Tough Love N.O. Recap: Family Time

Tough Love

By Luscious | Thursday, June 21, 2012 | 9:07 am | 8 Comments
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Melissa’s dad, sister and girlfriends are there to meet Chris. Everyone is sitting around and dad tells a sweet story about proposing to her mother on the second date and being happily married for 33 years. Sadly, Melissa’s mom died and she says she never had a chance to introduce any men to her mother. Things are kind of boring in this household, so to liven things up, there is a suggestion that they look at Melissa’s Bat Mitzvah photos. Seriously?

 

This album is about ten times thicker than my wedding album.
And there’s a little sheet of protecting paper between each precious photo.

No wonder this girl is so picky – she is clearly very cherished at home. I find myself kind of jealous. Anyway, Chris is a great sport and even tells Melissa she was beautiful at the horribly awkward age of 12.

But then again, he clearly is attracted to awkward.

Danielle is in Atlanta and meeting up with Kevin for dinner. She has to face the music and find out if there is any possibility of a reconciliation with him before she can move on with her life. Gone is the cute man who showed up all dapper in New Orleans. Instead, it looks as if Kevin just climbed down from his hunting blind, spritzed a little bear repellent on for deodorant and skidded his pickup in sideways to make it to the restaurant on time.

Danielle, you sure you want this back?

She’s scared but she gets kudos for putting herself on the line.

It is terribly frightening and very hard to put yourself out there like that for a clear rejection. I know, I’ve done it (and it ended badly). I still sometimes burn with the humiliation of misunderstanding the signals I thought were being sent my way. But in the end, I’m really glad I outright asked the guy if he was interested – it kept me from wasting more time, which is what Danielle has been doing since she and Kevin talked during the ex’s episode. Unfortunately, when she asks Kevin if he thinks there is any possibility that they could get back to together, his answer is totally ambivalent. He says on a scale of one to ten, he would rate the possibility of them getting back together at a 5. Danielle says she would do whatever she had to do to make it work.

I love it when a hot piece of ass falls in my lap.
Thank you God!

Poor Danielle says she is more confused from the meeting than she was before. She shouldn’t be. It’s only because she wants his answer to be yes or no and she’s putting her whole life on hold for his answer. Someone slap this girl – girlfriend, if his answer wasn’t an emphatic yes while he swooped you into his arms and hustled you to his twin cab Dodge Ram Pickup, then you need to move on and find a man who is excited about you. Seriously – how is it a girl who is so into the ghetto speak and behavior was ever this into a very dark redneck?

In Boston, Melissa and Chris go ice skating. It’s a great idea for a date because Melissa has never done it before, which means plenty of excuses for holding each other close, despite being a virgin.

But she even manages to make this look awkward.

It’s the end of the evening and Austin has it the best of all the girls. Despina has her own place in Boston in the North End (which I can tell you from my recent vacay is a super cool area).

His evening ends with cuddling and a shared bed.

Whereas Stephanie and John have to settle for a
goodnight kiss and sleeping in separate rooms.

Sadly, when you’re dating the virgin, you aren’t
even allowed to sleep in the same building.

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Luscious just got back from a one year backpacking trip around the world with her husband (TVgasm fill-in specialist, The Professor). She spends her days writing, knitting and sewing. She's only good at one of those hobbies, not saying which.  Her secret dream is to write romance novels and have critics say her brilliance is wasted on such a pointless genre. Also, she'd like to create a pair of pajamas for her niece where the sleeves actually work.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    LyndaB
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 11:19 am

    These are just the best recaps….. my gut always hurts from laughing so hard.

    Alas, poor Elizabeth. Although she “seems” to be coming around, I don’t see how that girl can give up her bling and roses long-term. She’s a hot mess, that one is.

    I’ve been a huge fan of Tough Love since the first episode. Usually, this far into bootcamp I can make a fair estimation of who will stay together, who will go back to their old ways and who has at least learned something. I’m just not sure this time around. They all give me reason to doubt.

  2. 2
    Patty
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Thank you for also recognizing Donna’s date looks like George W! I thought I was the only one! I feel so bad for Elizabeth; I hope she gives Carl a chance because he seems to be a really together and caring guy. Great recaps!

  3. 3
    labowner
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    Oh My GAWD I almost cried when Elizabeth couldn’t get a hold of anyone in her family. I am putting my support behind her seeing it isn’t the bling, it’s the small moments, like him bringing her breakfast after a shitty evening. And if she doesn’t want him, I do.

    Danielle – what the fuck chickee? Steve, JW and Danielle’s mom need to get together and slap some sense into her. Although I am assuming mom has cracked her upside the head for the way she was talking throughout her adventure.

    Stephanie is looking better and better with less makeup. You are right Luscious, why hasn’t Steve mentioned the gobs of makeup on Elizabeth. Another reason to believe he is trying to keep her for himself….. ha. My male friend thinks he is gay because his pants were so tight during panel. :)

    And does Donna’s man dump her or do you think we are being set up?

    Thanks for the enjoying and very funny ride Luscious.

  4. 4
    BSparky
    Posted June 21, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    Can’t believe this is your next to last re-cap for the show. I’ll miss your snarky humor. It always makes me laugh! “Let me just live out a little presidential fantasy and then he’s all yours…”–hystrical! Keep up the good work and thanks!!

  5. 5
    sardini
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 7:57 am

    I can’t believe this season is almost over! I totally agree with the GWB comparison, my husband and I have been saying that all along.

    I felt so bad for Elizabeth, too. Like I wanted to cry. But, I have to wonder what the full story is. I think there is a lot more that we’re not hearing. Why else would not ONE person show up? And did I hear right that she has a twin? You have to mess up pretty bad for your twin to disown you!

  6. 6
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 10:05 am

    @sardini stole the words right out of my mouth.
    Elizabeth had to have done something. Even if her family were complete douchebags, there’s no way that not ONE person would text or show up. They would write back, even if just to say “haha, we’re not coming”. For them to completely ignore her, including her twin sister, she must have done something. Either she didn’t tell anyone the whole story or the producers are keeping it from us so that she can seem more sympathetic. I did feel bad for her though, because that must have been so horrible and shitty to go through.
    Also, has anyone ever seen Elizabeth without her makeup? Maybe Carl didn’t show up that early, but dang…her makeup was done, hair freshly blown out…who has time for alladat?

    Interesting that Despina was Miss Mass.
    She’s completely the opposite of what I would think a beauty queen would be. I bet the other contenders for the title were mad when she won.

    I forgot that Stephanie was husband-hungry until she mentioned that thing about Good John. They are so cute together though, and I was happy to see that Stephanie laughing at how foolish she looked on that bull. She almost had a meltdown the last time she had to make a fool of herself, so I call that progress.

    This season has been weird as hell.
    Usually, you feel confident that the girls have learned and changed alot, but this season, I feel like very little has been accomplished.

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    spinal11
    Posted June 22, 2012 at 11:19 am

    It may not be that Elizabeth’s family disowned her, but just that they either didn’t approve of her coming on the show or didn’t want to appear on camera. It’s not exactly your typical “meet my new boyfriend” situation, and if her family is as obsessed with keeping up appearances as she implied on many occasions, I’m not surprised that they wanted nothing to do with the charade of a reality show.

    And it is a charade. The challenges have way more to do with watching these women act silly on TV, than helping them change any of their issues. If I had trouble finding love this show would be the last option I would turn to. The vast majority of women are only on here for publicity.

  8. 8
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted June 23, 2012 at 8:41 am

    By this point in the show I hate one person, but I’m actually rooting all of these women on.

    I felt bad for Danielle. The vague answer is worse than a yes or no.

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