The Madison-Allen-Michelle-David Cheating Scandal: Commentary
These 2 couples were a horrible match for one another. Yet MAFS matched them anyway. Was that deliberate, to create drama? Or are they just bad at making matches?
Then, on top of it, Madison from the first couple and David from the second couple stepped out of their respective matches and started meeting secretly, while on the show.
(Now they are engaged.)
If you watch the show (on Netflix) you can see that Allen and David both start out with the best of intentions.
These guys give the relationships 1000% percent, literally putting up with a ton of BS from the women.
Anyone watching could see that the women didn’t like their chosen partners but the guys kept trying. “What do you need from me?” “How can I be better for you?” 🤮🤮🤮
One of the other guys was doing that too and his partner had zero respect for him. “I’ve always been insecure…”
I kept thinking: Shut up!
In any case, Michelle — of the Michelle-David couple — is incredibly mean to David on the show, right from the beginning. “You live with your parents? Ewww.” “Stop texting me,” “I need my space,” blah blah blah.
He literally is hugging her, holding her, being incredibly affectionate to someone he does not even know. He is trying.
Meanwhile Madison is nice, but in an obviously phony way, which later reveals itself as leading Allen on.
I knew from the beginning she was not attracted to him.
He knew it too.
He, like David, kept asking things like: “What can I do for you?” “How can I make you happy?”
Wrong questions!
Better not to say anything except: “We’re going on the boat tomorrow. I’ll pick you up at 8.”
They show them in the bedroom talking. Madison sat about 10,000 feet apart from him. Any further and she would have been off the bed.
In answer to his questions, Madison kept saying evasive things like, “I just want you to do things for yourself.”
LOL! What a faker.
Then the producers show us that Madison and David (after having been rejected and chewed out for the millionth time) are “just talking” in the gym.
Uh-huh.
My husband and I looked at each other right away and said: “They’re cheating.”
Mind you the camera is angling on them FROM THE BACK.
It was just so clear, and then Madison confesses to Allen that she was “just giving David some advice in the gym about his relationship.”
I do not blame David one bit. I do blame Madison, for as Allen said, she could have just been honest and said “this isn’t it for me” instead of embarrassing him on television.
Felt bad for Michelle, who clearly has had a hard life, and difficulty finding the right partner. The therapy session where she confronted herself and admitted her control issues and past trauma around dependence was excellent TV.
The other two men on the show didn’t fold to the women the way the above did. One of them was calmly in command at all times, although he was also selfish, dismissive and condescending.
The other one came closest to being what seemed like a calm, supportive but strong partner, but he turns out to be not attracted to the woman.
MAFS and the other show I like, Love Is Blind (really all these reality shows) is entertaining because love and marriage are truly miraculous when they work. There really is no formula. It’s just a miracle from HaShem.
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 