In the Nov. 21 episode of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” Angie Katsanevas goes on an awkward date with her husband, Shawn — their first in two years. A couple of days later, Angie meets Whitney Rose for drinks and tells her about it. Whitney shares that when she first married Justin, she was like a 1950s housewife. But now that they have kids and both have careers, there’s a “void” in their marriage.
Whitney goes on to say that, several months earlier, she told Justin she didn’t know if she wanted their marriage to continue. And, Whitney adds, “Justin hates when I say this, but I don’t think it’s natural to be married and monogamous.”
She’s sings a somewhat of a different tune later, when she and her husband make a guest appearance on Meredith and Seth Marks’ marriage podcast. She recounts how she held the hand of Justin’s father as he died, adding that it was “easy” for her to “step up in that moment, because [Justin] steps up for me every day.” In a confessional, she says Justin has supported her through the difficulties with her drug-addicted father, her siblings and her mother.
And maybe she has a bit of a revelation: “The [expletive] that I put that man through, just me working my own stuff out, most people would’ve left. Like, technically, I should be on husband seven.”
Sharing memories
Monica gives the oldest of her four daughters, 17-year-old Bri, a photo album with pictures of her biological father. In a confessional, Monica says she “got pregnant very young” and married Bri’s dad. But after he left for work one day, she found Bri “playing with ... a clear plastic bag full of OxyContin. In that moment, I grabbed my daughter, and I never looked back.”
Monica does not know what her own father looks like, because after he left the family when she was 4, her mother destroyed all the pictures of him. Because of that, she wants to make sure Bri has photos of her biological father.
(Fred Hayes | Bravo) Heather Gay and Lisa Barlow in an episode of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City."
Pioneer party
Heather hosts a “Mormon” pioneer luncheon at at Quiet Meadow Farm in Mapleton, complete with bonnets and aprons, butter churning and doll making. None of the other five Housewives is enthusiastic, but they play along. Heather serves ribs, cornbread, macaroni and cheese, and funeral potatoes and tells the women it’s pioneer comfort food.
Heather also instigates the latest fight between Lisa and Monica, which quickly gets nasty. And that’s a problem, because Heather is planning a girls’ trip to Bermuda for all the women. The episode’s biggest surprise comes when Lisa apologizes to Monica, although (in a confessional) she makes it clear she’s just doing it as a way to support Heather and her Bermuda plans.
Monica does not embrace Lisa’s apology, and offers a weak apology of her own. And in a confessional, she says, “I always really wondered why Jen [Shah] never had anything nice to say about Heather and Lisa. And now I know exactly why.”
Lisa hits a rock
Lisa drives to Heather’s new house in Sandy, and scrapes the lower side of her Porsche along a landscaping boulder on the edge of the driveway. After she tells Heather what happened, Heather says, “I want to have that removed.” Lisa replies, “You need to.” (Or … Heather could invite only people who know how to drive.)
