I guess I'm the only one who still loves Sean. He has not made any significant mistakes yet, at least not as far as The Bachelor goes. I think he does have a very set idea of what he is looking for and it should be his perorgative to find the best match.
Am I the only one who thinks that Sean STILL is not ready for a serious committed relationship?
I thought that since Emily's season. I think the show picked the level of immaturity of the girls they have on
because Sean, himself, still is a bit emotionally immature. And I bet, in the end, non-commital. Sean is on for the fame and hopefully a future career in reality TV.
I BET he picks Catherine in the end. Because then they can be non-committal
together and that ultimately ends the relationship. Her own
family warned Sean that she may only be into the relationship for the moment -which I think Sean is like too. he doesn't seem to me to be someone there for the long haul. he doesn't seem very deep or intelligent to me. Instead of RUNNING from Catherine and her family's warnings, he's wondering if he should pick her over the other dysfunctional family girl.
HELLO? I'm the only one seeing this?
That brother was a real piece of work, and the passive aggressive way the family dealt with it by changing the subject and let's talk about the weather would have me running too.
I feel bad for Des and wish she would have stood up to her *** of a brother. Or that the parents would have been more involved in some way. Why let the brother run the show. I think the disrespect also pissed his off.
I think the shots of the food on the plates were intentional. I really think he got up and left during the meal because the brother was so rude and the parents were oblivious talking about the weather.
the parents seemed kind of high!
It's all classic interaction techniques in dysfunctional families. It's called
placating the DOMINEERING Alpha. NONE of them are strong enough to confront him. Imagine how much worse it gets when there are no cameras there. They probably couldn't even tell him NOT to show up for the Hometown Date, as they'd live through Hell if they didn't tell him when it was.
The very fact that the parent talked about the weather is also a classic telltale symptom of the dysfunction. They aren't oblivious to what is going on. It's called "Ignoring the Pink Elephant in the room."
They also weren't high, they went into a trance state of pretending that everything is all right to PLACATE the Domineering Abuser. Again it is part of "Ignoring the Pink Elephant in the room."
(note: I met DH while his parents still lived out of State, and didn't really get to know them and see the truth until we were already engaged.)
That's exactly what I (jokingly) said a couple pages back. That when you know you have a dysfunctional family (member) you don't introduce the soon-to-be spouse for a couple
years, when things are really solid between the two.
OKAY.... so here is the rest of the story....
My DH happened to be sitting there watching this last night, and was like "Why would they let the brother do that?"
OMG, What a freakin' epiphany!!!!
My jaw hit the floor.
DH, honestly, was not realizing that he did that EXACT same thing, letting his dad be verbally derogatory and negative in exactly that same way!!!!
To ME, his wife...
I was like, "What.... ummm, like I haven't been in that situation...."
It was like that finally got in there somewhere and hit him between the eyes.... He got REALLY quiet... Just kind of stared down...
OMG!!!
Congrats that he finally saw the light.
That was just............. 
