‘Married At First Sight’_ Season 17 Episode 6 Recap
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00:00 How do you feel that I had sex two months ago?
00:03 Being honest, it kind of took sex off the table for me.
00:09 On Married at First Sight this week,
00:11 we saw the couples navigating some murky waters
00:13 on their honeymoons.
00:15 I'm Stephanie, and let's get right
00:16 into it with Claire and Cameron.
00:19 They've been having communication issues
00:20 in past episodes, but now they're
00:22 hoping that they're going to bond
00:23 while letting out their inner artists
00:25 during a painting session.
00:27 I like Claire.
00:29 Seeing her smiling and having fun around me
00:33 makes me think that she's feeling more attracted to me.
00:37 That was completely against the rules.
00:38 The rules of marriage.
00:40 So I hope maybe the splattering of the paint
00:43 has allowed her and me to come to a place
00:47 where we can find a romantic connection between us.
00:51 But back to the old miscommunication trope,
00:53 things still aren't 100% for these two.
00:55 The attraction that you all have with your partners
00:58 was immediate, and that's fair to say, correct?
01:01 Yeah.
01:01 And that's where we differ.
01:02 It hasn't been that experience for us.
01:05 I'm really attracted to Claire.
01:07 I think she is very attractive.
01:10 While we aren't the most intimate people yet,
01:14 I'm very much looking forward to us getting there.
01:18 You got to hand it to them.
01:19 They're willing to try to make things work,
01:21 and they opened up about how they're feeling to each other.
01:23 With the girls, I think it was also a very vulnerable position
01:26 for me to be in too, because it seemed like I was comparing
01:29 with them and what they're doing and what we're not doing.
01:31 And from their advice, it was just like,
01:33 they had mentioned that they noticed that you were putting
01:35 your arm around me, and I didn't even acknowledge that.
01:38 And I feel bad in that way, because I feel like, wow,
01:42 I haven't even focused on the amount that he is trying.
01:46 And I'm sorry that I haven't been more aware of that.
01:50 Thank you.
01:50 I appreciate you saying that.
01:52 I think it's fair to say we are both trying, right?
01:55 Yeah.
01:56 Yeah.
01:56 And while out on the open ocean, they both
01:59 talked about how they're willing to ride the wave of love
02:01 with each other.
02:02 OK, that was cheesy, but you know I had to.
02:04 I think I was kind of feeding off of just the energy that
02:07 was between us, which was like--
02:09 Awkward.
02:09 Yeah.
02:10 Yeah.
02:11 Yeah.
02:11 If we continue to let that happen,
02:14 it would be a very disastrous situation.
02:17 Yeah.
02:18 But I feel like we've made a really big change.
02:24 And the tide was going out, and now the tide's coming in.
02:27 That's what it feels like to me.
02:29 Emily is an all-in type of girl.
02:31 She went from having no relationships
02:33 to being married to Brennan.
02:35 And now she's trying to take things a little bit slower
02:37 with him in order to make things work.
02:40 I know you wanted to have sex on your honeymoon,
02:42 and you're like, it's going to be weird
02:43 if we don't have sex on your honeymoon.
02:45 Has that changed?
02:46 I would say for me, I'm trying to take it differently,
02:48 because it's my first relationship.
02:50 So I've really enjoyed not jumping in it
02:53 and asking on that same page and just really building
02:56 a more stable, emotional connection.
03:00 So it's been different.
03:02 I feel like that's a good thing and change for me.
03:05 And later, Emily had a hair-raising situation,
03:08 literally, when her tresses got distressed in the ocean,
03:12 and she ended up having to get them chopped off.
03:14 Honestly, she's handling this a lot better than I would.
03:17 I'm a guy, so when my hair gets messed up, I just brush it.
03:21 Stand up.
03:22 OK.
03:23 He's just so confused by all of it.
03:25 Wow.
03:36 I literally felt like I'm bonded.
03:45 And she and Brendan bonded over how they
03:47 handled the hairy situation.
03:49 It's like, honestly, it did mean a lot.
03:50 And I know you probably don't get that,
03:52 because it's just hair.
03:53 But in this setting specifically,
03:56 it was very stressful.
03:57 But it felt like fine.
03:59 I can go to bed with two birds nestling in my hair.
04:01 It'll be fine.
04:02 Didn't bother me at all.
04:04 I thought you looked great regardless.
04:06 I just appreciate you.
04:08 I obviously don't know what it's like.
04:11 But I could tell it was upsetting you.
04:15 And you still had a smile on your face
04:17 and still made me smile the whole day.
04:19 And it didn't affect the outcome of the day.
04:22 Yeah.
04:22 I love that I make you smile.
04:24 I do.
04:24 And I write to you.
04:26 And in my darkest of times.
04:28 Which means a lot.
04:29 Yeah.
04:30 It's like a little thing that still, I think, shows,
04:33 like, I know you're going to be there for me, vice versa.
04:36 Becca and Austin continue to be the cutest.
04:38 They met up, and Austin admitted that when he was hanging out
04:41 with the other guys, he kind of downplayed their relationship
04:44 and how great everything is with them,
04:46 because he didn't want to make them feel bad.
04:48 I can imagine that it's hard for other couples
04:53 when they aren't instantly connected like we are.
04:57 And I don't want to discourage them
04:59 from thinking that their relationships are
05:01 right and good just because they don't have what we have.
05:05 But by extinguishing your own candle,
05:07 you don't light someone else's.
05:09 Wait.
05:10 Do you think I'm going to extinguish your own candle?
05:12 No.
05:12 I'm saying, like, by downplaying what you have,
05:15 you don't give something to somebody else.
05:17 It seems like he took what she said to heart,
05:19 because later on, he was gushing
05:20 about how much he likes her.
05:22 You made me feel incredibly safe,
05:23 which isn't something that I wanted going into this.
05:27 But once we--
05:28 Glad that you have it.
05:29 Yeah, now that I have it, it's so, so relieving.
05:33 What a weight off my shoulders to know that she has my back.
05:38 It's incredible.
05:42 Lauren and Orion had a tense conversation last episode,
05:45 and they're still navigating how to handle something like this.
05:48 There are a lot of things I don't move on.
05:53 And as you discovered yesterday, one of them
05:56 is who I am, where I come from.
06:00 And I hold a lot of pride in it, and I know you do too.
06:04 I did take a walk.
06:06 I wasn't upset.
06:08 I just-- my ducks were not in a row.
06:10 Yeah.
06:12 So with that, I wasn't able to formulate words
06:16 where I felt like I would be respectful to you.
06:21 And so with that, there's no need for me to say anything.
06:24 They ended up having a heart to heart
06:26 and really talking things out.
06:28 And they both agreed that they want
06:29 to work through this together and learn from the situation.
06:33 I think it's good for us to learn how to navigate this,
06:38 so that if something-- when something else comes up,
06:42 no matter what it is, we'll be--
06:45 just know how to do it better.
06:47 We got this.
06:49 Yeah.
06:50 Lauren says she wants to make sure going forward
06:52 in their relationship that when they have disagreements
06:55 or any kind of tough situations arise,
06:57 that they really have each other to lean on
06:58 and be there for each other.
07:00 I want to set that standard now that no matter what happens
07:04 throughout the night, in the morning,
07:06 we get those cuddles in, those kisses in,
07:08 whatever it looks like for what mood we're in.
07:11 And we just get to go about our day feeling like, all right,
07:15 I'm cared by this person.
07:16 And this person feels cared by me.
07:20 You know, I love that.
07:22 I absolutely love that.
07:24 Because I've not had anybody like that.
07:27 I have never had consistent reciprocation.
07:31 Later on, they had a conversation
07:32 about the last time they had been intimate with anyone.
07:35 And Orion seemed shocked at what Lauren had to say.
07:38 When was the last time you had sex?
07:40 A little more than a year and a half.
07:41 Oh, wow.
07:42 That I was intimate with somebody.
07:44 OK.
07:45 It's definitely something more than just
07:47 the physical act for me.
07:48 Same.
07:49 Definitely been less time for me.
07:51 So it's a couple months ago.
07:54 Two months, probably to the day, honestly.
07:57 You know, right now I am feeling a bit uncomfortable.
08:05 And he was really unhappy about what she had to say,
08:07 and said that intimacy is off the table for him now.
08:10 How do you feel that I had sex two months ago?
08:15 It's not like a walking cornball.
08:20 Being honest, it kind of took sex off the table for me.
08:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:28 All right, what's next?
08:34 Sex is done.
08:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:46 (upbeat music)