Spoilers:
Freddie rejecting Cat. Jesus Christ. She is an adoptee. Doesn’t matter how high maintenance she might be or whatever. He could have ended the relationship in a different and private way. Her rejection sensitivity will be off the scale. This is the kind of rejection experience that could seriously endanger her psychological wellbeing. The producers are outrageous to have put her through this.
I felt absolutely sick seeing poor Cat get rejected at the altar and everyone around him congratulating Freddie. Anyone who thinks he was being emotionally mature jilting her at the wedding clearly knows nothing about the lifelong trauma of adoption. He was vastly emotionally ignorant.
Freddie has had the lifelong benefit of a loving family of origin who are very much still around him as an adult. Cat, however loving and very nice her adoptive parents are in reality, will have huge issues around trust and attachment and showing love, to work through. Those massively ignorant TV producers should be formally taken to task by the TV regulators for putting contestants’ psychological health in such jeopardy for their show. It really made me sick to see it.
I also thought it was odd how the show wanged on about values and culture being so important yet didn’t even mention any issues around race which would be something in couples’ minds.
Tom seemed like a typical sexist man wanting kids but wanting his female partner to stilll contribute exactly half financially. That’s not possible actually unless he changes how he works too. They didn’t show that conversation funnily enough..
I wondered in Sam might have some ND. With his preprepared lines. Regardless of cause, he seemed very emotionally fragile with his nose job and insecurity and overstating his attributes. He shouldn’t have been cast either because of the emotional fragility of the show and being cast as a villain. Ben’s reaction to San was way OTT as well I wondered about him also.