Laura Vaughan’s MAFS diary: Luke’s lies and sexual innuendos are making Amy feel uncomfortable – he needs to stop
IT all kicked off last night between Amy and Luke and although a lot fans have been critical of the wedding planner – she’s not entirely in the wrong.
Their homestay fallout reminded me very much of mine and Arthur’s disastrous away break.
White lies are never okay in the early stages of a relationship – I don’t think Amy was wrong for her reaction.
But at the same time, Luke shouldn’t be made to feel ashamed of working as a butler in the buff.
If you are as obsessed with Married At First Sight as I am, you need to keep reading, as I’ve got some thoughts…
Match made in hell
We saw the second episode of homestays week and it was giving a lot of drama, so let’s talk about it.
Amy and Luke…I want to talk about this because anyone who watched my season, it’s giving mine and Arthur’s homestays.
Arthur would tell white lies constantly, but they weren’t white, they were massive lies and towards the end it started really annoying me.
We saw Luke lie about the picture. Amy is not annoyed that he had a picture with another woman, he’s annoyed that he felt the need to cover it up and then lie about it.
The one thing that Amy has asked from Luke to do, is dial it down with the sexual innuendos and he’s ignoring her, he’s continuing to do it.
All she’s saying, is that it makes me feel uncomfortable on camera. I don’t want you to represent that overtly sexual side to our relationship in front of the nation, so please stop doing it.
I think he’s being disrespectful in continuing to do so.
But Luke is not the only one at fault.
Another thing I don’t agree with is how they brought up the butler in the buff, I don’t think we should weaponise those things.
I think there was a better way around that.
But taking his ring off and saying he’s a single man, it doesn’t really scream much emotional intelligence.
I think everyone is going to feel sorry for Luke but actually I think we need to realise that I’m not sure we’re seeing who this person is on camera.
I think he’s quite good at being aware of the cameras.
My advice to Amy is if you don’t feel that you’re getting an authentic version of this man…RUN…RUN NOW.
If he’s not been showing you who he is through this experiment, then do you really want to stay married to a stranger.
No bad blood
As I predicted, we saw Kieran and Kristina choose to stay apart for home stays week.
I think that was probably the right decision given the emotion that’s sitting around their relationship at the moment, but it does make me wonder how they’re going to bounce back from that.
If you’ve been given the opportunity in the experiment to see how you’re lives would work together and they haven’t done that, understandably so, where do you go from here.
I do think, we do see the end of Kieran and Kristina’s relationship in this week.
I think at the commitment ceremony they will decide to leave – but I think they will part amicably and I think they will part as friends because they haven’t got caught up in the drama, they haven’t ripped shreds out of each other unlike some of the other couples.
It was really interesting to see Kieran open up and explain that the reason he’s struggling with the relationship is because he doesn’t think he can be the emotional support Kristina needs throughout her PMDD.
I think he was a little bit blinkered going into it and didn’t realise how intense it could be and I actually think Kristina can use this now as a platform to talk about it, because women with the same condition will really be able to relate.
It’s giving selfish
Sacha and Ross, I said it in my last diary that I’m getting a little bit bored of people who refuse to move to be together.
What did they think was going to happen?
Did they think they were going to meet someone that lived in your own postcode?
I’m sorry but I think it’s going to have to be Sacha. Ross has a daughter, a toddler.
But Sacha’s parents want her to stay with them, but I think it’s really quite selfish and just a bit weird that they seemed so invested in keeping their daughter with them.
She’s not a child!
If Sacha’s dad is close to Sacha – surely he understands why Ross doesn’t want to leave his daughter.
We need some compromise from Sacha.
My predictions
In the next episode, we will probably see the house of cards fall down around Amy and Luke.
In the spoiler it looked like Adam and Polly are saying that they’re really giddy and happy together.
So I don’t know if they’ve forgot what they’re homestays were actually like. I guess we’ll see.
I also think Kristina and Kieran will probably leave the experiment as close friends.