Married at First Sight star Jacob Harder believes Chris Williams needs to grow up and stop playing mind games with his wife Paige Banks because his behavior is "junior high school."
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During the March 3 episode of Married at First Sight: Unfiltered, Jacob and one of his Married at First Sight co-stars, Briana Myles, watched back a Season 12 clip of Chris whispering something in Paige's ear that made her smile.
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"Chris was whispering that his fear is falling in love with me," Paige reveals in the clip. "I am very, very confused. Are we really, really done?"
Paige questioned at the time why Chris would be telling her something like that after determining he was still in love with his then-pregnant ex-fiancee Mercedes Myrick and wanted to reconcile with her.
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Chris also asked Paige for a divorce just minutes earlier, which made Paige feel like she was on an episode of Punk'd.
"What do you think of these mind games Chris is playing with Paige?" Unfiltered host Jamie Otis asked her guests.
"Sorry, Chris, but get the hell out of junior high school with this sh-t!" Jacob replied. "Come on, man. Like, what are you doing?!"
Jacob added, "It just doesn't make any sense -- and again, I don't want to comment on it, but I'm commenting on it here, so just grow up man, that's bush league!"
And Briana explained, "I mean, you're toying with someone's feelings, especially someone who comes in with pure intentions -- like why would you do that?"
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Jacob and Briana were also displeased with Chris' decision to fly to Chicago after his Las Vegas honeymoon with Paige instead of moving into the couple's new apartment in Atlanta.
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"He's going to hate me for commenting on it, but it's not what I would have done and I think he needs to reflect on the decisions he made because your solution was to fly back to Chicago and leave [Paige] alone during this pivotal moment?" Jacob shared on Unfiltered.
"I think it was a [expletive] solution, personally," he added.
And Briana admitted she probably wouldn't have handled Chris' absence or neglect as well as Paige seemed to.
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"If I was in that same situation, yeah, I would be pissed! You said you're putting me above everyone else, right?" Briana said, referring to how Chris had promised Paige in Las Vegas that she'd be his No. 1 priority before his child, his child's mother, and even his own mother.
Married at First Sight's twelfth season has shown Chris repeatedly boasting about himself and his accomplishments, making offensive and sexist remarks about Paige, discussing his high expectations of a woman's physical looks and performance in the bedroom, and marrying a stranger only three months after ending his engagement to Mercedes, whom he still continued hooking up with after their split.
Viewers immediately expressed outrage over the MAFS experts' decision to cast Chris on the show, especially after Chris chose to have sex with Paige twice in 24 hours despite claiming he was not attracted to her.
Paige nearly ended her relationship because she felt devalued and disrespected, but she chose to persevere and honor her vows -- only to discover at the beginning of her honeymoon in Las Vegas that Chris' ex-fiancee was about six weeks pregnant.
Chris, however, appeared to sweet-talk Paige and convince her that he was really starting to like her and still had the best of intentions for their marriage. Paige later told Pastor Calvin Roberson that the couple also continued sleeping together.
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But after disappearing for a few days in Chicago, Chris reunited with Paige in Atlanta and allegedly broke the news off-camera that he wanted a divorce.
"He already spoke to, like, a divorce attorney and everything. Like, I cannot believe this sh-t at all... I jut feel f-cking disgusted right now," Paige lamented to production after her conversation with Chris behind closed doors.
"I feel disgusted for having any type of intimacy with this man. F-ck that! No! I am done, period! I'm done. This is bullsh-t! All that m-therf-cker dramatic-ass sh-t he done dragged me through? F-ck you! F-ck that b-tch!"
The latest Married at First Sight episode featured Paige and Mercedes meeting face to face, with Mercedes announcing that she had no intention of taking Chris back.
Despite Chris' confusing and flirtatious whispers in Paige's ear, she also determined she was going to walk away from the relationship.
Pastor Cal and fellow MAFS expert Dr. Pepper Schwartz have both previously suggested they advised Paige to end her marriage and cut off all ties with Chris but she refused to take their advice.
The two experts also said Paige was given the option to leave her marriage and film the rest of Season 12 as a single woman while the show was in production in Summer 2020, rejecting speculation that Paige was stuck in her relationship for contractual obligations.
Chris was spotted vacationing with Mercedes in Cancun in February, which suggests the former couple did in fact get back together or continue some type of intimate relationship following Chris' stint on Married at First Sight.
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