Something Borrowed and New

Perfectly shaped snowflakes are dancing through the mid-winter air softly caressing your perfectly shaped and rosed cheeks. Your elegantly tailored, blush embroidered dress trailing behind you. Something borrowed. Something blue. Something new. Followed shortly by an, "I do."

From 90 Day Fiancé to the first day of the rest of your life.

90 Day Fiancé is clustered with Real Reality-TV Drama. It is literally not all sunshine and fairytales. From miscarriages to abandonment to jealously and farm animals no diamond is left unturned.

Each couple meets their love interest online from a foreign country and is put to the real test when they try to prove their love and commitment from several countries away. The American must go to the foreign country to meet their counterpart for the first time in person and see if it is really true love and if a ring is in their future working toward a K-1 Visa. But it isn't as easy as it looks folks, love isn't enough. The American must accept and prove financial responsibility for the fiancé before a visa can be granted and the couple can live "Happily Ever After."

Every Friday night coupled with a rather large oval glass of bitter red wine and movie theater extra buttery popcorn I snuggle in with my cat as we both prepare for another episode of the drama. Some of the American men are jerks - though I suppose that's to be expected of any man. One man leaves his fiance in an Immigration Detainment Center while he enjoys his night at a 5-star hotel. Any man of mine willing to let me sit in a detainment center for any amount of time would no longer be my man, but what do I know.

In a different couple, the Fiancé moves to America to be with the American only to find out he still lives with his PARENTS! Who, of course, want them to sleep in different rooms. The former foreign model is then asked to scoop animal poop on the family farm to show her contribution to the household. Eventually, there's a proposal and not the kind you're thinking of - an ultimatum is proposed - family or Fiancé.

I forwarned you this is REAL reality TV and what's reality TV without Three's Company? That's right there is even a real-life throuple in the show! Which naturally ends in a chaotic whirlwind of jealousy and resentment. But for a steamy hot second, the couple was living the dream with the best of both worlds.

And let us not forget the stereotypical Sugar Daddy or rather Mamma in this show. About 20 years her Fiancé's senior this Mamma enjoys sending her Hubby $1,000 watches, and shoes. Not to mention taking care of his family. Oh, and did I mention she is actually paying his salary at his job as well?

I'm telling you I cannot make this up! There is a little excitement and reasonableness for everyone. One episode. Just one. That is all it takes and you too will be sucked in like a vortex of the harsh realities of real-life and the extents people are willing to go to find what they consider as True Love.

The show entrances me with real-world complexities. I watch in awe of what someone will go through to get someone to the US when I cannot even get a man to pay for a date. Yet, I watch, episode after episode to see if there is a true "I DO" or if it's all just a rouse. None the less my eyes are glued.