Married at First Sight stars Lindsey Georgoulis, Jasmina Outar and Noi Phommasak have slammed Olajuwon Dickerson for suggesting his wife Katina Goode wasn't "woman enough" for him.
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Katina and Olajuwon were immediately attracted to each other and enjoyed a wonderful and romantic honeymoon in Puerto Rico, but once the couple moved into a Boston apartment together, Katina immediately felt pressure to cook several meals a day for her husband and live up to the high "standards" he had set for his wife.
During Wednesday night's episode of Married at First Sight: Afterparty, Lindsey, Jasmina and Noi watched back a Season 14 clip of Olajuwon confronting Katina about her supposed lack of effort in their marriage and not fulfilling what he believed her wifely duties should be.
After taking Katina to a cooking class, Olajuwon says in the clip, "I need to see where you are as a woman."
"If you're not going to cook, what are you going to do?" Olajuwon vents in a confessional. "Are you going to clean?"
Katina then tells Olajuwon that she needs a break from this conversation, as she was clearly feeling put down and personally attacked.
"I get where you're coming from," Olajuwon says. "I hear where you're coming from, but I have to be real with you at the same time. As much as I'm loving you, I've got to be real with you."
The clip ends with Katina walking away from Olajuwon and crying.
"He made my friend cry," Jasmina complained to Afterparty host Keshia Knight Pulliam.
And Lindsey said she was "really proud of Katina for saying, 'I need a break.'"
"Because she did not deserve the way [Olajuwon] was speaking to her," Lindsey commented. "Speaking to any woman, especially your wife, like that, that don't f-cking fly."
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Noi proceeded to point out "another issue" with Olajuwon and Katina's conversation.
"He is making her feel like she needs to validate her worth to him," Noi said.
"Right," Keshia agreed, "and that's the biggest thing, is that a woman's worth is not wrapped up into her cleaning, her cooking -- because that's [no good]!"
Jasmina, however, went on to defend Katina and support her friend.
"I know sometimes in those scenes when we're watching Katina back, she's not that expressive and she doesn't speak that much, and to some people it might come off as her being weak," Jasmina reasoned, "but she's really not."
"I have had conversations with her where I know everything that she's been through, and she's been through worse than that," Jasmina explained.
"So when she's quiet, it's not because she doesn't know what to say or she feels like, you know, he's attacking her," she continued. "It's just she's like, 'Okay, if you need to speak and get that off [your chest], then speak and get that off."
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"But I want to say that just because she's been treated worse does not mean she deserves to be treated like that," Lindsey pointed out.
"I didn't say she did," Jasmina argued.
"No, you said, like, she's been through a lot before, but she still doesn't deserve that," Lindsey said.
Jasmina repeated, "I didn't say she did deserve it."
"I didn't say you did [think that]," Lindsey clarified. "I'm just saying that I think Katina is a beautiful woman who's worthy of everything her heart desires."
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On the latest fourteenth-season episode of Married at First Sight, Olajuwon said that while he really cared for Katina and had developed strong feelings for her, she wasn't living up to his expectations of what a wife should do and how she should behave.
Olajuwon said Katina wasn't stepping up to the plate when it came to cooking and cleaning, and he accused her of being sheltered and lacking necessary life skills to be a good partner.
"I get so irritated. If this was a different situation, I would've walked away. I'm having a real tough time... but time is not on our side. Since Pastor Cal came by, I really haven't seen a difference," Olajuwon complained to his pals.
Olajuwon wondered if Katina could satisfy him, and he questioned in a confessional, "Is she enough woman for me -- as a wife?"
But in Katina's mind, she was trying very hard to please Olajuwon and meet his demands -- and she even promised him to do more.
"I know that cooking is the way to his heart, which he has told me three or four times," Katina told the cameras. "I'm going to make sure that I do that for him, so that it will be a 'yes' on both ends on 'Decision Day.'"
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"I can't say that about you right now," Olajuwon noted to his wife after the cooking class.
"I don't know what else to say other than, like, I guess, only time can tell," Katina replied. "I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I'm woman enough!' I'm not. I'm never going to do that."
Katina left the conversation feeling hurt and deflated, and she cried about how Olajuwon had made her feel really bad.
Married at First Sight, which currently airs on Wednesday nights at 8PM ET/PT on Lifetime, also stars Noi and her husband Steve Moy, Lindsey and her husband Mark Maher, Jasmina and her husband Michael Morency, and Chris Collette and Alyssa Ellman.
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