virgin after 90 days married to your husband. Keith is such a great guy. You needed to give it up girl. You can’t go into a marriage gripping your V card in 2019. If you wanted to stay married, you can’t be asking for a sexless relationship.
This pretty much means all the rest breakup too, right?
Matt & Amber
Pastor Cal is not a fan of Matt. Amber has a bizarre story about “all of these teachers” pulling her into a room and telling her about Matt going out with other women. I’ve taught college. Never would a bunch of teachers do this. I’ve talked one on one with my advisees about things on a very rare basis when teaching in small towns. But Charlotte is big enough to where I would never do that. This relationship seems VERY fake to me. Matt apologizes for being a manwhore.
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Amber still wants him. Pastor Cal will NOT allow this to happen if I know anything about him. But again, I think this entire relationship is fake as fuck. Then Amber says she wants a divorce. He agrees.
Beth & Jamie
I apologize for letting some dipshit’s spoiler stay on the site too long. I get busy sometimes. Plus, I don’t believe morons like that anyway, so let’s see what happens with these two.
Jamie says his sex life is dissatisfying? They are not sexually compatible. This second showing is like the rapid edition. They decide to stay together. I feel like I missed so much in the extended version. Where is all the crying from Jamie about how fucked up he is? Perhaps that is to come? So we have two staying together and two not.
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I can’t help but feel bad for Iris and Keith though.
The Aftermath
This is really weird. Usually they have a reunion of sorts with everyone. Now they have Amber, Beth and Deonna talking alone somewhere? The topic is Matt is a big freaking dick. Then Iris shows up. Then Matt arrives. Eventually, they are all there. Matt is just a huge dick.
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Everyone is sad over Iris and Keith. Keith just wants to get laid. I can’t blame him for that. But really, can’t they try again? 🙁 I thought they were a lock for a perfect match.
Oh wait! There is another episode! Can it still happen? Is Deonna pregnant? Maybe Iris and Keith got back together when he finally got laid. But WTF is happening with Iris’s hair? It’s awful! GIVE US THE OLD HAIR!
See you back here next week. And I am poxing anyone with spoilers with some nasty STDS!
I said the same about Iris’s reunion hair! I was sad about Keith and Iris, but so happy Amber finally spoke up about what an ass Matt was sorting their 8 week marriage. I’m very happy with Greg and Deonna, they did MAFS the right way. Beth and Jamie–some couples thrive on drama. That’s these 2.
Damn Matt really had me fooled for the first few episodes, even though I was concerned about the family issues, he was saying the right things. His behavior in that last scene was the first time we say the real Matt. Poor Amber. She got swindled.
Matt is a terrible person. Good to see that Amber does have a spine. Gregg and Deonna are in love with each other. Beth and Jamie??
Can Iris and Keith get an annulment?
hmmm good question. Maybe?
They did not have Pastor Cal saying over and over that this is a “real marriage” with a “real divorce.” Perhaps they will allow an annulment in NC. I did not watch season 1, but we were definitely made to believe other couples who did not consummate got divorces.
I am not against Iris and Keith trying again. I agree, TT, that they seemed a good match with a lot in common. I hope Deonna and Greg last forever. Jamie and Beth need professional marriage counseling. I almost thought that is where Jamie was going when he talked about watching a marriage crash and burn.
Iris may have things to work on but Keith is no angel himself. He has communication issues and instead of going and talking to his mother about everything, he should have voiced his frustrations with his wife. He tried to use an excuse of her being immature and a virgin as a way to take the heat off himself. Keith tried to put up a facade the whole season and I’m so glad Iris didn’t give in and have full out sex with him because she would have regretted it. No she can’t use the virgin card forever but she can wait for the perfect king to come into her life, that’s genuine and has good intentions and possibly someone to have kids with.
Amber gave it up too easily and set no sound boundaries with Matt and let him run all over her but in the end I’m glad she made a smart decision for herself and well being. Just like Kate from last season, it’s a man out there that will give Amber all the love like she has to give.
” but she can wait for the perfect king to come into her life, that’s genuine and has good intentions and possibly someone to have kids with”
lol.
I’m hopeful for Iris and Keith. Iris will mature at some point, it would be worth waiting for since they got along so well in other important areas.. She seemed to be opening up towards the end with the licking game.
I suspect her rigidity and emotional immaturity, when it comes to relationships, may be from some earlier trauma. She was not going to give up in 8 weeks something she’s been holding onto for 27 years. I think if they had more time and Iris was CERTAIN Keith would want to stay married, she would have had sex with him.
She talked a good game in the beginning, telling him on the honeymoon episode “there’s more than just intercourse”, as if she engaged in other sexual activity. Keith even asked her about her “intercourse” statements while they were in the bed on the honeymoon.
Yay for Deonna and Greg, I’m happy for them.
I wish the best for Jamie and Beth, they just might make it but they have such extreme highs and lows, it’s likely to end badly when it does ends..
Amber developed a backbone and I’m glad she exposed him at the end. He wasted her time.
Overall, great season.Great recaps, thanks TT
Iris is the type of woman that will use sex as a means to get her way in a relationship.
If Keith gives her another chance, I hope he makes it clear he won’t put up with any games from her.
I think Iris kept her virginity because she was afraid to sleep with her TV husband and then him divorce her. If he had said, stay married, she would’ve slept with him the night of decision day imho. Also, I have a feeling Keith is a freak in the bedroom and he realized as soon as Iris said she was a virgin that it wasn’t going to work out. Matt joined the show to get free lodging in between international baseball contracts.
LOL about Matt— you might be on to something! .
I agree about Iris, if she knew they would stay married, she would have had sex with him. He is a decent guy, he didn’t press her too much because he wasn’t sure he wanted to stay married and didn’t want to have sex without being 100% sure about her. I hope Keith and Iris reconcile..they got along so well in other areas.
Yes I felt the quicky 1hr episodes cut out alot of the extra things that happened during the decisions.
I felt like after the decision day Iris was trying to lay a guilt trip on Keith for choosing to end it. Whereas hes thinking he needs a wife to grow with not a teenager, but that preview has me wondering is the V card finally off the table!!
So Charlotte must be quite small if Amber is getting pulled aside from everyone saying he either asked me out or I saw him with another women. Could he really have been that dumb to poop in his own yard or like you think it seems fake. It does make me wonder when you see prior seasons: Joe, David, Sonya, Tristan, Kate, there is a definite pattern of really badly matched couples that one usually takes the brunt of the abuse.
Oh Matt if only your weren’t contractually obligated to go to that dinner. Boy was that awkward and throwing the photos out, harsh. Thankyou Elizabeth for asking what was that fools problem other than finding the next warn body with lodging! I’m gonna tell my husband tonight, hey we’re friends, I’m gonna go look on the side k, seriously who does this!! And he walks like that fake sasquatch looking at his watch video, good riddance.
Was not expecting beth and Jamie to stay together, but please someone find him a good tailor. Theres a way to dress that doesn’t show off the moobs. There I said it, maybe Seinfeld’s ‘the bro’ might help. Yes I know I’m body shaming him, whatever.
Love Gregg and Deondra, seems like they took this seriously and they either found love or are just about there.
Looks like Elizabeth will be on the war path next week, I wouldn’t expect anything less from her. It’s got to be exhausting breaking up and walking away as much as they do but then Jamie gets his makeup sex right!
I think Keith’s issue with Iris’ virginity is that she is soooo much a virgin. I mean most of the catholic school “virgins” I knew growing up were dying to lose their V card and did pretty much everything but vaginal. Iris doesn’t seem to have done anything EVER. She also doesn’t seem at all interested. Who wants to have to train an unwilling 28 year old in every aspect of sex? Hell no.
On the honeymoon, Iris mentioned several times about “other things besides sexual intercourse”.. .I thought she was a catholic school virgin too– and Keith even asked her to clarify what she meant .
When they returned home, she never mentioned it again and didn’t even seem curious about sex. .
I think the words were a ploy to get him interested as many men would have had second thoughts about marrying a virgin unwilling to have any intimacy at all.
I’m shocked Jamie and Beth stayed to together wondering how longer it’ll last. My DVR didn’t record any previews ugh! I’m glad Amber found her lady balls and dump the grifter. Iris, Iris, Iris the girl needs to get a good vibrator and go to town, then she needs to find something else to talk about. At the after decision bbq when she said if Keith could rewatch the season and fix his problems there would be a chance I was like girl look in the mirror. I’ll take Keith!!!
I was so so glad that Keith did not marry Iris. That would have been a true trainwreck down the line. She would have held her virginity over him every argument. I gave my virginity to you and you don’t appreciate me or it or whatever it is just it’s too much for any relationship especially one starting like this to last and I admire him for having the balls to say no. I felt bad for Iris but she’s made her virginity a huge mountain to climb for herself. I also got the impression that she just not ready interested in sex and that makes for an uphill battle.
Happy for Deonna and Greg they are a good match.
Amber and Matt was ridiculous. He needed to be kicked to the curb.
Jamie and Beth I don’t hold out much hope but they do have the crazy in common. So you never know.
Around the 4th episode, I started to be convinced that Keith was not attracted to Iris, and was using her virginity as an excuse for showing zero physical interest in her. I know how a man acts when he is truly attracted to you and interested in you, virgin or not, and it is NOT how Keith was acting toward Iris. He acted more like her brother than a husband, and I call BS on his using her virginity as a smokescreen for his own inaction. This man was not ready to get married and I am really glad Iris did not give up her virginity to this mama’s boy who did not value her integrity and the sweet gift she held for him. He was in no way ready to commit and did not give it his all. He can go back to his “mature ” one night stands now. I’m sure his mom will be relieved.
Whenever they were supposed to play intimacy games, Iris told him no so why get physically invested? He was a saint for sharing a bed with her for 8 weeks knowing nothing more than light kissing would happen. I think Keith was just protecting himself by showing no physical attraction since it would have gotten him nowhere.
I have a hard time understanding why some people are so provoked by Iris’s virginity, getting so worked up as to even attributing it to some sort of weapon, while bestowing sainthood on a husband who did absolutely nothing to make the marriage real. Keith may have been cute and quiet, but he always seemed detached and disinterested, to me. I was not surprised he wanted a divorce. They should never have been matched to begin with, as the experts should have known to only pair her with another person who truly valued marital purity and similar deeply held religious beliefs. Keith was not that man. Also, marriage requires effort, especially if you are agreeing to be married at first sight, and it seemed like he just didn’t want to put the work in. Being sexually active with someone you barely know does not make one “mature.” Iris and Keith also had agreed not to talk about or engage in sexually explicit discussions or activities on camera, since they both work with children who might watch the show, but Keith didn’t even honor this one commitment. Iris deserves much better, and I think Keith knows it. I have no doubt at all that she will find an honorable man who adores and appreciates her, which is nothing less than what every woman wants and deserves.
Not provoked in the least. Iris is immature and Keith is honorable for not pushing her.
Hi Tamara.
So crazy and random. I was approached via instagram through a DM for a casting call. A casting director reached out and said she was casting for a show that would be filmed in New Orleans. She gave me the company, and when I googled it was shows like Little Women and MAFS. She stated I had to be single. I have a kinda bf, but I was intrigued so I called her. It was for MAFS. She stated that she thinks I am very pretty and wanted to interview on phone. We spoke for about 30 min, she was giving me dates to see if I am available like a wedding date, honey moon date etc. She stated that after wedding, can move in to my place, his place, or a place production puts you in for 2 months. She stated would go on with normal life, and film for 2 months. And that after, if we decide to divorce, they pay for it and then if not, that we have 1 year for them to pay for it. There’s apparently a skype intvw, then an in person casting. You meet with 3 diff specialists, because she was pushing it as these specialists do their best to put you with your match, and that they aren’t going to just match anyone up for sake of show (after hearing from my coworkers, they said it seems quite opposite)! Then the BIG part, or not so big, is compensation. She stated that there are about 10-12 episodes, and you get $1,000 per episode. I am not sure how much reality shows pay, and I don’t want to sound snooty, but there is no way in HELL that I would get married for a measly 12,000 all for a tv show. That just doesn’t seem like enough money, especially after taxes. Actually, I doubt I would do it for any type of money, I was just really intrigued and wanted to know more about the process. She stated that she isn’t looking for people who want to be on reality tv, but instead people that want true love. Hmm. I am thinking that anyone who wants to be on a show where you are literally married at first sight, you prob want a little bit of that reality fame!! Anyway, just wanted to comment!! Long time reader and I really thought the whole process was so interesting.
Wow! Thanks for the info!
Wow, very interesting indeed! I’m a bone head romantic at the end of the day and love to see the “experts” get it right but this sure doesn’t sound like the way to go about it, huh! Thank you!
Yeah, that finale went pretty much as I expected. I concluded, after seeing all the Unfiltered shows during the season, that Jamie and Beth would eventually stay together. I do predict a divorce within the year if they don’t quit the ugly fighting.
I didn’t watch the entire episode closely, but the bits of them gathered on the patio after the decision was funny and awkward. I wonder what kind of mythical man Iris is holding out for.
Iris started off with being a virgin for religious conviction, then switched to proudly proclaiming her V card as her personal badge of honor and man shield. Keith is not religious. They should not have been matched unless he was asked how would you feel about being matched with a virgin or someone with no/little relationship experience? He would have said no. That being said, I had been pulling for them but as someone on the cast pointed out, I believe at the retreat, Iris was all in while it was evident to me Keith had retreated. I think the hope he had was increased when licking off her body paint but lemonade rationing and knowing she would hold you took my virginity over his head was too much. She said on their honeymoon she had done other things instead of intercourse but poor Keith didn’t even get that. I never understood the real Iris since I always felt she was saying what she thought viewers wanted to hear. I do not want them to reconcile. Keith knows his truth and she is not part of it.
Deonna and Greg thumbs up. Hope they really do stay together. I do like her but she can be very cold at times.
Matt said it quite coldly at the BBQ but glad Amber told him “chapter closed” I’m divorcing you! What an a$$ he is.
Beth and Jaimie call me weird but I love them together. If they get rid of the toxicity and his continued threats to leave or divorce I think they can have something special. He is a below the belt kind of guy but she seems to handle him and needs to demand respect. The sex can be negotiated. They seemed all in and like a real couple at the BBQ.
Keith even admitted he went into the show NOT READY to be married and came out the other end still not ready to be married. This was so obvious to me and I’m glad he at least finally had the maturity to admit it. How in the world did he get picked to be on a show where everything depends on two people who are committed to the commitment? Why did he even sign up? For the money? As far as him licking the body paint off Iris, I felt so uncomfortable watching him do this. It was crystal clear to me he was not into it at all. This could have been a sweet love story, if only they had paired Iris with a slightly older, more self-assured, confident, kind, Christian man. Keith was not that man and since he has now admitted he knew that he wasn’t ready to get married, he wouldn’t have been the right man for any woman he was paired with on this show. Iris withheld nothing from him. He didn’t pursue her, didn’t want her or her virginity, end of story. Good! She deserves a grown-up adult man who sees her worth and beauty, is captivated by it, and pursues her with PASSION. Who would settle for less?? There’s an old saying: Don’t marry the one you can live with. Marry the one you can’t live without. Amen!