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When Love Is Blind's Paul KNEW He Didn't Want to Say 'I Do' to Micah
Paul Peden and Micah Lussier gave their narration a existent changeable successful the existent world.
After the Love Is Blind stars saw their imaginable matrimony crumble erstwhile Paul turned down Micah astatine the altar successful the play 4 finale, the brace exclusively explained to E! News however they tried making things work away from the cameras.
As Paul tells it, helium hadn't closed the doorway connected marrying Micah adjacent after the altar debacle, saying, "I inactive retained that hope. Going into it, I was like, 'Maybe we're not determination now, but that doesn't mean we can't get determination successful the future.'"
However, erstwhile the accidental presented itself, things inactive fell apart—and Paul is inactive sorting everything out.
"We did day for a small spot afterwards," helium told E! News' Erin Lim Rhodes, "but yet the region betwixt america was excessively challenging. That seems to person been the superior motivator. But determination mightiness beryllium much to it, honestly. There mightiness beryllium a crushed wherefore I said no, determination mightiness beryllium a crushed wherefore we're not dating. That's a small unclear astatine the moment."
In a abstracted interview, Micah confirmed that she and Paul gave their narration different spell extracurricular of the pods.
"We took immoderate clip to process everything that happened and past we did resume dating," she said. "In the end, it felt similar the instauration wasn't dependable capable to continue."
The 27-year-old selling manager, who splits her clip betwixt Seattle and Arizona, also confirmed that region apt played a relation successful their breakup—but insinuated that she didn't permission Seattle until after she and Paul split.
"At that point, I decided to spell backmost to Arizona," Micah continued. "It conscionable didn't consciousness similar we were some each in. We conscionable had a batch of wounded from what had happened successful the past."
During the April 16 Love Is Blind reunion, Paul said helium "visited [Micah] successful Arizona briefly," but that things "ended beauteous rapidly aft that."
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But astatine the clip of their interviews, which were filmed earlier the finale aired, both Paul and Micah said they inactive had love for 1 another.
"We've ever had this happening wherever we privation to enactment 1 different nary substance what is happening," Paul said, "whether it's going good oregon going atrocious for us, we're inactive determination for each other." Micah expressed a akin sentiment, admitting, "Paul volition ever person a peculiar spot successful my heart."
Love Is Blind play 4 is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
For a presumption update connected each of the season's couples, support scrolling.
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Tiffany Pennywell and Brett Brown
Status: Married
Come on, not since play one's Cameron Hamilton and Lauren Speed has an LIB pairing look truthful meant to be! The oldest mates successful the experiment—Tiffany is 36 and Brett is 37—exchanged vows, adjacent though Brett had a sartorial exigency erstwhile his pants did not acceptable decently connected their wedding day. (Shout retired to seamstress Lucia, you're a existent one!)
Since filming wrapped, Tiffany and Brett moved to Portland and are inactive perfect! Phew!
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Jackie Bonds and Marshall Glaze
Status: Didn't marque it to wedding day
Fans watched with dismay arsenic Jackie chose to springiness Josh Demas, the different antheral she connected with successful the pods, a 2nd chance, gathering up with him earlier ending her engagement to Marshall. However, during the reunion, Jackie acceptable the grounds consecutive connected the timeline of events. "I broke up with Marshall earlier I met Josh astatine the java shop," she said. "It looks similar I'm a cheater. I americium not a cheater."
Jackie past addressed the extremity of her narration with Marshall, saying she "can instrumentality accountability" for her words and actions, but "I anticipation that helium would bash the same. We conscionable weren't meant to be."As for her romance with Josh? They are inactive dating and unrecorded together.
Unfortunately for Marshall, who was hoping for immoderate closure with Jackie, helium was incapable to afloat explicit his feelings to his erstwhile fiance arsenic she chose not to be the unrecorded taping, conducting a pre-recorded interrogation with Nick and Vanessa Lachey. But successful an interrogation with E!, Marshall revealed helium concisely connected with chap contestant Kacia aft the show.
"We tried," Marshall explained, "But I wanted to conscionable region myself from each of that from that experience. It was going to beryllium hard to effort to marque a narration with Kacia."
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Micah Lussier and Paul Peden
Status: Separated
Opposites seemed to pull each play for this pair...until they got to the altar. Sensing Paul's hesitation, Micah asked him to springiness his reply archetypal and it was a walk connected matrimony for Paul. "I virtually consciousness similar a disaster," Micah said. "If Paul would person wanted to wed me, I 100 percent would person said 'I do.'"
At the reunion, Paul apologized for his remark successful a confessional astir not being capable to spot Micah arsenic a mother. "I deliberation I phrased that truly unfairly toward her," Paul explained. "I deliberation the amended mode to operation that would beryllium that I can't spot america arsenic parents."
While the duo concisely reconciled aft filming, they yet weren't capable to marque their narration work, with Paul explaining they broke up for bully erstwhile helium visited Micah successful Arizona.
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Kwame Appiah and Chelsea Griffin
Status: Married
Despite Kwame's parent refusing to be the wedding and his arguably inappropriate conversations with Micah, whom helium besides connected with successful the pods, Kwame and Chelsea were 1 of the 3 couples to speech vows astatine the extremity of play four.
During the reunion, Chelsea revealed she has since met her husband's ma and Kwame offered an apology to his woman and her household for his behavior, saying his talks with Micah were "not the champion representation." The mates is surviving successful Seattle with their beloved canine Rocky.
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Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi
Status: Married
Sure, they say love is blind, but occasionally it needs a small spot of time—or proposing to different woman—to recognize you made the incorrect choice. Which is what happened erstwhile Zack initially got engaged to Irina Solomonova, lone for the mates to interruption up during their travel to Mexico. After asking Bliss for a 2nd chance, the brace defied the likelihood (and Bliss' dad's wishes) and some said "I do" astatine the altar. (And, no, they did not beryllium it out, enjoying that each important archetypal crook astir the creation level to Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance," the opus that bonded them successful the pods.) After the finale aired, Zack shared a photograph of the mates connected Instagram with the caption "Eternal Bliss."
Since filming, Bliss revealed, Zack and her begetter person go "best buds," 1 of the galore reasons Vanessa predicted they would beryllium the archetypal Love Is Blind mates to person a baby.
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Irina Solomonova
Status: Sorry
Deemed the villain of play 4 owed to her mean miss antics successful the pods and for the mode she treated Zack earlier their breakup, an affectional Irina showed up to the reunion acceptable to instrumentality accountability for her behavior.
"My volition was ne'er to wounded anyone," she said, "but my interaction did." Irina added that she had offered backstage apologies to the pistillate formed members earlier addressing Zack.
"No 1 deserves to beryllium treated similar that," she told him. "I wholly belittled you and made you consciousness truthful small. I was going done a batch mentally. That does not mean that was an excuse to bash that, but looking back, I'm sorry."
As for Zack and Bliss, the mates said they person "100 percent" forgiven Irina, though Bliss did uncover Irina sent her a nonstop connection connected Instagram portion the brace was successful Mexico, telling her she "dodged a bullet."
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