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I was living in a melody.
Your mother is here.
Hi.
Hello.
I'm hosting dinner with my mom and Jephte and Jephte's
mom with his brothers.
How are you guys doing?
Hi Jason.
My mom had me really young.
My mom was 15 about to be 16.
And we grew up together.
So my relationship with my mom is very
strong and powerful and solid.
And if there's anybody that I can depend and rely on,
it's her.
So how are things going with y'all?
I'm tired.
You'll be all right.
Not right now, but--
Baby move all the time.
My relationship with my mom is strong.
I know that if I'm ever drowning,
I could just call and talk to her.
Even if I don't tell her what's wrong, just hearing her voice
always brings peace to me.
I love my mother.
And I'd do whatever for her.
And I know she'd do the same for me.
So where are y'all rings?
What's going on with that?
Well, we're not wearing them.
Why?
Because we're going to get a divorce.
Shawniece and I aren't wearing our wedding rings right now.
We were separated.
She found out I was messing with other girls.
She took them when I wasn't home.
Like, I wasn't mad because I understood why she took them.
When are y'all going to wear them.
It was really crazy.
I just hope we can just get past this.
And then when it's right, we'll put the rings back on.
When we feel like we're mentally like married
and connected and together--
- But y'all are mentally-- - We're legally.
--like this issues, but I think
that y'all should keep them on, regardless of the situation.
They shouldn't come off.
Once you put that ring on your finger,
it should never come off in any circumstance.
Once you speak in divorce, I feel like it's out there.
And I don't want that to happen with them.
That shouldn't have been an option.
Because y'all met each other and just got married--
Backwards, married.
--so y'all ran from a lot of stuff.
One thing that bothered me, Jephte, and I
don't want to cry.
The hardest thing for me to hear was that you
didn't want her at the time.
That was the hardest thing for me.
Because I don't never want my child to feel like she's not
wanted and she did.
With the marriage, my mother basically gave a son,
something she's never had.
So what Jephte did was pretty much like a smack in the face.
But one second--
So--
--you are very lucky to have Jephte.
Jephte is a good, young man.
He is.
And she is too.
And Jephte, our Jephte is very good.
And Jephte is very respectful too.
But you guys take a chance to get married to stranger.
SHAWNIECE: Because we are married,
our break-up and relationship problems don't only affect us,
they affect our family too.
So that's kind of hard.
What was tough was that when I first met her,
I didn't have the spark.
That's when I tried to slow it down and let's
try to get to know each other like on an emotional,
on a mental level to see if there was something there.
But my feelings for Shawniece have grown.
And it was never, ever my intention to hurt her.
I get that.
But when you have a little girl and if she comes to you later
on in line and says to you, Daddy,
this dude is da, da, da, da, you're
going to feel some type of way.
When I see Shawniece, I see the mother of my child,
because for most of the time, she's been pregnant.
What I'm trying to transform that into
is when I see Shawniece, I see the person that I want to spend
the rest of my life with.
I want to fight for our marriage.
I want to make our marriage work.
And hopefully by really working on it, we'll get there.