Married at First Sight star Clara Berghaus jokes that her family loves Ryan Oubre so much they'd probably pick him over her.
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On Wednesday night's episode of Married at First Sight: Unfiltered, Clara watched back a Season 12 clip of Ryan sitting down for a conversation with Clara's mother.
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Ryan shared in the clip how his own mother would describe him as "needy" as a child because he's cry after striking out in a baseball game, for example, which made Clara's mom laugh.
Ryan then asked for some advice in getting to know Clara better and pursuing their relationship.
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"Patience goes a long way," Clara's mom responds. "My thing is that you like Clara and you respect who she is, and the love will come [naturally]."
Clara flashed a big smile after watching the footage and said with a laugh that her parents "are ready to adopt him!"
Married at First Sight expert Pastor Calvin Roberson joined Clara on Unfiltered and joked, "Yeah, I mean, I wanted to adopt him!"
Clara confirmed that Ryan definitely meshes well with her family.
"I think that my parents, the whole family, would be like, 'Well, Clara, it's been nice to know you for the past 28 years but we're bringing [Ryan] in! See you later!'" Clara responded.
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But Unfiltered host Jamie Otis -- who starred on Season 1 of Married at First Sight -- asked Clara if she was surprised to hear Ryan was sensitive as a kid.
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"No, not at all," Clara replied with a laugh.
On the advice of Ryan being patient with her, Clara shared, "You know, I love my mom, the nut doesn't fall far from the tree."
"But I think that patience is something that both her and I have had to work on in our own personal lives and with our mother-daughter relationship," Clara continued.
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"Listening, understanding, reflecting, not responding, seeing things through, and not reacting immediately. So it's nice to hear that she gives [Ryan] the same advice she gives me."
Clara's Married at First Sight co-star Jacob Harder also made an appearance on the Unfiltered broadcast and was asked what type of advice his parents would probably give his wife Haley Harris.
"Oh, that's a tough question. Probably just don't take me too seriously because I'm probably not being serious a lot of the times," Jacob said. "That's probably more or less what they'd say. I'd probably have to go with that."
Pastor Cal pointed out "it's awesome" Ryan was taking the time to chat with Clara's mom and grow closer to her.
"There is such a wealth of information you can learn about your spouse by talking to the parents," Pastor Cal noted. "They knew you before you knew you."
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Pastor Cal added, "I think it's very smart, and Ryan is such a likeable person also that I'm sure your mom probably found it very easy to talk to him."
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On Married at First Sight's twelfth season, Clara recently rated her marriage "a 10 out of 10" even though she and Ryan had yet to consummate their marriage.
During the April 14 episode of Unfiltered, however, Clara insisted that although she seemed really frustrated and upset about Ryan's reluctance to have sex on the show, it wasn't a make or break thing in her marriage.
"Because we haven't taken one final step does not mean we're not intimate," Clara clarified at the time.
"We are so raw and emotional and connected and on the same page that we are wildly intimate with each other."
Ryan said on the April 7 broadcast of Unfiltered when he was a guest, "I don't know if there is, like, a perfect moment I'm looking for or anything like that [to have sex]."
"I think it's just kind of when we both feel the moment is right."
Clara has gushed on Married at First Sight that her relationship with Ryan is the best one she's ever been in, however, she has expressed concern over Ryan never saying "I love you" to a woman before and whether her strong feelings for Ryan would ever be reciprocated.
Ryan wrote Clara a sweet letter during a couples' retreat to Hilton Head, SC, in the latest episode which made her cry, but she still said she wanted to hear "I love you" before "Decision Day," which was rapidly approaching in about a week.
But Ryan didn't like feeling pressure to say those important three words, and he told the cameras in a confessional, "I hope Clara is not upset by it, but I'm definitely not ready [to say 'I love you.'"
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