JetmamaDiDi wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

tangodancer208 wrote:

Thanks again for bringing these over!   I was finally able to watch them, albeit with lots of stops and starts, this morning.   What I wanted to see was what Maks was saying when he put his hand on her hands folded in her lap.   And I was rewarded!   That's the point where he said he was uncomfortable talking about himself (he didn't really seem like it), that this was her win.   I think she said "It's all you" like she did when they won.   But really that whole interview was all about Maks, and she seemed to love it.  You didn't even get a glimmer of any dissatisfaction in her eyes about them focusing on him instead of her.   IMHO, that's love!
 

I agree with you tango...I guess I find it hard to understand, but yet do understand in a way why and how two people that I personally feel are right for each other and with all the little indications between the two of them from at least Week 3 of DWTS most likely feel the same way...can and do keep such a distance in public, is it fear of the unknown because both of their lives are on totally different paths than they have ever know (Meryl not competing, Charlie getting married, their Ice Dance future kinda up in the air, college...and Maks not competing on DWTS, trying a new career, acting, changing management companies, new dance studios and both not getting any younger)...Is it all of that, could it be the commitments that Meryl has, she must keep a low profile as far as who she associates with and confirm all her doings with her management and PR people...especially with all the rumors that swirl around Maks every day...I just feel that somewhere deep inside both of them they want to express how they feel...(Maks as basically said that and Meryl has never actually denied it) to the world...If anything is a true sign of how they feel one only needs to watch them when the camera is not just on them but even when they are really not on camera...that should tell you!!!
I have not idea if any of that makes any sense but there it is....

 
Good Saturday morning all! Hope you all are going to have a great Labor Day weekend1

Sorry I missed you last nite. We ended up going out to dinner with some friends we hadn't seen in a while--fairly impromptu thing. Ended up trying to watch a movie at their house afterwards but they are as technologically challenged as the rest of us--HAHA!! It was hilarious actually--couldn't get the DVD to load so we just drank wine instead!! LOL In all fairness, tho, they had changed out some boards in the TV recently which presumably caused the problem. Just had fun teasing them about it--and it's so me to not be able to operated the DVD player!! Grandkids are old enough to do it for me now!! LOL

Anyway--on the MnM comments, CEK, I think you expressed what we all think and feel very well!!! Makes perfect sense to me!! It is in fact frustrating for all of us not to know what is going on with them (are we just nosy losers or what?!! HAHA). Truly we have no right to know anything they don't want us to know but somehow we think we should be privy to their lives!!!! LOL Social media has in large part created this expectation, so logically people think that they should put stuff out there to assuage our curiosity. So it is, I suppose, a dichotomy for them as well as for us.

I believe they are together more often than they let us know, that they are in close contact daily, and that they are trying to figure out where they are going and how they are going to get there. So tactically I think they are flying below the radar as much as is humanly possible to reduce expectation and curiosity--while strategically working on where they are and where they are going long-term. Maks, being older and having had more female relationships (I assume), has a more defined understanding of what he wants in a soulmate--and knows he has found it. Meryl, otoh, had apparently a somewhat tenuous relationship for the 3 years prior to meeting Maks, so she has more to sort out. I doubt she had any expectation that in 3 mos. she would be in love with a guy who wanted to get married NOW! She is also more cautious by nature, so I think they both want to have it worked through as much as possible before their break-out announcement or photo together somewhere. I don't think either of them wants to come out and not be certain where they are going together. I think it was a bit into the relationship before Maks and Kate Upton were even seen together--and I don't know that folks were even speculating on who he was dating then.

In short, I think it will all come together and come out eventually--but we, being not so patient in this arena, tend to question "whatever it is they have" that they want to be "off cameras."

Meanwhile, everyone will certainly need to attend your Snooping and Reporting Maksology class since we are not getting any real clues!!! Might have to create our own!!!! At least we have done a lot of advanced planning (of the wedding and kids' names, etc.) for them--SHOULD they decide to take advantage of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Message Board and Counseling Service!!! LOL

LOL...loved everything you said and i think your right about that....just read the article cek posted the link too about raising pro athletes and the part from Meryl's mom was very interesting...she said it's been hard on Meryl going from super structured to more relaxed and she also said at one point that Clayton had more real life experience than Meryl because skaters live in a more (don't remember her word) but protceted enviornment...that makes alot of sense and would explain why she needs time to adjust...and I think Maks understands that and is trying to protect her from the press by making himself their target..to give her that room she needs to adjust

Jet & April,

I agree with everything you both have said.   I can't recall any couples that acknowledged dating during the show, but we know many of them attend events together during the season and after, so it really only means something if they come out and say they are.

I think that perhaps there may be some sightings now that they have a little bit of downtime.   Not from fans who meet/see them on the street or in an airport somewhere.   Not completely off the radar, just under it.  

Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!  Will Luv have some red/white/blue cakes for us?

I'm so excited for Monday.   On man crush Monday, I am hoping to drag my husband to see the Irish singers that I love.   He doesn't know it yet.  I'm going to bribe him first with a movie he wants to see, and then say we have to do something I want to do.   Thanks to repeated Meet & Greets, the singers both know me by real and screen names.   They are almost halfway through a 50+ city tour of the U.S. and Canada, and I have tickets to 12!! shows .   Monday will be #4.   Wish me luck!  

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Hmmmmmmm......hope this is a huge success!!!  PAAAARTAY!!!

ollieceb wrote:

I don't want to always be the negative person, but does it bother anyone else that Maks nor any of his "fam" have supported Meryl on her latest nomination?  She supports all of them.  She even tweeted today to support Serge.  Asking people to vote for her does not betray anything.  I don't believe that there is a sm black out, I think that Maks and company just don't bother with anything Meryl concerned.  Ok, I know he did "like" the collage she posted yesterday, but what would it hurt them to support her nomination?  I go crazy with Maks, One day I'm mad at him, the next day I feel sorry for him, the next day I think he's the greatest guy in the world.  I know I'm crazy.

Ollie, then I am crazy too. Agree with everything you said, and especially where you said, "I go crazy with Maks ...to the end of your post!! He keeps me on that roller coaster too. Anybody else on it with us?