Love Is Blind season 6 famous person Clay Gravesande labored through fears of being unfaithful right through his engagement to Amber Desiree “AD” Smith — which stayed with him until the marriage day.
“[It is a results of] my folks’ marriage, they usually in truth had a divorce,” Clay, 31, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the season 6 premiere. “I believe that always just plays at the back of your mind as you navigate through relationships.”
Clay got engaged to AD, 33, in the Netflix pods when the dating experiment got here to Charlotte, North Carolina. While Clay used to be all-in on AD, he wasn’t positive if he’d get down on one knee or say “I do” at the altar on account of his fears of monogamy.
“I’m at all times having a terror of, ‘Can I simply be with one particular person?’” he mentioned in an episode confessional.
Clay has since credited AD with serving to him paintings via his issues. “Yeah, AD is superior. She’s awesome,” he informed Us.
After Clay and AD met in particular person and jetted off on their Dominican Republic getaway, they wasted no time getting vulnerable. Clay even stressed out in episode Five that he sought after to head through couples counseling with AD.
“Marriage doesn’t should be conventional. I don’t even know the rules of marriage, honestly, your father now not being there [to stroll you down the aisle] is not one thing that are supposed to dangle you again,” he told AD in an episode that started streaming earlier this month. “You instructed me how your father was once — and rest in peace — however he wasn’t there for you; your brothers had been. They will have to be the ones … allow them to walk you down the aisle and walk you into love.”
He endured: “Marriage is between two other people [and] I chose you and that’s why I’m here for you to display me the way and simply at all times love me for who I in reality am. To me, that was probably the most validating thing I feel will have ever have, honestly.”
Earlier in that episode, Clay admitted in a confessional that he sought after to “be vulnerable” with AD and no longer solely “sexualizing her.”
“I want to make certain that she’s looked at as the queen that she is,” he mentioned. “At the top of the day, this is my fiancée and there must be recognize on that level.”
AD also felt a strong bodily connection with Clay however did realize a few alarm bells ringing.
“Oh my gosh, Clay is a walking pink flag,” AD quipped to Us previous this month. “I mean, from the instant I met him, it used to be [like], ‘pink flag, purple flag.’ When he sought after to grasp in regards to the physical and what I appeared like, I think that used to be very telling and an enormous pink flag.”
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In the pods, Clay had been candid about his tendency to prioritize a physical connection over an emotional one. When they left the pods, he tried to paintings exhausting on his communication to nurture both kinds of bonds equally.
Love Is Blind season 6 is currently streaming on Netflix. New episodes drop weekly.
With reporting through Christina Garibaldi
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