I’ll just go ahead and say it —Season 8 of Love is Blind’s hot ticket couple is… Dave and Lauren! After a smooth start to their relationship and a dive into not-so-smooth waters, the couple has *definitely* been through thick and thin, but that’s left fans (especially me) wondering if they’ll make it to the end. Spoiler Warning: Spoilers for Love Is Blind Season 8 follow.
Though their fate is still very unknown, it’s safe to say that with how things left off in Episode 9, things don’t look *too* good for the pair. After immediately hitting it off in the pods, it seemed like things were looking up for Dave and Lauren. That is until Dave and Lauren got themselves involved in a love triangle with Molly. Even though Lauren came out on top, things still seemed a bit off between her and Dave.
Tensions slowly began building, which was evident when Dave mentioned his sister and how she disapproved of him going on the show. What we couldn’t have expected was for things to really diverge and for waters to be roaring with built-up tension. Specifically, it looked like Dave’s intimacy, or lack thereof, with Lauren was taking a toll on him and his perspective of their relationship, as evidenced by the hard-to-watch couples’s vacay in Honduras. Even though it’s hard to look past, this lack of intimacy seemed to have seeped into Dave’s personal outlook on Lauren.
Then, Dave and Lauren appeared to take a step back in their relationship when he brought up the fact that she was seeing a guy a few months before going on the show. Lauren clarified that she never dated the guy that Dave just so happens to know as well, but was merely seeing him casually. Dave claimed he’d heard a different story (he and Lauren share mutual friends who apparently told him about her dating life) and because of that, his perspective of her was tainted.
Lauren’s friends, on the other hand, who have no tie to Dave, had no problem sticking their ground in support of her while meeting him for the first time. They clarified that her previous relationship was never serious and that Dave shouldn’t judge seeing as he casually hung out with women before going on LIB.
After that, Dave and Lauren went their separate ways (at least for the night) as Dave expressed he wasn’t comfortable being around her at that time. Lauren was left in a hard position where, no matter what she said or did, Dave wasn’t changing how he felt about everything.
Besides this evidently rubbing Lauren (and me) the wrong way, in Episode 10, Dave has the nerve to return and basically avoid the conversation! His phone died and all of Lauren’s texts were going green before he showed up at her apartment. He also drops a bomb on Lauren that he went to the same bar as Molly, but had refused to meet her. Besides all this, Lauren continues to be very reassuring toward Dave, confirming that at the end of the day, she wants to be by his side and he agrees…that is until they go bowling later in the episode! Everything starts off pretty normal but before we know it, the night takes an unexpected expected turn.
Dave and Lauren talk about the very big elephant in the room — Lauren’s, ex and of course, Dave’s sister and her expectations of him. This prompts Lauren to bring up the obvious, that they will be stronger once she meets Dave’s sister and friends. However, Dave drops the bomb by saying, “They don’t meet just anyone.” This absolutely made me GAGGED and evidently gagged Lauren because there was a shift in her tone before the conversation ended.
Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait long to see what happened next because things picked right back up at the top of Episode 11 and I’m not gonna go through it all because it’s the same deal, where Dave claims that Lauren had a boyfriend prior to going on the pods and how he’s gotten messages about it from everyone (eye roll). Long story short, they break off their engagement. You would think that’s the end of Lauren and Dave until the bar reunion later in the episode!
Someone unexpectedly comes to Lauren’s defense…MOLLY! Molly really lays out the facts for Dave, basically slapping him in the face with it because she seems equally as fed up as Lauren. She gives Dave a look in the mirror, implying that nothing he has done has shown Lauren that he actually loves her and *if* he loves her, he’d integrate her more into his family and friend life. This leads Dave to have a final conversation with Lauren, the first time they’re talking since the breakup.
For once, Dave admits that the split was his fault! Obvi! For the first time, Dave has taken accountability for something, and not only that, he apologized! It was like everything he hadn’t shared before and kept inside came out and thankfully, it did because it provided Lauren and Dave the closure they both needed. Not to say that Lauren didn’t say her own peace and lay everything out on the line for Dave to see of how much effort she has evidently put into their relationship.
Their conversation ends abruptly and it’s safe to say that Dave and Lauren will NOT get married and if you’ve had the same hunches as me, this comes as no surprise. The Dave and Lauren chapter has most likely come to a permanent close, that is until their reunion, during which I hope to see Dave own up to being wrong about Lauren and her supposed ex.