[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Love Is Blind Season 3 finale and reunion.]
Women had been demanding accountability within the Love Is Blind Season 3 reunion, streaming now on Netflix. Months after their weddings resulted in both pleasure or heartbreak, the season’s 10 stars met with Nick and Vanessa Lachey to look again on their time within the experiment. And it wasn’t simply their very own relationships the ladies commented on.
Alexa Alfia and Raven Ross, nonetheless with their pod companions Brennon Lemieux and SK Alagbada, made certain to deliver up the moments off digital camera the place they felt Bartise Bowden and Cole Barnett mistreated their fiancées, Nancy Rodriguez and Zanab Jaffrey. Nancy and Zanab spoke strongly for themselves all through the reunion, and TV Insider spoke with all 4 from these pairs about these conflicts.
Bartise rejected Nancy on the altar within the Love Is Blind Season 3 finale, saying he couldn’t get previous their “issues” about abortion, Nancy’s ex, and different issues viewers didn’t see him categorical issues with after the preliminary conversations came about. The rejection rightfully enraged Nancy’s household, who swiftly got here to her protection after the couple walked again up the aisle to hash out what simply went down.
In the reunion, Nancy mentioned she shut down her feelings on this second to manage, explaining to confused followers why she wouldn’t defend herself alongside together with her mom, father, and brothers. As she defined, her household was preventing the struggle she didn’t have the power to start that day.
Nancy confronted Bartise about this second, saying the “I do not” isn’t what broke her coronary heart — it was the unexpectedness of that reply that drove her to interrupt issues off chilly turkey on the steps of their wedding ceremony venue.
Through tears on the reunion sofa, Nancy instructed Bartise he betrayed their settlement to be forthcoming about their altar rejection, ought to they know that was their alternative. Nancy reveals to TV Insider that she stored her finish of the discount earlier within the experiment when, off-camera, she instructed Bartise she was going to say no.
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“We had a turning point in our relationship. About two weeks into being in the real world, I pulled him aside off camera and I told him I was going to say no. You’re not the man that I fell in love with. You don’t love on me, you say things that are not nice to other people then you come back and say them to me as well. So I was going to say no, and he asked me to give him another chance,” she says.
“He said we have two more weeks to figure it out. At that point, we had worked so hard to get where we were, for me to give up on love, instead I offered grace and kindness and the opportunity for him to turn it around,” she continues. “The doubts that he was having leading up to the wedding day, I didn’t know those doubts. I didn’t know that he was still worried about the abortion conversation and differences. I didn’t know that he still had an issue about my ex, which is not even an issue that he brought up to me. He said it was cool! That’s where my feelings of being blindsided are very prevalent.”
In the reunion, and in our interview with Bartise, he mentioned he understands why Nancy didn’t wish to see him once more after the altar.
“I understand exactly where she was coming from,” he shares with us. “That was the ultimate moment of our relationship being able to blossom after the altar, and she said yes and I said I do not. Just like she said, it was black and white. I respected her thoughts there, and if she doesn’t want anything to do with me, that makes sense.”
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As for his causes for saying no, Nancy’s feedback in season, the finale, and the reunion align with what she tells us in our interview. Bartise stirred up turmoil of their relationship when he introduced up their variations of opinions on abortion to his mother and father and sister inside the first moments of their introduction to his fiancée. Later, he implied that was a bombshell second that occurred unexpectedly, performing as if he wasn’t the one to deliver it up. The revisionist historical past of their “conflicts” turned Bartise’s argument defending his rejection. Nancy rightly known as him out for this within the reunion, saying his being 25 on the time of filming was mirrored in his string of immature selections and behaviors.
“Instead of finding his own reasons for saying no, he pointed the finger at me,” Nancy tells us. Even Bartise admitted to this within the reunion, saying he discovered himself rooting for a special ending between him and Nancy when watching the season again, once more as if he’s only a hapless bystander freed from duty as the implications of his selections (and his selections alone) performed out.
The girls wouldn’t let Bartise get off with out addressing what occurred after the marriage within the reunion. As they revealed to viewers, he went on a grandiose date with a brand-new lady simply three days after breaking Nancy’s coronary heart at their wedding ceremony. It was a Fourth of July social gathering on a ship, they mentioned, and in keeping with Bartise, he met with that lady to “cope” with Nancy wanting to chop ties fully. But as nearly everybody on the reunion (besides Cole, Matt Bolton, and Colleen Reed) mentioned, occurring a date three days after rejecting Nancy — however claiming to nonetheless wish to be together with her — raised suspicions about his intentions for the entire experiment.
Bartise mainly declined to touch upon all of it, saying he wasn’t snug speaking about his intercourse life on digital camera with the group. But nobody requested if they’d intercourse.
Love Is Blind, Season 3, Streaming Now, Netflix