The families got in touch with their feelings last night on Modern Family season 5, episode 13, “Three Dinners.” Read our recap to find out what happened and discuss the story with other fans!

On Modern Family season 5, episode 13, “Three Dinners,” Claire and Phil take Haley out for a “special” dinner. Their plan is to have fun with her and then gently ease into a conversation about her future. But Haley is not fooled when they try to soften her up with drinks. Instead she lets Claire drink hers so that she can stay on her game while her parents are up to something.

When Phil and Claire ask Brian what his plans for the future are – Haley gets what they’re up to. She surprises them by showing off a blog she’s been working on featuring her outfit. They’re even more shocked when she tells them she’s already making money off of it and is planning on learning how to expand it into becoming a stylist.

Drunken Phil and Claire apologize to Haley for not trusting her. She turns it around on them and asks what they’re going to do when her, Alex, and Luke move out. They get a little freaked out when they realize they don’t really have any plans for their future.

Jay and Gloria are having a special dinner of their own with friends Shorty and Darlene come with big news. They announce that they are moving to Costa Rica in a couple of weeks. Jay is skeptical that it will last but Gloria thinks it’s great.

Gloria tells Jay that she thinks he’s purposely pushing Shorty away because he’s worried that he won’t come back. Manny agrees that Jay can’t handle his feelings so he turns to being harsh instead.

Dinner takes a turn for the worse when Jay can’t keep his mouth shut about his disapproval. When he tells Shorty he’s jumping in without thinking and that he won’t be there to rescue him, Shorty gets offended. Shorty and Darlene leave early and Gloria is not happy with her husbands behavior running their friends out.

Jay laments on the time when Mitch was born prematurely and Shorty refuses to leave the hospital until he was out of the woods. When Jay goes to leave and apologize, Shorty is already at the front door. The two friends get emotional and cry it out.

Mitch and Cam go out on a romantic night out to re-connect. But things get tricky when they make rule not to talk about the wedding or Lily. In an attempt to find anything to talk about Cam looks up current events on his phone to discuss.

Their night gets interesting when they make friends with the couple (Brandon and Katie) next to them and find out that they seem to be their exact counterparts. When the Katie goes to use the restroom they learn that Brandon is planning on proposing that night and Cam volunteers to sneakily record the whole thing on his phone.

However, it gets awkward when Brandon proposes and Katie says no! She sites not wanting to become one of those boring couples that runs out of things to say to one another. Cam and Mitch are torn between feeling awkward and offended (did you see the look on Cam’s face?).

Talking to Katie, Cam and Mitch try and prove that two opposites can make it work. Even if it seems like they’ve run out of things to say to each other. But instead of fixing things they make it worse and Katie decides to break it off completely with Brandon.

They spend the rest of the night drinking and trying to cheer up Brandon, telling him he’s better off without Katie. When Katie runs back in saying she changed their mind – Cam and Mitch finally bow out of the restaurant.

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