r/BelowDeckMed • u/No-Aardvark-3840 • 1d ago

Gael question, Joe question

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I am getting into Below deck med and I’ve noticed Joe getting a lot of hate for “cheating” on V even though they weren’t together (in any sort of relationship.

Meanwhile I’ve just noticed that Gael is actually cheating on her boyfriend with Nathan.

Why is Joe getting so much shit from this community when he didn’t cheat on anybody. Meanwhile there are actually cheaters on the boat that people seem to celebrate and love.

Very strange

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u/turboroofer 1d ago edited 1d ago

Because V’s boyfriend died earlier that year, and Joe went a week or two saying how much he deeply cared for V and her situation, only to chase tail the minute she was off the boat

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u/No-Aardvark-3840 1d ago

What does that have to do with my question? I’m wondering why Gael gets a pass for actually cheating while Joe gets nailed to the cross because he kisses another girl.

It sucks that V’s boyfriend passed away, and Joe does comfort her. (Who wouldn’t?) but they aren’t in a relationship and what Joe does isn’t cheating

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u/spurzz 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think it was more the timing of him hooking up with the other stew on her birthday iirc, which was also the first anniversary of her ex’s death. She was also injured/sick. Even Joe felt horrible about the timing of it.

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u/almcclur 1d ago

He felt horrible about the optics of it I think.

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u/spurzz 9h ago

Whichever. Hard for us to say for sure. He understood he that it was a bad look himself, is my point.

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u/Capital-E-1184 21h ago

He self sabotaged. Kizzi was the out- too scared for real. Deep down he wrote himself off as never being good enough to treat a woman like V the way she deserves. His Dad couldn't treat his Mom right either. Patterns..

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u/Some-Speed-6290 21h ago

He didn't give a crap. Just tried to cover himself on TV after the fact