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Love is Blind Finale - Full of Spoilers!

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Wrongdissection · 27/02/2020 08:23

Thought I’d do a separate thread for the finale so that if anyone is just starting to watch they don’t get spoiled.

Damian and Giannina. What a fuck up. I couldn’t live with her though. She is seriously hard work.

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amillionwishes · 28/02/2020 17:07

@SweetPeaPods good question!!

Horehound · 28/02/2020 17:27

I'm watching Liar on Amazon. Also outlander :)

ItIsWhatItIsInnit · 28/02/2020 17:53

Hore I consider it important than women learn to recognise the signs of abuse.

I actually thought Giannina showed way more signs of them. Shouting, raising her voice, walking out of the room, not letting him get a word in. He was clearly becoming miserable and downbeat just being with her. If he really was an abuser, he would have married her so he could carry on doing it. But he didn't want to marry her because she was such hard work.

Also it's really, really dangerous to label someone an abuser based on some heavily-edited footage in a completely contrived and pressured reality show. When these people kill themselves a-la Love Island the same people will be jumping on the "Oh how awful, we need to stop slating people online, spread the love" bandwagon.

Karwomannghia · 28/02/2020 19:16

I love how Amber genuinely loves every aspect of Barnett and didn’t ask him to change a thing. She was utterly besotted and seems he was too and was a bit surprised by it!
Cameron and Lauren I’m not too convinced. She’s absolutely stunning and has more personality than him that we saw come out more and more. He’s a little stiff and boring.
Jessica- I couldn’t believe how far she took it, how she was so deluded about Barnett maybe changing his mind. And half cut most of the time. And Mark! Please give up and walk away with some self respect!
I felt sorry for GiGi being humiliated like that. It was unexpected but I think we were set up for it.

AnneOfTeenFables · 28/02/2020 19:58

I did wonder if, in some parallel universe, Mark could just 'love' Jessica into submission Grin

Horehound · 28/02/2020 20:26

Exactly @ItIsWhatItIsInnit

Marlox · 28/02/2020 21:54

I also agree with @ItIsWhatItIsInnit.

Youngatheart00 · 28/02/2020 22:17

Third-ed (if that’s a thing!) @ItIsWhatItIsInnit

Nduja · 28/02/2020 23:27

So, GG’s mum has confirmed that GG and Damian stayed together, and remain a couple to this day!

Nduja · 28/02/2020 23:29

Oops posted too soon.

I think it’s quite incredible in that case how successful the experiment was. Two ongoing marriages and a long term relationship, there’s got to be a psychology paper in there somewhere!

TickleMyTitsTilFriday · 29/02/2020 00:15

Agree @ItIsWhatItIsInnit

bushhbb · 29/02/2020 05:17

Can we please stop throwing around words like 'abuser' and 'narcissist'?

Damien always spoke to Gi calmly, respectfully. I'm younger than Gi and I can just see how immature she is, not ready for marriage in the slightest.

Shouting, storming off, humiliating him and even gaslighting at the end, saying she did nothing wrong. I can definitely see her being physically, verbally abusive etc. And I think that's why he walked away in the end.

jay55 · 29/02/2020 06:05

Just watched a bit of Barnett on Instagram live.
He had a bigger student debt than Amber at the time of filming and it sounded like the $700 on makeup was because she wanted to look great on the show and didn't know what to expect, what would be provided, said he bought loads of clothes for the show too.

In context both sounded a lot more normal than Amber being an irresponsible sponger the way the show portrayed her. And to not show his half of the debt conversation just sheer manipulation.

Horehound · 29/02/2020 07:55

Oh that's interesting @jay55
It's pretty bad how they can do that really. I mean we all know how social media can lynch people.

Damntheman · 29/02/2020 09:07

If he really was an abuser, he would have married her so he could carry on doing it oh dear.. Looks like he reeled her back in so he could continue doing it.

I'm also intrigued by how successful the experiment was! Although perhaps not super surprised. A lot of very successful relationships I know started out online with no idea of what the other partner looked like :)

I'm glad Barnett and Amber were actually on more of an even footing Jay! I ended up rather liking them in the end.

And of course hopefully Carlton has had help to come to terms with who he is :)

Horehound · 29/02/2020 09:16

Ffs @damntheman.

Damntheman · 29/02/2020 09:23

Oh I see I misunderstood earlier Hore. I get it now. You're allowed to express your opinion as many times as you like but I'm not. Gotcha.

Horehound · 29/02/2020 09:27

No you just are obsessed with damian. The "Looks like he reeled her back in so he could continue doing it"
That's right because we all know GG is a shy little submissive thing with no mind of her own. Hmm
You clearly still have issues from what's happened to you so maybe you should get some counseling.
Not everyone is an abuser m you've seen a very very tiny part of what has happened. As per a pp Barnett said he has debt too..did we see any of that conversation? No! Complete manipulation to convey one person in one light and another person is a different light... usually a goodie and a baddie. Use your brain.

Damntheman · 29/02/2020 09:45

It seems to me that you're the one that s a bit obsessed with me Hore :) you don't have to respond to anything I post you know. I hope you can manage to get over whatever happened to you in the past that makes you fixate on one poster on forum discussions. Counselling would possibly help!

Horehound · 29/02/2020 09:49

You are dominating the thread going on about it. It's hard to ignore...
I don't have issues unlike you :)

Horehound · 29/02/2020 09:51

Also weird you've just said exactly what I said to you. Confused

Damntheman · 29/02/2020 09:56

Hardly. I stopped when you first asked me to but fairly figured the discussion was open again given you dove back in. Unfollow if you don't want to see dissenting opinions. It's not that difficult.

As for the editing. Given it's primary purpose appears to be making Gigi look like an irrational 'drama llama' (nice) and apparently has been successful too, I doubt it could be blamed for making Damian's behaviour seem abusive. Given I'm not the only one who sees it that way I feel justified in feeling my opinion isn't wild or irrational.

What IS wild and irrational however is you assuming I've had some trauma in my history that is causing my opinion. That's a nasty thing to do really isn't it really. As you've pointed out, you don't have issues and don't need issues to have a dissenting opinion. Why does that require me to have issues? I do wonder. It would be nice to be able to disagree without name calling and assuming the other must have past trauma or isn't using their brain. Several other people in this thread have managed it

Damntheman · 29/02/2020 09:57

Yes I did indeed repeat what you said to me. I was making a point, which your response then proved. I apologise for making the implication you had to have trauma, of course you don't. Just like I don't.

Friendsofmine · 29/02/2020 09:59

Just finished the finale.

What a relief Kelly didn't string Kenny along.

I don't think I would call anyone abusive from edited reality TV. I did cringe at the amount of shouting and chucking in the kitchen sink from Gianinni.

Damntheman · 29/02/2020 10:01

I felt so bad for Kenny! But I agree I thought Kelly handled it better than she could have. I was really hoping they would work out.