‘The Golden Bachelorette’ Episode 6 Recap: ‘Just Because We're in Our 60s Doesn't Mean We're Going to Bed at 9 o'clock!'

She clicked with standoffish Frenchman Pascal

Pascal came to America with not much and built a salon that completely impressed Joan. “Seeing him and his natural element is very sexy. I have pretty strong feelings about Pascal. He has a zest for life, and it's a fun thing at this age. I picture a very fun life with him.” Crucially, Pascal’s big personality reminds Joan of her husband. “John made everything big and epic and fun —  that is attractive to me.”

Helping Joan with her salon apron, Pascal said, “I'm not trying to be fresh.” “OK, you can be fresh!” Joan merrily replied.

But guess how Pascal was feeling?

On the plus side, the chemistry is evident. “She’s a classy lady,” said Pascal. “There is definitely zee physical attraction!”

Alas, he’s just as wounded as Guy. “My dad is not really opening his heart to the process,” explained Pascal’s also handsome son. “He's being too guarded and protective of himself.”

“I got my heart broken many times,” Pascal told Joan after their sexy salon bonding experience. “I got hurt bigtime last year. Just give me time.”

Pascal’s family was as wild about Joan as Guy’s were. “They are the hottest couple I think I've ever seen,” enthused Pascal’s daughter. “He had the biggest smile on his face, and she had her hand on his leg. And I was like, ooh! Like, this is, this is pretty serious.”

“I really saw a level of happiness in my dad today that I don't normally see,” said Pascal’s son. “He cried today, which for as long as I've been alive, I've never seen that.”

Joan wound up feeling fonder than ever of Pascal. And also fretting that she might be the one who winds up crying. “I'm not sure if he's ready. I don't know if he'll ever get there. Like, all this is getting really, really real, and I'm getting scared.”

Jordan.

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With Jordan, the heat died down and the walls went up

In Chicago to meet Jordan’s family, Joan admitted the sparks hadn’t exactly lit up the skies for them. “Jordan and I have had a slow progression, maybe slower than the other ones, but doesn't mean that we're not going to get there,” she said. He fed her what he insisted was the best cake in the country, and she loved his energy. “Just because we're both in our 60s doesn't mean we're going to bed at nine o'clock at night!”

However, despite having a good time on their date, they did not appear to be rushing to go to bed together. Jordan’s daughter explained to Joan that ten years after her dad’s divorce, he still hadn’t dated anyone seriously. “His walls are getting deeper and deeper. That's why he's always leading with humor, like a buffer to like, what's really going on.”

The family encounters are often more incisive than the bachelor-bachelorette scenes. Jordan’s daughter asked Joan, “The other guys — are they more open than my dad? Or is everybody in the same place emotionally? 

“So two of them are very open or ready to commit,” Joan said. “ And then I have your dad and another man [Jordan] that are both like a little…oh, boy! And honestly, your father is the one that I worry maybe he wouldn't pick me if I picked him. So he does hurt me a little bit.”

Joan met Chock’s family at a fraught moment

Her hometown date with Chock was intense for two reasons: his mother had recently died, and Chock was the first of all the bachelors that caught her fancy. “Chock was one of my strongest connections, right from the beginning, and he's fun, and he's kind, and he's just a really good guy,” Joan said. “This one is really Important.”

She told Chock’s daughter, “I’m crazy about your dad.” “I’m crazy about the girl,” Chock told his dad, who demanded, “Are you in love with Joan?”

“It's getting closer, that's alI I'll say. It's just I'm so reserved, and a lot of it's I just don't want to get hurt.”

“You don't want to get hurt, but it's in your face, it's in your eyes, and I don't think you can dodge it much longer,” he cautioned. Wise advice.

“Possibly I have the deepest connection with [Chock]. We have a lot in common. We have a lot of the same hopes for the future.”

She made big strides with Jordan — but not to the finish line

They had a great day and deepened their bond, Joan granted. “We made big strides in our connection. But he never says things like, ‘I see maybe a future.’ I don't want to invite somebody on this next part of this journey if they're never going to get there with me. I'm at kind of the same place with Pascal.”

“I have two that are very committed, that's Guy and Chuck, and I have both Pascal and Jordan, who have been very noncommittal. I've gone through it a gamut of emotions, and it's weighing on me.”

In the end, Joan chose the sexy, elusive Pascal (plus Guy and Chock), and sent the less sexy, equally elusive Jordan home.

Coming right up: trouble in paradise

In previews of Episode 7, we glimpse exotic shots of Joan’s adventures in Tahiti with the three potential men of her dreams. But we also heard the most ominous words yet heard on The Golden Bachelorette: “He said, ‘I know what true love is, and I don't feel it for you.’ What's wrong with me? It hurts to think that I might wait for nobody.”

Uh-oh! Better tune in next week!