Karamo helps Jaylen with a broken phone whose motherboard was removed after a fight. The real issue: Jaylen and his partner stay together only for their daughter, and Karamo uncovers patterns of codependency, abuse, and infidelity concerns beneath the request to fix it.
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So this is a first. We were unable to unlock your phone, Jaylen, because it was taken apart into pieces.
Oh.
My Unlock the Phone investigators told me and the producers told me that you wanted us to replace the motherboard in your phone, correct?
Yeah.
But if we replaced the motherboard in your phone, then we would no longer have any information in your phone because that's the main hardware that we use to find all the information. So why would you want us to replace the thing that would give us the information? And also, why was your phone taken apart? And I'm not accusing, I really wanna know right now.
Why was your phone? No, my phone got broken a couple weeks ago due to a fight that we had. It got kind of tossed outta my hand, shattered, and then my daughter got ahold of it and actually cracked it on the corner screen where the LCD is. So it completely destroyed the phone. It got stuck in airplane mode.
But as you know, my producers did say that we would fix those things.
Yeah.
But even with fixing the things, the phone was still taken apart and not brought back.
See, I don't understand. I don't understand that because I specifically brought all the pieces back to get it fixed because I do know how to fix it myself. I just didn't have the one part needed to fix it.
Okay, okay, listen. The only reason I'm saying this is because we don't have any answers for you. I don't have any proof to give you to say if there is, if there's been cheating or infidelity. So the only thing we have right now is her word. You have to acknowledge that asking for a motherboard to be replaced with somebody who already has trust issues can seem fishy. Can you acknowledge that?
Yeah, I can acknowledge that.
Great. And that's the thing. And so I'm looking at you two and I asked you both very specific questions. I asked you, why do you wanna be in this relationship? And you said for your daughter. I asked you, why are you here? And you said, for this, my daughter, for my daughter, because my daughter, I want her to be in a relationship. Neither of you said you wanna be here for each other. I want you to take a moment to process that. Neither of you said you wanna be there for each other. You're both trying to provide your daughter a life that you're hoping is going to be perfect. It's gonna be magical. That's gonna allow her to feel like she's being supported. But the problem is that that decision Decision, because it's based on codependency, because that's what's happening here. You're codependent on each other, even though it's toxic, even though there's emotional and physical abuse. There's a codependency here that's keeping you all together, but it's not healthy enough for you to stay together to think that you're gonna give your child a better life.
