Top 10 Most Confrontational Love Is Blind Moments

“First Class Love”

Sometimes, the couples on the show are brought down less by emotional incompatibility and more by their differing lifestyles. Stacy Snyder is not at all impressed when she looks into Izzy Zapata’s kitchen cupboards. To her utter astonishment and horror, she realizes that he has paper plates and plastic cups instead of glassware and flatware. Izzy seems genuinely hurt by her confusion at his lifestyle choices, including his habit of keeping things people forget at his house in a lost and found drawer. Needless to say, her seeming attempts to Marie Kondo his life do not spark joy.

“Going Home”

Something has changed since JP and Taylor saw each other for the first time. Season 5’s getaway trip finds the couple’s chemistry cooling significantly. In other words, their dream vacation turns into a nightmare really fast. A conversation about a lack of connection outside the pods leads to a very strange argument that sees JP taking issue with the amount of makeup Taylor was wearing when they met. He blames their initial awkwardness on the fact that she was wearing makeup, which he thinks is fake. Then, he seems to imply he’s giving her an ultimatum with his hand gestures, which goes over about as well as you’d expect. Frankly, if this is all it takes to undo this relationship, it definitely wasn’t built to last.

“The Weddings”

Since that very first season, “Love Is Blind” has proven one thing. This is an experiment with inconsistent results. For every Lauren and Cameron, there are like 20 Damian and Gianninas. The writing was on the wall pretty early on when the chemistry didn’t carry over into the bedroom. Their breakup at the altar brought us the unhinged reality TV magic we so desperately wanted from that first group of weddings. Damian cries, Giannina rips her hands out of his grip, and their families watch in horror and disappointment as Damian explains that her inconsistency is a dealbreaker for him. As if this all weren’t embarrassing enough, Giannina’s dramatic exit sees her running from her groom-to-have-been and taking a spill in the mud.

“The Reunion”

Shake Chatterjee may have signed up for a show called “Love Is Blind,” but he was only willing to commit halfway to the overall concept. He spends most of season 2 finding new and innovative ways to put down his partner, Deepti, whom he refers to as more of an aunt than a partner at one point. Once they get to the reunion, Shake just buried himself deeper. He finds himself defending his lack of physical attraction to his partner while she just sits by and listens. His overall points about physical attraction include a poorly-timed and ill-advised admission to finding co-host Vanessa Lachey attractive. He does this right in front of her husband and co-host.

“Back to Reality”

Although they connected in the pods, Shayne chose Natalie as his fiancée instead of Shaina. Once the couples get together for the first time, they get a chance to talk about it, and it doesn’t go so well. A comment Shaina made to Natalie gets back to Shayne, igniting a fireside argument. Instead of de-escalating, Shaina turns the heat up on the whole situation. She opts for psychological warfare, questioning how well Shayne really knows his new fiancée. It appears that she’s still burnt by his rejection. Frankly, she handles it in the worst way possible, and that’s why we love this show.

“The Wedding Day”

Zanab and Cole had one of the most volatile and, honestly, uncomfortable relationships in the entire franchise. Throughout the third season, Cole frequently undermined Zanab’s confidence with comments about her body and her appetite for, of all things, tangerines (xref). A worse match you’d be hard-pressed to find. The entire audience lets out a sigh of relief, and maybe even a laugh, when Zanab leaves him at the altar. But not only does she leave him, she lets him know exactly what he has done, how he has done it, and why she still hopes he finds the right person. There’s no classy way to leave someone at the altar on a reality show, but this comes close.

“Bachelor & Bachelorette Parties”

Amber Pike may have won the war and walked away with the man, but her feud with Jessica, Barnett’s second choice in the pods, was a driving conflict throughout that first season. The love triangle culminates at the bachelorette party. Luckily for us, they’ve decided to have this all-important conversation after drinking all night. Amber warns Jessica - with all the contained viciousness of a contract killer - that if the feelings continue post-pods, she would destroy her life. Jessica, a little too inebriated to truly appreciate this, responds by giving her a sloppy kiss. Amber put the punctuation on the love triangle with some pretty brutal but definitive words at the reunion.

“First Class Love”

Season 5 almost came to a grinding halt when a potentially show-breaking revelation came to light. Uche Okoroha wanted to commit himself to Aaliyah Cosby in the pods segment of the season. However, he failed to tell her that he had a previous relationship with one of the other women that predated the show. What makes it worse is that the woman, Lydia Velez Gonzalez, had become Aaliyah’s best friend on set. Uche tries to clear the air with Lydia at a couples gathering. It goes left incredibly fast. They end up rehashing their previous relationship, and Uche accuses her of borderline stalker behavior. They end things on a very sour, and very loud, note.

“Secret Rendezvous”

Jeramey’s disregard for Laura’s feelings and her almost-poetic levels of pettiness and drama are a perfect match, just not in the way the show wants them to be. Near the end of season 6, Laura confronts him about being out all night. Like a spider waiting for its prey, she gives Jeramey the opportunity to come clean before dropping the bomb. She knows he wasn’t where he said because he had his phone’s location sharing turned on. That pretty much shuts him up. The next time we see them on camera, Laura ends the relationship, telling him he is not man enough for her. In a season full of failed couples, this one is by far the one most worthy of an HBO miniseries.

“Couples Retreat”

We get the best of both worlds in the very first season. We see fairy tale romances that make the entire idea of the show come alive. Then, on the opposite end of the spectrum, we get Carlton and Diamond. When Carlton tells his new fiancée that he is bisexual, she seems to immediately leap to the conclusion that this means he isn’t into women. He feels she’s being ignorant and prejudiced. When she takes off her ring, he tosses it in the resort pool, and things deteriorate from there. Neither one wants to communicate, and things blow up to the point where drinks are thrown, insults are traded, and an engagement crashes and burns before our eyes.

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