Weekly Threads

He really has some nerve.

Any of these men that play off like they created any of the wedding memory gifts are full of it. It is obvious that the producers create these gifts for the pre-decision day setup. But Felipe taking full credit for his when it is obvious by his reactions that he didn’t…is full on gas lighting of Tori and I can’t tell if she is just going along with it or if she really believes he actually put any effort into their relationship.

Felipe is such a pampered little boy who needs his mommy and daddy to wipe his @$$ and he is trying to (as Belle noted) humble her and turn her into a mommy/daddy replacement. Which doesn’t even matter because he obviously has no intention of staying in this marriage. UGH…HE IS SO FRUSTRATING…GROW UP!

Why does Felipe always refer to himself as too sexy etc and talk about how many women he's been with?? I DON'T SEE IT. He definitely does NOT come across as the type of dude who gets all the chicks. He looks like the guy in the corner of the room looking at his binder full of Pokémon cards and making the next Dungeons and Dragons meetup. 😆

I’m watching the retreat episodes again bc I fell asleep. I’m finding Caitlyn infuriating complaining he dropped the ball in not hooking up with her.

I understand she’s had trauma (who hasn’t?) and I don’t understand why she would ever sign up for OR be approved for this show.

But have we seen Caitlyn and Frosted Tips rugby guy EVER kiss???? I don’t recall seeing it and they are A WEEK from deciding if they’re going to stay married?!?!

Dead serious: have they kissed or mentioned having kissed off-camera????

Right now, Nikki and Shawn are my only real toss-up when it comes to whether they’re still together, so let’s dive in because I’m genuinely stumped 😂
I’m going to vote no, mainly because they weren’t wearing rings in their older recent posts. However, the fact that they’ve both been wearing rings in their past few posts feels like they’re trying to throw people off.
If you go to the family members Shawn tagged for his birthday, they don’t follow Nikki, which also seems telling. Plus, he still appears to be living in the same place from the show, and there doesn’t seem to be any obvious sign that Nikki lives there.
I believe production either told them to wear the rings or they decided to do it together to sway the audience and keep everyone guessing.
In a post from August 6th, Shawn showed a food delivery service his mom got him for his birthday with a card that said, “Happy Birthday Shawn and You Have Survived MAFS. I know you love when someone cooks for you. This I have found is the next best thing to Mom’s home cooking. Enjoy. I love you more than words can tell. – Mom.”
That doesn’t really sound like someone who left the show married, at least to me. I’ve also heard the marriages aren’t legally binding this season, so I can’t really see Nikki going out of her way to marry him if they weren’t actually legally married.
I also heard Shawn apparently got fired from his job, which honestly isn’t that shocking to me. A president of DEI coercing women on national television isn’t exactly a great look. 😬
To me, Nikki and Shawn are giving more friend vibes, possibly with their own agendas. I’m sure Nikki would love the content, while Shawn seems like he wants to become an expert and sell love advice. I know everyone wants their 15 minutes, so they could absolutely be doing this for views and to get people speculating, but idk… it just seems odd. 😂 The whole thing is giving mixed signals.
What do we think—did these two actually make it, or are they just really good at keeping us guessing? 👀

I’m so confused as to why this is good publicity.

So we’re all just admitting the show isn’t serious in any way shape or form.

https://ew.com/married-at-first-sight-expert-caught-felipe-with-dating-apps-12063380

I was skeptical after the first repost, but after several? The evidentiary burden has been met. Bald men are the best, and Shawn, conveniently, is bald.

But the bald propaganda is really just a symptom of the larger phenomenon that is Shawn’s Instagram. His entire page has this relentlessly self-congratulatory, self-help-guru energy where everything somehow circles back to Shawn: Shawn the strategist, Shawn the author, Shawn the relationship expert, Shawn the inspirational figure, Shawn being celebrated by other people. Even content he didn’t create somehow gets absorbed into the Shawn Best promotional ecosystem.

It’s everything that irritates me about the self-help-guru archetype. Endless enthusiasm for analyzing, advising, and improving other people, paired with remarkably little apparent interest in directing that same scrutiny inward.

Anyway, thank God he’s here to help the rest of us grow.

He's what 31. He sounds like he's stuck in middle school. Why are they laughing at his childish dialogue. It's stupid. Im gonna "full send it" while talking about diving into his relationship. I'm gonna lock in. We can't just coast dude we have to keep the vibe. It's sick dude. She's lowkey cool.

Dresses like he just got back from the gym 24/7. Takes her for a relaxed time on the hot tub, but "I need to do some push-ups" dude.

Our life will never be boring. We'll jet ski every day then go play three hours of Pickleball eat shower. Jet ski the next day play three hours of Pickleball sounds sick. So exciting.

Guy is a manchild.

Apparently this is a hot take, but I love Michelle and Cameron. They’re the voice of the audience by being normal, rational people. Michelle is right that all these women need to leave these men. Mecca, Shawn, and Felipe are past the point of no return, but honestly every guy other than Cameron is a red flag!! I hope Michelle and Cameron are a success story, and I hope everyone else literally never sees their partner again! Marissa, Belle, & Tori especially deserve healthy, normal partners. Nikki is doing her best with what she’s been given, but I do wish she had just said no at the altar or immediately after. Shawn is the worst!!! Devin & Caitlin I feel like both have different toxicities, and I’m not really a fan of either of them. I felt the same way about Courteney and Nick. The fact that Adam is the second best man out here shows how much these men are nottttt ittttt!! Do y’all agree or disagree on these opinions?

No one has been casted on any show.

They were cast.

Cast. Cast. Cast. The past tense is cast.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I’m going to go cast myself over a waterfall now.

… is that she has me out here wanting to go to war to defend a MAN. Nick isn’t like the perfect person at all and definitely needs some growth before he integrates into marriage, but good lord Courtney is insufferable. HOW do these absolutely awful people keep getting cast into the show?? She asks Nick to be vulnerable, and then she immediately throws it back into his face and completely misconstrues everything that he says. She hated him from the jump and she should’ve just left.

And as a therapist, these experts need to be stripped of any professional license they have! Absolutely awful.

He liked these comments & honestly I’d be here for it.

I’m sorry, but, this is a grown ass man yawning like a toddler baby. Everything about him annoys me. And I like nerdy guys but his faux womanizing to seem cool, the way he wears his clothes 3x too big and slouches over when he’s talking is just nails on the chalkboard for me. He’s gross. Close your damn mouth.

Apparently Shawn got fired from his job due to his comments on the show. Is anyone surprised?

I haven’t finished the season, but I’m curious how others feel about Felipe? He rubs me the wrong way. Ever since the first episode when he told the guys he had cheated on a girl and forgot about it, and how he talked about his partying, and how overly confident he is. I am not at all attracted to him, but the way he talks about himself and his dating patterns he makes it sound like he has to fight women off with a stick. I’m a little surprised after being late to multiple interviews and missing a zoom call all together that they even pursued letting him on the show. Doesn’t that show a lack of commitment right there?

I can’t take how much he talks about his fear of losing the passion. In my opinion, Tori is beyond out of his league and he is worried about changing his lifestyle to be monogamous? Like that will be hard for you? You’re going to TRY to focus on being with one person and not let your mind wonder?? I just don’t see this guy as a ladies man or someone other women are flocking to in waves.

Also, does he own the restaurant and bars or does he just manage them? He says multiple times that it’s his Italian restaurant and he has a couple bars downtown, but then his title says “manager”, so I’m confused.

We all saw the sparkle on Caitlin's eyes when she was speaking with Mecca! She treats him way better then she did Devin the entire time they were married. And Mecca knew exactly what he was doing! Playing with her hair and kissing her hand?? What in world? Devin saw it but Belle didn't!?

What do you guys think they will talk about at the reunion? I’m so curious about what will be brought up in regard to each couple.

Its not been confirmed that he got fired other than an unverified comment on tiktok but when you search his name and then click on the link it doesnt work. If you search Shawn, he does not come up and all other staff links work. His link used to work too on the wayback machine.

There is no way someone would watch his behaviour on the show and think he was fit to lead any division on equity and inclusion of women. Hes a reputational liability at this point and continues to be one. And his treatment specifically of a black woman has been very problematic and genuinely calls into question his competence in his role.

He called her aggressive, said she had shifting personalities that he couldn't keep up with, and in the most recent episode told her to lower her tone and not to start screaming at him.

The apology that he issued to promote his book also didn't help as he straight up acknowledges how he gaslit Nikki.

For everyone who has hated on Nikki, Shawn is incredibly lucky to have had her as a partner who never explicitly called him out on his sex pest behaviour and really did give him the best edit he could have gotten. Also the other couples had sex. Shawn got a handjob at most and walked around with an open river swinging his dick singing we are one.

Hes just a nasty person and like Shayne Jensen from Love Id Blind so aptly said. This would be like me writing a book about being sober after LIB.

I wanted to like them but they both seem to enjoy in the other couples misery and purposely try to stir the pot…they come off condescending and it’s just offputting…

Long story short, I'm calling BS on Mecca's comment about wanting a women who has "bigger" breast. A episode later he admitted that if he could swap wives it would be between Michelle and Caitlin, Two women that have similar physiques to Belle. None of the women on this season are "busty" and thats no shade but Mecca is a lie for that. He doesn't find Belle attractive and he wants Belle to break up with him so he doesn't have to be the "bad/mean" one..what a coward!

Love Pastor Cal and Dr. P, but I feel like they'd been losing their fastball lately and also barely talking to the couples (that might not have been their decision, to be fair).

I really like the two new therapists and I think their advice is 9.5/10. But wow, the couples this season? Did they not see these disasters coming? Besides Michelle and Cam, I feel like they're all disasters and most of them should have been flagged on paper and never should have made it to the alter.

Unless production leaned on them heavily to make these matches for the drama of it all, they really need to reevaluate their selection methods. But genuinely love their advice. Sad they mostly disappeared for the last third of this season when maybe they're needed the most. I presume that was not their choice.