Studying Time: 3 minutes
It’s that time within the season the place Love Is Blind spoilers and sizzling takes are in every single place on social media.
We’ll have to attend till subsequent week’s season finale to see how issues play out for many of those {couples}.
However we all know that one set of lovebirds gained’t be constructing a nest collectively anytime quickly.
Sure, after a promising begin within the pods, Dave Bettenberg and Lauren O’Brien went off the rails in messy vogue.
Dave and Lauren in Honduras throughout their time on Love is Blind Season 8. (Netflix)
Dave takes subject with Lauren’s romantic previous
The difficulty started when Dave bought upset upon studying that Lauren had not too long ago been concerned with an acquaintance of his previous to filming. Or anyway, he claimed to be upset.
Lauren says she believes Dave simply wasn’t that into her, and he wanted an excuse to name it off.
“It did [feel like an excuse],” she instructed Folks journal this week.
“And there were other things that came up too that were things he wanted to use to get out of it. I mean, you see him question my dad, and it’s his friends, and it’s his sister, and it’s all of these things except for his inability to trust me, his inability to work through something like that in a relationship,” she continued, including:
“I think it was fair of him to question me. I don’t think it was fair to not let me be part of the conversation or to not hear me out.”
Dave and Lauren in Honduras throughout their time on Love is Blind Season 8. (Netflix)
Dave and Lauren have conflicting views on the matter
Dave stands by his actions and maintains that he had each proper to research the matter:
“This is coming from not only my sister, who knows this guy’s best friend, but also my really close college friends that know him [and] were all telling me that they had been dating for three months, she was staying at his place the week before she left,” Dave tells Folks.
“I am hearing all these things and I’m just like, there’s just no way I’m going to marry this person if that’s what she was doing coming into it,” he provides. “I just can’t justify that.”
For her half, Lauren concedes the state of affairs was difficult, however she nonetheless believes that Dave overstepped his bounds.
“At the time, I will say I was really conflicted on who is in the right here. Am I not reading this right? Did I f— up and or is Dave over-exaggerating?” she tells Folks.
Dave and Lauren in Honduras throughout their time on Love is Blind Season 8. (Netflix)
“I actually did form of grapple with the reality, however on the finish of the day I used to be like, I do know my story and I do know the narrative and I do know every part about this. So I simply couldn’t totally see why it was breaking apart an engagement.
“I say it very clearly and I still stand by everything I said. This guy knew that I was having casting conversations the entire time that we were hooking up. And this was a friends with benefits. And I truly do think that he also saw it that way at the time.”
Lauren says she has no regrets
Whereas she clearly went into the experiment hoping to get engaged, Lauren says she regrets nothing and believes that she and Dave made the fitting name.
“I mean, it’s so hard to look back and think about how things could look different, but it’s not how I wanted my story to end, but it’s absolutely how it should have ended,” she says.
These two most likely aren’t trying ahead to seeing one another on the reunion. However we’re trying ahead to watching that awkwardness!
