Tough Love N.O. Recap: Return of the Creeps

Tough Love

By Luscious | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 5:00 pm | 8 Comments
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Actually, Despina says that all the men she has ever had a relationship with just disappeared without a word or an explanation. I think she’s confusing herself with her victims.

Donna goes for the parts that make the towels smelly as she remembers
the man who never followed through on his vow to marry her.

Elizabeth is shaking and seems to be close to cracking. She can barely bring herself to talk about Paul, the “love of her life” who she gave her family up for. I’m a little confused why her family would make her choose between a man who gives her rings and spoils her when that is exactly what they taught her was a sign of true love. Anyway, she talks about how she thought he was the one and that they would be married and live happily ever after in a crystal palace of roses and veal cut into bite-sized pieces, but she breaks down as she remembers that while waiting for his divorce to be finalized, he took back all the bling he had given her and she went nuts. Her attempts to retrieve the rings (a symbol of love and devotion for her) resulted in her being arrested!

Apparently this is not the first time Liz has donned the black and white stripes.

My poor Elizabeth. What a mess she is. She can’t bear to touch the voodoo doll – she just doesn’t have it in her heart to stab crappy people who have done her wrong. She has no self confidence, she lives to please people, she’s never been treated to the sensual explosion of an orgasm and she can’t let go of a desire to win her parent’s approval. Where does one start helping such a broke down girl re-build herself?

And why has no one told this beauty to stop shellacking her face too?

Steve tells the girls he knows it is hard to have to re-live the pain of their ex’s but he chose them for boot camp because he believes they can handle it and he wants them to be able to get over these feelings so they can truly move on. With that, he invites them outside to see a New Orleans Funeral procession which is comprised of an awesome jazz band blowing out dirges with funk and emotion.

 

As the girls listen to the music and try to recover from their emotional trip down memory lane, Steve is cooking up another surprise to keep them off balance. He’s about to deliver their exes in person!

Stephanie’s ex Jessie arrives first.

Seriously Stephanie?
For Christ’s sake, he has scumbag written all over him!

Apparently, this winner and Steph have been on and off for years and he ran like a bat out of hell when she was high on crack and asked him for a committed relationship. She had to be high on crack – why the hell would such a sweet girl want such a gross douche?

I’m pretty sure this is how she always looked when dating Jessie.

The lemon tree is a metaphor, Stephanie.

 Instead of telling Steph how lovely she looks with her toned down (nearly) natural appearance, prize boy starts in on how she shouldn’t compromise her look for other people’s opinion. She looks like she’s buying into his attempts to get her right back to the insecure place that made her think his level of schmuck was her league.

Guess who is here for Danielle.

Kevin looks like he might be a bad ass.

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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
    BSparky
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Missed you, Luscious! It just wasn’t the same without your recap of the show. Just gotta wonder if the make-up artist had an eye patch on that day, don’t ya?!? Love how you used the telestrator technique to point out the flaws! lol

  2. 2
    labowner
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    Oh my gawd. Going home, but thanks for the snarky comments under the pictures. Will read the full recap tomorrow. You are great Luscious. Glad you had fun at the wedding.

  3. 3
    PopePhilly PopePhilly
    Posted June 13, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    Gah! I always hate the exes episode. Yes, you can run into an ex anywhere. However, you usually don’t run into them at your own house where you are hanging out with the person you’re currently seeing. In real life, if you see an ex, it’s usually in a place where you can say a quick hello and then walk away (if it’s in public like a restaurant or store or whatnot) or simply ignore them for the night (say at a party at a mutual friend’s place).

    Rant over. Thanks.

  4. 4
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 2:27 am

    Welcome back, Luscious!
    I’m glad you had fun at the wedding and congrats to your cousin!

    Paul was disgusting. I wanted to pick up Elizabeth and throw her silly ass through the wall for taking so long to tell him to get the hell out. I don’t even understand how she could sit there and feel anything for Paul after experiencing Carl. That’s like someone crying over their rusty old bike after being gifted a Lamborghini. Just foolish.

    And the exes episode is actually one of my favorites. It always yields some of the juiciest moments (I wish to GOD Tiffany had made it to the ex episode…can you imagine her ex(?)-husband telling that story about her stabbing his then-pregnant wife?) and it’s a good litmus test for seeing how much the girls have really changed. Also, I think it’s a good chance for them to concretely see the difference between the kinds of men they’ve been with versus the kinds of men they need to be with, and to see the difference between how they feel when they’re with these men. Like even when a lady is dating a bad guy, she can fool herself into thinking that she’s happy and enjoying it. But after dating a good guy and genuinely being happy, it’s probably easier to tell that the happy feelings with the bad guy weren’t real.
    That’s how it should have been with Elizabeth, except for that she’s a dodo bird and didn’t quite get the point.
    I think the lesson wasn’t lost on Stephanie and Shalana though….their exes were super-douches.

  5. 5
    Amanda
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 6:17 am

    Everytime I see the ‘best of show’ graphic in the recaps I read it as ‘best IN show.’ As if Tough Love Boot Camp is the Westminster dog show.

    I wondered what the hell was up with Chris’s comment about Melissa not being a virgin anymore. Poor guy heres to hoping that he didn’t think getting kissed is the same thing as losing ones virginity.

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    Yvonne
    Posted June 14, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    I felt bad for Elizabeth but I also wanted to slap her. Shalana should have slapped Omar. I wasn’t too convinced about Aubrey but after I saw how he handled that loser Omar I like him.

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    labowner
    Posted June 15, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Boo the ex episode means the show is coming to an end. I wish Steve did a recap with the girls from the prior seasons so see how well they have held up their end of the bargain. I can’t believe there isn’t therapy involved for these ladies as the obviously need it.

    Don’t think I could ever have such a reaction to any ex of mine. I don’t get it, but I guess that is why they are on this show.

    Elizabeth in jail? No farking way. Wonder if the other girls thought she was a working girl?

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    snowshoecat snowshoecat
    Posted June 16, 2012 at 7:21 am

    It is just so painful to see these sweet, vulnerable girls suffer. I truly believe that this show isn’t scripted, just an honest program about lives being healed. No drama. No fighting. Just supportive comrades.
    Painful, but uplifting.

    I wish them all, not luck, but success.

    Funny, I recalled seeing my ex. I was at an art fair with a friend, with my year old kitten in a stroller.

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