Spoiler alert: This text incorporates spoilers from episodes 11 and 12 of Love Is Blind, Season 7.
Love is Blind is the one dating reality show I’ve ever actually gotten into, and it’s protected to say the drama of watching individuals fall in love with somebody they’ve by no means met (after which work out whether or not they need to marry them or not) is deeply entertaining. No person can say they’re watching these actuality exhibits as a result of they need to see solely love, however there’s some drama that hits just a little too near house — like Ramses and Marissa’s breakup in Love is Blind Season 7. The reality is, we’ve all been Marissa, and watching her real coronary heart shatter in entrance of the complete world made my very own coronary heart break.
Marissa and Ramses had been a kind of {couples} you had been actually rooting for. After letting go of her reference to Bohdan simply earlier than Ramses proposed, it felt like Marissa and Ramses had been a positive factor. The bodily attraction was positively there, they usually each appeared religious and progressive, transferring by life with a lovely view of the world.
After which… properly. Ramses confirmed his true colours. After being an absolute ass to Marissa about her earlier army service after which daring to counsel that her going off contraception and transferring to intercourse with condoms would make intercourse much less pleasurable for them, no one was actually feeling nice about Ramses — besides Marissa. This lady was nonetheless totally dedicated to her man, prepared to struggle for him and their relationship, till Episode 11 ended with a cliffhanger… and the 2 of them formally broke up within the first jiffy of Episode 12.
That’s the place I broke down, too.
Ramses beat across the bush so much, however our lady Marissa stayed on him. She needed to know precisely why he didn’t assume their love was sufficient for marriage, and she or he known as him out on his fears {that a} second marriage would finish for him, arguing that divorce is a danger in any marriage. However Ramses lastly broke down and gave her an actual reply: It’s “her power.” The very essence of Marissa, the whole lot that culminates within her to be who she is — that’s the half Ramses can’t think about being with perpetually.
And it’s devastating.
Look, Ramses is a sh*t dude, however in fact everybody ought to vibe with their companion’s power. Not everyone works properly with somebody who’s loud and energetic, and never everyone needs a quiet, stoic individual. That’s OK. However when the complete level of this experiment is to fall in love with somebody for who they’re — for somebody who has zero guards up, like Marissa did the complete time within the pods — it feels just a little like a slap within the face to resolve simply days earlier than the marriage that the power your companion gave was enjoyable, however wouldn’t work long-term.
Breakups are at all times powerful to look at in actuality exhibits, however there was one thing so achingly actual about Marissa’s damaged coronary heart that made me gasp and maintain my very own fingers to my chest.
Haven’t all of us been Marissa? We’ve all felt beloved and appreciated and seen by a companion, solely to be informed we’re an excessive amount of. We’ve all let our guard down, determined to let the dorkiest components of us shine, and felt the burn of our personal gentle when somebody says they should take a step again.
Season 7 of Love is Blind has been crammed with attention-grabbing, humorous, sensible, type girls (not you, Hannah, sorry) and simply completely subpar males, however nothing has been as unhappy as Marissa’s damaged coronary heart. Even within the pods, she had talked about her power and what it was prefer to be along with her, sharing her actual previous relationship tales the place she was an excessive amount of for different individuals or that she’d heard earlier than that she was enjoyable to be with at first, however they simply couldn’t see it going long-term. So, to have it occur proper there on the finish when she thought Ramses was prepared to like all of her? Oof. “I simply need somebody to make sure about me,” she cried. “I simply need somebody to decide on me.”
Oh, Marissa. You aren’t alone. We select you, time and again.
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