This is my life.
It's my life Hey I love you Yeah brittany!
Yay so good Hi, honey.
What's up man Good to see you, man.
Tonight it's the Married at First Sight.
Must see reunion.
There's just like, so much they don't know.
We had the most yeses on Decision Day
in Married at First Sight history With all five couples
saying yes.
He's the light of my life.
God knew that we needed to meet.
I was on cloud nine.
This is probably the best we've been.
It's time to face the truth and each other.
I was in a tailspin.
Stand up and be a man and just say.
This is what I want.
Here we go again.
And here comes the moment that you've all been waiting for.
Are you still married.
Are either of you dating.
If you want me to tell my side of the story, then shut up.
Shh hello, everyone, and welcome
to the Married at First Sight season 19 reunion
I'm your host, Kevin Frazier, and I want to thank all of you
for being here.
This season has really had it all.
From post UPS to barking pups, from communication errors
to night terrors, from no move and plan to no for Burning man.
It's been a year and a half since all five couples decided
to stay married on Decision Day,
and now we are dying to know what's been going on I just
want to say hello to everyone.
And I want to thank all of you for being here.
We're going to have a lot of fun.
Nice love it.
Nice I heard that you and the ladies
have become really tight through.
This would explain that relationship
and how it's blossomed.
We're all really close, you know.
All of us are really close.
Brittany and I work out at F45 all the time.
Chad and I are very close as well.
I work underneath him.
He helps me on real estate stuff all the time
and I'm close with all of them.
We all love each other.
That's great. That's great.
We have the women on one side and
now the men on the other side.
And throughout this reunion, we're
going to reveal who's still married and who is not.
Jalen and Josh, I want to start with you on your wedding day.
Jalen you got from Josh a ticket for Burning man.
Did you use it Yeah I mean, I got to see Josh in his element.
I understood why he was passionate about it
and I had a good time I look good too.
And I was up until o'clock AM.
Great Josh, tell us about the Burning
man experience with Jalen.
I mean, that experience was really important to me.
Being able to experience that with her
and see her really give in to that and enjoy it
meant a lot to me.
We were really mostly by ourselves for most of it,
so we bonded a lot OK, let's take a look.
All right.
We're heading into the Burning man game.
I'm still a little mind blown that you
actually came Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.
It's Jalen, the builder.
Cannot say I'm not adventurous ever again Hey,
I've just been living off Celsius and hand sanitizer.
Come on gotta keep going.
You gotta build it up Oh oh, that's all right.
I adapted to his life.
I wore the outfits.
I had my out like I was living it.
I was up till o'clock AM.
Jalen, I'm sorry, but I just looked at your finger,
and I noticed that big sparkly ring
that you got on the honeymoon from Josh isn't there.
Jalen and Josh, are you still married.
We are no longer together.
We broke up three months ago Wow and yeah,
it was very out of nowhere.
I was in shock.
We were on vacation and he looked at me and he said,
I don't feel connected to you anymore.
I want to break up.
And I was just like, whoa.
Like what's happening.
Like, you've never expressed that you were unhappy.
Ever I was just like, what.
Where is this coming from.
I don't understand, like, how can you one day just decide
you're done with the marriage.
Josh, what happened happen for you.
What changed for you.
Well, first of all, we didn't break up on vacation.
We broke up at home, so Oh, well, actually,
he broke up with me on vacation.
I begged him, I said, this is the first time I'm
hearing that you're unhappy.
Can we please work it out.
And he said, that's fair Yes then three days later,
we were out at a concert.
I'm insecure as right now.
This man just broke up with me out of nowhere.
I'm walking on eggshells trying to like, not push the envelope.
I'm trying to like, be happy with him.
And a girl came up to us, which he knew a lot of people there.
He was there a lot.
And she looked at us like she knew him, but.
And like they knew each other.
It was weird.
And so I was like, oh, who was that.
And he goes, I'm not sure I don't.
And I was like, what do you mean you don't know.
And I'm like, did you have sex with her.
Was that all.
I would like to change that, because the
immediately as soon as I didn't have the answer for her,
she looked at me. At me.
She said, did you her.
Did you her.
Maybe I said, big deal, I don't care.
Did you her.
And you're like, you look at me and you go, we're leaving.
We get in the car and I'm like, hey, I'm sorry.
I'm feeling really insecure from what's happened.
I said, I don't know why you're acting so cold.
He said, I'm not acting cold, I am cold.
You need to pack your things tonight.
It was 12 o'clock.
This conversation is not going in your favor.
Remotely normal, correct No.
It is.
Let's hear what in your opinion.
What? hey without a single word in the car and she says,
look, I get it.
You don't want to be with me anymore.
And I said, you are right.
You should pack your things when we get home.
She just said it was like a flip of a switch.
It was out of nowhere.
It was crazy.
I thought we were just so happy and fun.
And so I said, like, what has happened.
Like, what have I done.
He said that I'm a level 2 on the adventure scale
and he's a 10.
I understand if I was a level 2 when you met me Yes
but I have gone to five raves I've gone
to Burning man for 10 days.
Every Festival I said I wouldn't do,
I did, I did it all and that blew my mind.
I wrote a Shark like I'm a level 2 still.
And he said he realized it was happening
when he bought a new motorcycle and a new truck.
So I was confused.
And he said, I make impulse decisions when I'm unhappy,
you to make this work.
I wanted to give it literally every single last bit
of my being to make sure that I made it work.
And I think that there's nobody in this room that
can say that I didn't love that woman right there
to the best of my ability.
The reality is I lost myself in doing so.
And once I realized that, I knew I
had to do something about it.
When you say you lost yourself and I'm just
trying to understand, what were you missing out on
or how did you change.
The thing was is we weren't missing out on the things
that I enjoy doing, but I just realized
that some of these things were so important to me
that I wanted my partner to have that same love for them.
And I can't say that she had even
remotely as close to the same passion for it
as I did Of course not.
We knew that OK OK.
And I wanted somebody who I could share that with.
I think he kind of chases these highs and then it falls.
I think he needs a constant rush
and like, shiny new objects.
And I think I fell into that, by the way.
Will you keep making these faces.
You're killing me.
What's going on with the faces you're making right now.
I'm not sure if I'm at liberty to be the one
to speak on that Hey, come on now Yes,
I spoke with Josh a couple of times
and I'm trying to see things from everybody's side,
but I wasn't there.
And I think that we can't fix everything.
You know you can't.
Megan and Brittany, you all are very close with Jalen.
What did you think when Josh broke up with Jalen.
I was very shocked Yes very shocked.
I didn't realize that there were
any issues because she tried so hard Yeah,
I feel like she did so much.
You know she really put herself out of her comfort zone.
You even in the beginning with skydiving, you
she went to Burning man like she did go.
She did go.
And I will give her that.
And I was going to go again.
I will give her that.
You guys were doing a lot of the things that you like to do.
And so for me, I just felt like shocked.
She would always ask me constantly.
She would constantly ask me if I was happy and I really
and truly was.
And so I would tell her, yes, until I finally
realized that I wasn't.
And I'm sorry once again for how abrasive and how abrupt
it was.
We had challenges.
We had issues like he lied about little things
all the time within the last.
Can I have an example.
Give me an example.
I will give you the example.
The biggest example and the most recent
was he had an assistant and we were just in the kitchen.
And I knew he was getting an assistant.
And I was like, oh, like, who's your assistant.
And he said, oh, she's like a 40-year-old or something.
And she wasn't 40.
She's like in her 20s.
And he purposely lied about that.
That's nonsense.
Completely nonsense.
Well, let me ask you this.
Since the breakup, have you been dating anybody.
I have gone on a couple of dates Yeah Jalen Watts OK.
The faces let's.
I just think it's.
It's what.
Say it.
I'm OK with.
I don't care when Josh states how fast he
could have dated the next day.
But we got videos.
They got videos of Josh with all
over someone, which is fine.
If that's his girlfriend, that's great.
I don't need to see the videos, but they were sent to me of him
with the girl all over each other.
And to tell my friends to lie to me about you.
Dating is weird.
You're allowed to date whenever you want to lie.
You said, hey, I think it would be really silly to tell Jalen.
That's verbatim.
I have a screenshot, so I wouldn't.
That's fine.
That's called lying to Jalen.
That's not No, that's just not telling you.
It's not lying to you.
That's how I view it No if I had a really good friend they
would probably go, my God, my best friend with this woman,
I was at my best friend.
How was that.
How is that me telling them to lie to you.
But, Josh, let let's let's understand this.
If it was one of your dudes, you
would expect them to come up and say, no, I actually
personally you would I personally
wouldn't want to know I just didn't want to hurt
you more than I already had.
Josh, at what point were you going to ever say,
hey, I think I'm losing myself Hey, I
think I'm unhappy Hey, I think something's
feeling unfulfilled.
You just like, acted completely fine.
We got a dog, and we were living together
for a year and three months.
We were looking to go to Burning man again.
By the way, who got custody of the dog.
The new dog Yeah me.
My baby Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The dog is with you Yeah And he's the light of my life.
And I think God knew that we needed to meet.
So I could have this dog.
Because he's literally my child.
So that is the biggest takeaway from our relationship,
is I am the proudest dog mom to the cutest dog
in the world No offense, but like, he
is the cutest dog ever.
Well, glad you love the dog and I'm glad that worked out.
And you know what.
Thank you guys for sharing because I'm
sure it wasn't easy.
And the way your marriage ended was not easy at all.
So thanks for sharing that.
All right.
Let's keep moving.
Jalen things may not have worked out for you,
but in the very first for married at first sight
we had a mother daughter duo.
And your mom also got married.
Belinda and Chad.
Are you still married.
Belinda and Chad.
Are you still married No catch me up on what's going on.
It seemed like you guys had a great emotional connection.
In the beginning, it seemed that way.
It seemed like it was really good.
We were together on our wedding night, so showering.
So I mean, you can only get so comfortable.
So, I mean, we were comfortable with that
and everything was fine.
And then honeymoon, everything was fine.
And then we got back to the apartment
and everything changed.
What changed.
Well, the intimacy level changed.
On whose part.
I mean, I'm not really an initiator for the most part.
But there were times when I was trying
to like, tell him, like, hey, if you want to be intimate
or something.
We don't have to have the dog in here.
Like, we can get the dog out.
But it just wasn't.
Nothing was changing.
And, I mean, I didn't get married to like,
be sleeping alone.
Chad, was it just too much to come in and
throw that dog out of the way or what was going on No,
I don't sleep.
Very seldom do I sleep.
I'm used to turning the TV on or listening to music,
and I sit there and I decompress.
And normally I go to bed around one 130.
If I fall asleep.
But I feel like my biggest issue was the drinking.
It got to a point where every night
it was him sitting on the couch,
drinking, drinking, drinking.
There were times I'd like at o'clock o'clock, three
o'clock in the morning and I would actually
go move the glass from his hand because I was afraid it
might fall and break.
And, I mean, we did end up having a talk at the end.
And and I told him, like, I'm not
the type of woman who will love someone
and not hold them accountable.
Belinda, you said yes to staying with Chad.
What happened after Decision Day.
After Decision Day, I was going to go move in.
And we kind of had a moment where Chad
brought his cat downstairs.
The cat that no one ever saw all season
because she's anxious.
My dog approached them.
He didn't bark or jump on Chad.
He already knew not to.
She got spooked and climbed on him
and may have maybe scratched him a little so he got upset.
He was yelling, saying the dog was being aggressive
and I told him he's just a curious dog.
And then he yelled at me and said that the dog was untrained
and didn't know how to behave.
And I kind of just like, froze because I
felt the panic come up.
And in that moment, I grabbed all my things
from the kitchen table and I started loading up the dog
into my car and I left.
Chad, what were you thinking watching her walk out.
I'm human and I've been dealing with anxiety issues
at times like that.
It's it's not necessarily the rational person that's
dealing with what's going on.
I was in a tailspin.
I'm going to pause you right there for a second, Chad.
We need to help our viewers understand
what's going on here.
We have some never before seen footage
five days after Decision Day, which is also the day
after Belinda moved out of Chad's place.
The cameras kept rolling and the group
gathered for a crawfish party.
Let's take a quick look at this.
Thank you so much Hi this is gorgeous.
Thank you Hi Hey Oh, you look so pretty.
Like, slowly going through your whole house Oh, yeah.
Did you see it all No Well, I'll show you later.
How are you Mom, what have you been up to.
I'm stress eating.
What's going on with you and Chad.
I was supposed to move into Chad's, but
there was, like, a blow up.
It didn't go well.
I mean, I've tolerated the dog for two months.
I just got tired of it last night.
And the anxiety that the cat dug her claws into my chest.
It triggered me.
The dog came up.
I pushed his head down, and it just didn't go well.
I mean, I'm only hearing it from your side right now.
And so at the end of the day, I don't
think that this is anything that you
guys can't work through.
That's up to her.
And I'm not going to play second fiddle to a dog.
I'm just not going to do it.
I'm the alpha in my house.
It makes me sad.
You guys are having challenges.
You guys have worked so hard.
I think the dog is the trigger Really Yeah.
Strictly over a dog Yeah, yeah, I could see it being a trigger,
but I don't think that's like y'all's end all be all.
I'm not saying everything in front of cameras.
I'm just not going to do it.
And if that's where we're going with all the cameras,
then y'all are going to be disappointed.
My thing is that you said the cameras were triggers and
your anxiety, and you said production
was a trigger Yeah, well, so now it's not even that.
Now it's just the dog Oh, so anxiety can only
be tied to production No, no, no, Chad,
that's not what she's saying.
That's what I'm hearing. Hold on.
Well, don't.
Well, just wait a second.
That's not fair.
That's not fair I'm done.
I'm not talking about this anymore Of course Oh,
of course, of course No, no, no, let's not do that.
Your mom's got it.
y'all.
Get this mic off of me.
I'm going home.
That was That was an ambush.
y'all get this mic off of me.
I want to give you a second to just
address that OK, well, first of all,
thanks for bringing that up.
But poquito sarcasm there No, I I know it was sarcasm,
but what I want to say to you is that that moment,
it didn't play well.
If you want me to tell my side of the story,
then shut up and let me tell my side of the story.
Look, I don't want you to feel like we're
here to jump on your back.
But you got up, and you cursed at everyone, and that was.
That's that's harsh.
I understand the frustrations, but when you speak
to people like that sticks.
I agree it was a culmination of a long, long, crazy time.
And I'm sorry.
I wish I could rewind it, but I can't Sure,
it's embarrassing to see yourself
lose control like that.
I judge myself harder than anybody in this room
or anybody on that TV set.
So as somebody who did kind of act a little bit off the cusp,
I think you felt ambushed.
And then later, looking back at it, you're like,
damn, I could have handled that a little better.
I wish I'd handled it a lot differently, but yeah,
I can't Yeah we can't.
I mean, hindsight is 2020, but you we learn from it.
We're not our worst moments.
None of us.
We all had instances and moments where we just didn't
know how to handle the moment.
You're not your worst moment, OK.
Why did you do the show.
Well, nothing else had worked.
I was hoping maybe this was divine intervention
and it seemed like it was working at first.
It did.
It was just so much going on.
Not just with the show, but with with everything.
I just kind of got overwhelming.
I got a lot of texts from Chad.
I knew he was struggling with production.
But I also want to reiterate, you Chad has a heart of gold.
And I think that he felt more and more cornered,
and it affected him more and more OK Belinda,
how did this moment affect your relationship.
I mean, as far as what we just saw, that is a turnoff.
It's a turnoff when people treat
other people rude or ugly.
And I did tell him that I was triggered by that behavior.
And you mentioned that that something in your past
concerned you when he raised his voice
or what was that Yeah my previous marriage had
those moments where he would blow up
and I was like seeing it again.
I just felt like I was in the same
position where it's like, there's this
person and they're.
And they're good and they're fun and and
everything is perfectly fine.
And then all of a sudden there's this blow up
and you never know when it's going to happen
and you're walking on eggshells I could
see my producers walking on eggshells at times,
and he was trying to manipulate me
into thinking producers were trying to do something
when I knew very well the producers weren't doing
anything to me or to him.
I mean, they went out of their way to try to accommodate him,
and that's when I started to take steps back.
I started to get the feeling that the way
he is treating them, eventually he'll treat me that way.
And then he did.
All right, let's get to the bottom of something
else that went down.
And Chad, when you spoke with Belinda,
you said that you exchanged texts
with Josh about your frustrations with production
and that Josh kind of agreed with you.
However, Belinda said you were not telling the truth.
What was in the text with your conversation with Josh
that you pulled up.
I don't recall the details of that, but I mean,
we used each other as a sounding board.
Josh, do you remember that text.
And and were you guys talking about the problems
that Chad was experiencing.
I don't remember any texts that came from Chad
specifically about production.
So, yeah, I think it did catch me off guard a little bit
whenever I was brought into that.
And I personally don't feel like I ever
had any issues with production interfering
with my relationship Yeah I also
did not feel like production was driving any wedges.
We had a great experience with production all around.
I mean, I knew that the requirements were
going to be pretty heavy and I signed up
knowing that know you put your life a little bit on hold,
like, and you have to work around it,
but you're signing up not just to do some weird reality.
You're signing up to find your partner.
And I think that's a bigger trade off.
So that's the way I looked at it.
Chad is there anything you want to say.
I'm terribly sorry that I hurt people,
and I wish I could go back and hurt people.
But I can't.
And you deserve to be happy.
And I hope you can find it.
For me, it's.
It's all said and done.
Belinda, have you started dating again.
I have, yeah.
I wasn't thinking I was going to actively be dating.
I just happened to meet someone.
Jalen, have you met the new guy.
I have.
What do you think about him.
Tell me what you think about him.
He's great. He's sweet.
And he seems to be so far.
I mean, some someone that I could see my mom with.
So I'm happy for her.
Well, look, Belinda and Chad, thank you for sharing
your story with us.
And I know this wasn't easy for you I know it,
and I appreciate it.
And I respect the fact that you sat here
and you talked about it and you answered the questions.
All right I do.
Because this ain't easy.
All right, look, let's switch gears and
lighten the mood for a minute.
You physical intimacy is a key part of marriage,
but it's not just about the closeness in the bedroom.
Sometimes it means learning truths that
are downright embarrassing.
These clips may have unlocked some
of the things our couples were not prepared for OK,
I don't know what's going through his head.
Now I mean it was this weird to you.
This is the intimacy box.
What have you used before Oh oh, you just pulled out
everything you've used before Yes Woo Oh, man OK
nipple clamps.
Does it hurt.
It looks stupid, but it doesn't hurt.
Tell me what you want me to do to your body Wait
are you trying to actually hurt me.
Megan, who do you think has had more sexual partners.
You or me.
You righty.
That's awkward.
I'm going to drink.
Get comfortable.
Dude damn Hey, man, I don't want your beans in my face.
He has cute little balls Ooh I used to pick my toenails, like,
rip em off Yes I have a confession to make Oh,
I forgot your name OK, this is what happens when you have
a 63-year-old on the show.
Come on.
Those were some fun moments.
Weren't those.
Your reaction to the toenail thing was classic.
Did you pull the bed sheet back up and look at her toenails
at night.
There were a couple times he looked at my toes
and they were fine.
I don't think he ever had any like.
They look great today.
They look great.
They look amazing tonight.
I just wanted to tell you that.
And your defense, Brittany, I do it I do it too.
I don't know if that makes you feel better.
All right, don't move.
We'll be back with more from the Married at First
Sight reunion.
Was it my ashes when I stood up for megan's?
Yes, I agree.
Rhonda got that.
Is Rhonda got that dress a little
shorter underneath than I thought Yeah, my are short.
You want me to do you good OK OK.
All right.
Let's keep moving.
Our next couple.
She doesn't use sheets with her bedding.
And he talked about the Crusades
on the night of his wedding.
Brittany and will.
Will, I want to ask you right now,
what is the current state of your relationship
with Brittany.
There isn't one.
We haven't spoken in a long time.
Really Brittany, when was the last time you guys spoke.
Like over a year and a half ago.
Because we are no longer together,
so we don't speak after a Decision Day.
I left that evening, so I was gone for a week.
Things didn't sit well.
And so when I got back, I ended things there.
Why didn't you say no on Decision Day.
Honestly, it was in the moment I do adore her
and I didn't want to see her sad.
Either she was crying and I mean,
I made things more difficult by saying no than saying yes
and then being gone for three or four days.
Brittany, do you wish he had said no on Decision Day.
I mean, it's easy for me to say like,
yeah, if he really wanted to say no, he could have said no.
But, when he came home, I had an inkling
that it was going to happen.
And I had prepared myself to have a conversation about it.
But the way that it happened threw me off.
He was overly rude, stern, and I felt very
cold, like he was very cold.
So I ensured Brittany fashion.
I tried, I tried to fight it.
Well, I mean, since you mentioned
it, let's take a look at some never before seen footage shot
a week after Decision Day from your breakup at your apartment
and the aftermath that followed the next day
at a group pool party.
I think it was such an emotional week
because we didn't have the opportunity
to have the conversation after everything that
happened with Decision Day I know you felt
like it was tough for you.
It was tough for me too I know I haven't married him.
So yeah.
Now it's just like OK can you tell me what happened.
We're not.
We haven't seen y'all since Decision date.
Smells good.
I haven't eaten all day.
Just haven't had much of an appetite Really.
Tricks of the trade, you know.
Life sucks.
Yo, I like that shirt Oh thank you, Thank you.
I like the Tigers giving real big LSU vibes.
Chad, how are you, bro I'm alive.
I'm here Good y'all want to move to the chairs Yeah yeah.
Let's do it.
All right, you two.
And you're sitting on opposite sides of the room.
Well, what's going on.
Moving on with my life.
I'm figuring that out and how to do that.
And what's going on.
What have I done that's so bad to where you have
to treat me like I'm nothing.
Treating you like you're nothing.
Well, the way you talk to me.
Am I allowed to speak.
Can I speak now Yeah, you can speak.
Thank you.
Well, just like that, that's even.
I think that's just like, not OK.
I was trying to respond and she cut me off.
Sarcastic I was not trying to be hurtful.
I just wanted to make this stop.
I wanted it to be over.
I was never able to be enough for her No matter what I did,
it was never enough.
She was either running to tell someone
that I wasn't being vulnerable or not doing something,
but it just pushed me away.
So after that, I just decided I didn't want this.
But I never said you weren't enough.
I said, I don't know if I'm enough for you.
I never once said that you were just as stupid.
I never once said that you were not enough for me.
I never in my life said that.
Because that is not true.
The conversation where you did say
that you didn't feel anything.
You stated that.
Well, maybe if you don't like me doing things for you,
I'm not the person for you.
And that was enough for you to to want to divorce me.
Really like all of the issues that we've been going through.
That's enough for you to just say, it.
I don't want to be married anymore Yes Brittany,
how hard was that moment.
I was difficult, it was.
It was devastating Yeah I mean, it was tough.
I don't take pride or enjoyment out of being mean.
Especially not to her.
But I think that I had to do that to be succinct.
Why Because I was told that when I'm softer with those
mannerisms, that it's giving her hope.
Even though I'm telling her no.
So I think I had to be overly rude.
I was not trying to lead her on.
I wanted to make sure that we were at least concrete on that.
And I felt as if that was the only other that was the route
to take in that moment.
I mean, he it clear that he was done.
He made it very clear that he was done.
And I wanted to have a conversation.
I was persistent.
I wanted to keep fighting for it.
Brittany reached out a couple of times and some really
rude things were said.
So I said bye and blocked her number.
After will blocked you, did you continue to try and get
in touch with him Yeah, I wrote him a letter
and dropped off that letter.
I was still trying to fight for our our marriage
in that moment.
I conveyed how much I loved him like,
I don't feel like this is over.
It's not the end.
We didn't give ourselves a fair shake.
We didn't fight for it Yeah Did you read the letter No,
I did not.
So what happened when Brittany showed up to drop it off.
I wasn't there.
And then there was a note on my door saying
that she paid some visits.
I'm sorry.
They said that you'd been there more than once.
Who was they.
People in the leasing office never know.
See, the only time, that I was There
was when I dropped off that letter OK, perfect.
Maybe if they've seen me, it's because she lives there.
And I've been to her place a couple of times.
So you've been back to the building,
but you're there to see the building because of Jaylen.
And that's as of recently considering that he
didn't read the letter.
Is there anything you want to say to him now.
Brittany, is there anything you want to say to him now No
no, no.
Is there anything you want to say to her Yes I apologize
for not being present and doing a better job of trying
to understand how to hear you.
And then definitely, I can be too literal
and that makes things difficult as well.
I just got lost.
Sometimes I'm like, I need will for dummies sometimes.
Sometimes it's a little bit.
I was like, sometimes talking to Will
and I'm like, wait, what are you saying.
I'm getting lost. I'm so confused.
I think watching will explain the different types of love
was probably the best thing I've ever seen.
I want to say that was incredible.
Just kind of thought that the term
love is kind of bastardized and people abuse it.
So I feel like you should be succinct and clear, but.
Again, a will answer a will answer.
But you clearly were speaking to me,
and I was taking it a different way than what you meant.
So thank you for that journey with me
Yeah no, I appreciate that.
I'm going to change it.
I am going to say something back.
Go ahead.
Watching it back, like I want to clarify Not at any point
did I think you were a bad person.
I don't think that you were trying to intentionally
hurt my feelings.
And I don't think I ever questioned that you loved me.
I think what I was trying to do is just maybe dig for more.
But, yeah, I appreciate what you just said.
Like it was all just a breakdown in communication.
Thank you Yeah Would either one of you
ever get married at first sight again.
The Brittany I am today Yeah is that Brittany.
Still a hopeful romantic, like you said you were 100%
wedding Yeah yeah.
She's just a lot more calm.
She's a lot less reactionary.
And that's with a lot of prayer and a lot of therapy.
And my support system, some of which
that are here on the stage.
But yeah, I mean, I'm never going to lose the desire
to want to be married.
You want to be the wife that I was
trying to present myself as.
Thank you guys for sharing, because I'm
sure it wasn't easy at all.
All right, let's let's move on to our next couple.
Ronda and Pat.
Are you still married No no.
Why did you and Pat officially break up.
Well, we were together nine months,
and then he had gone to Europe for a month on his own.
He did invite me to go, but I had taken off so much time
last year, and we we had a lot of we did a lot of trips
last year.
So he came back and he was a great listener
that night Did he write once for the next 10 days.
I was on cloud nine.
I was like, we did all these things with friends.
I was hanging on him.
We were kissing.
I was just like, I was feeling like, this
is probably the best we've been since the reception
at our wedding.
Like it was what happened.
It was great.
So I wake up one morning and we were going to go on a bike ride
that that day, and he was sitting
outside listening to a meditation on anger,
and I was like, what the Like really.
Because I was like, feeling so great about us.
So I waited for him to finish.
I made my coffee, I went out there and I said, hey.
And I asked him about it, and I said, are you angry.
And he said, well, I'm not really angry right now,
but I can feel myself starting to get angry.
And I said, let me guess, is this
because we haven't had sex since you've
been back the last 10 days.
And he said honestly, yes.
That's it.
And then we met for dinner, and in the first two minutes
I was there, he said he was done.
And so I left.
Were your physical needs being met.
I would have enjoyed more.
So I would say no.
And it was something that I had felt for quite some time.
We had been intimate.
The wedding night, it started off.
It started off with literally a bang.
What happened.
I'll tell you what happened.
My experience of being in a relationship with Pat
was that he was very insecure, and
that insecurity was a complete turnoff romantically,
for example, Pat, as you guys saw, showed up on Decision Day
and said he did not want to stay married
and changed his mind.
He went from being this like, I'm going to say no to.
And it was just I was so confused.
I needed somebody to stand up and be a man and just say,
this is what I want and this is what I need.
And like, it's like, you hunched shoulders and whining
and like, that just was like, not a sexual turn on for me.
But no matter what, Pat said, I had made a commitment
to give this a year.
I certainly wanted to see what our relationship
would be like off camera.
And I tried to explain from my perspective
that intimacy is more than just sexual.
And his response was, I don't feel worthy
or loved if I'm not having sex.
The way I received it was I. I lost respect for you
and I wasn't attracted to you.
And literally within a minute or two of that,
my switch just flipped off.
And when it's off, it's off.
It's just off.
I feel like Pat really came into this
because he wanted a wife, and I never felt like he wanted me.
He just wanted a person that was his wife.
I mean, he came in looking for physical intimacy
that I would assume he would hope
would lead to a connection.
And I feel like I came in looking for a connection,
and the physical intimacy would be like the icing on the cake.
I just really struggled to for that connection.
I think because of that never got to use that safe word.
Pineapple pineapple.
Pineapple right. right.
Pat, what did you learn from this experience.
I learned that I put other people
before me to my detriment and learning
and accepting to love myself.
I did the I took on the habit of saying
to myself out loud and God, this was awkward.
But I love you, Patrick.
And and did I slip up.
yeah, I did.
But was I making the effort.
I really was, I just didn't feel
like it was being received.
Rhonda, what did you learn.
I think being a single Parent for so long,
I had to control the situation or there would be chaos.
And I think with Pat, I was trying
to control the situation instead
of letting it flow almost like a salmon swimming
upstream against the current instead
of just letting it flow.
And so I think I've learned to just like, more surrender.
It's like you could have given him a little more Grace
Yeah OK, moving on to our last couple Yes, they have jokes.
Derek and Megan, they were so eager to make
their relationship work, but was a perfect set of abs
enough to keep this marriage strong.
You last time, that we saw you two,
you both had said yes on Decision Day
to staying married, and you were actually preparing
your house for a baby.
How are things going and how have things
changed since Decision Day.
I had a miscarriage.
And I know that's something very hard to talk about, having
experienced that in my life.
Very, very sorry to hear that.
It was very rough.
I feel bad for anyone that has to go through that.
You taking it back to Decision Day.
Megan was pregnant.
We were excited.
We were on a high.
We said yes.
From our perspective, it was like, look, this this worked.
We were really headed down that path.
We were family planning.
That's what we were thinking about.
And then soon after, that's when
we got the devastating news.
And it was extremely hard.
Seeing what Megan had to go through,
what we had to go through, it was really, really terrible.
Megan and Derek, are you still married.
Once we went through the miscarriage,
you everything changed for us.
We really just started to clash on some things.
Derek's very stubborn.
I'm very stubborn.
There was a lot give and take.
I was the one that was like, let's get into couples therapy.
But there was a lot of issues.
And if you don't work on those issues, then yeah,
it's not going to work.
It was hard to talk about openly.
I mean, it was deep stuff.
So then we had a really bad fight.
And when we were fighting I told Megan
I didn't love her anymore.
Derek broke up with me over the phone
and then moved out a week later,
and I haven't seen him since.
It was horrible.
I mean, the way that it happened was like,
dude, that was so uncool.
Breaking up is never there's never a good time to do it.
It's always going to be hard.
I knew that this wasn't the right person for me.
I had to be true to myself.
I'd be true to Megan.
When he broke up with me, something in my head
changed and I couldn't remember anything
good from our relationship.
I just remembered all the bad.
And then I watched.
And then I remembered all the good.
And that was hard, because like, a year and a half,
I don't remember any of the good.
And then it all just came back.
Floodgates, everything.
I don't think Derek's a bad person.
I don't think that he handled it well.
I don't think that was fair to me.
My question is, do you think that he
would have said yes on Decision Day if you were not pregnant.
I don't know.
I wasn't happy.
I don't think Megan was happy.
I think whether we said yes or no, a Decision Day, I
think the the eventual outcome would be the same Wow one of us
respected the other, but it's not mutual.
I'm sorry, I didn't.
I didn't think I said anything insulting there.
I think you're demeaning our relationship, quite honestly.
That's fine.
You didn't think we'd work out.
That's really upsetting.
We were going to have a kid together.
I think you're kind of taking away from like, all the good
that we had. And I really just don't.
I don't think that's really fair.
That's fine.
It feels.
It feels cold.
I mean, now that I'm even thinking about it,
like, I don't want to be with somebody that
doesn't want to be with me.
Do I have things I need to work on 100% Do I hate the way
that I reacted in things Yes I look back at it
and I will tell you I will be a better person.
I've learned a lot, and I know I'm a catch.
I think Megan's a great person.
And I think that I hope that she
can find someone that really, she falls in love with.
I mean, she deserves it.
And I really hope the best for her.
And I mean that genuinely vice versa.
I mean, I don't wish you bad at all.
I hope you find somebody and it's great.
Genuinely you I've had some fabulous dates, you and
people that I connect with.
And this is going to sound like for tat.
And I don't mean it to be by any means.
I felt really seen on a lot of these dates.
Like, I felt like people saw me.
Did you feel unseen in your Yeah A lot of times,
yeah Really Yeah.
Derek, are you dating Yes I've been dating
someone for seven months.
It's going really well.
I'm really, really happy in it.
And she's excited to be a mom.
She really loves me.
And I love her.
We do say I love you, and.
I'm happy I was able to find that.
And I think I'm.
I hope that Megan, I hope you find someone that you
can share that with too.
I really do.
Did you know He was dating.
Were you.
I saw he was on raya two months ago.
He's been dating for seven months, but he was on raya
and I sent it to Jalen and Britney.
And that's not shade.
I'm just being honest.
I just told Jalen that that you're
not still on rye No no OK No your girlfriend No you
got off of Ryan.
That's right OK. All right.
What have you learned from this experience.
I can be defensive and I can get my head.
Let's slow it down a little bit.
And, I believe in growing.
I just want to be a better person.
I'm very happy that you're in a relationship
and she appreciates you.
I think that's what all of us want in a relationship is
to be appreciated.
And to be seen.
Thanks there's no ill will for me.
I hope you have your three babies.
And I hope that they're great.
Thank you.
You going to have more babies and
you going to have your children,
too, I. I promise you, I promise you, Britney
and I always talk about.
We already picked the neighborhood we're going
to live in next to each other.
Our kids are going to take the golf course to each other.
Jalen's going to be there too.
Yeah, I'm like, and me and Jalen's
going to be there to blend, and I are going
to be traveling the world.
That's right.
US girls are like a like a tribe.
Like we all genuinely care about one another.
I texted all of these guys, I think we
we share a pretty close bond having gone
through what we went through.
We're all really close.
All of us. That's great.
Look, this has been quite a journey.
And even though none of our five couples stayed together,
the friendships and lifelong bonds that have formed
are truly something special.
And I am so grateful to all of you
for sharing your stories with us tonight,
because it hasn't been easy.
And I know your marriages may not have lasted,
but I hope you all have learned something about yourselves
that you can take forward as you meet new people.
That being said, before we wrap up,
there's one more exciting announcement.
Next year, there will be an all new season
of Married at First sight.
The experiment will head to a new city
with more couples than ever.
We want you to take a sneak peek.
I'm getting married, and I can't believe it.
I want a wife I would love for it to be
me, someone else, and my cat.
I'm ready.
I'm excited to meet my person.
It's obviously scary having someone else pick your wife
for you Oh, I just walked down the aisle
to a stranger who actually is not a complete stranger.
He's been on some shows before Oh, my gosh, this is crazy
Woo Yay.
I haven't really had like, a serious long term
relationship Oh, ever Yeah, I see it as a red flag.
Some of the best parts of life are on the other side of risk.
And I mean, you can't get more risky
than this No need to hide.
I'm by your side.
I'll be your light.
That is awesome.
That was great.
I'm Kevin Frazier, and thanks so much for tuning in.
And never stop believing in love.
These people are going to find love.
Trust me Good night Good You look good.
You look really good Hey, Josh Good to see you.
You too.
Cute girl you're with.
The other night, I saw the video.
Did you know that was sent to me.
Enjoy yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a show I gotta show.
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