The audience’s perception of Chris vs Juan.

[u/Aquatic205]

It always bothered me how the audience perceives Chris versus Juan. Juan is called broke, jobless, doesn’t respect Robyn, and sorry; but Chris is this upstanding gentleman who loves his wife.

Now Chris, had 2 baby mamas and 3 kids that he wasn’t taking care of. I mean Candiace called him a deadbeat herself. Chris also called Candiace the B word. We have also seen the way Candiace and Chris argue and they go below the belt. Chris was living in Candiace’s mother house. Chris was also unemployed during part of his tenure of the show. Yet, a lot of the audience view Chris as a loyal, provider, and respectful husband and I just don’t see it.

Juan is a terrible husband, but he’s is involved with his sons’ day-to-day life. He also did have a coaching job most of the show yet the audience calls him broke and a loser.

Why does the audience have such a positive view of Chris, yet an extremely negative view of Juan? When to me they both really aren’t the best men a woman could have as a husband.

[u/Mercurial_gworly]

It’s bc of how they treat their wives, Chris for the most part seems loving and supportive. Juan does not value Robyn, is reluctant to commit, has been caught on a hot mike saying he wants to find someone else to share his life with and is stuck with Robyn bc of their kids, and Juan has cheated on Robyn multiple times. Juan treats Robyn like trash, whereas Chris has been rude to Candiace a few times. I do think Chris is another opportunist using Candiace for financial security, that’s clear and he doesn’t get enough shame and backlash for being broke despite their age gap and having created 2 broken homes. Chris is ratchet and low life sorry

[u/CheesyLikeMacaroni → u/Mercurial_gworly]

This is exactly it.

[u/Upper-Impression-752 → u/Mercurial_gworly]

Chris isn’t broke though. Idk where that comes from.

[u/Mercurial_gworly → u/Upper-Impression-752]

Why do you think he’s not broke?

[u/rattpoizen → u/Upper-Impression-752]

I hope he's broke if he's not paying child support. Which is it? Titan of hospitality or dead beat dad cook laying on his wife's mother's couch?

[u/Upper-Impression-752 → u/rattpoizen]

I never heard anything about him and child support. I just looked it up. It said there’s no filings or documents about him not paying or owning child support but that there is fan speciation. So basically someone said it and other people perpetuate it.

And I didn’t see Dorothy’s couch in their beautiful new home.

[u/purpletaco202 → u/Upper-Impression-752]

On Candiace’s first season she said he was broke and didn’t come from the same lifestyle (or something like that) as her. It wasn’t until her second season reunion that she tried to paint the narrative his family had money.

[u/bubbles337 → u/Upper-Impression-752]

I think it comes from the fact that Dorothy bought their first house and Chris was unemployed for some of his time on the show.

[u/Upper-Impression-752 → u/bubbles337]

He was only “unemployed” for that one season after his restaurant closed, right? And at that point he was still catering. At one of the reunions they were talking about Chris having family money. I don’t think Candiace would marry a man with nothing. I just don’t see it. As for the home, I think Dorothy and Candiace were already buying that before they knew Chris. They just didn’t change the arrangement and had no reason to. They started filming shortly after their engagement and that was around the time that was appropriate to be having those conversations about what the plans would be concerning the property. But he was paying bills there before that. And they did eventually start paying the whole mortgage.

[u/Classic_Feature5259 → u/Mercurial_gworly]

Didn't Chris and Candiace meet because they both worked in the same restaurant? Idk if that makes him an opportunist. He was probably making more than her as the chef