In every love triangle, someone’s bound to get hurt — especially when it's a triangle formed in the Love Is Blind pods.

When Season 10 single Kevan found himself in the middle of one with Keya and Tyler, his first reaction was pure shock. His second? “I didn’t want to let anyone down,” he tells Tudum. A hard, if not impossible, task. He was also battling his own self-doubt. “Am I even the best man for them?” (A question all three singles wrestled with in the pods.) 

Dating multiple people is complicated for even the strongest polycule in Bushwick, so it’s easy to assume there would also be friction between Keya and Tyler over in the women’s lounge. But the two refused to see each other as competition and developed a friendship all their own — even as they pursued the same man.

In the end, both women decided to walk away — or, in Tyler’s case, to ghost. Keep reading to find out what exactly happened between the trio, why Keya’s mic drop moment rang so true, and how Kevan feels about it all today.

From the start of their first date, Tyler knew Kevan was different. She enjoyed his “refreshing energy” and how he was quirky and authentic. “It didn’t sound like he’d been thinking of the perfect thing to say,” she says. Also, they had so much fun together. “The girls hated being in a pod next to me because Kevan and I would be there cracking up.” 

Early on in the experiment, Tyler expressed an interest in moving to Atlanta, and Kevan said he’d be open to it. A few days later, however, he explained that he needed to stay in Ohio to take care of his mom. “For me, it wasn’t even a pain point,” Tyler says. It was an easy decision to stay in-state for her husband. She assumed the discussion had concluded on a happy note, but on their next date Kevan seemed different. 

“He was in a very down mood, which was the opposite of the Kevan that I had met,” she says. She went to bed that night convinced something else was going on. “Why have we had three conversations about the same thing? Is it because you have somebody else?” That’s when Tyler realized he was also connecting with Keya. 

With Keya, Kevan says he was able to form a connection at a “deeper level.” What drew her to Kevan was his patience with her slow-burn approach. “There were a lot of dates where the men would jump in with those hard questions,” Keya explains. “I’m typically cool as a cucumber, so I need you to break down my walls a little bit.” 

Ever a cool cucumber, the love triangle of it all didn’t bother Keya. Tyler also wasn’t as concerned about Kevan dating someone else as she was about his “gaslighting.” She can’t stand when “someone talks about a problem that’s not the problem,” because they’re avoiding the real issue. 

One of Tyler’s mantras — “My presence is a privilege” — played in her head as she sat through one of their final dates, engagement day looming. The two decided to take a short bathroom break. “When I looked in the mirror, time slowed down, and it was like, ‘Would you ever tolerate this outside of this environment?’ And the answer was no.” She went back into the pod, determined to get some answers. “I asked him, ‘Kevan, what would you do if you were me?’” Tyler says Kevan admitted in the moment that he wasn’t ready for marriage. “So it really hasn’t been between Keya and me,” she remembers thinking. “You’ve been fighting battles with yourself this whole time over whether you should even be a husband.” 

That’s when Tyler knew she had to pull the plug and leave for good. “My life is full. I have a beautiful home. I have a good life to go back to,” she says. “[Before the experiment] if you would’ve asked me what the worst-case scenario of my life was, I would’ve told you, ‘Dying alone.’” Tyler was determined to find a partner by any means necessary. “And then I met the means, and I was like, ‘Wait a minute, not by any means.’” 

When Kevan found himself alone in the pods the next day, he understood immediately why Tyler had left. “I didn’t give her what she needed as far as the security and feeling that safety net to move forward,” he says. However, he disagrees with the diagnosis that he’s not equipped for marriage. “I was ready to be a husband, but I don’t know if I was ready to be that person for Tyler at that moment.”

Conversely, Keya empathized with Kevan’s decision paralysis. “It would be really easy to fault him and be like, ‘You are not ready. You shouldn’t have been here,’ but there are so many things that I’m not ready [for],” she says. Instead, she’s taken the perspective that it’s not personal. “As soon as you understand that this person is not trying to cause you harm, you better understand how to navigate the situation.” 

Yes, Keya gave Kevan plenty of grace, but she also made it abundantly clear that he was not her person — leading to one of the best speeches in Love Is Blind history. “One of the things that I pride myself on, any situation that I’m a part of, I want to leave it better,” she says. “So, I was providing him that empathy, but also setting a clear boundary like, ‘You are not about to play with me, and you are certainly not about to play with [Tyler].’” 

This protective nature between the two women didn’t come out of nowhere. Keya and Tyler were always quietly supporting each other from afar. “I do not beef over boys,” Keya says. “Sisterhood means so much to me, especially [with Tyler] being another Black woman.” Tyler agrees that there was never a time she felt any animosity between them. “There are respectful boundaries you can have, even in a wacky environment where you’re all dating the same dudes at the same time,” Tyler says. 

In fact, the day Tyler exited the experiment, she left something small but special behind for Keya. “In the morning, [Keya] would use my flat iron to do her hair,” Tyler says. “When I left the pods, I left my flat iron with the producer. I said, ‘Just in case my girl goes to Mexico, give her my flat iron. She cannot be out there with no fuzzy hair.’”

Since filming wrapped, the two have kept in touch. “Keya told me the bomb speech she did at the end,” Tyler says. “I’m like, ‘Damn, girl. I wish I’d have wrote a speech.’”

Yes, Keya did have her mic drop moment, but she’s more interested in what she got out of the experiment: a renewed willingness to open up. “Love Is Blind spotlights being married and finding your person for forever,” Keya says. “And that’s beautiful, but that’s also not always the case. For me, what came out of it was understanding my vulnerability with myself, with my friends, with men,” she continues. “I’m biased, but that’s way more important than leaving with a ring.” 

While he didn’t leave the pods with the woman of his dreams, Kevan also has no regrets. “I just want [Tyler and Keya] to know that they really, truly changed my life, and I’m going to be eternally thankful for them and just always rooting for them.”