I hate to be all “ugh millennials,” but would it have killed her to put on a blouse? Lauren keeps repeating that it’s “never been this big of a deal to meet someone’s parents.” You have been engaged literally twice. Lauren arrives with a bouquet of flowers and a slouchy sweater. Becca was doomed before she set foot in that room. Oh! And everyone’s spouse … is a blonde woman. That’s tough.” And Arie’s mother looks like Krystal with a few hard years added on. When Arie first sits down with his father and tells him that he’s in love with two women, his dad’s reaction is just, “Good luck, buddy. We’ve never been able to trace a line from someone’s family to their current behavior in such a precise way until we met Arie’s family. I’m supposed to believe that this woman has a vibrant enough inner life to justify journaling? Is the only thing in her journal just drawings of the Snowman from the film The Snowman?

Becca and Lauren still have to meet Arie’s family and Lauren is drinking Champagne and journaling. Related StoriesĪ Close Look at Lauren B.’s 94 Lines of Dialogue in The BachelorĪrie and the two remaining ladytestants are spending their final days in Peru before the most controversial ending of a Bachelor season ever. Even though I knew what was coming, I looked for something in Arie’s face to tell me he had anything resembling a real human feeling, but now I know he’s just a human male without the ability to read or respond to social cues. I could watch Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump renew their vows while Omarosa played “Take on Me” on the violin and I’d shed a little tear. When Arie proposed to Becca, I didn’t cry and I always cry. You can’t just watch what happened here tonight and not feel a deep, seething rage.īut guys, I didn’t really feel anything. OOOOO OOOOOOOOOH!!!! If it was done in the name of finding love! Wellllllllllllll, I guess that makes it all JUST FINE THEN? Is that the implication? How does Chris Harrison feel about all this? I know he’s the relationship equivalent of Switzerland, but there’s gotta be something brewing in there. But if you’re any of my friends, you’re just texting me because you’re watching a man less interesting than chamomile tea ruin the remaining tatters of his reputation and emotionally destroy a perfectly charming Minnesota native.Ĭhris Harrison stood up there and said, “Remember, every scandalous action was done in the name of finding love. Some people might send each other these texts as they watch unhinged politicians give preposterous interviews.

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