Taylor Rue and JP Pierce found an instantaneous connection in the Love Is Blind pods, but their romance did not translate to the actual international.
“The first time I noticed it was on the reveal, but I tried not to think too much about that simply because it’s the primary time in truth seeing each and every other,” Taylor, 26, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the season 5 premiere. “I used to be nervous. I do know he was anxious, so I didn’t in point of fact dig too deep into that till Mexico.”
Taylor and the firefighter, 32, found love on the Netflix experiment when it got here to Houston, and they were given engaged sight unseen. Following “disclose day,” Taylor concept their consistent PDA used to be a bit out of types.
“I simply be mindful we kept kissing, stored kissing, stored kissing, and I used to be like, ‘We want to sit down and talk,’” she recalled to Us. “And it was virtually like we didn’t know what to speak about and … I had by no means been in a scenario that was awkward, like that assembly, on a typical date and so I was tremendous thrown off. I didn’t know how to head about it, however that’s what made me feel a little bit bit weird.”
Taylor attempted to push past her nerves because the pair launched into their post-engagement vacation to Mexico. There, the twosome’s verbal exchange broke down when she accused him of no longer wanting to percentage his emotions. JP, for his section, lamented that he would have preferred if Taylor showed as much as the reveal with out all her “fake” makeup and eyelashes. His revelation led Taylor to seek an alternative lodge room for the night time.
“I was actually harm and I used to be additionally at a loss for words,” she instructed Us of listening to his grievance about her bodily look. “I used to be like, ‘There’s simply no way that our relationship is basically ending on account of the way in which I look.’ Because we had built this sort of sturdy connection between us and I used to be like, ‘This is my husband. We’re engaged.’”
She endured: “I was just confused, truthfully, somewhat bit hurt, but more confused than anything.”
When Taylor woke up the next morning, she knowledgeable JP that she was no longer interested in living with him or staying engaged.
“It wasn’t that night time that I used to be like, ‘Yep, I’m finished [and] calling it off.’ I did give it a while and I didn’t name it off [simply] because of the make-up remark. Yes, it’s hurtful, but I might by no means finish a courting on account of an opinion,” Taylor defined to Us. “I left because the version of JP that I fell in love with used to be not there and that used to be scary to me. I was intended to move home and live with this person and I felt like I didn’t even know him in Mexico. So, I thought long and hard because a part of me sought after to stick and part of me was like, ‘I’m done. I’m going house.’”
Looking back, Taylor “completely” does not feel sorry about her decision to wreck off her fact TV engagement.
“I’ve never lived with a man before and so that’s a big thing for me and a big step in a relationship and we weren’t one hundred % and I didn’t wish to do this,” she added. “I think I made the right choice as a result of I feel if I would’ve finished that, we might most certainly no longer be on excellent phrases. There would have been numerous hate between us after that.”
JP reached out to Taylor “proper after” the breakup, but she informed Us that she was once now not ready to talk with him. “[I] wanted a while to heal and then a pair months again, I reached out to him,” Taylor mentioned. “Our conversation used to be good, but we didn’t get deep and I still feel like we had to have that deeper dialog.”
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Love Is Blind season 5 is lately streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop on Fridays.
With reporting through Christina Garibaldi
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