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Who are Monique and Derek from 'Love After Lockup'? They're a brand new couple in a position to explore a dating in combination in the real world.

It's never easy making the bounce from dating an inmate to courting that very same particular person on the outside. And in the new batch of Love After Lockup episodes, which premiere on WE television on Dec. 16 at 9 p.m. EST, we see the demanding situations that Monique and her incarcerated boyfriend Derek face. But who are Monique and Derek and what is their tale?

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They are in excellent corporate, as they aren't the only learners on the display this time round. But, Monique explains in an exclusive clip received through Distractify ahead of the Dec. 16 episode, she's frightened about how their relationship will alternate as soon as he is released from prison. Which, if we are holding monitor, is beautiful quickly. Still, Derek is made up our minds to turn Monique he's here for her it doesn't matter what.

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Who are Monique and Derek from 'Love After Lockup'?

In the Love After Lockup clip, Monique explains that she and Derek have been relationship for greater than two years. She at the start found Derek on Facebook late one evening and, regardless of Derek being a jail inmate, Monique was once intrigued.

"One night, it was late, I couldn't sleep, so I'm just scrolling on Facebook, clicking on things, and then somehow I came across a prison pen pal group," Monique explains in the clip.

Monique and Derek got to speaking and she even sent him some suggestive pictures to end up how into him she was. Now, they're in a position to take their courting to the subsequent level — even supposing they have not even met in real lifestyles but.

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One thing Monique turns out certain of, alternatively, is that she needs to have weight loss surgery, and it's going to coincide with Derek's personal love of health. They obviously have so much to talk about as soon as he's released.

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Monique worries that things may alternate when Derek is out of prison.

Although Monique issues out her pals' destructive thoughts regarding her courting with Derek in the Love After Lockup clip, she admits to Derek that she's worried about how issues may alternate when he will get out of prison. And, she admits to her buddies, she is anxious about what Derek will recall to mind her when he sees her IRL and not simply in pictures.

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"I'm nervous," Monique tells her pals. "It does cross my mind, like what if, you know, I'm not what he imagined, or what if he [doesn't] like me? I'm trying to think positive, but it's hard when y'all are being so negative."

Although Monique's friends have her perfect pursuits at center, she can't assist however worry even more over what is going to occur when Derek gets out in a few days and they are face-to-face for the first time ever.

Meeting a web based important other in particular person is traumatic sufficient without cameras around and a bunch of other people to inform you "I told you so" if things move south.

Watch Love After Lockup on Fridays at 9 p.m. EST on WE tv.

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