Jiri and Florence are having a hard time: “I feel like it’s a foregone conclusion” | MARRIED BLIND

TVThunderclouds over Florence and Jiri. The couple is unable to build a strongbond and that led to a clash over affection and incomprehension at thebreakfast table. With Christiaan and Jana it is very different: they playedthe first tongue kiss of the season and even dropped the word ‘sex’. Theslightly desperate Joren and Lien then call in their mothers as a last resort.

As two adolescents in love, Jana and Christiaan sat on the couch ofrelationship therapist Wim Slabbinck. On the program: a conversation aboutintimacy. Red-faced and giggling, Jana told them they haven’t done ‘it’ yet.No problem, Slabbinck thought, but what’s wrong with trying? And so hesuggested to Christiaan to simply ask the question to his wife. Nervoushilarity. “Would you be okay with it?”, Christiaan finally asked. “Yes”, Janashuffled back and forth on the couch.

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Or how an intention to act can simply be forced. Slabbinck was pleased,because he also confided to the couple that their ‘sexual curiosity’ is onereason why the kindergarten teacher and the emergency nurse were matched.Again hilarity from the two. “Now we are going to expect each other to be sexgods”, Christiaan laughed nervously. Earlier, Jana also said that “it is justwaiting for the right moment.” The two already seem entwined. More about thatbelow.

Quiet breakfast

Entwined is just about everything Florence and Jiri are not. The traffic copand the emergency nurse had their first collision. That went – outside thecameras – as follows. When she left for work, she gave him a hug. Nice,thought Jiri, who has been polling for some form of affection for sixepisodes. And so he texted her to say so. She panicked completely. Florence:“He sent: ‘I enjoy every touch with you’. That black and white reading was toomuch. The fact that I afterwards said with a laugh that I would not hold himagain, he took the wrong way. “I feel like it’s already a foregoneconclusion,” he said. The result was a quiet duo at breakfast. A spark in theright direction seems very far away at the moment.

Jiri and Florence: “There’s a good chance it won’t work out”

Jiri, Florence visiting therapist Sarah Hertens. © VTM

Three things Florence asks her husband Jiri to give their relationship anotherchance. Time, time and time. Poor Jiri, on the other hand, is completelyconfused with his feelings. “I want to go for it, but is held back by herdoubts,” he tells a friend. Moments later, he admits his true feelings.“There’s a good chance it won’t work out,” he confesses honestly.

It just doesn’t seem to come to Florence. Three times this episode shementions that she has “no attraction” for her husband. When relationshiptherapist Sarah Hertens urges her to actively work with intimacy, she almostshuffles off the consultation chair from discomfort. And when the word ‘sex’is mentioned, she just doesn’t turn purple. “Sex? Oh no!” she almost shakesher head from her frail shoulders. “Sometimes Jiri gives me a big wink and Ithink: ‘too early’”, says Florence.

Although there are also some hopeful elements. Florence mentions to her sisterthat she does occasionally feel a spark for her husband. And what certainlyargues in favor of the West Flemish is the fact that she does not shy awayfrom the difficulties she has with her own feelings. She names them, meaningshe wants to work on them and hasn’t given up on the experiment yet. Patienceis – still – the code word for Jiri.

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Jana and Christiaan: “Thanks to him, distance no longer matters”

Netflix and - not yet - chill with Jana andChristiaan.Netflix and – not yet – chill with Jana and Christiaan. © VTM

Three cheers and applause on all benches, because the first tongue kiss of theseason is a fact. During an evening Netflix in the couch with a blanket, anunmanned camera registered the intimate moment between Jana and Christiaan.During the honeymoon, the two had a moment of crisis when she admitted thatshe did not find the appearance of her trained nurse very attractive, but thatshortcoming seems to have disappeared. Even the distance – he lives in Geel,she lives in Lokeren – no longer seems to be a problem. “I looked forward tohaving to move every day from work in Lokeren to our apartment in Kontich, butif I know he’s there, I don’t mind,” said Jana. We note that as a first-classdeclaration of love.

Joren and Lien: “Wall up instead of down”

Lien and Joren enlist the help of theirmothers.Lien and Joren enlist the help of their mothers. © VTM

The buffet of good intentions is still richly filled at Joren and Lien. “I’mgoing to throw myself until the last day,” said a combative Joren. “I need toopen up more,” said Lien, who admits that “her wall has gone up instead ofdown”. But a blind person can see that their situation is fairly hopeless. Anuneasy hug at a reunion, a distant tap on his knee when she leaves for work.And also with relationship therapist Sarah Hertens, Lien admits for the firsttime that there was no click when she first saw Joren. What do you do in sucha hopeless situation? Right. Call your mother. And so the two mommies showedup at Lien’s coffee bar. “They are always surrounded by others, then you cannever get to know each other,” said Lien’s mom. “If it doesn’t work out, youhave committed yourself”, concluded Joren’s mother. If even the moms can’t seea way out, we don’t see it at all.

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Brecht and Dziubi: “How compatible we are is not normal”

Brecht and Dziubi have dinner with Brecht'sfamily.Brecht and Dziubi have dinner with Brecht’s family. © VTM

Last week, the camera recorded some awkward moments between Brecht and Dziubi.The two seemed to have a different view of the future, with Brecht clearlygoing a bit faster than his Limburg husband. But the Brecht and Dziubi trainnow seems to be moving at a brisk pace again. They were only briefly discussedthis episode, but when they came into the picture it was again hozanna. “Howcompatible we are is not normal, where does this end?”, asks Brecht, who alsotook his husband to his parents. There Dziubi already became ‘our Dziubi’.Still not a speck in the air.