LOVE ISLAND 22 - MESSAGEEE

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@SlipperOrchid I think LI makes great viewing with teenagers. You get the chance to have really good conversations about relationships in a way that you might not otherwise. I've had the best chats with my two about types of behaviour, red-flags, what good should look like and so on. I cannot conceive of another opportunity we'd have to discuss this stuff in so much detail every night for 8 weeks!

I find it surprising, Tommy is a good looking man, but he has all the sex appeal of Mr Bean.

Mango I suppose so. What age teens though? From 13 or older? My kids are younger. I think LI is dysfunctional tbh although that said I keep reading these threads but a lot of the time, I don't consider it 'real' if that makes any sense? I can't imagine being a parent of one of the contestants.

I wonder if anyone on MN ever been on LI or been a parent of a contestant?

New thread soon

I guess that's for each parent to decide SlipperOrchid. Mine wouldn't have watched it as primary school children for sure, because they'd have been in bed. Even in the younger years of secondary school, I'd still have been expecting them to be getting ready for bed at 9am and not watching TV. This is only its 3rd year, so mine have always watched it, as they are both late teens now. My youngest would have been 15 for the first series.

You're right it isn't a 'real' scenario but the behaviour is real. We've had the best conversations about it, but I guess that may not be the same for all families.

This is the fifth year not the third

Ah, ok - just shows what I know. So we've only watched 3 in our house!

2nd season was by far the best.

Second season was the best, and the one with the most remaining couples (two are married). Quite a few came out of that series with relationships that lasted over a year. Definitely seemed some genuine connections that season.

First Look is up.

Michael really is a first class prick.

Desperate Love Island angle in our local paper this week!

www.northern-times.co.uk/news/love-island-couples-parents-offered-a-retreat-at-alladale-180617/?fbclid=IwAR2Udt6rl4ltYNfx_d-cKXdLHrevJ6AzckQVDRTVMi57YWZVEWkSbwezvmk

I just watch it as entertainment, I don't use it as a parenting tool as by the time mine are old enough to watch, I've already taught them about healthy relationships. The eldest is old enough to watch but he can't think of anything worse!

First Look (Spoilers ahead)

Ovie no 🤦🏻‍♀️ I'm so disappointed in him. Belle was talking so much sense and Michael is a player, he has game. He knew exactly what he was doing when that text came through.

Hopefully Amber's head wins out. I hate to say it though, at her age I had a similar kind of choice, bad boy who'd already hurt me vs a really nice, decent, genuine lad. I followed my heart and lived to regret it.

If she does choose Greg, Michael will be back to being a nasty dick by the end of the night.

Hardly anyone from the 1st season became famous, so the second season was probably the last where they entered without too many thoughts about Instagram ad deals and InTheStyle collections.

Lots of people from the second season are still relatively well known.

New thread!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/3642266-LOVE-ISLAND-23-Our-fannies-are-trobbin?watched=1

Just seen this, not sure I see it myself but I love Gerard Butler and I love Greg 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just seen this, not sure I see it myself but I love Gerard Butler and I love Greg 🤷🏻‍♀️

I love Gerard Butler too and have it on good authority from a family member who met him through work that he is a thoroughly nice chap.

I also had a similiar choice at that age: obvious bad boy, a nice and good boy.
I chose the bad boy. I think it depends on how much you love yourself and how much you will let yourself be loved. Sometimes being with a bad boy means you have to be less vulnerable. Being with a nice boy and really opening your heart to being in love means letting yourself be really vulnerable. I think we do grow up and get out of that stage and think we deserve more

And of course there is the excitement of the bad boy too.
Now, I would choose a nice guy

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo Bandara!!!! He's a lovely lad, whose Mammy brought him up properly.

Men in Ireland are no more abusive than men anywhere else - I find that comment disgusting.

I do agree that you don't know someone from first impressions but to imply he's abusive because he's Irish is horrendous!

And I have lived in Ireland and it is very patriarchal with alot of abuse by young men of women

This is a very very ignorant statement. Men in Ireland are not more abusive than men anywhere else.