Love Is Blind has dominated reality TV with a devilishly simple but irresistible thesis: that people can fall in love without seeing each other. Since the show first hit Netflix in 2020, 178 participants have talked to prospective mates in pods, and some have gotten engaged and even married. More have embarrassed themselves — feeding their dog wine, singing during a proposal, comparing their fiancé’s sexual attractiveness to their aunt, ditching a wedding-dress fitting to go on a date — but it’s all been in the name of the experiment.
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Starting with season five, I started to see claims that the experiment was broken. Whether it’s because participants just wanted to be on TV or the casting department had found the most toxic people imaginable, I couldn’t help notice that the pods-to-marriage pipeline wasn’t working like it used to. It felt true that with each passing season, the levels of chaos dramatically rose while fewer couples ended up married — but was it statistically true? How many people actually got engaged? Did more couples break up before the wedding or at the altar? How many have said “I do�
To find out, we reviewed all six seasons and tracked all 178 participants to see how many proposals, broken engagements, marriages, and divorces there have been in Love Is Blind history.
