“Love Is Blind” simply had essentially the most awkward breakup ever

This text incorporates spoilers concerning the first six episodes of Love Is Blind season 9.

We're unsure who Kacie McIntosh gaslit extra on Love Is Blind season 9: Patrick Suzuki, or all of us viewers.

All through the primary six episodes of Netflix's actuality courting experiment, Kacie and Patrick fell in love within the pods. After all, their path to engagement was not easy after Patrick's past love, Anna Yuan, left the present with none warning. He was shocked and damage, however bounced again sufficient to provide his "distant No. 2" choice, Kacie, a shot, and ended up proposing to her.

Throughout their dates within the pods, Patrick was very vocal with Kacie about his insecurities over his bodily look and ethnicity as an Asian man, however Kacie mentioned all the appropriate issues to validate their connection regardless of by no means having dated "somebody who appears like him." She even mentioned that every one her siblings have been with non-white companions, and that her household can be accepting of their relationship.

It was what Patrick wanted to listen to to miss some main crimson flags, together with that she solely dated primarily based on bodily look previously, had beforehand been recruited by one other courting present earlier than this, and that her final relationship was with a man she discovered on Instagram as a result of he was scorching.

Finally, they bought engaged, however their love story ended instantly after — or perhaps even throughout — their in-person reveal. Whereas it began off robust, with a giant hug and kiss, the vibe felt off fairly rapidly. Kacie saved kissing Patrick, however wouldn't truly have a look at him, and saved repeating the identical query, "How are you?" She mentioned she was "puzzled," and it didn’t look like she meant that in a great way.

Kacie instructed Patrick that he was "good-looking," that she was "feeling good," and that it was "such a reduction." However she walked out of the reveal instantly, not ready to have a look at Patrick because the door closed, like newly engaged companions normally do on the finish. And in her interview afterwards, her enthusiasm over her engagement was — properly, fairly clearly faked.

We didn't have to attend lengthy to see this drama proceed to unfold. On the finish of episode 5, cameras adopted Kacie to the ladies's lodge the place a producer requested her to clarify what occurred.

"He deserves somebody higher than me," she mentioned. Patrick got here to satisfy her, and he or she was already in tears. However she was additionally smiling, saying she loves him, and continued touching his face.

The episode ended on that cliffhanger, however episode 6 picked up instantly with Kacie telling Patrick that she couldn't "do that anymore" and that she wished to go residence. In her interview, she instructed producers that "he's not a bad-looking man in any sense, however he deserves someone that’s so obsessive about him," and that's not her. "I perceive how that’s about to look," she added.

However cue the foremost combined indicators, as a result of that's by no means what she instructed Patrick. He point-blank requested her if she was making an attempt to interrupt up with him, and he or she mentioned she simply didn't wish to go on the journey to Mexico. She claimed that it's not as a result of she's not in love with him, however relatively that she simply didn't wish to do the TV present anymore.

Patrick took it surprisingly properly, as a result of Kacie saved making out with him and confirming that her alternative had nothing to do along with her emotions for him. She cried as she claimed the producers have been making an attempt to make this about how she felt about his bodily look, and he or she denied that was the difficulty. After all, Patrick believed her. How might he not? She was making a convincing case with tears, kisses, and confessions of affection.

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She apologized for breaking his coronary heart, taking part in out a very completely different situation in her head than what Patrick thought the second was. He merely thought she wished to give up the present and proceed courting once they bought residence to Denver. He was smiling and comforting her by way of the entire thing, promising that this wasn't going to vary something for them. At one level, she even agreed to go to Mexico with him the following month with out cameras following them.

The one time she truly vocalized that this was, certainly, a breakup was when she whispered, "I don't know if I'll be there with you," after he mentioned he'll see her again residence. He didn't hear what she mumbled, so he requested her, "What's that?" And he or she simply stayed quiet as she hugged him. Oof. She then wrapped her legs round his waist as she made out with him outdoors the lodge, additional complicated him on what was occurring.

And right here's the place it bought really exhausting to look at. Patrick instructed producers after their encounter that he nonetheless felt good about his relationship with Kacie! He felt that she was real.

"I don't suppose she's gaslighting," he mentioned. "You’ll be able to inform we're attracted to one another. It has nothing to do with bodily attraction."

Regardless of his phrases, he was clearly nonetheless nervous and requested producers if she gave them any rationalization aside from she simply "wanted to go residence." We — however not Patrick — bought the reply with what seemed like secret digital camera footage captured 45 minutes earlier of Kacie confronting producers about why she wished to depart.

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"I simply sadly don't suppose my attraction to him goes to develop that a lot," she mentioned. "And it sucks. I simply understand it gained't. And I believe it might be so unfair to him to have us go to Mexico, after which me need to, like, inform him there that I simply don't suppose I might get there with him, like, interval."

So this is about his look in spite of everything. Yikes. So who's going to inform Patrick that he simply bought dumped?

Love Is Blind season 9 releases episodes 7-9 on Wednesday, Oct. 8, with episodes 10-11 on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and the finale on Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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