Couples Therapy Recap: They’re baaaaaack!

18 Comments

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   AmyOops
   Posted November 20, 2012 at 4:16 pm

   Aw damn, eyedios. Veterinary specialists are HELLA expensive! I’ve been in the field for two decades and the practice I’m at now is in a very affluent area, and therefore I get to see the records (and thus the bills) from when the client took Fifi to the dentist, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, etc. Ouch!

   Okay had to say that. Now to read the recap. I’m glad your kid is okay!!

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   Holyterror
   Posted November 20, 2012 at 4:51 pm

   I hope Krista gets a show.

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   Suz
   Posted November 20, 2012 at 4:58 pm

   I think it is Shayne and Nick that get married at the end of the season because Shayne says she wishes she had a real wedding.

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   mirabelle gingerbread
   Posted November 20, 2012 at 10:03 pm

   i just did a quick google search on shayne since i don’t know anything about her and found this – http://ginacarbone.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/is-she-serious-shayne-lamas-outs-bachelor-matt-grant-he-is-gay/ i thought it was amusing, especially the caption! i don’t know why, but i really dislike shayne and nik, even more than dourtney! i think that shayne is STILL a mean girl (bitch) that tries really hard to be an alt-y girl – and fails miserably at it – and nik really is a bully. i dunno, he just has ‘date rapist’ face all the time to me. i love shayne’s quote at the end of the article that she’s ‘happily married’ – not so much anymore, bitch`! or she just got tired of not being in the spotlight.

   dr b. should just have a show that features her and one couple, but that wouldn’t make ratings, would it? i think her swearing is funny but i also feel like it’s kind of forced. she’s so well-spoken she doesn’t need profanities to make her point important. oh well. she’s awesome and i wish i could see her for my own personal therapy. her talent is being wasted on these fools.

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   mirabelle gingerbread
   Posted November 20, 2012 at 10:04 pm

   Matt: “Did I find true love on the show? Um, no. Not one little bit. I proposed to a woman who was about a foot and a half shorter than me, who had nothing in common with me and thought there were palm trees in London.”

   lololol

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   whatwhat
   Posted November 21, 2012 at 1:16 am

   Oh TVgasm, why hath you sucked me into watching yet another trash bit of television. I blame you for this, eyediosmio, and your entertaining recaps of this train wreck.

   Oddly enough, I feel kind of bad for Shayne and Nik both. He’s trying to make her happy but he’s trying to do it by repeating what made her happy once upon a time however many months ago, and he doesn’t understand why she isn’t acting the same way she did once upon a time however many months ago. She’s trying to tell him she doesn’t want to go, and he’s not listening to her. Holy hell I would not want to go ride horses in 120 degree weather or however hot it was, either.

   She’s upset and unhappy, but he doesn’t get why she’s upset, because he isn’t listening to her and he thinks she’s trying to sabotage. And she obviously doesn’t seem to know how to politely go about suggesting something else to do, she’d rather bitch and complain about the day than suggest an alternative or, you know, be something other than openly hostile.

   So he gets defensive, and then she gets defensive because he’s getting defensive and then the shit hits the fan and spirals out of control. I get the feeling that she really does want the whole thing to work, but she doesn’t realize she’s being a bitch when uh…she’s being a total bitch. She can’t see herself and how she’s acting, and because she’s acting that way she can’t even see him. And I get the impression that she does want it to work, and I get the impression that he does too, but they’re two stubborn people stubbornly trying to do what they think the “right” thing is to do, and butting heads when his idea of “right” doesn’t match her idea of “right,” instead of trying a third thing that they can BOTH agree is right.

   It’s like watchin a couple toddlers slapfight over the last tater tot.

   FWB and Tiny chatting was on the one hand sweet, on the other kind of funny because Courtney was sitting right there next to them, asked one question, and then they started chatting with each other. I don’t know if it was the editing or whatever but it looked like once the topic came up Courtney was pretty much ignored WHICH IS HOW IT SHOULD BE NOW AND FOREVER. Ugh.

   I want to see Simon explode because I think it’d be pretty goddamn funny too.

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   eyediosmio
   Posted November 21, 2012 at 5:36 am

   @Amyoops: Thanks, she’s doing great and we actually got a deal that was about $1,000 cheaper than it would have been. We have a great vet who hooked us up.

   @mirabelle gingerbread: I agree with you that Nik is a bully, just look at his website. But BUT I think he may have grown a bit since the marriage/baby thing. The only solution for him to be successful in life is to sell that damn website and concentrate on a different business endeavor. Obviously he’s smart and successful and could make another website work just as well without objectifying women and harassing people. And Shayne really needs to grow up, I like her half the time an dhalf the time I’m like, Damn girl – grow up! She needs real one on one therapy. THIS is what happens when people don’t parent and just throw money at you. You have an entitled little bratt who is completely un-selfaware.

   I found her comments regarding The Bachelor kind of funny. He was being a dick. He proposed to her, it’s his own fault and to throw shade on her for that? Out of line. Of course she and Nik reacted the way they always do, lamely and with name calling. (sigh). Grow up you guys!!!!

   @whatwhat: You are right on every point, and glad to have you suffer along with me! The really trashy reality shows I just end up reading the recaps here, instead of watching. It’s true!

   @Suz: You may be right, but even if they had a “real” wedding on tv, IT’S STILL NOT A REAL WEDDING!!!! Gawd! But she’s such an attention whore, she’d love it anyway. (sigh).

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   Gypsy
   Posted November 21, 2012 at 6:44 am

   Oh Gawd that lady makes me want to PUKE, courtney’s mother that is.

   I don’t care for Shayne, I think she’s a brat, saw some of her reality show and they were a very poor imitation of that K family I refuse to name. She can’t talk her way out of a paper bag. Use your words Shayne. You’re not two.

   Nik may be the perveyor of smut but really, does that automatically make him a bad person? he’s capitalizing on idiots like everyone else in Hollywood inclduing VH1 for airing this show.

   I dunno, they both have their issues but I see him as at least trying and her just whining. Not a Shayne fan.

   I can’t comment on Dourtney anymore, they make me so uncomfortable. I am all for Simon going H a m on them and Alex breaking out in hives over it.

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   Honeybee
   Posted November 21, 2012 at 8:50 am

   I wish someone would ask Doug; why do you think you deserve the respect of your peers? Because there is no respose that he can give to justify his behavior. He can make excuses until he is blue in the face, but it doesn’t change that he was an old geezer and she was a teenager and not legal. Hell Elmo just resigned his post because of a scandel involving a minor.

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    Gypsy
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 10:53 am

    I just want to say I am listening to Too Short on Pandora right now. Man needs to grow up, the sun set on his rap days. Like the man says, Life is…Too Short!

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    snowshoecat
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Let’s just hope that Whortney never notices that babies are cute and wants one.

    Those tubes should be tied, like, yesterday.

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    Lemon
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    Whoretney ‘s mom’s tubes needed tying 19 years ago.

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    mirabelle gingerbread
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 4:19 pm

    eyedios, sometimes i feel the warm fuzzies for shayne too, she does have a really sweet face (and sometimes says funny-ish things) but you’re right that she’s the one that truly needs the therapy because that sweet face seems to be steadfastly two-sided. at least nik is totally upfront about being a peenor. he does seem very smart, too smart to be with someone like shayne. he just needs to soften up. i’m so sick of the ‘angry guy’. it’s a trend that needs to stop. well, and actually now that i think about it, he is softening up a little bit and making a genuine effort with his wife – which she can’t see at all?? they do seem like they’re really in love, they just don’t know how to function as a couple. lol, which is the heart of this show, i really cracked the code there, huh?

    i forgot to mention how much i adore seeing silex on my tv again – they are so cute and they truly are in love and i think they have a way better chance than most of these jokers to ‘make it’ through the long haul.

    this show drives me crazy! i don’t watch it all the time but i read all of your recaps!!

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    Margaret
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    I’m a little more skeptical of Nik.

    In all fairness to him, the misogynism that he displays on his website may not reflect his true feelings about women and his website persona is just an act to make money.

    On the other hand, if it does reflect his true opinions about women, then I don’t blame Shayne one bit. If I was with a man who thought like that, I’d shut down emotionally too and all of the romantic dates in the world wouldn’t get me to open up.

    How can you open up to someone who has no respect for you?

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    Margaret
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    @ Lemon

    I agree about her mom’s tubes.

    After seeing her mother, I don’t think that Courtney ever really had a chance.

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    AmyOops
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    You are so lucky, eyedios! I’m just glad your farting child is well again!

    SSC: Shhhhhhh! For shit’s sake don’t put any *thought* of that out there! She might just get pregnant and we’ll all hope 2012 really is (or was) the end lol.

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    AmyOops
    Posted November 21, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Ooh…one more thing I’ve been meaning to bring up: Doug really does have a “rug” ie toupee ie man-wig?

    I have never been good at spotting those on men. I guess assumed that because the asshat shaved “Courtney” onto the back of his head that the whole shebang was real. That damn scarf-y/head wrap-y thing he wears sometimes perhaps should have tipped me off?

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    JudgyWudgy
    Posted November 22, 2012 at 10:02 am

    I 100% agree with what thespiral said on the minicap. I am not at offended by Nik or TheDirty because I don’t think it takes itself seriously and actually have been an occasional patron of it for a few years now (finding out he was on Couples Therapy after a few episodes had already aired was why I tuned in in the first place because I wanted to see more of the man behind such a superficial site). I like the guy and think he’d be fun to be around, but I don’t feel bad for him in his relationship because he got exactly the kind of girl he waxes poetic about on his site. Be careful what you wish for, bro.