Tough Love N.O. Recap: Family Time

Tough Love

By Luscious | Thursday, June 21, 2012 | 9:07 am | 8 Comments
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Although no one has confirmed to meet for dinner with Elizabeth and Carl, they go to the restaurant and wait for more than an hour for Elizabeth’s family. Sadly no once comes.

But Carl is great and very supportive and Elizabeth gets
kudos for managing to make the best of the situation
and not ruining the night with drama.

It’s the next day and down in Texas, Stephanie is going to show John how they spend a romantic day on a date.

Yee-Haw!

Despite admitting that during her drunk days at the bar she could ride a mechanical bull and make it sexy, she tells us that before bootcamp she never liked cowboys. Not sure what she was doing at those bars then, unless she was hoping bad boy tatt boyfriends like Jesse would come in and start fights. Anyway, the point is, John looks like a cowboy and Stephanie can’t believe how much she is still attracted to him.

Holy shit, this bootcamp is working!

In Atlanta, Danielle is still spinning her wheels. We haven’t met her son yet, but now she’s off to have a chat with her own mom, because her talk with JoAnne and her face to face with Kevin were apparently not enough for her to realize she has to keep going forward with her life.

This is a girl who does not want to hear anything other than what she wants.

Danielle’s mom surprised me. With all the foul language Danielle likes to use, her pierced tongue, willingness to say yes to the penis and dumb it down in her actions and words, I always figured she was just emulating that which she grew up with and knew.

But this classy lady did not teach Danielle how to be ghetto.

Thankfully, Danielle doesn’t like the words her mom is saying, but she recognizes that her mother is the voice of reason. Mom wisely says if Kevin has her in limbo, she should be going out on her date with Corey. It isn’t what Danielle wants to hear, but she’s going to do it.

Aubrey is joining Shalana at her mother’s house to meet her mother and her son Donald.

Sometimes when I look at Shalana, I think she looks like a
drawn Disney princess. Am I the only one?

Cutest freaking kid on the show.

Can I come over and baby sit?

Aubrey meets Donald and things seem to be going well. He brought Donald a gift and they have a super cute moment where they fist bump.

I’m blown away at how tiny Donald’s little fist is.

I get all emotional and misty eyed imagining Aubrey fist bumping Donald through the years and the little guy’s fist growing bigger and bigger as the years go by. Which makes me just as bad as Shalana’s mom who creates an epic awkward moment by saying,

“Donald, you got what you want. You don’t have a real daddy.
Aubrey’s going to step up to the plate and be your step-daddy.”

Rip the needle off the record.

 

Even Donald recognizes the moment is intensely awkward.

Luckily, Aubrey does a great job of smoothing over mom’s fairy tale promises to Donald by explaining that would be the best scenario that could happen, but at this point there is no knowing where things could go.

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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.

  7. 7
    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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