Spoiler alert! The following post contains important details about Netflix’s ‘Love Is Blind’ season 3 finale.
It’s a book moment in the history of reality TV.
After getting engaged invisibly and living together for four weeks, “Love Is Blind” contestant Zanab Jaffrey said to his fiancé, Cole Barnett, “I don’t.”
Throughout the Netflix dating show’s third season (all episodes are currently streaming), Cole and Zanab repeatedly discussed how he undermined her. Like other couples in the series, Cole dated for about a week in a “pod”, a small room where the contestants could only talk through a wall, before proposing to Zanab. moved to
Shortly after their engagement, Cole flirted with cast member Colleen Reid at a pool party, telling Zanab that she was less attractive than Colleen. second half of the season, A few days before the wedding, Cole found out that Zanab had definite mood swings and asked her if she had “bipolar disorder.”
So when it came time to get married, Zanab decided to bring Cole to work in front of all his friends and family.
At the wedding, Zanab said, “The last two months have not been perfect. You disrespected me. You insulted me. You criticized me. You’ve single-handedly shattered my confidence, and I hate you for having such an effect on me.
“And the crazy thing is that I know I love you,” she continued. Tells me it shouldn’t feel like this, love shouldn’t hurt like this, I can’t and won’t marry you.”
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Zanab ‘wanted to believe’ in love story with Cole
In an interview with USA TODAY before the release of the season 3 finale on Wednesday, Zanab attempted to have “a lot” of conversations about Cole and his insensitive behavior.
In return, “I was called passive-aggressive, unsweetened, had a bad attitude, and even had questionable mental health,” Zanab explains. I wanted to believe, I wanted to believe that I could return to being the man I fell in love with.
On the morning of the wedding, Zanab still wasn’t sure whether to say yes or no to tying the knot.
“But when I saw him and got up (towards the altar), I was like, ‘Wow, this guy needs to listen to me here. He needs to listen to me.’ You cannot fire me,” she says. I wanted to.” ”
Zanab says she never rehearsed her speech before the ceremony, despite how brief and confident she appeared while addressing Cole.
“We didn’t know who was going to be asked first[as in saying ‘I do’],” says Zanab. I got
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Zanab called off the wedding before Cole had a chance to say “I will.” Even with the benefit of her wisdom, Cole isn’t sure what her answer was.
“I wanted to marry her,” Cole said in an interview. Because we got to the best place in our relationship, but looking back on it now, where she was and how she was feeling… I was blind to the extent of “no” and “no.”
The ex-couple didn’t speak for “a long time” after the wedding, Cole added. , we care about each other.”
Cole admits he was ‘too brutally honest’ on ‘Love Is Blind’
Cole and Zanab aren’t the only unhappy marriages. In the end, she decided that Bartise and Nancy never married, and neither did SK and Raven. (Matt and Colleen and Brennon and Alexa are the only couples who got married this season.) After watching Season 3, the current exes say they’ve learned a lot about themselves and about each other.
“The hardest part was being completely naive to the pool party,” says Zanab. “I knew how that conversation went, and Cole’s (confessed) interview afterward, where he said he physically loved Colleen, not me…I don’t like it.” There was no time (currently watching)”.
Cole has learned that he has to be “more careful” about what he says about other people, especially when they have cameras in their faces.
“We were constantly asked what we thought of the other girls[in the pod]that we were dating,” Cole says. I see you saying, I was being questioned about all of them (for the show) and I should have said, “I don’t want to answer these questions.” I mean I answered them – perhaps a little too brutally honest, but it came back to hurt my relationship.
“I shouldn’t have said that honestly, but this is part of the experiment, right?”
