'RHONJ' Recap: Giudice, Laurita Feud Ends With Hugs

This week’s “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” resurrected some old issues from last season and solved—temporarily—some from this season.

In fact, it was not the Gorga/Giudice siblings but the Manzo siblings that brought on the trip to Napa Valley’s first meltdown.

During the ride to another camp site, Albie Manzo revealed to his sister, Lauren, that he has asked his girlfriend, Lindsay, to move in with him, brother Chris Manzo, and roommate Greg Bennett.

“I really feel like if they could replace me with their new friends that they could and maybe they already have,” Lauren said.

Later that night, over a home-cooked meal, Albie and Chris started teasing Lauren for the way she talks to her boyfriend, Vito. When she began to get upset, her parents told her she is overreacting and she locked herself in one of the RVs.

“As long as the two of them are happy, as long as they have each other, that’s all that matters…I’m sick of being the only one who tries to have a relationship with them,” she said.

Caroline seemed unsympathetic in the moment, but in her interviews she said,  “I lost Lauren somewhere in the mix of my boys moving and them doing BLK together and she just feels pushed out, left out and not good enough in so many, so many ways.”

This is an issue that was brought up last season, when the boys moved to Hoboken.

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Caroline Manzo's sister-in-law, Jacqueline Laurita, was having a good time on the trip earlier in the episode, but sad about her still-strained relationship with Teresa Giudice.

“Things seem to be going good with Teresa, but it’s kind of making me sad because I know how we’d be on this trip had we been close,” she said.

While nursing a severely swollen ankle, Giudice said, “I’m looking at Jacqueline and she looks like really sad, like a lost puppy, and it made me cry even more. I miss having fun with the old Jacqueline. I still haven’t given up on this friendship.”

With this in mind, she invited Jacqueline to help her serve dessert on the last night of the trip in the RV park. While everyone waited for their apple pie and fruit, the two sat down to discuss the argument about tabloids that ended their once close bond.

“I’ve been having fun so far on the trip, but I want to know where do we go from here?” Giudice said. “I’m still hurt by what you did.”

“I was hurt, too,” Laurita said.

Still, Giudice does not accept responsibility for hurting Laurita's feelings and emphasizes her own hurt feelings instead.

“I would never question what you did, because I don’t care!” Giudice said. “I wouldn’t pry into your business.”

But Laurita saw the situation a different way.

“I don’t call it prying; I call it caring. I’m trying to explain to her what I feel a friend is and she’s telling me what she feels a friend is, and I feel like we’re not on the same page with that,” Laurita said. “There’s like a language barrier.”

For a while, it looks as though nothing will change in the relationship and Giudice suggested the two go their separate ways after the trip. This brought Laurita into her trademark tears, which Giudice loudly asked her to stop doing. They seemed to realize that both of their crying meant they do care about each other. Giudice promised a real friendship, and the two hugged for a long time.

In real time, though, it has been revealed that the Laurita/Giudice friendship is irrevocably damaged. What lead to this breakup is unclear, but Giudice’s final words on this week's episode foreshadow that she has not changed her attitude.

When Laurita said “I’m sorry if I hurt you,” Giudice replied, “Well I didn’t hurt you, but I hurt you. You think I did; I don’t want you to think it.”

When the two finally exited with the dessert, Manzo looked on, worried.

“Jacqueline is going to get hurt,” she said. “I wish I could say something but I can’t. She has to learn this for herself. I can’t help her.”

The fight earlier this season between Laurita and Giudice forced a rearrangement of RVs, putting Montville residents Giudice and her husband, Joe, with her brother, Joe Gorga, and his wife Melissa. For the first time since the Gorgas joined the show last season, things seemed actually at ease—and very physical.

“I’m a fondler,” Melissa said. “I used to always do that when I first met [Teresa]. I actually miss fondling her.”

The show airs Sundays at 10 on Bravo.