Like I said before, the main reason I liked Jasmine was because she wasn't a party animal, was quite introverted and family oriented like myself. I absolutely love my own company and really thrive by myself. Having said that I find it so important to maintain some connections with close friends and my partner and family so I can vent/get advice/comfort when I need it.
It's important to have different people for different scenarios. I wouldn't really talk about detailed relationship stuff with my parents, I'd rather have a cute coffee date with a friend and chat about it.
You say Jasmine facetimes her family but I wouldn't count that as proper solid support. Idk being in person just hits different, not the same as online.
We can definitely see Jasmine doesn't have anyone in Bali to help her or even have an informal friendly chat with. She says she "surrounds herself with expanders" but I think she means this in a strictly personal sense; in other words, people who will help her expand her business and social media presence in a purely professional sense. For example, I very much doubt she goes to tantricalchemy for a casual chitchat with her because she's a paying client and tantricalchemy provides a service.
It seems Jasmine is in an echo chamber with no one but herself and Josh. No matter how strong minded you are, if you're stuck with someone 24/7/365 their ideologies are going to rub onto you.
Also, so far she's addressed everything that's been mentioned on this forum but she's yet to talk about her friendships. The most she can come up with are her "soulmate clients" but that doesn't count. I personally take this as confirmation that Jasmine doesn't venture out or even bother to make friends which can be tempting for an introvert (I would know!) but ultimately very very unhealthy.
Like people have mentioned before, the Jasmine we see today is a very different Jasmine that she used to be. Without Josh, she's a shell of her former self and only parrots whatever shit he spouts. I assume it's very right wing, misogynistic downright crazy hateful stuff which women generally absolutely hate. Jasmine is one of those girls who loses their whole personality when they get into a relationship which would also make being friends with her hard. Plus we've mentioned the potential "Josh being controlling of her friendships" situation but frankly, I don't wanna speculate too much about that as it can be quite deep and serious.
Social media can become especially validating if you have no friends. I think Jasmine's so obsessed with portraying the perfect life on social media because she has no actual friends to share these moments with in person. She spends so much time on "inner healing", you would think that by now she'd at least have a couple of people in her life apart from Josh. It's not healthy to be alone all the time, or even with just one person. I actually feel kind of bad for her. Her wedding videos were so sad...just her and Josh all alone. No friends or family. No bachelorette parties or girlfriends helping her get dressed. She really should make more of an effort to put herself out there. Is she seriously okay with just having Josh around for the years to come? Who is going to attend the baby showers, birthday parties, holidays? More importantly, if she and Josh have problems, who does she even talk about it with? I can't imagine having only my husband as emotional support.
Yeah the more I think about her wedding. I find it so incredibly sad yet stupid. If you guys are really meant to be together forever, then why couldn't they wait a few years for this pandemic to end and for all the families to be together happily?
I remember when she said she borrowed a curler from a influencer called Sayble. Yet she didn't ask a single one of her Bali influencer connections to even be a "witness"? I think they literally just got the hotel staff to sign off as witnesses. All their pictures are just together or alone, no happy laughing family members, no silly kids running around, no big meal, no party. They both talked about being sad and grieving after the elopement as well. Such a sad situation for no other reason than instant gratification and social media validation. Just 2 stupid kids
It's even worse when Josh talks about how you should take things slowly in relationships. I don't know if he's got a serious personality disorder which renders him incapable of being self aware because it's so so weird