Lockdown TV viewing has come with some compromises, one of which was watching Married at First Sight, Australia with my better half.
To begon with I found it excruciating, then I mocked and mimicked the accent, then I identified with some of the participants. Finally I became enraged by the deceptive behaviour by some of the participants who, rather than leave the ‘experiment, stayed in it with their husbands in order to cuckold them and take up with another male.
There is one wife who is driving me nuts, Jessika, an Administrator from Perth married to Mick. She has been flirty with three other husbands and is now head over heals with Tamara’s husband, Dan.
Obviously, the format is ridiculous. Get married to someone selected by the ‘experts’ and then see if you are suited and can form an attachment to them. Some of the participants are wary of forming a bond with their spouse brcause of past relationships and some appear to have nothing in common with their selected mate and you are puzzled at the process of pairing.
There is an amazing openness in the way most of the participants, their friends and family members.talk about their feelings and their intimate moments (or lack of them). The ages range from 24 to 44 and their expectations differ. For some it’s described as the last throw of the dice, for others it’s bed-hopping until they get the ‘feels’ for Mr Right. Nobody uses the L word until they are absolutely sure that they will be making a life together as a married couple after the experiment is over.
So far the most loved up couple, Jules and Cam, are the only people who are a sure thing to enter into marriage for real and stick at it.
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