When Carina makes a passing comment about a past lover on a night out, husband Paul loses his cool and does something that might see him booted from the experiment.
On Married at First Sight Australia, Carina, 31, Paul, 30, Rhi, 34, and Jeff, 39, go on an off-camera double date, and in the car on the way home, an unnamed rapper’s song comes on the radio. When Carina admits she had slept with the mystery star, it sends Paul into a rage.
“At the end of the day we’ve all got a past,” Carina says.
“I understand that everything’s heightened in the experiment, but it isn’t acceptable behaviour.”
“When we went back up to the apartments, Paul was really frustrated,” Rhi adds. “His reaction was definitely an overreaction.”
The situation escalates dramatically when a seething Paul punches a wall, forcing production to separate the couple, who have been smooth sailing up until this point.
“I felt shocked, in denial was and just asking, ‘Why? How did we get to this point?’ I couldn’t understand how it escalated that quickly.”
Carina awoke the next morning, alone in an apartment for the first time since their romantic wedding day. She admits she felt “lonely”.
“I was super anxious and very uncomfortable,” Carina says. “I just wanted to be with him, but I had to listen to his needs. He needed to sleep on what the hell just happened, so I had to respect that. I gave him what he asked for.”
The pair reunite just before this week’s Dinner Party, where Paul has to face the repercussions of his actions among the entire group.
“Everyone was screaming,” Carina says. “I knew that he felt really bad for his behaviour, but they definitely put him in his place.”
“We’re normally very loving humans but that night he and I felt absolutely mentally drained. Our faces showed it all. But I think everyone understood this is not the Paul we are used to.”
Will Carina give her husband a second chance at this week’s Commitment Ceremony or is this display of violence something the pair can’t come back from?
Married At First Sight Australia airs at 7pm Sunday to Wednesday on Three and ThreeNow.
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