Warning: This story includes “Love is Blind” spoilers from episodes 10 and 11. Proceed at your own risk.
The newest episodes of “Love is Blind” saw several of our Denver-based couples venture into the mountains – and a few got cold feet along the way.
With about a week to go before weddings — where each person decides if getting engaged sight unseen is a decision they’re ready to live with the rest of their lives — two couples on the reality TV show called it quits. And it will perhaps surprise few that, in a city famous for its selection of non-committal men, both relationships ended on the guy’s terms.
We last saw the “Love is Blind” crew during a reunion at Stampede Club in Aurora, where the five engaged couples met up with some of the pod squad singles for an evening of line dancing, awkward conversations and a few arguments. But they hardly left it all on the dance floor.
The new episodes, which dropped on Wednesday, picked up right after that Western hoedown with Nick and Annie chatting over late-night Taco Bell. She was clearly very drunk and proceeded to talk in circles about how she doesn’t think her fiancée is as invested in the relationship as she is. Queue confusion for Nick, for viewers, for their increasingly cold Taco Bell spread.
If only Annie had put the Chalupa in her mouth and stopped talking, she might have been able to salvage the relationship. But alas, the next day Nick told her that the conversation had pushed him to his breaking point, and marriage was no longer feasible.
“The reason I’m not willing to marry you is because I’m unhappy,” Nick told Annie, point-blank. And just like that, only four couples remained in the running toward the altar.
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Not to be outdone, however, was Joe, who had a full-blown meltdown when the men went to get fitted for their wedding suits. His partner Madison, of course, was none the wiser as she and the other women tried on dresses at Blanc bridal store in Denver. And why would she have doubts? Joe had literally just sat across from her family at El Five, eating tapas and reassuring them that he was all in. (At the bridal shop, Madison’s mom said she saw “not one red flag” with Joe. Oops.)
From the start, it seemed unlikely Madison and Joe would make it to the altar – we gave them a 10% chance of success – but to see it all fall apart was still uncomfortable because Joe couldn’t express why he was unable to commit. “I don’t have any answers” as to what went wrong, he said. How’s that for closure?
As for the rest of the couples, they don’t exactly seem like shoo-ins. Viewers saw Kalybriah and Edmond spend a picturesque bluebird day snowmobiling in the mountains, courtesy of High Country Tours – only for the adventure to devolve into a fight.
Megan and Jordan met the latter’s parents at The Brown Palace, where they shared some TMI details about their relationship — his dad’s words — and reversing Jordan’s vasectomy. But then later, the duo went to buy new hats at the shmancy Kemo Sabe in Aspen, only to struggle with having a basic conversation.
Ali and Anton went on a romantic horse-drawn sleigh ride — drama-free, phew! They did, however, discuss how to discern normal ups and downs in a relationship from investing in something that’s never going to go anywhere.
As the days wind down to their weddings, all the couples still seem like they have issues to work through. So, is love truly blind? Find out during the finale, which airs next Wednesday, Oct. 22 on Netflix.