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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It’s the end of the evening and while Melissa is happily flitting around telling everyone she finally met the vagina whisperer, Danielle is having a hard time. She’s confused because her conversation with Kevin brought up unresolved feelings for him. That combined with the fact that they have both grown for the last ten years have left her feeling as if she would like to try again.

Is she sobbing because her son doesn’t have his father with him everyday
or is she hoping to use that as an excuse to try to win back Kevin?

It’s time for the hot seat and as the girls gather, Steve tells him that the previous evening was an eye opener. There is a lot to be learned by observing the girls with their exes and the biggest thing he was looking for was to see if they had moved on. As he scolds that many of them seemed to have regressed in their progress, he surprises me by announcing that Melissa did the best this week.

It doesn’t seem fair that the girl with no ex wins the distinction.

Alright, Steve has a point that Melissa told Chris exactly how she felt and that she made a decision, took the reins and went with it. He says he’s very proud of her. I’m still irritated at how long it took her to see the golden egg right in front of her eyes. Can I just give her one annoying thumb flick to the temple before we let this thing go?

Steve turns to Danielle next and I must say, the vulnerability she is showing is very fetching.

She should be glad I wasn’t writing about last week too.
I’ll let that nastiness go and just focus on how lovely she is here.

Danielle explains to Steve that when you have a kid with someone, the connection you have with them never completely goes away. She’s surprised that Kevin cared enough to come to boot camp and support her and now she’s wondering if she’s still in love with him. In his feedback, Kevin sounds positive and supportive but he certainly doesn’t sound like he wants to get back together. Steve shows Danielle the feedback from Corey in which he says he was impressed with how she handled things with her ex and that he’s starting to fall for her. Danielle says she doesn’t feel like it would be fair to be with Corey with all these unresolved emotions, but Steve points out that Kevin has moved on and nothing in her life has changed since yesterday. He tells her she needs to calm down, reflect on the past and then move forward.

Steve moves on to Stephanie next and asks her what the hell happened. She says that her emotions were completely torn by having both men there and Steve points out that John is a million times over a much better man than Jessie. To illustrate, he goes to the feedback with Jessie and asks Jessie if he would still want to date her.

Yeah. I would totally add her to the rotation.

Oh honey, how could you ever think this was the best you could do?

When Steve talks to John in confessional, he admits he’s worried that Steph will go back to Jessie, especially since he’s falling for her. Stephanie is thrilled to hear the news and she promises Steve she will focus on not pushing John away for the rest of their time in the house.

After Stephanie, Steve announces that the hot seat this week isn’t about the best and isn’t about the worst. That means Elizabeth will be in the hot seat, because she’s the only one so fragile that she’ll beat herself up over having failed yet again. Poor dear. Steve tells her he just needs a lot of questions answered.

She’s still wearing jail clothes. She just can’t shake the memories of Paul.

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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.

  6. 6
    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.

  7. 7
    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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