Intruders Stephanie Marshall and Tyson Gordon are the latest couple to get hitched on Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2026, and fans are still reeling from what to many was a deeply uncomfortable wedding. Tyson, an ex-soldier and Trump supporter who is looking for a “submissive” wife with whom to have a gaggle of kids, last night seemed immediately rankled after being matched with a woman who — at 32 — was two years older than him.
“Yeah look, I asked for someone younger,” Tyson said to the camera during last night’s episode of MAFS. “I was hoping to essentially get a wife in her mid-20s,” adding that having a wife older than him “just feels weird”. Speaking to Chattr today, Stephanie says she was definitely put off by the fact that her being slightly older than him was “such an issue” for him, as well as his desire for a “submissive” wife.
She points out that Tyson wanting a wife that was younger than him, as well as wanting a wife who is “submissive”, set alarm bells ringing. “I don’t think he truly understands what those words actually mean,” she said, “especially submissive — you know, that really bothered me — because submissive is like, giving up all of your rights as a human being.”
She adds that his obsession with getting a wife who was younger than him was similarly worrying. “That to me just means… I really want someone who is younger who I will just manipulate.”
Stephanie responds to Tyler saying she’s “masculine”
Stephanie also believes that Tyler’s views about masculinity and femininity are a bit simplistic, especially in the context of his desire for mothers to stay home and look after the kids. “He says he wants five kids, then he wants his wife to stay at home,” she begins. “In order for the wife to take control of a house with five children, she’s going to have to be in her ‘masculine’ to have that smooth operation the way I know he would want.”
“He said he made a comment about divorcing his last wife because she bloody left dishes in the sink. You know, if, if he wants a smooth operation at home with five kids, that woman is going to have to be in her ‘masculine’ at some point.” Stephanie adds that she often has to be ‘masculine’ in her job as a Real Estate Agent, saying: “People employ me to take control of the situation… which is… you know, buying or selling a property,” she said. “However, I know that I’m not like that all the time. I’m a very sensitive, down-to-earth soul, and I think that is feminine energy. So I think the two can co-exist in one individual.”
Stephanie says that while she did say from the beginning that she wanted more of a traditional marriage, as her evening with Tyson went on, she realised her values didn’t align with Tyson’s as much as she had hoped.
“From the outset, I kind of said I wanted — or thought I wanted — more of that traditional relationship,” she says. “And you know, that I wasn’t this super ultra feminist or anything like that. But I think obviously, as the night went on… [I realised] that our versions of what a traditional relationship looks like were maybe a little different.”
Married at First Sight (MAFS) 2026 airs Sunday – Wednesday on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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