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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just watched the new episode. What's with Chelsea and her mom and the Adam talk? It is no secret Adam is pretty much a non-existent parent. What's wrong with suggesting Cole fill in as "dad"? He already IS! He's living there, he's dad to her soon-to-be-brother! Why the shudder at the label?

Maybe Chels should stop scanning the crowds for Adam and constantly trying to make something work with Adam as dad, when clearly it isn't working at all? She needs to give up on that. She still seems to have a really hard time doing that. [/quote]

Chelsea explained on twitter that Aubree was uncomfortable and her mom wasn't taking the hint.

I think Chelsea does a good job of letting Cole naturally fill in as dad. She's letting Aubree grow and realize who Adam really is. Chelsea doesn't need to, and shouldn't talk badly about Adam in front of Aubree. That's Child Psych 101.[/quote]
I guess that makes sense. But she's always hinting with her, "Did ANYONE ELSE show up at school for your birthday?" And other things. Just give it up. He isn't coming. She obsesses about him not showing up. He's been not showing up for like 7 years. Why are we even talking about it anymore! Some dads are absentee, she should just be glad Cole is stepping up.[/quote]

This.  While in agreed wholeheartedly with her reaction to her mom's inappropriate talk in front of Aubrey, Chelsea talks to others about Adam in a derogatory manner within in aubrey's earshot all the time.[/quote]

I think Chelsea does a great job of NOT talking about Adam in front of Aubree even when producers are cuing her to do so.  She asked who came for her birthday, and when Aubree listed one person, she asked "anyone else?"  It seemed very natural, even though we clearly knew she was talking about Adam.  A less sensitive person would have straight up asked if her dad was there.  Chelsea knows that despite his un-deserving-ness, Aubree loves her dad, and she has said multiple times that she's grateful that Cole is there to be a dad-model for Aubree because Adam isn't.  I think Chelsea is very in tune with Aubree's wants and needs and puts them first.  She dislikes Adam not because of what Adam has done to Chelsea, but how Adam's behavior affects Aubree.  It really seems clear that she hurts when Aubree hurts, and it's really been like that the whole time.

Chelsea's mom just seems clueless, and I applaud Chelsea for basically telling her to shut it, while again protecting Aubree.  When her mom said something like "Cole is going to be your new dad" and Aubree balked at it, Chelsea could have said "No he's not, shut up."  But instead she covered for her mom saying "She meant stepdad," like it was an honest slip of words.  And her mom should have gotten the hint.

Chelsea talks constantly about Adam and whether or not he shows up for things because the producers drive those conversations.  It's one of the reasons she's pulling away, I think.  And one of the reasons why Kail has started going batshit crazy with the cameras--she's fine to talk smack about Javi and Jo when the producers set up those conversations, but when they tell her to talk about things she doesn't want to, she threatens to quit the show.  I'd think that a normal response would be "Eh, I don't want to talk about that," and it would be the end. But Kail knows how it works and that she's expected to "have a natural conversation with your friend talking XYZ," so her only way to get out of it is to stop being on the show.  Vee has said on social media that that's one of the reasons she doesn't like filming--the producers set up their conversations and tell them what to talk about.[/quote]

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