Warning: The following post contains spoilers from the season 1 finale ofLove Is Blind.
There’s nothing good about being dumped at the altar.
The only thing that can make it worse?
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The then-24-year-old was dumped at the altar by the then-34-year-old Jessica in front of his closest family and friends.
I see the story.
I think they missed out a little bit on why Jess and I connected.
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We really connected on a deeper level.
We did a gift-giving day.
We had a nacho and queso day.
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We were actually really goofy with each other and had a lot of fun.
But other than that, all of it’s authentic and all of it’s real.
By the end of it, Jess gave me a daily devotional and we really connected on that.
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That’s why I feel the connection her and I had was so real.
We got to be vulnerable regardless of the age and all that other stuff.
It looked like a sweatshirt?
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I’ll never forget the way it smelled.
A lot of that stuff like that was missed.
I’ll never forget that moment where I walked across the red carpet and saw hernothing else mattered.
Looking back at it, it was all real.
There was nothing I would take back from that.
I was on top of the mountaintops.
Fast forward to your wedding day.
I haven’t seen any footage of the finale yet.
At this point, it is what it is.
It’s funny, you’re bringing me back.
But the experience was so intense, I wasn’t even mad at her.
I was upset and disappointed but I wasn’t angry.
It just hurt, you know?
You think for a little while, what’s wrong with me?
What could have gone differently?
But that is a recipe for misery.
When you really think about it, everything happens the way it’s supposed to happen.
Honestly, with Jess I didn’t know what to expect.
When was the last time you saw or spoke to Jessica?
I saw Jess at the reunion [which will debut onNetflix’s YouTube channel on March 5].
I think it was just a lot of emotions at first.
She’s always going to have a special place in my heart.
It was such a mind-opening experience.
Was the reunion the first time you saw her since the wedding?
Yeah, it was a year and a half that I hadn’t seen her or spoken to her.
At first, it was a lot of oh, you know.
Where does your relationship stand now?
I know speaking to her recently, she’d probably do the same.
I’m not mad at her.
There are no grudges.
With this whole experience, I’ve become the man I am.
I’ve become a better man out of it.
I have nothing but love for her.
Has the experience of watching the episodes changed how you view your relationship with Jessica?
I wouldn’t necessarily say with Jessicait’s made me very introspective with relationships in general.
I connected with everyone and I set healthy boundaries now.
I’m very big on miscommunication.
Are you open enough to be willing to keep moving forward with relationships and be upfront and communicate?
No matter what, Jess and I’s relationship taught me so much, especially at 24.
I turned 26 this weekend and who I was then, I look back and I’m like wow.
I’m blessed to have been part of it.
Did you know how much Barnett was a factor in her decision-making before seeing the episodes?
It’s so intense.
I think finding comfort is what any of us were trying to do.
It really wasn’t that much of a factor.
Me and Barnett were good friends.
Did you know about it at the time?
I told Jess after that first day of dating I kind of already knew who I was picking.
I made more friendships with the other girls and Jess I connected with emotionally.
But that’s part of the experience, figuring it out and what you want.
You look back and you’re like, oh shit did that really happen?
But I look back at it and it’s funny to see the fan reaction to all that.
What was it really like living together in the weeks leading up to your wedding?
Life doesn’t stop, even for the show.
I’ve got to do my thing."
When she went, she had to go to work.
Not that it’s a bad thing.
She told me that she had to travel for work in the pods.
She was hustlin' doing her thing.
We got two weeks in the apartment and I got maybe one of those weeks.
A big topic of conversation for all the engaged couples on the show was when to have sex.
When and how did that change for your relationship?
When we got back to Atlanta, that whole experience hit her really hard in Mexico.
We’re in a bubble that we’re just trying to figure it out and it’s very intense.
It’s not like we talked about it or anything like that.
We just opened up even more to each other and it happened.
My family and friends, my circle makes fun of me so this is new material honestly.
It’s adding more fuel to their fire.
If you don’t make fun of the people you’re close with, are you really friends?
They’ve been really awesome and supportive through the whole process.
My mom and my dad are both very proud.
My family was very supportive.
Love Is Blindis now streaming on Netflix.
