Imbibing Marriage On The Rocks: Housewives'Tamra & Simon Split!
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Imbibing Marriage On The Rocks: Housewives' Tamra & Simon Split!
I WATCHED ORANGE COUNTY HOUSEWIFE TAMRA BARNEY TEARFULLY TELL her mother that she and husband Simon were headed for divorce and she just didn't know what to do.
He doesn't like her friends, she can't do anything right, she's just not the person her wants her to be although she tries her hardest to be what he wants.
So Simon's had enough. According to RadarOnline.com he filed divorce papers on Jan. 7th; the couple separated four days earlier. Although Simon sites "irreconcilable differences," he also accuses her of being verbally abusive and committing acts of disloyalty and infidelity. Woo, there's been a lot more going on behind the scenes than we knew.
Reportedly, she's moved out.
Meanwhile, we see the couple on the show talking about the disastrous vibes between him and Vicki in Florida and he rants about how their marriage is SO much better than Vicki and Don’s. He thinks Vicki treats Don like shit and feels Tamra is going down the same road. And Vicki did treat Don like shit for quite awhile actually, but then she woke up and realized that he was a great guy and she’d be a real fool to lose him. And Don? He was seriously getting ready to split.
Simon disapproves of all of her female relationships right now though -- with Vicki AND Gretchen -- and feels that they are not good people. He accuses Tamra of being a hypocrite for still wanting to hang with the gang. He thinks she’s changed and not for the better. This leaves her entirely frustrated.
We go to church with Jim and Alexis and the kids. She's all dolled up and the kids are adorable. It's a hip church that looks like they’re having a rock concert. Lots of neon, guitars, monitors and parishioners. The Word is the same though. Then, all of a sudden, Tamra and Gretchen, separately, are talking about the devil wanting to hop some 700cc’s. Whaaa?? I think they were making fun of Jim and Alexis wanting to keep the devil out of their relationship, but that the devil would really like to rub up against Alexis’s large, fake breasts, hahaha. O…K…
Then Gretchen needs to let us know there's more to her than vajajay exposing and nipple-licking on the Internet. She goes shopping with Lynne’s youngest daughter Alexia, the morose one who’s experiencing serious teenage angst this season. She thinks she's depressed and has no one to talk to so she nominates herself to ride to the rescue. Alexia wonders why this chick is taking a sudden interest in her. They really don’t have a close "auntie" kinda relationship. She feels weird when Gretchen begins to lecture her against doing anything "bad" (like asking for just one beer at a picnic) to compensate for her family's lack of attention. She seems to get into it and cries and lets loose about her feelings, but still feels blindsided by the incident.
Tamra goes house hunting without Simon. It’s a passive-aggressive move on her part. How it helps her I don’t know but she muses about how Simon thinks everything is ok, and how it’s not.
She's shown a house to lease in the $5,000 range. We pass a previous house she lived in in that neighborhood that was really very nice. She noted she had some of the best times of her life there. The house she's shown is much smaller and a lot less grand than their current one.
Lynne and Alexia are at the gym. Lynne keeps asking if her face is still on straight she's so happy to be able to exercise again. Junkie that she is, I guess she doesn’t care. Then she asks Alexia what went on at the shopping trip. Well, Alexia totally throws Gretchen under the bus, whining about how she felt ambushed, using a word her mom threw out there, when Gretchen wanted to talk to her about depression. She said Gretchen was targeting her to make Gretchen look better. Oh no. Lynne goes ballistic and thinks it reflects poorly on her parenting skills to have someone else counsel her child. After all, Gretchen doesn’t have teenagers, she says, as if someone has to have kids to know something about them or care about them.
But this episode was really about Vicki and Don renewing their love for each other. She repeats this fact about 10 xs during the hour, as if trying to convince herself of their mission in paradise. She plans a surprise getaway (first-class, of course) to Turks and Caicos where they will renew their vows on the beach. The trip -- with personal concierge, the wet bar, walks on the beach, tanned bodies clad in white, rum punches; their first tastes of conch (stupid penis and male virility joking aside); dinners on the balcony with views to die for and the eventual barefoot, emotional wedding -- would make anyone envious. Their re-commitment to each other was very touching. Don's a guy who’s not afraid to cry. As Vicki says during the episode, "If anyone thinks money doesn’t matter, they’re poor.” Amen to that sister.
SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes on TV, America's favorite snack food.
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