Melinda and Layton have spent the night separately and our eyebrow CEO is distraught because, as you might recall, she’s in love with him but he doesn’t feel the same way.
They’re also watching their wedding video back — only in different apartments — to offer perspective ahead of vows. But holy shit, with this footage, surely they’ll wind up hating each other even more than they already do?
Melinda realises that all the things she initially found unattractive about Layton have now become attractive instead. That’s also a shit side effect of love, folks.
OK, if you weren’t convinced that Layton made hella money before now, then this “alone in Sydney” shot of him ought to do the trick.
Heavens. Layton even thinks about love logically which is wild considering it’s something that generally makes you illogical. He puts the cherry on top by babbling some nonsense about data inputs and it’s a miracle I’ve tolerated him so long.
He’s telling his sister about Melinda’s declaration of love. She points out the obvious which is that he didn’t validate her feelings.
Layton worries that people who fall in love easily can fall out of love easily and you know what, doll? I feel you on that. Side note: I wont sleep until I know what he was drinking but not allowed to show.
He’s not doing well.
Over in Brissy, Melinda is telling her mum about the dinner party love bomb (and how her husband decided to respond to the hugely vulnerable moment).
Melinda looks fucking phenomenal and Layton notices before tucking into his presentation. Sorry, vows.
He says they got caught up in the relationship’s friction and didn’t have time to recover from it. He also wants to apologise!
“I realise there are times where I failed you,” he tells her. He’s crying now and I feel for him and the very clear regret he’s experiencing.
“There were moments when you needed me and I wasn’t there to support you. There were moments when you didn’t feel secure and I wasn’t able to make you feel safe,” Layton continues.
“And there were moments when you felt alone and I didn’t do enough to make you feel like I was standing there by your side.
“At times I let my pride, my ego and my own insecurities get the better of me and I’m sorry for all those times I let you down.”
“People think your soulmate is your perfect fit, and that’s what I thought I wanted. But maybe a true soulmate is a mirror, a person who shows you everything that’s holding you back,” he says.
OH IT’S AWNNNN.
“The person who brings you to your own attention that you can make a change, and my biggest fear is that despite so many similarities, our differences will always bring out the worst in each other,” he continues.
OK, that’s not good. Also, why is she smiling?
“When love should bring out the best.”
He says the last week has been a battle between his head and his heart and honey, isn’t that your whole damn existence (not just the last week)?
“Our relationship is hard and us being together is a risk, so I’m ready to take that risk with you today,” he tells her.
Doll, this is not an edgy social media campaign. It’s a relationship. She doesn’t look that stoked either?
He finishes his PowerPoint by saying he’s falling in love with her. She says nothing back (perhaps because she can’t reveal her decision just yet) and I hope now he knows how it feels to be have an admission like that unreciprocated.
Her turn! Golden hour for Melinda! We love this!
LOL she reminds Layton she wasn’t attracted to him at first. But his personality prevailed!
“There were times you had my back. But there were also times you were on the opposite team,” Melinda tells Layton.
She says he made her feel alone, humiliated and attacked at the final dinner party after confessing her love.
“At a time when I was most vulnerable,” she clarifies. Yes. Tell him so it sinks in.
“I’m not sure we can find a way to bring out the best in each other, and I worry at times we bring out the worst.”
He is STRESSED and if my partner and I both thought we brought out the worst in each other (they’ve both said this in the vows alone), I too would be uneasy.
Now Melinda would like to tell her MAFS husband all the things she loves about him:
- Ability to light up the room
- Time he has for others
- How he makes her feel loved without needing to love her at all
She also wants to take the risk on a lucrative and collaborative future including a secondary social income.
“I love you. And I want us to be together.”
Cute. And they fought angrily ever after.
They’re feeling over the moon that they married versions of themselves they can have sex with.
Plans for the future? Two boys, an Italian greyhound, house on the beach and Layton cooking up a storm while telling Melinda how she’s his perfect person with beautiful eyelashes.
Props to whatever brand this is for engineering product placement that makes no sense at all.
Alright, enough of our power couple. Alyssa has a child and we must spend another 20 minutes of our lives being reminded of that.
Prince Eric is meeting with his sister who is also blessed with unfairly good genes. Um, do you think these two come from money? Asking for a friend.
Alright it’s MAFS final vows time and for some reason they are in the middle of the woods? Very Disney areas for our Prince Eric who, not going to lie, looks very enthused to see her.
He thanks her for her words. Quite literally that is what he said and did.
Prince Eric says he hoped to find his forever but that there have been some “low lows”.
This ain’t looking good, sis.
“But our views on what a healthy relationship looks like seems to be apart.
Like I get it but FUCK. How many breakups end with a “I’ve got to say goodbye” lololololol.
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