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Professional Wrestling Family Swaps With a Dad Who Forgot He Had a Family

Professional Wrestling Family Swaps With a Dad Who Forgot He Had a Family

Tonight   on Wife Swap, two women worlds apart. A hardcore wrestling wife   We’re all professional wrestlers.   whose life revolves around the family business.   We’re actually at the gym more than we’re at home.   And a devoted   mother of three   I do anything to make them happy.   who’s struggling to save   her marriage.

My husband doesn’t like spending time with me or the kids.   They swap lives for 1 week.   Let’s go. COME ON. ON YOUR FEET.   THEY’RE at the gym all the time. This is all they do.   That’s the best you got?   We’re going to be here all day if you keep yelling. I got nowhere to go. Catch y’all later.   Bye. Love you.

Bye.   Cliff leaves.   Do you guys wish that your parents would eat with you? Yeah.   But when the rules change   We are done with the gym.   With the gym completely?   Uh uh.   We’re all going to start spending more quality time together.   I h@te this.   It proves too much for the families to handle.

I’m not a therapist, but you’re going to spend time with me and our kids or you’re going to have to find a different life. I know for a fact that he left this morning to go to the gym. But didn’t I say no more gym?   First thing you don’t need to do is yell at me at all.   I’m yelling all day.       Meet the professional wrestling Sheriff family.

Tough but sweet wife Tracy, her macho husband Mike, and their quiet but de@dly daughter Mina.   We’re all professional wrestlers.   In the ring, Tracy’s the superhero.   Inside of the ring, Mike is loud, obnoxious.   You guys yell AT US TO SUCK IT?   And our daughter Mina is also a professional wrestler.   I laugh when people say that I’m too shy to be in the ring.

And then when I actually get in the ring and they watch me, they’re like, “Okay, never mind.”   We both grew up in Hawaii, and when I was in high school, my dream was to be a professional volleyball player,   until I met my husband.       I’ve always been a wrestling fan.

I wrestled in middle school and in high school.   I wasn’t a wrestling fan at the time. The trainer actually asked both of us.   And then we started wrestling, then they started making us tag together, and then it kind of grew from there.   When professional wrestling came along, I got the bug.   Not only do we wrestle as a family, we also own a gym.

We get to work with each other, we get to spend all our time together. My family is the most important thing to me.       When we met, we were still in high school, and   25 years later,   25 years later, here we are.   We’ve definitely had our troubles, but we always work through things.

Marriage is like in wrestling, you’re supposed to work together and overcome obstacles, and the bigger the payday is at the end of the day.   Although   I’d like it if we could find the time to spend outside of working.   I work so hard in the ring and at the gym, when I come home, I want to rest.

I pretty much do all the cleaning. I do laundry, I cook. It’s  overwhelming. So, the new wife coming in, once you meet my husband, you’re going to either love him or you’re going to h@te him.   Just do what’s asked of you. That’s it. Do it the first time, not the second time.   Now, let’s meet the Pete family.

Strong minded mom, Candace, her video game addicted husband, Cliff, and their daughters, 15 year old Madison, 11 year old Kaylee, and 5 year old Brooke.       I’m an employee relations consultant. Being able to work from home is a blessing because I can spend more time with my family.

Cliff and I went to high school together. We were best friends.   I loved everything about her from the beginning. She’s beautiful person. She’s very caring.   We’ve been married   for 12 years. So, we have three girls. Madison, her personality is really like mine. Madison is a really good student and goes to highly rated school.

Kylie is more of the artistic child. And then there’s Brooke. She loves to sing, dance. She is the most   energetic 5 year old.   And the girls love dancing. I’d   do anything to make them happy. But the last 5 or 6 years, Cliff and I have kind of just drifted apart.   Cliff doesn’t like spending time with me or the kids.

When Cliff is not working, he is usually playing basketball, playing video games.   All right, I’ll catch y’all later.   My dad, I would like to spend more time with him.   Being a system manager for a Fortune 500 company is is not easy. My stress reliever is my video games. I do want that space   to myself to do things.   There was a time when we were more connected, but Cliff has been   unfaithful to me.

I have not had a physical affair. My affairs have been emotional connections, text messages, talking. But I do love her.   I still want to f1ght for my marriage. I want my old family back. I want to have fun with all of us together, not just me and the girls.   It’s the morning of the swap and the wives are preparing to leave home.

Don’t cry, Brooke. I’ll be back.   God dang, what you got packed in here?   I’m super nervous. I’m up for the challenge, but I just don’t know what awaits me.   Bye. Love you. I’ll We’ll back. Okay?   What makes me anxious is leaving my family in the hands of another woman, but I’m hoping it’s going to help bring my family back together.

All right, you got it. Kick butt, don’t take names.   be nice. Hi. I’ll miss you.   Miss you, too.   The wives have no idea where they’re going or who they’ll be living with.   Some of the worries I might have with the new wife coming to my home is her not understanding my family, not understanding our way of life.

I feel like Cliff is going to have a challenge with being with the children without me being there.   Before they meet their new families, Tracy and Candace look around their new homes.   Oh my gosh. They’re really family oriented. They have a lot of family pictures.   Look at the kitchen.       Nobody has cleaned this   in ages.

Oh, wow. It’s like perfect.   It’s like a model home. It’s weird that walking through the house, I noticed there weren’t a whole lot of photos with   the entire family together.   Are they in entertainment somehow? Are they wrestlers? I hope this is fake, but I feel like it’s not.   Oh my goodness. It’s the master bedroom.

It’s uh it’s       huge. If you wanted to get away from everybody, all you had to do is shut the door and you’re like in your own little apartment.   Each wife has written a manual as a guide to the running of their homes.   Welcome to the Shera house. We spend so much time together as a family because we are both professional wrestlers and also own a wrestling gym together.

Oh my goodness. Wrestling pretty much encompa.sses our entire   lives. Even our daughter, Mayna, who goes by Trixie, in the ring. So, their daughter wrestles, too. Oh   My name is Candace, and my husband’s name is Clifton. We have three beautiful girls, but Cliff will put other things first before making time to spend with his family.

Cliff spends most of his free time playing video games, or he is playing basketball       with his friends. That would irritate me. I do not like to cook. We will just pick up everyone’s individual meal choice and bring it back home.   Outside the ring, my husband is loud and obnoxious with a huge personality. Cliff is quiet.

I don’t know how well I’m going to like him.       Cliff and I got married at a very young age. He cheated in our marriage. He calls it emotional cheating, but says he did not act on it physically.   Holy crap.   Wow. The idea of my husband cheating on me just it would just break my world in two.   It’s now time for the wives to meet their new husbands and families.

Hi.   Hello.   Hello.   Cliff.   Cliff, it’s nice to meet you. What do you guys like to do?   Dance and like have fun.   Can you guess what I do?   Um box?   I’m a professional wrestler.   Oh, really?   Interesting.   And my daughter is also a professional wrestler.   Oh, wow.   Really?   That’s cool.

So, it’s like a   family business.   Okay.   Her family, they seem completely different from us because we don’t really do things together.   On your feet! Who’s in my house? Good afternoon. I’m Mike.   I’m Candace. Nice to meet you.   to meet you. This is Meena. And then when she gets in the ring, there’s Trixie.

Okay.   You’ll experience who Trixie is.   Are you more reserved, quiet?   Does she comes out of her sh3ll?   Okay.   This is about what you’re going to get.   So,   what do you think about the new mom? So, what activities do you guys normally do?   Well, when we do dance battles with my mom.   My mom do crafts.

How often do all of you guys do something as a group together?   Yeah, we don’t   do stuff together often.   So, how long have you been wrestling for?   16 years.   Okay. So, what is the expectations, I guess, with me having a wrestle?   Expectations are we’re about to see how tough you really are.

Uh,   is there a lot of jumping and throwing?   lot of falling at first.   I don’t want to get picked up and tossed and thrown down. I don’t want to do any of that. I was middle school age, I was a cheerleader.   Nice, perfect. You’re going to blend right in.   However, I was a flyer, so I was the one that they would throw in the air.

Yeah.   So, at one point I got dropped. And after I got dropped, I quit.   Okay. So, you never overcame that fear then.   I did not.   Well, we’re really good at pushing people. Sometimes you need a foot in your butt.   It’s definitely going to be a long week.   Coming up.   Come on. HURRY UP.   THAT’S THE BEST YOU GOT?   It’s experience with some bull.

The old rules begin at the Sherer family gym as swapped wife Candace takes on Tracy’s role and trains to be a professional wrestler.   Candace, let’s go. Throw your a.ss in here. It’s time to rock.   I don’t know. I’m not going to get in.   Candace, she’s afraid of getting hurt. So, my goal is to push Candace and get her over that fear.

Now, we are going to take you back to cheerleading days. If you got any questions, like, do not hesitate to ask. Don’t just jump into it and hurt yourself.   Okay.   here for that, but I am here to push you far. Form a single file line. Let’s roll. Right up. I know I make it look good. Look at my hair. It’s still there. I want to know what cheerleading squad you’re on.

Come Hurry up.       It’s not going to happen.   What the h3ll was that? You want us to basket, Tasha?   He is definitely loud and obnoxious. Are you Michael Jackson now?   I can be.   You   want to have a dance off? If he continues, we’re definitely going to have a problem.   You ready to spice it up a little bit?   No.

This is the foundation of what we do. We’re going to teach   you how to fall. Nice. Good. Nice and tucked here. Cross them in. Throw it back. Let’s go. COME ON.   WE’RE GOING TO BE HERE ALL day if you keep yelling.   I got all day. I got nowhere to go. That’s the best you got?   Coming in here and hitting the mats, I felt like this experience was some bull.

That ain’t for me.   Over at the Pitt household, swapped wife Tracy experiences a typical weekend as Candace.   Brooke.   All right, guys. I’m getting ready   to head out. Go play ball.   Who parents three daughters all by herself.   Have a good day, all right? I’ll catch y’all later.   Bye. Bye.   I wake up this morning and immediately Cliff leaves.

All right, looks like it’s just us.   You know what time it is?       What time is it?   Dance battle.   Dance battle?   Yep.   I don’t really know what the problem is, but those are his girls and they’re craving for his attention. Oh boy, I’m in trouble.   It’s pretty normal that our dad will be off playing basketball today.

Yeah, I wish he was around more.   Thank you so much.   Yeah.   How would you like it if your dad was involved in the   dance battle?   Daddy does not like dance battles.   I don’t think he ever done a dance battle.   Really?   Yeah, it’s just us.   Okay.   Yeah.   Cliff doesn’t know how to be in a a woman’s world.

So, maybe he’s just a little lost and doesn’t know how to really join in on it.   Good job, lad1es. That was awesome.   Back at the Scheer household, it’s 5:00 a.m. and Mike wakes Candace up to exercise.   This is Tracy’s time to go running.   My body is really sore. My legs hurt, my elbow hurts, my shoulder hurts. There’s no way I was going to be able to get out of bed 5:00 in the morning to go running.

So, what   we have to do today?   A lot of cleaning.   Even though she skipped the morning run, Candace must clean up the gym while Mike works on his wrestling routine.   Oh my gosh. This is like exercising and then cleaning up at the same time. This is a lot. Your mom does this every morning? Is there anything else   you rather be doing?   Rolling around in the ring.

Kill it. Eh, you did all right.   I did amazing. That is definitely a lot.   If you want to grab the paper towel, wipe the mirrors out and I think it’s ready.   This seems like   Tracy’s the one who’s doing most of the cleaning. It’s a lot. I feel like Mike should step in and help Tracy more.   Move the spots.

Meanwhile, Tracy has picked up fast food and is about to experience a typical dinner at the Pete household.   Knock knock.   Awesome.   Here’s dinner.   Thank you.   I hope I got everything. Did I get everything right?   Yes.   Okay. So, do you guys like eating like this?   Mhm.   No? Do you guys wish that your parents would eat with you? Yeah? Most of the time is your dad just up in his room?   Yeah.

Yeah.   I feel sad for the girls because they never get to have conversations as a whole family. Hey Cliff.       What you doing?   Everyday thing.   What’s a typical evening like when you get home from   work?   Typical evening when I get home from work is this. So, it’s my stress reliever. I like to have my me time.

If my husband Mike was just doing his own thing all the time, I think I would have to really like snatch him back into reality and tell him, “Look, you’re married to me. You’re either going to spend time with me and our kids or you’re going to have to find a different life.”   So, you were in a relationship with other women.

What was drawing you out of here   and to there?   Basically, attending to your husband, making him feel like he’s special.   What if you spent less time playing your video game and more time trying to connect with your family, just making an effort?   Oh, man, that’s a tough one.   I did not expect when I came into this house that it was going to be this intense and I was going to be faced with real life issues.

What what do you want to do in your heart?   I honestly I I don’t I’m not 100% sure.   Coming up.   Starting   today, we are removing all video games.   I h@te this. Taking a game away is probably going to be the hardest thing for me to deal with.   Straight ahead.   Hit him. Hit him. Look at that.

Does it feel good? A little bit?   No.   HIT HIM LIKE A LOCOMOTIVE. TODAY, we’re going to give Candace a crash course in wrestling. We’re going to teach her what it takes to actually be an entertainer, be a professional wrestler, and be an athlete. Crash course 101, Candace. She’s going to clear his arm and pull him in for a headlock.

He’s going to push you off. Come here, tighten up, check chest to chest, AND KNOCK HIM DOWN. WHAT’S WITH ALL THE EXCITED LOOK ON YOUR FACE? LET’S TRY IT LIVE. Tie up hard. Tie up hard. Get mad. There you go. Snatch it. That’s it. That’s it. Straight ahead.   Hit him. Hit him. LOOK AT THAT.       FOR REAL? DOES IT FEEL GOOD? A LITTLE BIT?   NO.

I love it.   I do wonder how Tracy does this every   day. I definitely couldn’t live her life beyond this experience.   Feet up. Here, and it’s just up to your butt. Up.   They named the nutcracker.   That’s him. That’s the nutcracker.       Come on, Candace. You got it. COME ON. HERE WE GO.

THREE, TWO, ONE.   I can’t do it.       Put your husband down there. Anything that he’s ever done to piss you off, internalize that. Wh@tever brings it out of you. Now, you tell me that didn’t feel good.   A little bit.   All right. And now the nutcracker’s coming out. I’ve got a a special move to match the nutcracker, I think, that I’m going to try to teach her.

So, he’s going to come in tight. I got him here. Clear the arm over the head. And I’m going to reach between his legs here, snatch him up, and plant him.   Who’s picking him up?   You are. Nice and strong. Up! THERE YOU GO. SLAM HIM! WELL, YOU ALMOST KILLED HIM.   WELL, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME.       Shit’s about to get real.

Now, it’s time for the main event. INTRODUCING FIRST, TWISTED TRIXIE AND HER PARTNER, CANDACE, AND THE NUTCRACKER.      RING THE BELL. HERE WE GO. HERE we go. HERE WE GO. HEY! ALL   RIGHT.       HOW DO YOU THINK CANDACE IS GOING TO DO?   We’ll see how it goes.   There it is.

Starting out, Candace is very uncomfortable. If I could light a little fire under her a.ss and get her to move a little bit faster, she might surprise everybody. That’s it. Hit him hard. Hit him hard. Hit him hard. Hit him hard.       THAT’S IT. THAT’S IT. You can see the Nutcracker coming out, READY TO FIGHT.

COME ON. COME ON.       HEAD SCISSORS ROOM. HEAD SCISSORS ROOM.       DOWN. HE’S OUT.   THIS WAS SOMETHING that I would never   expect to do.   AND YOU’RE WINNERS.   ALTHOUGH I REALLY DIDN’T WANT TO, I did my part. I wrestled, I followed his directions, I did everything I was supposed to do.

So, now it’s time to switch it up and he has to follow my rules.   After struggling for days under the old house rules, the new wives are ready to take control   and lay down their new rules.   I feel like this family needs more time   outside of the gym, outside of being wrestlers.

Specifically for Cliff, I want him to come and connect with his daughters and his wife. Can I ask everybody to put their phones away for just a second?   Yes.   Cliff, you don’t spend enough time with your family. New rule, we are all going to start spending more quality time together. Starting today, we are removing all video games.

Spending time with the girls cuz it’s something that’s past overdue, so I do like how she implemented that, but taking the game away is probably going to be the hardest thing for me to deal with.   I’m happy with it.   I’m happy.   You like it?   Rule number one, I’ve been Tracy for the past few days now.

For the rest of the time I’m here, you will be Tracy. So you can actually see what your wife has to do every day.   You’re not expecting me to like put her clothes on or nothing, are you?   You might have to.   She doesn’t know   me.   What was that, Mike?   I didn’t say anything.   When my husband and I were going through our rough times, I had to remind him of our vows and ask him to think   about what we had promised each other in the beginning.

New rule, Cliff, I want you to rewrite your vows to Candace.     We never wrote vows at all.   You never   married at the courthouse and it was quick. Um so   I think this will really   touch your heart and make her feel like you really do want to give it a a sh0t.   I guess we’ll see what happens.

Mike, Meena, there is more to life than the gym. So, we are done with the gym.   Uh uh.   All I’ve done at the house so far is I’ve slept there and then I’m back at the gym. I thought we’d at least do something outside of being wrestlers.   Some struggle coming.   No. Past few days, I followed your rules, now you have to follow mine.

That’s the end of my rules. Okay, so that’s it for my rules. We’re going upstairs and we’re going to take the video console. Wait. Let’s go.   No more video games.   Well, we’re going to put it somewhere where Dad can’t find it. Nothing is hopeless. Everyone has eyes, Brooke.   Your hands are too small.   If you really work and really try and connect with   your family, I think anything can be fixed.

At the Scheer house, instead of following   Candace’s new rules, Mike has decided to leave the house.   Mike. Where is he is Mike? I know that he left this morning to go to the gym. I found that to be extremely disrespectful.       3 hours later, Mike finally returns home.   Over the last few   days, I was being Tracy for him.

But now Mike is really about to meet Candace.   Mike!   The real nutcracker.   Yeah.   Come out.   Oh my god.   So, I came up here looking for you earlier. You weren’t here. Where were you?   I might have slipped out real quick.   To go where?   I drove by the gym.   What would driving by it do? Did you go inside?   Yes, I went inside.

I had to go to   I say no more gym? That That was the rule. The fact that he totally ignored everything that I said was upsetting. Where are the cleaning supplies?   I really don’t know we have cleaning supplies, Candace.   That’s terrible, Mike.   First of all, I don’t know why Mina is not up here with me.   This is about Mike.

I want you to help out more with cleaning.   It’s an eye irritant. So, can you get safety goggles for me?   I think you’ll be okay.   I have gla.sses.   It It’s going to be okay.   go blind, do you guys understand?   this stuff off of the There you go. Scrub it and it’ll come off.   of I’m telling you, it’s a little bit of You didn’t let me finish.

It’s a little bit of stress that’s built up.   Well, first thing you don’t need to do is yell at me at all.   No, I’m yelling cuz you walked through the door the first day screaming. So, I’m yelling. I’m yelling all day.   Far as I’m concerned, we can send Candace home and get her out of my house.   Move faster.   We almost done?   I’ll breathe when I breathe.

New rule. Cliff, you’re going to make your family some pizza. What do you think Candace would say if you asked her to cook with you?   She’d probably be surprised.   I feel good about this day because we’re getting really close.   When was the last time you guys all sat here eating a meal together that you cooked?   It’s never been a routine where we all have to eat at the table together.

If you could have your video game stack right now, would you take them?   Of course I would take it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I would play them.   And you like spending more time with your friends, except for us.   I do not like spending more time with my friends than you guys.

I just chose to spend more time with my friends than you guys. I regret it, and I want to do better.   I don’t know if Cliff is going   to change. I don’t know if he’s doing enough to really show his family that he wants to keep them together. We’ll see how it goes.   As her new rules continue in the Peete   residence, wrestling wife Tracy is pushing disconnected dad Cliff to spend more quality   time with his daughters doing some of their favorite activities.

Got to make it easy for me. I’m a beginner, so think of this as a beginner course.   First, a little synchronized dancing. Then, some creative arts.   Daddy, do you think I could be the next Bob Ross?   Your eyes look better to mine.   And finally,   it’s time to let the girls join Clifton in one of his favorite activities.

You guys ready for this?   Yeah. I’m happy you chose basketball for this.   I like the new rules because we can just have a little time at hand and having fun.   You want to play a game?   All right.   Okay.   you on the same team, Brooke, okay? So, you got to play defense. Can you play defense?   Yeah.

Oh, y’all Oh, y’all cheating.       This is This is illegal.       I like doing this because we get to do stuff together, which is fun, and   we get to laugh and have a good time.   Come get it, Brooke. I see how much fun it actually   is to actually play with my kids.

So, in the future, I’ll be doing a lot more of it.       Good job, guys.   Good job, Brooke.   Good job. Good job.   At the Sherer household, the new rules continue, where swapped wife Candace is still training Mike to help around the house.   I’m busy right now.   Come to tag you in. I’m to take this broom.

Uh   Mike, you can pitch in from time to time.   I pitch in with money?   You can pitch in with helping with clean. She cleans a lot.   Um I lost a lot of drive in the last couple years. I went down with a with an injury. Like, a lot of people don’t realize it, but those concussion stories, that’s real.

I bounced off my head uh while I was at work, and it it jacked me up for a couple years, and it made me I didn’t even want to get out of bed. You know what I mean? For like 2 years I didn’t want to get out of bed. It put a lot of strain on our marriage, right? But it You got to you learn to kick out of it and move on.

Tracy stood by my side through the whole thing. It was rough. But she’s a strong woman. She Anybody else could have left. You know, and gave up. I might have left and gave up, you know, if I was her, but she didn’t. She stuck by my side. I’ve been kind of sluggish and procrastinated in the last couple years. You know, and I think, you know, maybe that’s   why I have anger issues, if you talk to Tracy.

I am kicking back out of it.   That’s great. Talking to my I   realized that he’s completely different than how I thought he was when I first met him. The loud obnoxious person that I met initially, I don’t really feel   that way about him anymore. When’s the last time you had a date night?   Um going out dancing? We don’t do that.

When it comes time to dance, I just It’s something that’s hard for me to do.   So you pushed me to do something I really didn’t want to do in the name of overcoming fears, right?   Yeah.   Is it not fair for you to do the same?   We’re going to have a dance battle.   Uh I don’t know if it’s fair.   I thought, you know, we could take some time to work on those vows.

Your rules?   I think for Cliff it’s really important for him   to write his vows and say them to Candace to reconnect and find that friendship they once had.   This thing putting in the words is is hard. It happened.   Right. I’m going to leave you and let you finish up.   I want you to finish.

I want you to put that down. I’m I’m glad you don’t have the video game to distract you.   I bet you do, Tracy.   Mike, show me your go to move.   What do you do? You just kind of cross here and go.   Yeah, there you go.   It’s PG.   You go. We got to get you a partner.   But I do I do remember this going like   Okay.

I need to see   that   All right, I’m ready.   he’s willing to put in the effort to show his wife that he’s interested in what she says in the show that he cares. Come on, Mike, do your move.   I can’t  I don’t even know if I can do it. Like Let’s do this. Now’s your turn. Oh, that’s it.

That’s it, right? I still think dancing’s not my thing, but it is fun. It does It makes you feel like a kid again. And my wife likes dancing, and so as long as she’s happy, I’M HAPPY.       THANK YOU FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD SPORT ABOUT THIS.   I feel silly as h3ll.       The swap is over, and the wives   are preparing to reunite with their loved ones.

I am excited to meet Tracy. I’m more curious to see what she’s going to have to say about my family and how she thought everyone was. You look really nice.     Clean up I clean up well, huh?   Clean up well. You do clean up very well. Thank you very much, Mike. I’m not   a therapist by any means, but hopefully some of the advice I gave them will help.

And I hope to see you again one day.       And just be good, okay?   Okay. When I get home, first thing I’m doing is running some bath water and soaking because my body still   hurts.   sorry. I didn’t think about that.         Hey, beautiful.       Wives and husbands meet each other for the first time to discuss their experiences before returning home.

Walking in, I didn’t know what to think at all. Like, I was completely confused. Then I saw the wrestling pictures, so that was very interesting. And I was just like, what did I get myself into?   Okay, so when I got to your house, I noticed that it was hard to find pictures of your family.   It looked like a rental.

like, does anybody live here?   They have a gym is a wrestling training gym.   She didn’t walk in there like, let’s go. She walked in there it was like   I still was ready to go home. Next thing, Mike is in the ring and I hear him yelling. And the comments that he was making, his little sarcastic jokes, I didn’t think anything was funny.

I just looked at it as being encouraging.   No, it wasn’t. Not at all.   I was a little in sh0ck because at dinner time, they order from different fast food restaurants and Candace has to go pick it up. I called everybody to come get their food. It was like, all right, thank you, you know, and and then they just kind of like left.

Which was a little sad because I’m used to my family in the kitchen just kind of joking around and   eating.   try and let everybody do wh@tever they want to do.   It just seemed to me like everybody was just disconnected. That’s like the perfect opportunity to kind of connect.   I still wanted   my me time.

Okay. We got to the point that I was waiting for, which was the rule switch and I was able to incorporate my rules. I wanted Mike to be you for a day. I wanted him to be you outside of the gym and spend time in the house. So, I told him he needed to clean up. While we were outside sweeping, I wanted to learn about your relationship.

And so, I’m like, Mike, do you take her out dancing? And he was like, oh, no, I’m a little, you know, I’m shy. And I’m like, wait a minute, this whole time I was here, you were telling me overcome your fears, all this stuff, and here he is telling me that that’s a fear of his. I don’t want you to end up like we did. So, I’m like, what better way to help him get comfortable with dancing than to challenge   him? Right.

We had a dance battle. I think that might have been like the highlight of   the time there with me because we are having a really good time and he’s doing something that he said that he didn’t feel comfortable with doing.   When he does stuff like that,   it uh makes me laugh. It uh it’s like one of my happiest moments.

This is the first time I’ve seen   him quiet.       Giving her a moment. I guess I can still   make my wife happy and laugh. And all I got to do is be silly and dance a little bit.   So, Candace, in your house, for my new rules, I really wanted to help Cliff reconnect with you and your daughters.

The first thing that I saw that we must do was to take the video game console completely out of the picture.   I think that was amazing. I’m happy that you took it out the room.   With my second rule, I suggested the whole family go and play basketball. And   the girls just had the best time.   That experience with the girls and having them all there and just playing and just laughing and joking and having fun, it opened something else up.

Mhm.   Excuse me. Yeah, it kind of opened something else up that made me realize that I was being real selfish. So, I uh uh. It was a good time. I enjoyed it. Um It’s something I think we need to do a lot more of.   I’ve never never see him react like this. This is actually a first. So,   I know it’s like hitting him.

There was one point in time where I reminded Mike to think of the vows that we told each other. And so, my rule was for Cliff to write you some vows to just really explain to you how much he wanted to move forward with you and to try to make this work.   The last uh challenge probably was the hardest challenge of them all.

But, I think to me probably was the most important challenge. So, I put it together. Since day one, you have been an amazing woman to me. I just want to thank you for loving me for the person that I am. Thank you for being my lawful wedded wife. I do notice all the wonderful things you do for me and the sacrifices you make for our family.

You are the glue that holds this family together. I will make sure that you are a priority in my life along with the three beautiful daughters we have. I want you to know that you are worth f1ghting for.       Thank you for always being there for me and our family and believing in me.   Thank you. Mhm.

And thank you. I really appreciate everything. I don’t know how you thought about this stuff or but everything that you did, it   worked. It really worked.   I was happy to help. Can I give you a hug? I found that I appreciate my family a little bit more because the problems that I thought we had um aren’t really that big.

I learned from Candace that we spend a lot of time at the gym wrestling. And so with the dancing and stuff like that, if she enjoys it, I’ll do it.   I think our relationship will change   and grow from this experience and we should be able to connect a lot better now.

I’m going to be there for my family.     Spending time with two different spouses definitely has given us insight on things   that we could change and most of it just centers around us spending time with our family.   Good luck, man.   Yeah, you too.