Elise had a whole bar on her side. Joshua still walked out the door.
Elise Benson went into a Sydney bar looking for answers about Joshua Lawson's living situation. She walked out with something she didn't expect: an entire room of women backing her up. But what Joshua did next may have answered a different question entirely.
On the latest episode of Before The 90 Days Season 8, Elise confronted Joshua about the fact that he'd been living with his female friend Nat. Who was also covering his rent and providing financial support.
While telling Elise he lived with his parents. Elise laid out the whole situation at the bar and asked the women around her if she was wrong to find it strange. Every single one of them agreed with her.
Getting a whole bar to agree with you? That's a win. And on paper, Elise earned it. And the Nat situation had been a slow-burning source of tension since Elise arrived in Australia.
But the crowd support didn't change what happened when the confrontation wrapped up. Joshua left the bar to go check on Nat. That move, more than anything said during the argument, said everything about where his priorities are.
The show hasn't revealed how Elise and Joshua resolve this, or whether they do at all. But a man who walks out of a confrontation to comfort the woman in the middle of the confrontation isn't sending mixed signals. He's sending one very clear one.