As always, I save the best – that being Kim – for last. So here we go…
Matt, Kim and Kelly (mom): I gotta say, Matt had me speechless throughout most of this episode (but not anymore 😁). He is such a victim and can’t see the forest for the trees 🤦♀️. But I’m getting ahead of myself. So Kim and Matt finally sit down over a meal to talk about what’s going on between the two of them. Kim would rather be doing anything but having this conversation right now. She uses small talk to avoid it for as long as possible until Matt finally asks what’s going on. And when it comes right down to it, being under Kelly’s roof without any boundaries has been weighing her down and that living without her constant presence has been a blessing for Kim. At the moment Matt agrees that his mom is a lot. Kim doesn’t want to come between Matt and Kelly, but she needs to be the person Matt comes to first for support and he doesn’t. At this point Matt calls his mother over to join the conversation (because he’s losing and needs back-up 😡) and Kim is like you brought your mother (her face actually said “what the absolute F🤬🤬k?)? Matt deflects with “she asked to come”. Hey Matt, how about telling Kelly – NO! When Kim says they were having an intense discussion, Kelly’s says go right ahead, because Matt and Kelly share everything 🤢. In Kim’s aside she says that it’s always two against one (apparently because man-child Matt can’t handle his own business) and that it will always be the two of them against her. Kim really tries to be kind while breaking Matt’s heart. She calmly tells him that he hasn’t been a good partner to her (Kelly intervenes with “and you have been a good partner?” 🙄) and she doesn’t see herself married to him. To which Matt responds with the second temper tantrum of the show, telling Kim to “Go f🤬🤬k yourself Kim” and “F🤬🤬k you” repeatedly while trying to usher his mom out of the restaurant (weird side note – Kelly walks out of the restaurant with her wine glass for some reason 🤷🏼♀️). Matt spends the remainder of the episode playing the victim, as if he has no responsibility for the end of his relationship. It was funny, at one point when Matt was railing against Kim he turned to his mom and says, “I told you she’d do this” and in the next minute he’s telling production that he didn’t see it coming. So, which is it – you knew it was coming or you didn’t? He can’t even keep his own narrative straight. Then he tries to say that not only did Kim break his heart, she broke his mom’s heart – you know the woman who couldn’t hide her glee when Kim left? The same woman who frequently took pleasure in hurling nasty comments at Kim (disguised as “jokes”), that woman? Yeah, she’s broken hearted that the woman who took your attention away from her is gone, please 🙄… Then he starts ranting about the car he bought her and all the money his parents spent paying for her food, her phone bill and so on, like she was some kind of golddigger. Now I was already worked up about how he treated Kim, but this just pushed me over the edge. You see, I remember when Kim was considering taking the Houston job, she wanted to use the extra money to “pay back his parents for all they had done for them” 🤯. Did you forget about that Matt? As for the car – did she ask you to buy it, or did you decide you wanted to gift her the car. If it’s the latter, he can f🤬🤬k all the way off for even mentioning it. Oh, and at some point, he insinuates Kim is cheating on him with absolutely no proof other than she broke things off with him. Ugh, this guy 🤮. All of this ends with Matt sobbing in a bar and Kelly acting like a mafia boss out for blood. “She will never be forgiven for this” – Kelly. I’m beginning to think Kim needs to run farther than Houston to get away from her 😳.
It was a spectacular end to this odd little show. I’m only sorry for the Matt/Kim breakup for two reasons – how horrible Matt was to Kim in the end and that Kim won’t be back next season 😢. She has consistently been my favorite personality on this show and didn’t deserve the treatment she got.
Final thoughts: One the most annoying things that consistently occurred throughout the season is this narrative that they girlfriends new that the mama’s boys were close to their mothers, a package deal. And I don’t think most of the girlfriends had issues with them being close as much as it was about setting healthy boundaries and taking care of yourself like adults should. Oh, and treating your significant other with the same level of respect you treat your mother. It’s not that complicated.
Next week is some sort of a situation where they watch each other’s storyline (I think) and comment. I’m not sure how that’s going to look and I might do a “not a recap” if it’s worth it. We shall see.
For those who joined me on this ridiculous journey, I thank you for indulging my guilty pleasure.
My Lemons My Lemonade 