“Let’s get back into the real world,” SK confidently tells Tudum the day after the Love Is Blind Season 3 reunion taping. “It’s not Love Is Blind anymore. Life is life, now.” SK has a point. The latest pod squad’s stories have been fully unraveled — weddings and all — now that the Season 3 finale and reunion have premiered, leaving the cast ready to talk about their world as it stands now. Some of them are married. Some of them are dating. Some are now adjusting to single life. They gave us the full scoop on exactly who’s still together — and what everyone’s lives look like after Love Is Blind.

The Couples

Alexa and Brennon are new parents.

During Day 4 of the Love Is Blind experiment, Alexa tells Tudum, Brennon was “ready to leave” — with her, of course. Instead, they decide to stay for the pod “magic,” and the couple enjoys a beautiful wedding in Episode 10. They’ve now been married for over a year, and Alexa calls Brennon her “best friend.” Brennon is delighted he can finally tell the world Alexa is his wife.

“It’s been absolutely amazing. I recommend marriage to everybody,” Alexa says. “Find your person, find your one. Don’t get married to just anybody.”

Wedded life has been easy on them because Brennon and Alexa began living together before their nuptials. Alexa says it’s been “natural.” Brennon is simply happy he has half a closet to himself in their second bedroom. “We made a deal when we got married that anytime we’re going out, she gets to dress me because... I don’t have good fashion sense,” Brennon jokes. “And then anytime our wedding song comes on, she has to dance with me.”

The song is “Heaven” by Kane Brown, and Alexa and Brennon stop whatever they’re doing to slow dance when they hear it. Yes — even if they’re driving. (They pull over and sway by the side of the road if necessary.)

Unsurprisingly, these lovebirds are already thinking about their future, babies included. “We’re working on it. Practice makes perfect,” Alexa teases. Brennon is ready for the infant-friendly version of the Love Is Blind gilded goblets. “We’ll definitely need Netflix to get us a golden baby bottle,” he says.

Since then, the couple’s dreams have come true, as they’re now expecting their first child together. The path hasn’t been easy, however, as Alexa reveals at the Season 6 reunion that she experienced fertility issues. “We weren’t sure it was ever going to happen for us,” she says. “I can’t wait to have our love be physical in a baby.” Brennan calls Alexa his “rock” throughout the process, adding: “It’s been an emotional journey for both of us.”

Colleen and Matt are “on the same page.” 

As Colleen and Matt say during the reunion, they got married in an “unorthodox” way — so they’re doing marriage in a similarly “unorthodox” manner. The pair don’t live together yet. Immediately following the wedding, Colleen says they “weren’t money-wise ready to give up our leases.” Both explain their lease schedules didn’t initially line up properly, and Colleen didn’t want to “screw over” her roommates by abandoning them. So they spend seven nights a week together — “Besides Monday, laundry day,” Colleen jokes — between their two places.

But everything will change in a few months, when their rent contracts align. Then the pair will move in together. “I can’t wait to move in with him,” Colleen says. “I’m going to spend the rest of my life with him. I’m — we’re — content. We’re on the same page.”

At the  Season 6 reunion, the couple were more than happy to announce that they’ve since taken the plunge. “We have moved in together into a beautiful town home,” says Colleen. In other news, she has continued to focus on her dance career with Matt sharing that she recently starred as Princess Aurora in a production of Sleeping Beauty. “It was the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my entire life,” he says. 

Raven and SK have gone their “separate ways.”

Following the Season 3 finale premiere, Raven and SK revealed their post-wedding romantic reconciliation. But since then, they have decided to go their “separate ways,” as they announced via a joint Instagram stories post. The pair said they were “grateful” for everyone who had been a part of their journey. Raven is still following her fitness passions — including pilates, of course — and SK is continuing his education at University of California, Berkeley.

The Singles

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Zanab is loving herself.

Zanab says no to Cole at the altar, telling him he “shattered her self-confidence.” Looking back on that time, Zanab tells Tudum she was “just broken.” Following the wedding, she went to her mom’s home for a few days and “cried a good bit.” When the other women in the cast gathered to celebrate the Season 2’s “I do’s,” Zanab couldn’t attend. Not because she was bitter, but because she “saw a lot of fault” in herself. “I couldn’t be genuinely happy because I felt like, ‘What did I do wrong? Why didn’t this experiment turn out so wonderfully for me?’ ”

Now Zanab is on the other side of those feelings. She turned to therapy for support and has been pouring the love she was “mistakenly looking for in someone else” into herself. “I’m in the healthiest and happiest place I’ve ever been,” Zanab says.

She’s currently single and her DMs are open for her future “husbae.” In fact, Zanab has someone in mind for the position. “I did hear Chris Evans was looking for the love of his life,” she says. “So if his people want to be in contact? That’s fine!”

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Cole is ready to “move on.”

While reunion filming was intense, Cole appreciates the “closure” he received from it. That’s when Cole had his first conversation with Zanab after she turned him down at the altar. “It’s like, ‘OK, I get it now. I know exactly what our problems and issues were. I hear what they’re saying, and I know exactly what happened to this point,” he tells Tudum. “I’m excited to finish this chapter and for Zanab and I to put it in the past so that we can both move on into new relationships.”

After all, Cole confirms he’s now “going on dates” after taking a full year break from romance. Although you won’t find him while swiping — “I’m definitely over the apps,” Cole says.

Instead, he’s dealing with an entirely different hurdle in the dating market: the fact that prospective partners can watch his last relationship unfold on Love Is Blind. “It’s not easy when any girl that you’re ever going to date now has seen [that] with your ex,” he admits. “It’s like, ‘Oh, you know about all of that. That’s not fun for you at all to see me in a love relationship with a different girl.’ ”

Until he meets the right woman, Cole is focusing on himself. He “buried himself in work” following his breakup and is just starting to take back his time. “I’ve really started to create a margin in my life and space for me to think, read, journal, process and pray. To not get myself so busy that I’m not bettering myself,” Cole says.

Nancy has gotten strong.

Like Zanab, Nancy was also in a “really sad place” following her failed wedding with Bartise. “I was willing to give that man some grace to accept him for his flaws,” she says. She was “crushed” when he said no to her at the altar.

So Nancy focused on self-care to pull her out of the “funk” of heartbreak. “I started working out by lifting weights, instead of doing so much cardio and running,” she says. “It really allowed me to be disciplined, have consistency and believe in myself. It’s like, ‘OK, 5 more pounds, you can do it.’ ” Nancy also traveled and bought more properties to expand her real estate portfolio. “Overall, your girl is thriving,” she concludes.

At the Season 7 reunion, Nancy shares a new development. “I moved to the best city in the world: New York City. For the first time in my life as an adult, I made a decision to move to a city that was for me, not for a job, not for a relationship, not for school,” Nancy says. The change of scenery has turned out to be a fateful one — it’s where she met her current partner.

Bartise is a new father. 

Post-LIB, he’s continued his search for his soulmate over on Perfect Match, a series which gathers all of your Netflix favorite reality stars under one roof together for a dating extravaganza. Whether or not he found love in Panama, however, he has still since gained a special someone in his life: Bartise announced in April 2023 that he’s the father to a new baby boy. “Might’ve been the villain on tv, but I’m gonna be the hero for him,” he wrote on Instagram.

Bartise rejects Nancy at the Love Is Blind altar, pushing tensions into high gear between his fiancée, himself and her family. Ultimately, Nancy washes her hands of Bartise, who spends much of Season 3 explaining and trying to “overcome” his lack of physical attraction to her. Bartise tells Tudum he has since “apologized a million times” to his ex — and wanted to beg for her forgiveness even more after watching their Love Is Blind journey. “I can only imagine what she was going through,” he says.

“Post filming was tough. I didn’t know how to process everything that had happened. I tried to just block everything out,” Bartise continues. “I’m hoping that I can cope now after seeing what I look like and how I made Nancy feel.”

At least, Bartise says, his “type” has changed since filming. He’s “gotten back into the dating pool,” although he remains single (and is also avoiding the apps). “One thing the show taught me in retrospect is that the emotional connection is absolutely important. I obviously had that with Nancy,” he says. “But since then, I’ve only had the experience where there’s nothing else except a physical connection. That’s probably worse than having just the emotional connection. You definitely need both.”

That’s why, Bartise says, “[For me], there’s now a bigger emphasis placed on, ‘How can we connect emotionally and go from there?’ ”

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