04x09 - Romeo and Juliet Didn't Work Out

[bunniefuu]

-This is the greatest. I love you.
-Mmm.

I love you too.

-Good morning.
-Hi.

-You like me!
-[laughs]

-I'm all-in, and I love you. [chuckles]
-I love you too, Tiffany.

[Tiffany laughing] Oh!

Bliss, you're everything that
I've been looking for my entire life.

Will you marry me?

Yeah.

I'm engaged to Zack.

[chuckles] I feel like I knew
that he was my person, deep in my soul.

You know, you know.

I love you a lot, but I'm still gonna have
concern of being second choice.

I need time.

I'm not sacrificing what I want,
but I am compromising.

Welcome to marriage.

-Okay.
-Do you wanna settle down?

[Shelby] You're meant to have
the best wedding of your life.

But this isn't it.

This isn't it.

You didn't wanna sit here and talk.
You were like, "I'm leaving."

What else am I to do?

Sit in my feelings
and sleep next to someone

who said I was not man enough for them?

We don't have sex.

It is weird to see somebody that
you truly care about with somebody else.

["Got My Eyes on You" playing]

-You too cool for school.
-You were talking to MBA cry boy.

If you truly think you're gonna
go walk up and talk to Marshall

and be like, "Yo, I do," then f*ck it.

But if you don't feel like heart-to-heart

you're really gonna marry Marshall,
pick me.

♪ I've got my eyes on you ♪

-[pop music playing]
-♪ Won't find another quite like me ♪[/i]

♪ I don't just want it
I've got this need ♪

I'm just glad everybody loved my shoes.
That's all that matters.

[Marshall] Mm-hmm.

[door lock beeping]

I love Jackie.

I've never been so certain
about anything in my entire life.

And there was never a doubt in my mind.

Jackie and I were designed for each other.

And so, to be where we are now,

I'm shocked. I'm stunned.

And it hurts.

[sniffles]

How do I go from being
so sure about something, so certain

about anything that I've ever done
in my life to being so uncertain

and unclear?

[sighs]

You need something to drink? Water?

[Jackelina] Yeah.
I need a water, for sure.

I'm tired.

I had a long-ass day.

How are you feeling?

[Marshall] Seeing everyone else tonight…

I need you to lay it out for me plain.

What do you need from me,
what do you require from me,

so that I know, moving forward. That's it.

Oh, my God.

[gasps] I can't talk about this anymore.

My brain is sh*t, Marshall.

Like, it's almost midnight.

Can we talk about this tomorrow?

If-- If that's--

If that's what you--
If that's what you want.

You're doing great.
I don't expect anything from you.

I think that you're doing just fine.

I was left with a big question mark.

From me?

Or internally
because you have that question mark?

From you.

I thought we were fine.
I thought we ended up fine.

-You got some pretty eyes on you.
-Hmm?

-You got some pretty eyes on you.
-[/i]Thank you.

Brett gave me advice tonight
that I didn't know that I needed.

It's time to protect…

my feelings and not…
not sugarcoat or change anything

based off of how--
how you're feeling anymore.

Totally valid.

Just tell me exactly
what you need from me,

so I'm not guessing through the night
and guessing when we wake up,

because you leave
before I even start my day.

But I always come back home.

But that does not mean that I'm
not thinking about it throughout the day.

I had an emotional day.

I'm having
emotional conversations with people

that I don't even know
what the f*ck is going on.

[laughs] And I'm just like,
I just wanna go to bed.

I'm tired just as much as you are.

I gotta go into the office tomorrow.
I gotta go to Redmond.

-We good!
-We're not good.

I need to know exactly what you require
from me so I can move forward.

What I told you, what I required from you,
is the reason why you left.

-But--
-I'm not saying that sh*t again.

Okay, so what are the examples though?

[gasps] I can't give no examples
at no midnight, bro.

Marshall.

I think you are a great guy.
I think you're so sweet.

Just love me.

Just love me.

-["Never Give Up" playing]
-♪ Never give up ♪[/i]

[vocalizing]

♪ Never give up ♪

♪ Just never give up ♪

♪ Never give up ♪

-[woman] Can I see your ring?
-Oh, yeah.

[laughing]

-It's so pretty.
-Sometimes I forget that it's on.

[Zack] It's one thing for me

to kind of tell Bliss a little bit
about how I grew up

and where I came from,

but I think it's a little bit different
when she meets my family.

They're important to me,
and she's important to me.

I think when it's all over,
when we're laying on our deathbeds,

family is really all you got.

When was this one?

-[woman] Zack and our mom at her wedding.
-[Bliss] Aww!

Oh, look how cute!

-Law school graduation, yeah.
-[women laughing]

[Bliss] You look so happy.
You're like, "Yes, I'm done studying."

-[Zack] That's exactly how I felt.
-[all laughing]

[Bliss] It's so lovely
that you guys came here to support him.

That really means a lot.

-It's true.
-[woman] What made him stand out?

-[laughing] Where do I begin?
-I mean, I know, probably.

But, like, I wanna know.

You know, gosh,
it was so many different things.

Obviously, he's super smart.

He's just, like, so giving too.

He just really inspires me.

There's a lot of strength
in someone to be able to, like,

choose to, you know,

do certain things when it'd be easier
to maybe go a different way.

And my dad kind of has
a similar kind of childhood and stuff.

And he also chose different paths,
and it's not easy to do that.

So, I just really deeply,
like, admire him.

[Becky] He could have went down
many different roads,

and he only chose the up road, always,
and put everybody before himself.

And… super proud. [chuckles]

[Bliss] Yeah, and I think in those moments
of really hard times,

like, that's when
your true character comes out.

Like, who you really are.

And so, yeah, I think he just was also
really just open about things,

and he's very, like, honest, and I just
feel like I can really trust him.

I take, like, marriage very seriously
and, like, commitment very seriously.

I think when people say like,

"If it feels right,
you know, then it's right."

To truly, like, feel like
you can be yourself with someone

in your full capacity is,
like, so amazing.

And I've never had that experience before.

It's-- Yeah, I just really… I love him.
And I respect him as a person.

And yeah, I've never met anyone like him.

-I like her.
-I like her too.

-You guys fit together really good.
-Yeah.

[Becky] Seeing you guys,
you could just see in his eyes.

-Like, his eyes tell it all.
-[all laughing]

You look really happy.

Yeah.

-["Copilot" by 5 Alarm playing]
-♪ Come on, let's fly tonight ♪[/i]

♪ Got you here right by my side ♪

♪ We're just getting started ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, we're high, so high ♪

♪ Miles above and we're still climbing ♪

♪ Oh, I thank you for it ♪

♪ You are my co-co-co-co-copilot ♪

♪ You are my copilot ♪

♪ You are my co-co-co-co-copilot ♪

[Chelsea] Very in.

-What is that?
-This.

That?

[Chelsea] I really like these pants a lot.

I'm gonna get both. These.

[Kwame sighs, clears throat]

Oh, I wanted to try the biker shorts too.

Baby, you have 10,000 things back there.

-You wanna go--?
-Kwame, for as much as you like clothes…

-The biker shorts, you should do.
-[Chelsea] Definitely.

Perfect.

When we woke up this morning,
first thing I said to Chelsea was,

"Hey, are you okay?
How are you doing?" You know?

And her response to me was,
"Do I sound okay? Or do I look okay?"

Almost in a really confrontational way.

And it kind of hit me in a weird way,

'cause that is something
that she's done a couple times.

I'm trying to do the good thing,
and then all of a sudden it feels like

I'm the bad guy, or I'm the one
who screwed up her morning,

and it just like…

It was just hard.

-Okay.
-No, they look good.

I think I might have one more.

Okay. Go ahead. Do your thing.

[laughs] Do you think it could possibly
get any hotter in here?

[both laugh]

Yes or no?

-Nope.
-Yeah.

-I'm having so much fun with you.
-Are you?

-Yeah.
-Good. [chuckles]

All right, see ya.

See ya.

We're getting into the last stretch,

and I'm going through a lot.

Trying to find moments
where I could be by myself,

but wherever I am, I'm in her space.

Just like, in certain points,
it can feel suffocating.

You know?

That's a tough look.

Just say "you're beautiful," you know.

-What's up?
-"Tough look." Don't know what that means.

-It means it's a good look.
-I like it.

I like the sling.

Next time, I'll just say,
"You're beautiful."

-I'm sorry. You know?
-[laughing] I'm just joking.

Complimenting you the only way I know how.

It's okay. Wait, wait.

-Okay.
-We are not done with those strawberries.

-My man.
-All right, bet. [exhales]

-Okay, you gonna feed me a strawberry?
-[chuckles] Yeah.

Tell me how much you love me.

[laughing]

-Come on.
-Good.

[both laughing]

Want me to feed you one?

I've eaten enough of these, baby.
I'm good.

-Mnh-mnh.
-Okay.

You've already had one of these?
You haven't.

-No, I've-- [laughs]
-Oh, you did?

What you think I've been doing
every time you change?

-Oh, I'm sorry.
-[laughing]

-It's okay.
-That's right.

Why do I have to wait a week? [chuckles]

-I feel that.
-I just wanna do it.

But if we have to come down
to Earth for a moment, like,

today was a really,
really tough morning for us.

-And-- Stop smiling. [laughs]
-[laughing] I'm sorry.

Can't take you seriously.

Well, I'm trying
to be real with you for a sec.

I know. I feel you. I'm sorry.
I don't know why I'm smiling.

-I don't know why you're smiling.
-You're hella cute.

I can't look at your face. [chuckles]

-[laughs] Okay, okay. I'm serious.
-Okay. So…

All right. So…

-This morning, we wake up.
-[clears throat]

You're not feeling great.

Obviously, I know
you're not feeling great.

So I ask you, "Hey, how are you feeling?"

"Are you okay?"

-What was your response to me?
-I don't know.

Your response was, "Do I sound okay?"

[scoffs] You tell me
if that sounds fair to you.

You're not considering
the weight of things you're saying.

Like, "f*ck it. I'm gonna say it."

I never directed it at you.

And it's the stress that we're under
that's frustrating me.

I wanted to help you out.
There's no need--

This is "throw Chelsea under the bus,"
then I'm gonna throw you under.

-So you better get ready.
-Go ahead. Please, do it.

-Do it.
-It does not seem nice.

It does not seem considerate.

I understand the things, but you don't
have to, like, nitpick every little thing.

I'm not nitpicking.
I'm telling you how you approach things.

How you go after conversations.

How you always wanna,
like, chase the fight.

It always just feels like
everything's so confrontational, dude.

Everything's so confrontational.

I'm just direct.

I'm just open. I don't like to, like,
keep things in and harbor it and, like…

I-- I just don't do that.

Big difference between being direct
and being confrontational, baby.

"Do I look or do I sound okay?"

Like, that's not being direct.

-That's being confrontational.
-I just--

[Kwame sighs]

I'm trying.

-I'm trying, dude.
-I know you are.

There's no pocket of this moment

in which I can, like, just go hide away
and have my little peace.

There's no pockets for me.

You have pockets.

If you're stressed, you can hang with Mom.
That brings you back.

You can go hang out with Rocky.

All those things help you
get back to yourself.

I have nothing here
that helps me get back to myself.

Nothing.

What, I'm gonna drive
to Portland for three hours,

and then go lay in my bed
and take a deep breath and then come back?

[chuckles] Okay.

I wish you could do that.

It's just tough
because thinking about, like,

literally, like, f*ck everything
that I say that I'm giving up.

f*ck everything that I say I'm giving up.
f*ck Portland. Forget that.

I can put all those things aside
because you would make up

for more than enough happiness in that.

But in the last couple of days,
it's been tough. It's been stress.

Yeah, it has.

[Kwame] And this is the time when we're
supposed to have each other's back.

♪ Realizing that I'll never
See you that way again ♪

♪ Time's ticking
But we're not getting stronger ♪

♪ Stronger… ♪

I know we're going to fight, argue.
I know we're gonna have tough moments.

♪ Were we just a losing game… ♪

But, like, I just want us
to be each other's peace. That's all.

That's what I need from you,
and right now, we're just not having that.

We are gonna have to stand there
at that altar and trust each other deeply

that we're willing
to do this and figure it out.

Every single day.

We're not changing who we are.

I love you for who you are,
and I do believe you love me for who I am.

I do. I do.

But, I mean, obviously, big day coming up.

Do you see yourself standing there
at that altar, being able to say, "Yes"?

Baby. Baby. Baby.

Do you see yourself do it though?

I do. If I didn't,
I wouldn't still be in this experiment.

♪ Were we just a losing game? ♪

♪ I know that you feel the same ♪

♪ Take your rein ♪

♪ 'Cause I can take the blame ♪

[man] We've heard good things about you,
so we're excited to meet you in person.

-Okay. [laughs]
-Yeah.

Brett calls me up, and he tells me,

"I found my love,
and I'm getting married."

I'm like, "What?"

You disappear for a month.
You come back, and you're engaged.

What was it?

What was the deciding factor
that was like, "Okay, I'm gonna do this"?

'Cause that's a big jump.

There have been so many times in,
like, dating where I never really felt

that the women
I'm talking to have ever really,

like, really sat down
and, like, understood me.

And then not just understood it,
but then wanted to take it and say,

"I wanna support you,

and I wanna continue
to, like, help you be a better person."

[Tiffany] With Brett, I felt like I could
talk to him about anything.

Like values and family, finances, history.

He just lets me be me.

Because I feel like I've dated
a lot of people.

I just kind of knew
what I was looking for.

I needed someone
that understands struggle,

but doesn't get complacent
with their life,

is always trying to do
something better, do something more.

Um, and that's what I saw in him.

I'm the type of person that's going to
continue to, like, push myself.

And I need a man that's the same way.

-[Lakayana] That's that dude. For sure.
-[Tiffany] Yes!

The more that we started talking,
the more that I realized

just, like, how genuine and, like,
loving and caring of a person that she is.

And then as we started
talking about, like, family,

that was something
that was really important to me.

'Cause I've definitely dated girls before
that when it comes to family, like,

women see me now,
and they don't see where I come from.

And when they see where I come from,
there's, like, judgment for my family

and kind of decisions that they made
and things that they've done.

So, it's, like, if I'm gonna
bring somebody into my life,

like, this person needs
to understand that.

And above all, like, support it. Right?

And, like, that's all I ever got from her.

Just kind of told her all I was feeling,

and just for me,
it was really like letting my guard down.

Like, I'm really seeing a future with you,

and so many things that,
I guess, I've been afraid of,

that I wasn't even aware
that I've been afraid of

until, like, you came,
and I got to know you.

So anyway, I'm trying not to get
too emotional talking about that.

But, um, thinking about, like, a family

and, like, kind of starting a new branch
in my family, you know,

with, like, where she is in her life,
where I'm at with my life.

Our ambition, you know,
Black women and you know.

-It's important.
-[Brett] It is.

And it's like, you know, generational
poverty in my family is a thing.

And it's like, I wanna be with somebody

that is, like, driven and focused as I am.

And we can grow together,
and we can start a whole new, like, life

for when it comes to our kids
and what they can be able to achieve

and give them the resources I didn't have.

[Tiffany] Hmm.

-[laughing]
-She's amazing. She's absolutely amazing.

[Ralen] Could we cheers
to that one too? Jeez, wow.

-[laughing]
-[Ralen] The first one was…

-[Lakayana] Oh, my God.
-[Tiffany] Whoo!

-Oh, my gosh.
-[Wilson] Cheers.

It's really dope.
It feels like… sounds like real love,

and so I'm very happy for you.

I'm pretty… confident.

I've observed how
you look at Brett, and, Brett,

I've looked at how you look at Tiffany,
and it is a very beautiful thing.

Um, and words are part of it,

but actions speak louder than that.

The way y'all look at each other
has been very inspiring.

And to see a Black couple
is a beautiful thing.

Yo. Y'all are gonna make me cry. [laughs]

-We'll have to cheers to that as well.
-Happy tears. [laughs]

-[pop music playing]
-♪ Oh, I would give the world to you ♪[/i]

♪ If I could, I would for you ♪

♪ Change it all for you ♪

♪ Would give it all to you ♪

♪ I would ♪

-[Paul] Got you something.
-[/i][laughing]

-Oh, my God. Thank you!
-Some flowers.

You're so cute. These are so pretty.

[Paul] The wedding is rapidly approaching.

As we get closer,
it gets more serious. It gets more real.

We've been dealing with a lot
of new variables, like new people.

Seeing our family members, our friends.

It's a little challenging,
to say the least.

This is really cute.
I've never been down here.

I haven't either.

But I know that I love her,
and I want Micah to know how I'm feeling.

I'm excited for your mom
to be back here, kinda. [laughs]

-Yeah.
-I love her. She's been texting me.

-Oh, no.
-She's trying to get all the info.

-Oh, really?
-Yeah.

What's she saying?

She just wants my, like, opinion
on, like, her dress for the wedding.

She wants to know what my mom's wearing.

-Salad bowl?
-Yeah.

-Uh-oh.
-[server] Uh-oh.

-Gravity.
-[Paul] All good.

-Thank you.
-[server] Cornichons, anchovies.

[Micah] I feel like we're giving ourselves
as much time as possible

before, like, being completely,
like, certain. I feel like that's good.

I feel like it just shows that we, like,
actually wanna make the right decision.

It is 100% smart.

But it also gives me
an incredible amount of anxiety.

[Micah laughs] Yeah.

If we, like, were to get married,

I don't know if my stuff would fit
into your, like, life. [laughs]

We need a bigger spot?

Yeah. [chuckles]

My place is pretty empty.
Or did you think the opposite?

I mean, there's no closets or anything.

It's also difficult 'cause,
like, all my stuff's in Scottsdale.

I feel like you wanna keep
your place in Scottsdale.

We could leave a lot of that stuff there
and, like, bring, like, some essentials.

I'm thinking, like, clothes
and, like, shoes and stuff.

[laughs] How much
more clothes do you have? 'Cause like--

What do you mean?

It's so much already at the townhouse.

[laughs]

That's probably, like,
less than, like, a 40th of what I have.

I think that what we should do
is get a three-bedroom

and dedicate a whole room
to your clothes, okay?

[Micah] There you go.

-[laughs]
-Right.

Would you wanna,
like, do long distance from me?

-No.
-No?

Definitely not. I think that sucks.

Would you wanna come
with me to Scottsdale?

No.

-Well-- [scoffs]
-But I would. I would.

If I can get my job to go fully remote,
I would definitely come with you there.

I wouldn't move there, but…

You know what? I won't even say that much.
I'll go in with an open mind

with the possibility
that I would move there.

I could probably be convinced.

I wouldn't want you to be not happy.

I think it's just important
to me that you're willing to try.

-[Paul] Yeah. And I can do that.
-See what--

If we don't get married,
like, what would we do?

I feel like it'd be hard to,
like, go back to living, like, separately.

Yeah, it definitely would.

I think it would be very lonely for me.

Like, I don't want that.
Of course not. Like, I love you.

-I don't want that.
-I love you too.

You make me want to be my best self.
And that is such a cool feeling,

because I haven't been, like,

that inspired or motivated
in, like, several years

by, like, a girl or anybody, really.

That's something that I knew
that I was missing in my life.

You're the thing that I'm
the most attracted to on Earth right now.

So, like, I would be lying if I said
that I wasn't afraid of losing you.

-["Stay Here" playing]
-♪ So just take a sh*t ♪[/i]

♪ And stay here ♪

♪ I'm so sick of my head aching ♪

[Bliss] I'm excited for you to meet
my mom and my sisters.

[Zack] Yeah.

[Bliss] Are you excited?

[Zack] Yeah.

[chuckles] That's all you're gonna
give me? You're so nervous.

-Hi.
-Hi.

-[Bliss laughs] Hi, baby!
-You look so cute.

Hi, Zack.

-[Zack] Hi.
-It's nice to meet you.

[Zack] What was your name?

-Annalee.
-[Zack] Annalee. And?

-Tatiana.
-[Zack] Tatiana.

-Yes, nice to meet you.
-[Zack] Nice to meet you.

So, Bliss's mom just flew out
from Arizona.

-Hey.
-[mom] Hey, nice to meet you.

[Bliss] Oh, you're already crying?

Okay, Mom. [chuckles]

It's important to me
that if we get married

that I have a good relationship
with her family,

and so I'm a little nervous.

I told Bliss that. Bliss is like,

"You don't have anything
to be nervous about," but… [groans]

I'm a little nervous about it.

[Bliss] You guys wanna see my ring?

-[Katherine] Yes.
-[Tatiana] Beautiful.

So, can you guys tell us, like,
a little bit about your journey,

like, up to this point?

Yeah. So, we met on a social experiment.
Psychological experiment?

-I don't know how you classify it.
-Both.

Where you're not able
to see the other person.

[chuckles] I'm having, like,
a weird déjà vu moment

in this moment.

Just keep going. You are the one
that has to tell the story.

Yeah. Um, Bliss and I really clicked

when she started talking
to me about books.

Then I realized
how smart and intelligent she was.

And that's what really
attracted me to her.

And she is brilliant. She's beautiful.

She is driven, and she's fierce.

-That's right. Watch out, buddy.
-[Zack] She's thoughtful.

Um, I mean, there's not many women
who dream of being on the moon at age 60.

When I look at who she is,
I don't think there's anyone else

that I could make a bigger impact
in the world with by my side.

And getting to know her character
has been really impressive.

[laughing] Okay, everyone.

-[Katherine] Wow.
-[Bliss] That's sweet.

[chuckles] It's all because
of my mom. Seriously, though.

Thank you.

I'm glad that you realize her worth
because she is…

-Here I said I wasn't gonna cry.
-[Bliss] You're gonna make me cry now.

She is worth more than gold.

She is, like, one of the most
important people in my life.

And that is what I want for her.

I want somebody
who's gonna know what her worth is

and treat her with the respect
that she deserves.

And because she is our princess.

She's our princess.

I hadn't told a woman that I loved them

since I was, like, 21.

Why was that? Why is that?

Uh, it's hard for me to say.

I think, ordinarily,
I'm not a very vulnerable person,

but I knew going into the experiment

that if I wanted to be serious about it,

I was gonna have to be vulnerable
with, not just one person,

but a lot of different people.
And the downside to being vulnerable

with… multiple people is that, uh,

sometimes you can get feelings
for more than one person at the same time.

I ended up in a situation
where I had to choose between two girls

that I'd never actually met.

-And--
-You're just telling them everything.

-I might as well, right?
-[Bliss] You can.

[Zack] I don't know. I mean…

I can see even talking about it
makes Bliss uncomfortable.

-So it's really awkward talking.
-That's okay.

[Katherine] Yeah, we wanna know.

-Go ahead.
-Keep-- Keep going.

Keep going.

[Zack] Um, so, I ended up having feelings

for two different women at the same time.

I never, ever wanted
to be in that situation.

There was all this uncertainty.

You know, I talked with Bliss about, um,

whether I was gonna fit in
with your family.

I really didn't know if it would work
when we got into the real world.

None of us did.
That's the whole point is to experiment.

[Zack] Yeah.

And, um,

yeah, I made the wrong decision.

[sighs] I ended up realizing
that the person I had proposed to

was there for the wrong reasons.

And so I called it off.

-[Annalee] So…
-Well-- Oh.

Yeah, go ahead and ask him questions.
Feel free to be a little mean.

Throw some wine in his face, you know.
He might deserve it.

-Can we go talk for a minute?
-[Bliss laughs]

So, what makes you sure about Bliss

now, that you wanna be with her?

Because, you know,
her family is a big part of her life.

And you said something about, you know,

you weren't sure if you were gonna fit in
and all that.

So, I mean, can you elaborate
on that a little bit more?

So, the way I grew up, um,

I mean, I grew up in poverty.
I grew up in… uh, with not much stability.

I literally had
to teach myself most everything.

I mean, my mom gave me unconditional love.

And, uh, my mom has passed away,
so she's not around anymore.

But I've been in relationships in the past

with women who came
from very well-to-do families,

where I was definitely not accepted
by their family because of how I grew up.

I think that is
what really made me nervous

is, like, hearing
about how your family is.

So, when I talked about, like, my fear
about not being accepted… it's that.

-Romeo and Juliet didn't work out, right?
-Right.

[Zack] They tried.
They tried to make it work, but it didn't.

Um, that's… really was one
of the things that scared me,

but I think when I saw her,

and we met for the first time
in the real world,

she walked in the room,
and I was like, "Oh, wow."

[chuckles] And I just… I felt
this connection with her immediately.

And she had, like, this serious face

'cause she didn't want me
to know how she felt.

-I didn't know how I was gonna feel.
-But I could feel it.

-I hadn't seen you before.
-What did you feel?

[Zack] Just warmth.

Yeah, just this warm feeling.

-Yeah.
-Sometimes things just happen.

And it just feels right,
and you just gotta go for it.

[Annalee] So, you see yourself with him?

You can see how your life is gonna be?
You can see your future?

Yeah, I can.

[Zack] She really does love me,

and I know you do,
even though she doesn't wanna admit it.

-No, I do love you.
-I know.

I wouldn't have said yes
to you proposing to me…

[laughing] …after you were engaged
to another woman if I didn't love you.

[laughing]

Anyway. I bring that up a lot.

Kind of, like, I joke about it a lot.
But it's true, though.

Well, it was a hurtful thing, I'm sure.

No one wants to feel second best,
you know. We just…

We just wanna know, like,

if you're gonna be able
to be the man, you know.

Like, we know that words are words.

Bliss would not be holding your hand

if she did not truly love you.

-[Bliss] Mm-hmm.
-She would not have said yes to you.

-[Bliss] Mm-hmm.
-[Katherine] And, um, I don't think--

I never saw you look at anyone
the way that you look at him.

And that speaks volumes.

♪ Everything comes to those who wait
So slow-oh… ♪

Here, let me hold your hand.

-[all laughing]
-♪ I'll come running in a heartbeat ♪[/i]

♪ Just one second I'll be there… ♪

[Katherine sighs] I am feeling
a world of emotions.

I'm feeling a little protective.

You know, as a mom,
I don't want her to be hurt.

At the same time, I have to default
to the fact that I really trust Bliss.

I think he's really

maybe a soulmate to her.

If you guys have kids,
then I will give you my methods.

-I'll pass that on to you.
-Yeah.

So, we just got one mom
if we have kids to raise 'em.

-So, it's real important it works out.
-Oh!

If my daughter chooses you,
then I'll be your mom too.

I'll be your mom too.

♪ I'll come running in a heartbeat… ♪

[Katherine] I am elated that, you know,
she can be with someone that

will treat her the way
she deserves to be treated.

And I wanna have a lot of grandkids.

I'm excited. [laughs]

[sniffles] I'm excited.

♪ All of our best days in a heartbeat ♪

♪ I'll come running ♪

♪ Precious moments we will share ♪

♪ I'll come running in a heartbeat ♪

I'm excited. Are you?

[sighs] Yeah. I'm excited. I'm pumped.

We are about to meet my family.

Kwame coming from Portland to Seattle,
it's been really hard on him.

This side of the family is really tight.

Like, when I say really tight,

they live less than ten minutes away
from each other.

They talk every single day.

They are very involved in each other's
lives and in my life.

-[shouting]
-[laughing]

[woman] You guys are gonna make me cry.

Hi! Oh!

Nice to meet you!
Come on in. Meet the family.

[Chelsea] I want him
to see the bigger picture.

I want him to see the possibility.

I'm willing to do what it takes
for him to be happy here.

They will love him. I'm not too worried.

[shouting]

You have a lot of people to meet.

[Kwame] They're a loud family
with a lot of energy.

So, it's just basically
a bunch of Chelseas.

They seem like a good time, so I'm sure
I'll have a good time with them.

-Oh, wait! Do you wanna see my ring?
-[woman] Yes! I need to see this ring!

-Let's see.
-[Chelsea] I gotta get up for this.

-[Kwame laughs]
-Oh, my gosh.

-That is gorgeous.
-Thank you!

Oh, I love it.

Nice job, Kwame.

-Yeah!
-[laughing]

-You could find a ring that small or what?
-[laughing]

I know! She's a size three.

I didn't even know
there was fingers that small.

Yeah, you did good, Kwame. I like that.

So, Kwame is the most talented person.
I always tell him.

-It should be illegal to be this talented.
-Oh, stop.

Ex-professional soccer player,
smart, has an MBA.

-[Olen] Oh!
-He's so, like, creative.

He's a photographer.

He has a beautiful voice, you guys.

So, he totally serenaded me in the pods.

-Oh, my gosh!
-Wow!

And it was, um, the most beautiful thing.

It was the day that I fell completely
head over heels in love with him,

and I was bawling my eyes out.

And he was like,
"This is your part, babe."

Like, "Come on, sing."
And I was like… [gasps]

I was bawling so hard that I was like…

[gasps] "Okay!"

-Which song?
-More musical than the others.

We-- We made up a song.

-He made it for me.
-[Olen] Oh!

Yeah.

-Do you play an instrument too?
-[Kwame] I play the guitar.

-Wow.
-I play the piano a little bit as well.

I have a harp in there
just waiting for someone.

-[laughing]
-[Olen] I bet you could pick that up.

-It's missing a string, so my kids have--
-[laughs] Yeah.

We'll make the most
of how many strings we have.

[laughing]

So, what do you do for work?

I am the head of business development
for a software company

based in San Francisco.

-Okay, so you work remotely, I take it.
-[Kwame] I work remotely.

Yeah. So, I work at home
and watch Rocky in the meantime.

[man] Talked about
where you're gonna live?

-[Dimitria] Yeah. Good one.
-Where are we gonna live, baby?

[man] You're gonna be
a non-coffee drinker in Seattle.

-[Olen] You're living in Portland?
-Yeah, I live in Portland.

He's realizing that Seattle
is just superior to Portland.

[Dimitria] Yeah.

Well, it is. 'Cause your little studio's
not gonna fit both of you.

-The Petite Pink Palace.
-[laughing]

[Chelsea] I know.

There's a pink coffee maker, which doesn't
make sense. You don't drink coffee.

-You just wanted something pink.
-I did. See? He already knows me.

Chels, you might have to get rid
of some of the pink.

-We won't be doing a pink townhouse.
-Okay. That's good.

[Olen] Kwame, how about--
can I steal you away for a moment?

-[Kwame] For sure.
-[Chelsea] Yes.

[woman] All right. Do you wanna give Kwame
a fist bump or a hug or whatever?

-That's fine, okay?
-Love you.

-High five? Love it. Good to meet you.
-[Chelsea] High five.

[woman] We'll hang out
with them some more, okay?

-Yep.
-[woman] We've got lots of time.

[Dimitria] Hopefully, he'll be family.

-That's when I can hug him.
-[Chelsea laughing] Oh! That's--

-Tough.
-Yeah. Tough audience. Tough audience.

Kwame knows these are strong, beautiful,
independent women that I was raised by.

I hope that I get their blessing.

I hope I get their approval.

Their opinion deeply matters to me.

-[Kwame] Ooh!
-And I desperately want it to go well.

So, tell me, what do you think of Rocky?

-Are you a dog-lover?
-[laughs]

I am a dog person.

You know, Rocky's actually,
out of all the dogs I've met, Rocky is--

-He's pretty chill.
-Yeah, top five.

As you can see,
he means everything to Chelsea. [laughs]

-Yes, he does. Yeah.
-That dog. Yeah.

Did you have, um, dogs growing up?

When I was back in Ghana,
we had a… [laughs]

…I had a squirrel.

-Oh! A pet squirrel.
-[laughs] A pet squirrel. I know.

-Did it actually come when you call it?
-First time ever heard…

-"Here, squirrel."
-Yeah.

Well, that's cool
that you get along with him.

So, tell me about when--

Well, how old were you
when you came to the States?

I was eight years old.

I was walking through the airport
with my brother and sister.

-So you have a brother and sister.
-I do.

-And are you the oldest?
-No, I'm the youngest.

-Youngest? Okay.
-Yes.

[Olen] Well, I'm sure you could--
As Chelsea's told you,

we're just a really big,
really close-knit family.

-Yeah.
-[Olen] Really close, so…

[Kwame] That's really awesome.

I hope you like
a lot of family time. [laughs]

-'Cause we have a lot of it. Yeah.
-Yeah. Yeah.

-That's what she always says.
-We do.

Sunday night dinners, you know.
We all get together for dinner.

-Really? Yeah.
-[Olen] Yeah.

Well, that's cool.
I've never really had that.

So, me and my family never really
even ate dinner at the same table.

I don't think there was anything bad.

-It was just how we lived, you know.
-[Olen] Right.

So, I never really had a family
where we ate dinner at the same table.

-Well, good. Now you get to.
-[both laugh]

-[Olen] Cheers. Here's to that.
-Cheers to that.

-[Olen] Thank you.
-For sure.

-And we're happy to have you.
-Yeah. Thank you so much.

I feel like it was a successful night
with Chelsea's family.

And, uh, based on the amount of hugs I got
throughout the night,

I'm gonna say
that I got their blessing as well.

-[pop music playing]
-♪ Through a vision[/i], we can be… ♪[/i]

-[chuckles]
-It's beautiful, huh?

-Super calm night.
-Yeah.

-[Chelsea] You can see the mountains.
-Mm-hmm.

[Chelsea] It's beautiful, babe. Like,
this is what I love about home, babe.

The water.
It's the blue sky, the mountains.

-The wow factor here is epic, you know?
-[chuckles] Yeah. It is.

I am someone who talks
about adventure, right?

And life and taking life by the horns.

So this gets to be a new adventure for me.
And that's how I gotta look at it.

I've gotten to see
what Portland has to offer,

so maybe it is time
to move somewhere else.

Maybe it is time to try a new lifestyle

and embrace that
as much as I embraced this one.

[Chelsea] Well, I think we should just
go look around and explore together

and see what the vibe is
and see what we feel like.

And, obviously, based on,
like, our budget and things like that…

[Kwame] I can dig it.

[laughs]

♪ Dreams can come alive ♪

♪ We can feel the air we breathe ♪

♪ We're reaching for the light ♪

♪ Nowhere we can go ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ Nowhere we can go ♪

[pop music playing]

♪ Oh, yeah! ♪

♪ There's beauty in every word ♪

♪ When you start to speak… ♪

-Ooh!
-[laughing]

This is beautiful, huh?

[Bliss] This is so cute.

This shop looks amazing!

Oh, my goodness.
I see lace and lace and more lace.

-[Tiffany squeals]
-[laughing]

It's one week until I get married.

I am here to pick out my wedding dress.

No pressure. [laughs]

Oh, what is life right now? [laughs]

♪ On top of the world… ♪

I think darker colors tend
to go better with my complexion.

Oh-ho-ho, hello, glove.

[laughing]

Just to give you some contrast.

-See what I mean?
-Oh, I like that.

It's an even darker blue.

I like that. It's like a midnight.
Like that.

I love it! [laughs]

♪ I feel on top of the world ♪

-[Tiffany] Have you talked to Jackie?
-I talked to Jackie a bit yesterday.

-Okay.
-I don't know what's going on, exactly.

-But I know that she's going through it.
-Yeah.

And, honestly, I was, like,
really hoping that she was gonna be here.

I was surprised when she didn't walk in
because this is marriage,

and I thought she was
still going to be here.

Like, I thought she was still
going to see this through.

So, I'm just… I'm hoping
they can work through it.

Oh, this is just a shirt!
Come on, playboy! Whoo! [shouts]

-[laughs]
-[Marshall] I want something special.

I wanna look clean.
I wanna look like a Black James Bond.

-Get out the way of the mirror.
-[Ryan] Killin' 'em early.

[Micah] Aww, so cute.

-So, that's pretty.
-That's gorgeous.

[Chelsea] It's a little bit more,
like, boho for us though.

-It's okay. It's so tight.
-[cell phone chimes]

[Kwame] This is Chelsea.

Oh, wow. Look at y'all. Yeah.

Oh, you already got it
as your phone background?

-[laughing]
-Oh, my man!

-He's getting married in a week.
-My man!

-Oh, man!
-[laughing]

-Brett like, "I gotta step it up."
-Like, man--

-Hold on.
-My phone ain't us.

-[Kwame laughs]
-Oh, Tiff just texted me.

Oh, what's she saying?

"Jackie isn't here." What? Oh.

Jackie ain't there
for the wedding fitting.

[Kwame] Ooh.

-[Brett] Hmm.
-[Kwame] Hmm!

-[Lakayana] Huh?
-[Brett] "His fiancée."

-"She's not here at the dress fitting."
-Damn.

And she's like, "Is Marshall there?"

-I'm like, "Yeah."
-Yeah. [chuckles]

[Ryan] Is there anything that she does
that you can see, like,

"Okay, that could be wifey material"?

She does make me feel like I can fly.

-[Ryan] Yeah.
-[Marshall] She does.

-She does present herself--
-Can I talk to you for a little bit?

-[Marshall] Huh?
-Talk to you?

-Right now?
-[Brett] Yep. If y'all don't mind.

Yeah, for sure, for sure. Take a break.

So, Tiff just texted me

and said that Jackie didn't show up
for her wedding dress fitting.

Oh.

Okay.

So, just letting you know…

so you're not blindsided by anything.

All right.

-Thanks for telling me.
-Yeah. Of course. Of course.

-Appreciate that.
-[slow-tempo music playing]

♪ You know I'm the only one you need ♪

♪ Only, only one ♪

♪ You know I'm the only one you need ♪

♪ Only, only one ♪

♪ You know this is real ♪

♪ That you feel what I'm feeling, baby ♪

♪ You know I'm the only one you need…[/i] ♪

[Josh] Hello-hello!

-How you doing?
-Good. How are you?

-You got me flowers?
-Got you flowers.

That's so sweet of you.

-Oh, my gosh. That's so nice.
-[grunts]

I'm a romantic brother. You feel me?

Wow.

[Josh] I wanna apologize,
first and foremost.

-Mm-hmm.
-I'm only human.

I was so nervous to… [sighs]

…finally meet you.

I should have said more,

but I should have said it in a better way.

It makes me nervous
how much I really care about you.

Losing you is my biggest regret.

♪ This is real
That you feel what I'm feeling, baby… ♪

I do love you.

♪ Only one you need ♪

♪ Only, only one… ♪

And I wanna be together.

♪ Only one, only one ♪

-["Sow" by Kat Elizabeth playing]
-♪ Down, down, down ♪[/i]

♪ We go,[/i] go ♪

♪ 'Cause, baby
I'm not, not, not shallow ♪

♪ Down, down, down ♪

♪ We grow, grow ♪

♪ 'Cause, baby, tick-tick, tock-tock ♪

♪ You reap what you sow ♪

♪ You reap what you ♪

♪ You could have had someone easy ♪

♪ But most days ♪

♪ My heart's like a stone ♪

♪ You reap what you sow ♪