MAFS OZ UK starting 6 March

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Let's get started! Please no spoilers

I seem to remember reading that they used to get a lot of contestants from swinging sites. Melissa has a weird attitude to sex. She doesn't seem totally NT. The bloke seems OK but a bit wet. I feel sorry for him but let's see how it pans out.

I felt so sorry for Claire. Jesse wasn't emotionally intelligent enough to realise she was probably very nervous. He definitely needs to do a lot of work on himself before any relationship. Dd thinks he's gay.

I think the opposite re. Jesse. He is obviously very aware of the pattern he falls into and can see it happening again. On the other hand I think Claire thinks that because her personality is 'fun' and 'out there' then there is nothing she needs to do- she just needs to find someone who will put up with it. She talks about emotional intelligence but I'm not sure that she is massively aware of the impact she has on others. Who would be a good fit for her? Someone equally loud? Anyone even slightly more introvert would end up retreating which is what has happened. She expects the other person to do all the compromising and sees them asking for a little more peace as 'dulling her shine'.

She wasn't that loud! She's a teacher and seems a nice, kind person. Jesse is not an introvert. He's on MAFS fgs and has a very performative job. He has issues, yes, but if those issues are real then he's no business dragging someone down with him. Hopefully he'll sort some of them out.

I wonder if Melissa (MamaBear) is hoping for more air time by being OTT about the shagging.

She's going to ruin a potentially quite wholesome relationship with a guy who could be everything she wants albeit he doesn't look like Thor or brag about shagging.

Like PP have said, if the roles were reversed and that was a man behaving like that we would be up in arms.

@Salverus you can be in introvert and have to ‘perform’ for a job it just makes you exhausted and back away to recover from putting your game face on.

Yes I realise that. But why go on a TV show where you know you are going to be with people 24/7 for a year in that case?

There's extrovert though and then there are people who have to fill a silence. And that would grate on me. I wonder how she will be at a dinner party.

I don't think this relationship not going well is anyone's fault. Just mismatched personalities. But then I always think that people now go on reality shows with a rather amplified version of their personalities. And very quickly they realise what a bad idea that was 😬

I'd imagine she was nervous. She wasn't rattling on last time we saw them together. She was subdued and sad.

Because sometimes you just want to try.

Well we will have to see how it pans out.

I'm a bit 😐 at all posters excusing his behaviour which has been unbelievably rude IMO.

I think he's a total prick and there's no chance of him being redeemed IMO.

I think this too. Clare is quite lightweight in my opinion. The crystals and star signs indicate she thinks something or someone else holds all the answers. Jessie worries that it’s all on him.

Can’t wait for the dinner party. I think it will give us a better insight into what are their game faces, in and out of the relationship. I can’t remember who got well at the bucks and hens night? Although Melinda and Melissa clearly had issues.

What is the name of the one who is obsessed with the need for the production crew to know they have had sex, god she is irritating!

Yes I often find the friendships more interesting than the relationships (they tend to be more enduring too!) 😄

An introvert isn't about being shy, quiet or not confident. It's about how you interact socially and your social battery. I am a confident introvert. However being around extroverted, louder people affects me. It exhausts me but I try and hide it. I don't like big social gatherings, especially with people I don't really know but I'm not shy.

I like being on my own a lot of the time but I also like being with people, just those I feel are on the same wavelength as me. I can get why Jesse is behaving why he is but mocking her wasn't on.

The mocking was unbelievably nasty. I think being that spiteful is more than being an introvert, he really wanted to hurt her.

She did ask for multiple examples. It was never going to go well.

We'll see. I suspect he's just a common or garden arsehole.

Well, yeah, that's always an option.

Surprised we're straight onto dinner parties. There is normally more of them on honeymoon.

Does anyone read the James Weir recaps of the episodes? They hilarious! (careful of spoilers)

www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/reality-tv/married-at-first-sight

They seem to have shoehorned more of the honeymoons into the wedding episodes. And maybe we get less of the actual weddings. Which is weird as some of the weddings last series had about two guests and yet we had loads of footage of them. I quite like the new format.

Her 'marriage' won't last long!

I think Melissa is actually insecure underneath the facade. Possibly about her body. And I think she wants sex because she equates it with love/closeness. She takes sexual rejection as personal rejection.