“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Lisa Barlow gets a psychic reading done at Whitney Rose‘s “Telepathic Tasting” event in episode 5. When her marriage to John Barlow is mentioned, Lisa finally opens up about the cracks in their relationship.
Lisa & John’s Marriage History Revealed
Flashbacks during episode 5 shed light on some of the issues Lisa and John are going through in their relationship.
The first flashback showed a tense conversation between the couple that occurred one month prior to the psychic reading. They were discussing their son Jack Barlow‘s living arrangements when he returned from his mission trip.
“Jack and I were talking about two or three weeks ago. I actually was in favor of him getting an apartment,” John said.
“You were? I don’t think he should be allowed to move out,” Lisa responded. This scene showed how the couple was on two completely different wavelengths when it came to their children.
Another flashback from a year ago showed Lisa telling John that he needs to “take it a little more seriously. I think it bothers me because I feel lonely in my feelings.”
“How can I take it more seriously? I stress about it just as much as you do,” John said.
“You don’t act like you do, and that frustrates me,” replied Lisa.
Earlier in Season 6, Bronwyn Newport told Whitney that she saw legal documents related to a lawsuit Lisa was facing where she had secretly borrowed money from the “mystery man” that Angie Katsanevas had referenced in the past. It remains unclear if this accusation caused any strain in their marriage, and Lisa has already denied all of these legal claims against her.
Lisa Discovers How to Move Forward in Her Marriage
Whitney invited an “intuitive consultant” named Terence to give the group one-on-one psychic readings during their wine tasing lunch. When Lisa first sat down with Terence, the first thing he asked was, “why do you feel like you’re just rebuilding trust?”
This immediately caused Lisa to break down in tears, reaching for her sunglasses to mask her emotions. “I don’t know,” she said, her voice breaking.
“It’s like an elastic band, you guys keep snapping back together,” said Terence. “You need to figure out how to communicate to each other again. I also look at this, and go, cause it feels like you have different paths. And I feel like you don’t know how to find your way back to his path.” He continues to point out how much “angst and frustration,” there is in their marriage.
Lisa continued to agree with Terence. In her confessional, she explained to a producer, “marriage is hard,” while still struggling to control her emotions. She continued, “lately, I think with everything we have going on, we’re, like, on totally different pages. Sometimes it feels like totally different planets.”
“I feel like he’s my best friend. My person,” Lisa told Terence.
“But you’re not on the same team.”
“We’re not.”
The intuitive consultant concluded their session by stating, “until you get back to that same team, you’re gonna feel, like, lost.”
At the end of her confessional, Lisa admitted, “I just feel, like, alone sometimes, you know? And it hurts.”
