Married at First Sight star Haley Harris has revealed what she would have done differently in her marriage to Jacob Harder now that "Decision Day" is rapidly approaching on Season 12.
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During Wednesday night's episode of Married at First Sight: Unfiltered, Haley watched back a Season 12 clip of Jacob complaining about her to their fellow co-stars at the couples' retreat held in Hilton Head, SC.
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"This has been one, like, long bad first date for me," Jacob laments. "What can I learn from that? I don't know. We didn't connect."
"We didn't, but I still learned a lot about myself," Haley responds in the clip, "so I'm just confused at how, in a two-month condensed process, you don't learn anything about yourself."
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"I'm used to having a connection... after a date," Jacob says.
"So am I!" Haley interjects.
"And I wasn't fake, so," Jacob snaps.
"Now he's saying I'm fake!" Haley says. "That's cool."
"Well you were," Jacob insists.
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"I don't think you really tried either," Haley argues.
"I did, but it was too heavy," Jacob explains.
"Oh, 'too heavy,'" Haley says, mocking Jacob, who then suggested she's immature.
Looking back on that tense conversation that unfolded, Haley apparently wishes she had done or handled some things differently.
"Going back even further than that, I think there were so many things that could have been done differently," Haley acknowledged on Unfiltered.
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"I feel like having more open communication in the beginning may not have gotten us to the point we are right now."
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Unfiltered host Jamie Otis -- who starred on Season 1 of Married at First Sight -- asked Haley how she was feeling during that conversation about her allegedly being fake.
"I was upset," Haley admitted.
"I mean, obviously. It was just absolutely mind-blowing to me that you can't learn one thing about yourself during this process. I was, yeah, feeling some kind of way you could say."
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Haley said she wasn't sure whether Jacob might have been "poking" her to try to get a reaction out of her.
"I don't know if it was intentional or not," Haley said, "but the pointed comments and calling me a 'fake,' it's been name-calling and assumption after assumption through this entire process. And that's not acceptable to me."
Married at First Sight expert Pastor Calvin Roberson also joined Haley on Unfiltered and shared his thoughts on the couple in that footage.
"I mean, there are no boundaries. [Haley] was throwing shade and he was throwing shade," Pastor Cal noted.
"Oh, I know, fully! I was throwing some shade!" Haley confessed.
"He was being JC Petty and [Haley] was being Petty LaBelle, so it was just all over the place," Pastor Cal said. "It's hard to watch."
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Haley and Jacob's experience at the couples' retreat got off to a bad start because the pair had just argued over the $800 bracelet Jacob had gifted his wife on their wedding day and Haley had yet to wear once.
And when Jacob arrived to the retreat early and cooked dinner for himself, Haley was upset because she had claimed she wanted to cook dinner for the whole group and Jacob had been made aware of that.
Haley, however, thought things were getting better after the spouses played games and enjoyed a few laughs, but Jacob departed the retreat early and didn't even communicate with his wife that he was leaving.
On Married at First Sight's latest episode, Jacob explained to Haley that he felt the need to go home early to take their dogs out because it would have been 16 hours since they were let outside.
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Haley understood the urgency of the situation but wished Jacob had explained himself earlier.
Although she said her marriage had been "a roller coaster," Haley thought Jacob was overall a good guy and there was still time in the experiment to pull Jacob out of his shell and for things to change for the better.
And Jacob seemed to consider staying with Haley as "Decision Day" was rapidly approaching.
"I wanted somebody who was independent and strong-willed, so she is all of those things," Jacob shared in a confessional.
"I think she's a good person and I think she went into this for the right reasons, so maybe we need to give things more time and we could potentially develop something good from here."
Jacob also told the cameras a divorce would be "daunting" and so he'd prefer to just work things out with Haley.
Haley said she recognized her final decision was a huge choice that would probably change her whole life.
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