We can’t kiss? Why? You… I have gone. It’s okay. Are you smiling? It is I, the evildoer of Before the 90 Days.
Awesome! We are only five episodes into this new season of Before the 90 Days, and where we pick up from the last episode, we got way too much information from this guy. You know about that… um, problem he just found out that he most likely has. I said 33; this 33-year-old has been sleeping around before he met Faith in the Philippines. After having some very graphic symptoms he has described, he found out that he has an STD.
If you missed my last video about Lauren and Faith, Lauren has just arrived in the Philippines to meet Faith for the first time. Lauren is also homeless, has $46 to his name, wants an open relationship, and marriage with Faith. He actually wants to stay in the Philippines and not go back to the U.S. at all.
While Faith, over here, has a stable job, a place to live, and thinks that Lauren is her trusted boyfriend, she wants to take things slow because to her, they are very serious about their relationship.
Now that Lauren has revealed his diagnosis in great detail—information that none of us wanted to hear—the question is, how will Faith react to this news? Because while Lauren seems to think that this is not a big deal at all, he at least seems very unbothered by it, with his really annoying smirk plastered on his face all of the time. He says he has a treatment; it’s curable, and people get it all the time. For him, it’s not a big deal; it’s like food poisoning, almost like this is funny to him.
He does say that the treatment person who gave it to him has already started, so in 7 to 10 days, if he does the same treatment, he won’t have his little problem anymore. What I don’t quite understand, though, is that he said he noticed all of these nasty symptoms—I’m not going to say—but he traveled over to the Philippines, saying he was ready to get physical with Faith. He says that multiple times. It’s important to find out sooner rather than later if we’re sexually compatible. Also, why not go to the clinic before he left?
Let’s hope his $46 budget can get him the treatment he needs here in the Philippines. This is all about to come out, right? Because him admitting that he has this is also him admitting that he’s been sleeping around. He told Faith that he spent the night with people, so I feel like it’s kind of implied that they’ve been having sex.
He says that Faith knows he has had sleepovers at friends’ houses in the past because he has told her, but they also haven’t had a clear conversation about what Lauren has been doing the whole time that they’ve been talking online.
But Lauren decides not to ruin the day that Faith had planned for them. Faith has this whole day planned because she wants a beautiful romantic boyfriend-and-girlfriend moment. Little does she know that Lauren has this wonderful secret he’s about to tell her. She has already been accepting of Lauren saying that he wants to stay in the Philippines forever, even though that comes with the surprise that he is homeless and has no money. She is focused on them getting to know each other and thinks that his honesty is bringing them closer.
I know Lauren’s not perfect, but his recent honesty about his finances and plans shows me he is serious about their relationship. But this creep is about to ruin all of that. Now, I have to tell her this terrible news, and how does he gently give her this news, you ask? Well, he just blurts it out again with that stupid smirk on his face: “We can’t kiss.”
“Why can’t you kiss?” “I have gone.” Like, how the first thing she asks is, “Are you serious?” Because you really can’t tell if he’s serious, can you? He does not just jump into an explanation right away. If this was someone you wanted to marry, to live with forever, you would think he would immediately jump into an explanation. He’s just like, “Yeah, remember that one girl on Halloween that was from Thailand?” Then he just lets Faith fill in the blanks.
It’s so like—very good talking and helping her, I did. So, she spent the night with you? Yeah. I would totally understand the argument of, “Oh, we were talking online. I wasn’t sure if or when we would meet in person, so no, we weren’t exclusive, and we decided that together.” But every single reaction that Faith has when she realizes that Lauren has been sleeping around tells me that she really thought they were together and monogamous.
“F this thing,” you think so? Yeah, I know, okay, kidding. I thought that he was so faithful to me and our relationship. Lauren just kept repeating to the audience during these episodes, saying, “I don’t believe in monogamy. I even want an open marriage.” But he sure as hell did not tell Faith that, and I think he did that because he fully believed he knew that she wouldn’t like it.
He wanted a way to get to the Philippines to be in a relationship with someone to stay there, so he waited to tell her until he got there, thinking he’s already there, and they could probably just get past it, and he could stay there. He really seems confident that their relationship can recover from this.
I guess he does say briefly in the interview portion that he does feel guilty because he just now realizes that Faith didn’t understand, but that continued annoying, irritating, obnoxious smirk makes me think that he is just lying. There was absolutely no miscommunication here; he just didn’t want to tell her until he got there, hoping that he could stay in the Philippines and have his ticket to get out of the U.S. and away from his crappy life.
Faith runs away. So we know how she feels about Lauren sleeping around. She’s shocked. She’s upset. But now the question is, what does she think of this STD diagnosis?
It’s okay? Is the doctor going to [Music] fix this? She says that in her culture, it’s a big deal. So there’s no part of this new secret that she’s just getting over, like the homelessness or no money. If anything, I think this is the first time we’re actually seeing a possibility of her getting the ick from Lauren, especially when she asks him what I’ve been asking this whole time: “Are you smiling?” “Yes.” “Why are you always smiling?”
I tend to laugh when I’m uncomfortable, but I think he’s smiling because he really doesn’t care. That he is revolting. You had to have known that I had sex the whole time because I trust you.
So Faith now says she needs time to think. We are all hoping that means time to kick Lauren out of the hotel and be done with him. But even still, her not wanting to come in the hotel room and telling him that she needs some space, he really seems to, again, not care.
We’re probably breaking up, and he is really leaning into his villain era of 90 Day Fiancé, isn’t he? Fun fact: he’s also leaning into it outside of the show. Renee the Chicken Lady wants to remind you to subscribe to the Kibbles Channel. If you don’t, she will re—her horde of 135 chickens on you. Let that chicken live!
It is I, the evildoer of Before the 90 Days, looking for more evildoers. He’s fully embraced this villain persona online, just like Ed did. I mean, he’s got his Cameo going, which he’s even explaining what is real and not real on the show.
Cameo—I mean the big one, right? That really did happen. I really had a lot of fun. I didn’t really think about it until I got there, and then I’m like, well, something’s up. I literally did get a text, and then $46 physical money in my pocket? Yeah, that’s all I really had in U.S. dollars when I came on across the plane.
But you know, it’s a good joke, fun. He was doing Reddit AMAs until he got himself banned for being gross, and he’s also even contacting people outside of the show. Yes, he’s sending them his phone number, supposedly sending out pictures of himself. He has no shame—zero.
So this whole weird smirk he’s got going on is because he is a true new villain on the show, and he wants to talk about it to anyone who will listen. It’s very ironic because I usually like to hear about what is real or not about the show. I think it’s really interesting when cast members come out and explain some things, but in this case, we all want you to stop talking, Lauren. We don’t want to hear all these details from you. We really don’t.
Let me know what you think of this episode. I thought that the details were way too much, and Lauren is just really a true new villain in the franchise.
