This is a great post and you've definitely got me thinking!I still think Jasmine's baseline in the relationship is to always act like a docile princess to Josh and let him mansplain all over her. She'll justify it as balancing her "masculine" energy in being more financially stronger than Josh. Some dumb bs like that. I personally think relationships should be equals.
If only she brought her female empowerment learnings to be courageous to say to Josh "I hear where you're coming from, but I respectfully disagree. Here's why...xyz." That would earn major kudos from me if Jasmine would do that for all the times Josh was forcing right wing conspiracy thoughts to her. I think deep down Jasmine knows this is weird...and is just too brainwashed at this point. Like as someone has mentioned, before she met Josh she went to Singapore and was promoting mask usage to reduce transmission. Then all those good natured values she was advocating for disappeared as soon Josh entered her life. I also think she's scared that Josh will leave her for disagreeing because she doesn't want to be alone in the midst of a pandemic.
Also did you guys notice Josh has a specific fascination about men's anger (Gabby Petito case, UK sports whenever a man's favorite team loses, reels of him acting angry, etc.) It makes me wonder if Josh has a temper/control issue and has projected this onto Jasmine. Then the whole post of Josh not being able to "protect" Jasmine from other men can be interpreted as a little over possessive...
Hmm...now the wheels are turning in my head. Maybe that's why Jasmine doesn't hang out with other girlfriends IRL...because Josh doesn't like it when she does? I mean Josh has been misogynistic about the WAP song. So I wonder if Jasmine feels judged if she does go out with girlfriends to dance at a club to simply have fun with them or something like that...
It's always Jasmine hangs out with Josh's friends. Not the other way around. As far as I know, I don't think Josh has hung out with Mariana and Axel in Bali when they were there. He also doesn't follow them which is why I think this theory is true.
I feel bad for her because she loses herself like putty whenever in a conversation with Josh. I've seen relationships like this with other past YouTubers. When they hit their 30s they separate and realize how young & naive they were to be in a relationship with each other. I really think this is one of those situations. Maybe when that happens, Jasmine can be a coach to divorced women and rebrand as an expert in that
Someone mentioned about Josh always saying he's lucky he got rejected on Love Island. But I think he's still butt hurt on not being on Love Island. As both him and Jasmine follow a former contestant of Love Island, https://www.instagram.com/jonny_mitchell1991/.
I think it's pretty safe to assume Jasmine is indeed not vaccinated and JingJing's not trying to draw attention to it. How sad. I feel bad for JingJing sometimes of all the things Jasmine puts her through (vocalizing mommy/family issues online to sell her courses, not getting vaccinated, the arguments they had to help Jasmine get treatment for her ED, etc.) Raising Jasmine seems like it would be a challenge.
So we know Jasmine is very introverted and socially awkward. However we do know she is actually able to talk to people and make friends (however she can't maintain them) when she can be bothered. In her solo travel videos, she would be talking to people in a shy way, but with generally no issues and we know she got on well with Courtney.
Your point about Josh's fascination with male anger and "not bottling it up" combined with his "saviour complex" of "wanting to help vulnerable women" really got me thinking and worried me a little. We know Jasmine was very vulnerable when she first came to Bali. She's in a new place, no friends or family to guide her. Here comes domineering Josh as her knight in shining armour to save the day. I have a feeling he also plays a role in why she's never with anyone else, I see all the signs of him being very controlling (I don't want to say abusive because we don't know enough) and Jasmine is the perfect "victim" for such a man.
We know Josh uses his platform as a sounding board for his issues. We know he's very insecure about his failed fitness business, his height and most importantly, his finances. If anyone remembers Sean Nalewanyj, Josh completely flipped out on being featured in a harmless joke video. Why? Because Sean is a stronger, more successful man than him. Josh therefore, he acts like the big strong man ready to look after women to counteract. Toxic men like him often feel the need to overcompensate and be rude and domineering to counteract this insecurity. I mean, look how at this newest post on women needing to protect a man's ego, this guy is crazy!
Jasmine 100% has her own faults but I worry about her a lot, her first ever relationship with no family or friends to give her advice. Josh is not a great guy and he's really gotten into her head, he's completely brainwashed and isolated her. She completely folds and falls into line with him, her warped ideas on femininity and masculinity certainly doesn't help either.
As outsiders, we can easily just say "snap out of it" (I'm guilty of it lol!) but your post makes me realize that Jasmine is so young, naive and genuinely in love with him and sees him as her protector. I think in 5 years or so when family get involved, hopefully she sees that this was just her first experience of a toxic relationship. No shame in it at all, but marrying him was a terrible idea and I doubt she put measures in place to protect her business in the event of divorce.