EXCLUSIVE: ’90 Day Fiance’ Star’s Romance Hits ‘Awkward’ Hurdle as She Leaves U.S. To Move Into Tiny U.K. Home With Her Partner—and His Parents

Being close with a romantic partner’s parents can deepen a love connection, but for “90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way” star Greta, sharing a small English cottage with her future in-laws is quite literally too close for comfort.

U.S. citizen Greta and her English fiancé, Matthew, both 26, are one of the new couples on Season 7 of the hit TLC dating show, which premiered in September and is a spinoff of the “90 Day Fiancé” series—with a twist.

While “90 Day Fiancé” features foreigners who relocate to the U.S. to marry an American, “90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way” follows Americans moving abroad for love.

Greta, a recent law school graduate from Oklahoma, first matched with asset manager Matthew on a vegan dating app while she was in the U.K. taking a class at the University of Oxford. After she asked him out, the two connected “over cats and shared quirks,” got engaged, and made plans to live together.

Now, in an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode titled “A Dog’s Breakfast,” Greta is seen arriving at her new home—Matthew's family abode—in the quiet village of Market Harborough in Leicestershire.

Despite visiting Matthew's family in the past, actually making the move to live with them seems to have changed Greta's perspective about her new home.

Between the “retirement home” vibes of the village and her future in-laws living under the same roof, there are several undesirable changes she realizes she will have to adjust to with this change of address.

On the drive in, the bride-to-be comments that “the town still looks the same” as it did during her previous stays.

“Not much changes in sleepy Market Harborough,” Matthew states.

While Greta sees the town as “still pretty cute, quaint, [and] filled with old people,” she views the locale’s vibes as mismatched to her own.

“Matthew’s hometown is like the quintessential English countryside,” says Greta. “There’s lots of sheep, a lot of cute little cottages, and just long country roads leading to nowhere—definitely not a place I would choose to live in my 20s.

"It maybe would be a place I would live in my 60s. I mean, I like a lot of the same things old people do, but I prefer city energy, not retirement home energy.”

Flocks of sheep grazing behind wood fences, rows of brick homes surrounded by lush greenery, and a paved road that transitions to a gravel driveway all seem to confirm the country environment Greta describes.

“Here we are,” says Matthew, welcoming Greta to his home, this time, for good.

Matthew’s house is a single-story brick abode with brown trim. A small statue rests on the front lawn, asphalt shingles cover a peaked roof, and a weathervane wiggles in the wind up top.

A wooden front door opens up to an entryway with cream walls, wood-paneled wainscoting, and what look like built-in bookcases. 

Greta wheels her luggage across the slate-colored tile flooring and notices that while Matthew’s parents aren’t home at the moment, the couple are still not entirely alone.

“Your parents are not here,” she notes, before bending down to greet Matthew’s cat with an excited, “My baby, Apple! Hi, sweetie!”

A visual tour of the cottage continues with glimpses into the living room, bathroom, and Matthew’s bedroom.

The living room is furnished with a matching gray couch and chair, as well as a pintuck armchair, all of which are topped by warm-toned throw pillows. Plants line a window that is situated above a wall heater, and there’s a rectangular wooden coffee table in the center of the room supporting a fruit bowl and Matthew’s scaled model of the Titanic. 

Meanwhile, the bathroom appears to be more recently remodeled. The modern aesthetic includes oversized cream subway tiles lining the walls, a glass-enclosed shower with chrome fixtures, and a gray vanity resting atop ornately patterned floor tiles. 

On the surface, the home is in good shape. Yet, Greta voices some existing concerns over the lack of square footage and privacy.

“I have stayed at this house three times before, but it’s always been, like, a little bit awkward because it’s a small space,” she says. “We all share one shower—I don’t really have my own place to have my own alone time.”

The couple’s bedroom is also cramped. A wooden bed frame takes up a significant amount of space, and is butted up against a nightstand piled with books and a desk housing a white desk lamp and multiple monitors.

“Oh wow, you got your new computer monitors,” says Greta as she walks past a rolling rack for hanging clothing and further enters the room. 

Aside from the couple’s quarters being totally maxed out by belongings, there’s potential for even more discomfort in the bedroom due to it being positioned within earshot of Matthew’s parents’ room.

“I’m also seeing my fiancé for the first time in six months, and I’m sleeping down the hall from his parents—and the walls are pretty thin,” alludes Greta. “It’s not ideal, especially for the type of stuff I like.”

Admittedly turned off by the layout and a few design features, it remains to be seen whether the home Greta now shares with Matthew and his parents will create less than consummate conditions for the couple’s current reunion—and future union.

New episodes of “90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way” air Mondays at 8 p.m. on TLC.