Telling a person who you’ve known for less than 10 days that you’re not interested in them is fairly easy in the real world. At least some of these chronic oversharers inevitably get dumped. This abundance of damage-sharing makes for some odd moments - like Lydia telling Milton she will cherish his tall body and short life - but also creates some riveting cringe television. Love connection by way of trauma-dump also certainly happened on previous iterations of Love Is Blind, but it never got so much attention, or happened with so many couples. “But I guess I love that, because I have them too,” he assures her.Īdvice from psychologists and therapists says sharing past traumas with your romantic partner (or potential romantic partners) can be a good thing, but they couldn’t have predicted this. It is indeed unusual to tell someone you love their life-shattering experiences. “It sounds so weird to say that I love that you have your traumas and insecurities,” says Izzy, who is excited to celebrate Christmas now, to Johnie. And then there’s Izzy, who was ostracized in school for being a Christmas-eschewing Jehovah’s Witness, only to later find out that his dad, who indoctrinated him into the religion, wasn’t his biological father. There’s Johnie, a divorced lawyer who is getting over being in love with a man who was addicted to drugs. This includes things like Milton’s disease but also abusive mothers, absent fathers, and a male contestant talking about how he was date-raped in Mexico. In the first set of episodes, we learn about some participants’ very serious and sometimes life-changing circumstances. Milton isn’t the only person with damage - emotional and physical - this season. Love Is Blind always starts out with everyone looking like they’re about to have THE BEST night in Las Vegas. She says she can picture the same thing, presumably imagining growing somewhat old with an amorphous but elongated blob. That giggle makes Milton say that he’s falling in love with her he could see himself spending his condensed lifetime with her. “So you’re telling me how tall you are,” Lydia responds, cocking her head with a giggle. “People that are as tall as I am live significantly shorter.” Milton is extremely precious, as is his limited time on earth. “I know I’m not gonna live a really long time,” Milton tells Lydia. His spine has the tendency to “collapse on itself,” he tells her, and his vulnerability caused a chain reaction which pushed on his organs, causing them to fail. His back began to hurt, and when he got it checked out, the doctors told him something was seriously wrong. He tells her a story about how he was once playing basketball and came down funny. Milton is an engineer with an extensive knowledge of geology. Milton, who is sitting on the other side of the wall, hears her fine. “What is your biggest trauma in life?” she asks. Lydia has curly, honey-hued hair, tan skin, and an accent her Texan suitors often find impenetrable - an annoying wrinkle when you have to woo your husband in the pods. “I don’t think we have been vulnerable with each other,” says Lydia, one of this year’s more enigmatic participants. It almost feels as though this group of participants decided, as a collective, that telling someone everything bad that’s ever happened to you is one of the immediate paths to love. In this fifth installment, which takes place in Houston, the overarching theme that permeates seemingly every conversation, every relationship, and every major conflict on the show is trauma. Love is Blind season five is a lot of emotional punishment Behind the scenes, the players grapple with another big question: How do I get the most screen time? That’s a problem some of them are able to solve all too easily. This raises a lot of questions for instance, how do we fall in love? The castmates seem to have an answer I’m not totally sure psychologists would agree with. The show is built on a simple gimmick: Men and women fall in love sight unseen, and marry each other (or not) at the season’s end. And if that doesn’t work, rinse and repeat with the next faceless person behind the pod wall. The contestants assembled by Netflix all seem to agree that the best way to fall in love is by immediately and ceaselessly dumping all of your trauma on another person. The mystifying thing about Netflix’s Love Is Blind is that it’s somehow still capable of unearthing fresh new horrors.
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