It was love at first lockdown.
Wearing a saggy tee and Juicy Couture terry material shorts, I waited for my date. Sitting reverse me was a blonde girl holding a wine cup. My display screen alternated to a brunette male speaking about sports activities. Cut up between a barrier, the couple might neither see one another because the digicam panned to each of them again to again.
Jarringly eerie to life, the scene mirrored my actuality of pandemic courting the place I couldn’t see my dates bodily. Watching blind courting occur in literal kind on display screen planted the seeds of my courting present obsession. Since there was nothing else to do at residence, I continued to binge the present, Love is Blind.
I wasn’t alone. My associates additionally began watching Love is Blind, too. When Too Scorching To Deal with got here out, I pushed my sister, a courting present hater, to look at it with me. The summer time of 2020, I watched Indian Matchmaking, which my associates and cousin had been equally obsessed about as we couldn’t cease laughing about Sima Aunty and her makes an attempt to matchmake potential suitors.
When Love is Blind’s second season got here out, we pored over the pod dates, ‘fessed about our favourite ladies and talked concerning the crimson flags we noticed within the male contestants. Seeing the trials and tribulations in these courting reveals felt all too actual for us. A responsible, but therapeutic pleasure, courting reveals made me realise that my courting life wasn’t going to be a fairy story, however relatively a journey of hard-earned classes.
Right here’s what I learnt.
FYI, enormous spoilers forward should you haven’t watched any of those reveals!
Supply: Her World