Married at First Sight star Olajuwon Dickerson believes Lindsey Georgoulis needs to work on how she addresses people because she's allegedly aggressive all the time.

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Mark, 37, and Lindsey, 34, have had a tumultuous romance since tying the knot as total strangers on Season 14 of the Lifetime reality series.

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During the April 6 episode of Married at First Sight: Afterparty, Olajuwon watched back a Season 14 clip of Lindsey unleashing her feelings on Mark in an argument.

"You are so inconsistent. You give me affection and then you pull it all the way back," Lindsey cries to her husband in the clip.

"You tell me, 'I'm so sorry I've done that; I've always been in and I'm going to communicate better, and I'll talk to you before bed.' You'd rather text everybody else and post on Instagram instead of message your wife back before bed. You are not showing up for me."

Mark snaps in reply, "It's all about me!"

"I don't feel like you're showing up!" Lindsey says.

"Okay, well I don't think you communicate healthy at all!" Mark argues. "I feel you're negative and I feel you complain and you nag."

Lindsey goes on to add, "I feel like you've already broken my heart and walked away from this marriage."

The couple, however, later agreed to equally work on communication in terms of volume and delivery during conflict, with Mark asking Lindsey to respond emotionally but not in a combative manner.

Afterparty host Keshia Knight Pulliam pointed out how Olajuwon -- who is married to Katina Goode on the show -- is good at giving tough love, and so she asked him to give Lindsey "a hard truth" on how she could make her marriage to Mark work.

"Work on how you address people," Olajuwon responded. "Your delivery, just in life, not just in marriage -- but in life."

"Because when someone is being negative, and I talked to her about this on the roof [of our apartment complex]," he continued, "when you address somebody and you're aggressive all the time, like right from the beginning and you're coming at the person, they put up a wall and say, 'You know what? I'm done listening to you.'"

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But Married at First Sight star Steve Moy also appeared on Afterparty and gave Mark some advice on how to improve his relationship.

"When you are delivering this truth, something that you're trying to tell her, you can tell when she feels rejected, she lashes out," Steve explained.

"So as you are about to deliver what you're going to say, you also need to give her the affirmation of, 'Look, I care about you and this is out of love.' Know that when she feels that rejection, she also recognizes, 'Oh, you are there for me, you just need something from me too.'"

Mark acknowledged how he should affirm and validate Lindsey before sharing why he's upset or angry.

"So now she will listen," Mark said.

"Yes, and not get scared," Steve noted.

"Because if I don't do it in the right order, we're going to go back and forth," Mark said, realizing how "all hell can break loose," according to Keshia.

During a late March episode of Afterparty, Olajuwon explained how Lindsey "is [quick] to point the finger" at Mark or other people during conflict.

"I always tell Lindsey, 'Sometimes you've got to take responsibility.' And I think when she watches this, she'll see," Olajuwon said at the time.

Olajuwon also defended Mark in saying, "The way he comes off, he's trying to... fix it and trying to do it the right way! And she puts up this wall, like, they're coming after her -- he's coming after her. And it's not [that]."

Olajuwon said Mark was just trying to give Lindsey "positive criticism."

Olajuwon, however, surprisingly determined of Lindsey and Mark late last month, "I think they are great for each other."

"You know what I think? I think it depends on the day and the time where Mark and Lindsey are going to be at [in their relationship]," Olajuwon joked. "That's the best way to put it."

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Steve's Married at First Sight wife Noi Phommasak also joined Olajuwon on that March broadcast of Afterparty and shared her thoughts on Mark and Lindsey's roller-coaster marriage.

"I think that they have what it takes to make it to Decision Day and get a 'yes' on Decision Day, but I think it's going to take a lot of self-reflection on both their ends to get to that point," Noi told Keshia.

"But I do think they're a good match and that they're good for each other."

During a recent episode of Married at First Sight's fourteenth season, Lindsey lamented to the cameras about how Mark was "clueless" in their relationship and he was "falling short in every way."

"This is no man of mine, no friend of mine," Lindsey griped, adding how talking to Mark was like trying to talk to a brick wall.

But Mark had an issue with Lindsey's "tough exterior" and condescending tone, and he noted, "Communication-wise, it just doesn't work, and I wonder if it ever will."

During the latest episode, however, Married at First Sight experts Dr. Pepper Schwartz and Pastor Calvin Roberson got to the root of the couple's issues.

Mark told Pastor Cal that Lindsey's approach to fighting reminded him of how his mother -- who was depressed -- attacked Mark's father and would scream at him for allegedly no reason. Pastor Cal reminded Mark that Lindsey is not his mother and Lindsey just needed to feel more secure in their relationship.

And Lindsey shared with Pepper how anger is a mask for sadness in her life and she was used to her mother cutting her down all the time and never showing her real love.

Pepper suggested how Lindsey needed to approach Mark with more sadness and kindness, with a softer delivery in her opinions and thoughts, and Lindsey later explained to Mark how she only yelled if she felt ignored or dismissed.

Mark and Lindsey ultimately bonded through the trauma or tragedy they had experienced in their lives, and they both suddenly felt hope about the future.

Married at First Sight's fourteenth season, which currently airs Wednesday nights at 8PM ET/PT on Lifetime, also stars Jasmina Outar and Michael Morency. Alyssa Ellman and Chris Collette previously starred on the series but they chose to divorce one week into the extreme experiment.

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