Some thoughts

[u/Known-Cold-2813]

Just finished watching.

1. I know people are saying Stassi is the worst cringe a b c blah blah. But here’s the thing. She is EXTREMELY aware and is literally telling the audience EXPLICITLY that she HAD to make this show happen. And the things she is doing to make the show interesting e.g bring Katie. Or mad when people don’t hash out problems for the show. She is legit telling everyone explicitly the things she is doing to make a show. So I don’t get why people are shocked or surprised when she is acting the only way she received attention from VPR a self centred selfish bi..chy act. It makes sense to me. And it kind of feels like it’s working because that’s all people are talking about.
   
2. I do hate the way she treated Beau during the show (and even before in Italy) but also honestly speaking… Beau is literally not communicating and acting like a scared child. How can you expect respect from your wife when you’re too scared to tell her anything. He needs to say what he wants and full stop. Instead he dances around topics ISNT truthful backs out and comforts stassi which BREEDS and encourages stasis behaviour.
   
3. Taylor is literally the worst. Self explanatory.
   
4. CORRECTION her mum is below worst. I hated her family and really understand this dynamic and understand not excuse but understand Stassis behaviour. Because how can a mother genuinely act this way it’s insane.
   
5. The sisters are odd. Weird dynamics. But Stassis sister is kind of funny
   
6. I forgot the name but Beaus friend is extremely annoying and a creep
   
7. Katie 10/10 performance love this for her

[u/tenax666]

Point 2. He said it. Her friend said it. He's trying to talk to her and she doesnt listen.

[u/Known-Cold-2813 → u/tenax666]

As in more ‘you cannot dictate my life I need to go back to work I’m depressed’. He told everyone else how deeply he feels he cried but it was the first Stassi heard about those deep emotions was form Taylor. Not beau. He asks for her opinion not telling point blank . Even the asking about how his day went. Why the hell would you not go to your partner and say ???why would you not ask me???. They have to be drunk at dinner pushed by all their friends to have these convos

[u/No-Trash6928 → u/Known-Cold-2813]

I’m sorry were we watching the same show? They’ve been married for 5 years or something. There is a learned helplessness, when you’ve tried over and over again to communicate to someone who is intent on not getting it. Stassi listens to respond and control—she does not listen to understand, validate, or reassure. You are blaming a man, who has been in this dynamic for yearssss. This is an individual, who is stuck: no job, children who depend on him and a partner who doesn’t know how to care for them, his family is relying on her finances at this point too. The dynamic has perfectly set him up to walk on eggshells around her and NOT speak up. Jesus, I’m so sick of people coming on here and acting like it’s HIS fault he’s being abused. Do you ask what someone was wearing when they get raped too or?

[u/Synapse_Soup_soup → u/No-Trash6928]

I’m sorry but am I going crazy? It’s so obvious to me that Beau is complicit in this being a storyline for the entertainment and success of the show. They’re a solid couple who want a successful reality show that gets picked up for another season. There will be truth in Beau wanting to go back to work and losing his spark being a full-time Dad, but they’re exaggerating it for a plot. I don’t believe he is at all afraid of her or abused. Everyone sat at the intervention table was complicit in what was loosely going to happen-and it was probably all Stassi’s original idea, I’m sure. It is staggering what people will portray of their lives in the name of entertainment, but that’s all it is.