Mariahlynn and Rich Dollaz start off their day making progress.
The episode begins with Mariahlynn and Rich Dollaz seemingly in a good place. They’re not letting things linger from the night before and are showing peace.
Meanwhile, Emmet and Gangsta Boo are doing the exact opposite. Dr. Ish and Judge Toler are watching on and are speculating the source of their tension.
Later on, the couples are in the kitchen and Rich Dollaz is seemingly distant from Mariahlynn as she’s talking about tattoos, specifically talking about why she didn’t get his name tatted on her.
The participants create personal collages.
Eventually, Dr. Ish gives everyone their latest exercise. Each person will have to create three separate collages to represent three memories. Two of them have to be from a traumatic origin. This included Kastan mentioning witnessing a drive-by as an eleven-year-old. A1 spoke about being set up for a robbery by a family member and Lyrica opened up about the passing of her twin sister.
Mariahlynn spoke of s*xual trauma she experienced as a child. It affected her views of men and her relationships with them. Everyone had traumatic experiences and had to face some serious emotions that they oftentimes had bottled up. At the end of their time creating the boards, Dr. Ish said not to talk about their boards with anyone.
Afterward, Dr. Ish and Judge Toler speak about how Kastan still seemingly evades truly opening up. Meanwhile, Mariahlynn talks to Emmet about what Rich’s mom told him the night before. Her biggest worry is Rich will regress in their relationship and she says she deserves happiness too.
Everyone gets emotional when kids present their album covers.
Later on, Dr. Ish brings out everyone to have kids present album covers from the boards they created. These presentations draw tears and emotions out of each of them. K. Michelle really gets emotional when kids present her board but Kastan remains stoic. Emmet cries but Gangsta Boo keeps her composure, somewhat, when kids present their posters.
A1 speaks about how his parents’ divorce affects him and Lyrica breaks down when she sees a kid that looks like her twin sister. A1 is able to console her and have her come back and explain what happened to her sister. They were born prematurely which resulted in her sister passing at three years old.
Even Rich Dollaz opens up emotionally when he speaks to his kid. Mariahlynn breaks down when she tells her kid about going into the foster care system and being s*xually assaulted. Rich emphasizes with Mariahlynn and seemingly feels bad for his behavior towards her.
After this emotional exercise, Judge Toler comes out to speak to everyone. She grills each couple and delivers feedback specifically on how each couple reached out to each other opening up emotionally.
As they head off to bed, a breakthrough seemingly occurs between Mariahlynn and Rich Dollaz. However, Emmet and Gangsta Boo get back to arguing as Emmet doesn’t like how Gangsta Boo is speaking to him. To make things worse, she can’t find her $10,000 ring.
If any couple, I had higher hopes for Gangsta Boo & Emmett…until she started talking reckless to him.
When they did the role reversal she didn’t pay attention to how he perceives her. She was more focused on how she perceives him. Low-key, she doesn’t respect him nor his feelings…that’s my perception.