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Whit4you

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 05:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have nothing at all against Helene - thought she was sweet and pretty and a great lady. BUT - I personally feel that him and Brooke had the potential to have an amazingly happy life together, the chemistry was there, the way they interacted and so on.

I know I only saw a little bit of the two of them in a contrived setting but well I've had a few really wonderful relationships, and I think these two could have.

I'm not saying he couldn't be happy with Helene, but I feel he burned a bridge he shouldn't have with Brooke. He may have agreed to certain things on the show, but it's his life ahead of him - and he should have let a door open with Brooke.

Brooke seems to me to be one of the best catches any guy could hope for - he may have lost out but hopefully she'll find someone good enough for her.

I'm pretty disappointed in this really, cause while I think Helene is great, the way I saw him and Brooke together, I think we could have saw a 'where are they now' 20 years from now with them still very much in love and happy. Oh well like I said i hope she finds herself a very good man. He lost out bigtime.

Angelnikki

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 05:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i totally agree with you

Yuhuru

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 05:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was with you Whit until you said Brooke. The girl for Aaron is Gwen.

Adrian

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It is so funny that so many people are making judgement based on what they seen on few limited & edited TV moments of these romantic hopefuls. Would you let other people's opinions prevail over what your heart and mind are telling you?

Only Aaron can make the best decision for himself.

Oh well, FYI -

AOL HOST "Is there anything that was edited out of the show that you wish wasn't edited out?"

Helene: "I don't know. I guess I can say a lot of the nice things that happened between Aaron and I, a lot of the romantic moments I think were edited out to make things a little less obvious for the viewers. I wish I would have seen a lot more of that. I wish the other people would have seen a lot more of that."

You should read the entire transcript of the interviews & you would completely understand why Aaron eventually chose Helene.

Hummingbird

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They said on tv tonight that they have had only two dates since the show wrapped in September. They plan on a long engagement. (Yawn)

Minnyace01

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 05:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm sure that Gwen and Brooke are both great ladies, but I never saw any chemistry between either of them and Aaron. On the final show, I thought that it was painful to watch how Aaron looked like he wanted to just get away from Brooke. When they were in the limo together, where Helene had her legs wrapped up in him, he wanted no part of Brooke.

Mack

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 08:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right on Minny. Aaron's body language with Brooke was almost like she had the flu and he didn't really want to get close to her.

Fruitbat

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 09:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
He also told her on a number of occasions that he could not promise her anything.

Realfan

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I saw a definite chemistry between Aaron and Helene. She made him smile, and they "got" each other's senses of humor.

Brooke, with her spiel on how she would do anything to make Aaron happy, could easily become far too clingy and smothering for Aaron. He wanted an independent professional woman, not someone who would base her entire happiness on him.

Makes sense to me.

Yuhuru

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 03:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not sure about the rest of you, but these folks went on a show to entertainment me, and part of that is me second guessing everything they do.

Of course, I hope He and Helene make it. I thought they seemed really into each other.

Seamonkey

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with you, Yuhuru.. they put it all out there, of course people will express opinions.

In real life, Aaron would be some bigshot in his town, he'd date, choose, mate, lose, whatever.. all his choice and would I care? NOPE.

Actually I don't care anyway but I'll have my opinions.

Fruitbat

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yep Yuhuru, that is how I feel about all reality TV. My entertainment and my choice to dish, love, hate, enjoy, you name it. That is the fun of it all.

Twinkie

Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 01:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Could that be "chose" the wrong girl? Past tense as opposed to present tense of choose?

Jbean

Saturday, November 23, 2002 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
it is still fun to talk about whether we agree with each other or not. by the way, i think it should have been gwen.

Hermione69

Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 05:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sometimes I think I must have been watching a different show from everyone else. I thought that he always seemed to find Brooke extremely attractive, physically, of course and I thought that played a big part in why he kept her around, like he was hoping that his reservations would be unfounded because the physical chemistry was there. I did expect him to pick Helene, but do not see at all where people are saying his body language indicated he wanted to get away from Brooke. I'm no expert, but I am deaf and as such have always been very attuned to nonverbal communication. Interesting how such different perceptions come from the same event.

As far as Helene being the right girl for him, I'm standing by my impressions from early on that she is manipulative and will be a nag and I think that will wear him down. He is very nonconfrontational. I cast my vote with those who think he should have picked Gwen! JMHOs.

Uhoh

Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 09:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hermione69 - i agree with you about brooke. i also thought he seemed very comfortable with her and that there was a connection, and - i thought he rather liked how smitten and warm and open she was with him. i did suspect he might have reservations based on her age, her innocence, and her family.

i don't think of helene as manipulative, but as very insecure. all her tests and pulling back i thought stemmed from that, though perhaps the cause doesn't matter so much as the result. she wants a man to adore her and show her over and over and constantly that he does... that's my impression.

but i'm back to agreeing with you that he should have picked gwen, except intellectually they might not've been very well-matched.

Seamonkey

Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hermione.. and one more annoying aspect of Helene that you are spared is her constant nervous giggle, which hopefully went away with the cameras, but I doubt it.

Earthmother

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 06:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was elated that he chose Helene. I picked her from the beginning as she seemed the most down to earth and well suited for him. I felt the same way in the first show. Both of the winning women were somehow more genuine than the others and so far this is the first reality show I've watched where I think the best person won.

Realfan

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
[quote]As far as Helene being the right girl for him, I'm standing by my impressions from early on that she is manipulative and will be a nag and I think that will wear him down. He is very nonconfrontational.[/quote]
Take it from me, somewhat of a "nag"--we marry the nonconfrontational guys. They're the ones who can put up with us! :) And for some reason, they adore us for it.

Hermione69

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 12:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You are probably right, LOL! If two nonconfrontational people got together, nothing would ever be solved! :)