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Bethany Ever After - 3/12
After this week's episode is anyone else concerned about possible emotional abuse in their relationship? Who knows with the editing and only getting one side of the story but there just seemed to be a lot of red flags. Regardless I have always thought Jason needs to cut the umbilical cord with his parents just a tad.
Re: Bethany Ever After - 3/12
I can't even watch this show anymore. Bethenny is so neurotic... there is nothing about her that is entertaining at this point.
I don't think we can really get the full picture of their relationship based on what's on the show. Did anyone hear Jason say, "Please don't air our dirty laundry on TV" or something along those lines? That makes me think that he is filtering himself, whereas Bethenny is probably doing the opposite. Bethenny seems obsessed with the country not thinking that Jason is a great husband, so maybe she wanted the show edited in a certain way.
In regards to Jason's relationship with his parents, this is a perfect example of why you should not marry someone and get pregnant with them before you really get to know them. I have a feeling that their difference in 'family values' (or whatever you want to call it) probably would have prevented them from getting married had they dated longer.
Ugh. Bethanny is the worst. She was okay on RHONY but got on my nerves. Like PP said, these are the types of issues that can happen when you get pregnant/married adn do not know eachother well enough before marriage.
she just seems like everything is about her. I read in a lot of sites that Jason was one of NYC's biggest players and so if they divorce, I will not be surprised at all. Bethanny is just.....I don;t even know how to describe it....like she tried waaaaayyyyy to hard with her "jokes" and "quips".
It's a little alarming to hear her talk about "outside Jason" and the "real Jason." Like he puts on a facade for the public to appear like everything is fine, but I wonder what happens behind closed doors. She just doesn't seem happy with him anymore.
I think it sounded like she planned a great birthday surprise for him, and for him to ruin that by saying, "my parents should have been invited" just makes him look like an ass. I don't love Bethenny this season, but I'm having a REALLY hard time even sort of liking Jason. He has such a bad attitude about everything. It's obnoxious.
The jokes and quips are her schtick. Its what she is known for in her business, besides her main company, Skinnygirl.
I wouldn't put it passed anyone to filter themselves for reality TV, but the truth is, you are on TV for your drama. If he were that concerned, why didn't they not take part in the series? Unless, they were bound by a contract for X amount of years...
I would filter if I were on TV, but I guess Bethanny doesn't think/feel that way. I don't get her obsession with showing viewers what Jason IS NOT...like TV Jason vs. INDOOR Jason? WTF was that? Why are you putting him down like that to your coworkers, to your fans? What is this verbal abuse your giving him?
She is a little insecure on the show, I'm not sure if she has insecurities about her relationship or what? But I sense that she is "puffing herself up" for some insecurity she feels.
I see Jason and Bethanny's relationship and their extended family dynamic much like my own marriage, except I have the close family and DH's family is very distant. DH and I have similar conversations...we do. However, I could tell you its not cut and dry like they show on the show. On both of their ends, its a work in progress to find that careful balance especially when you have children.
I think her obsession with showing the "real" Jason is tied directly to how often she hears from people that she has a perfect husband. I think she's overreacting, but given how public they are, maybe she hears it all.the.time., and I can see how that would be frustrating. Jason does seem like a good guy, and he certainly seems to filter herself, and maybe it's hard for her to watch and hear from others that she seems like the psycho hosebeast and Jason seems exceptionally tolerant of her insanity. Maybe reality is that he has a little psycho hosebeast in him that he doesn't show for the cameras. In the end, so many seem to think that she's The Bad Guy, and I imagine it gets tiring to defend yourself against that.
Another point for why it's good that their show is ending and they're going back to a more private private life.
It's the same for my husband and I. He comes from a small family who isn't close at all. I come from a large family who can't stay out of each others' business and is used to seeing each other at least twice a month. While we've worked out our groove now, it was really hard to compromise and find a happy medium of expectations for one another. I've had to learn to only ask that he join me for "important" family events, and he's learned that if I ask him to join me, it's important to me that he be there. I spend a lot of time with my family without him, and that's okay for both of us... but it took a lot of effort to get there.
So when people get on Bethenny's case about the in-law stuff, I think it's terribly unfair. It's a very new and different situation for her, and just because it's what Jason wants and is used to doesn't mean she should bend to his will and visit his parents constantly. She seems to want to find a happy medium and is trying to meet him halfway.
I don't know. I guess I'm blinded by how much I really do like her. I don't get all the hate for her. I don't think there's emotional abuse in the relationship. I don't think they're definitely going to end up divorced. I think they're going through a really rough spot and hope the fact that they're kicking the cameras out of their home will do wonders for them to work on their relationship.
I don't think all the fault for their problems lies with her.
I guess I have never bought Skinnygirl for a reason. she is not funny, she's forced, just like her "marriage".
I feel like I could have planned a 40th birthday for Jason better than Bethenny did, just based on watching him for a season. Hello! - include his parents - at least in some part of the celebration. If she was truly trying to make the birthday about Jason I think she would have done that. But it seems like the birthday plans were all about her (I'm going to give him the birthday celebration *I* want for him). From what she describes, he DID thank her a lot for the golf deal she set up for him. Now if he really did lay into her later for excluding his parents, then of course that's lame. But if he just told her he wished they had been included - well, isn't that just communicating? Somehow I can totally see Bethenny escalating such a conversation into a huge fight.
I have always been a big Bethenny fan, but like other posters, her attitude is wearing on me. She can afford to move off camera now. She made it! Go enjoy life. Focus on your family and that fab apartment. Get some rest. Lose the back pain. Or be honest that you like playing out your drama on camera, as so many people do, and be happy that you get to do that.
Ok - Bethenny vent over.