Love After Lockup: Don’t Hate the Player (WE tv, Friday, May 2, 2025)

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Can love truly blossom behind bars? WE tv’s “Love After Lockup” continues to explore this question, following couples as they face the unique trials and tribulations of romance after incarceration. This Friday’s episode, “Don’t Hate the Player,” continues to track the bumpy road to freedom and, hopefully, lasting love.

For these couples, years of supervised visits, phone calls, and letters have led to this moment: the reunion after one partner’s release from prison. The show documents the raw emotion of these first encounters, the awkward adjustments, and the sudden shift from fantasy to reality. The big question, of course, is whether these relationships, forged in the crucible of confinement, will survive the pressures of the outside world.

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Is it true love or just a well-played con? Will the rocky road lead to happily ever after, or will the ex-inmates ditch their partners faster than you can say “parole violation”? Friday’s episode features shocking firsts, heated arguments, and the ever-present family drama that seems to be a staple of the genre. Tune in to WE tv this Friday, May 2 at 8:00 PM ET to find out.

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