Did you catch that trailer at the end of the Love Is Blind reunion? Or are you just here because you smelled drama? From the same team (and hosts) behind your favorite pod romances, The Ultimatum is the newest dating experiment that promises to be just as messy — if it’s even possible.

The Ultimatum follows six couples, and in each, one partner gives the other an ultimatum to get married. The couples break up, date the other contestants and undergo a trial marriage with someone else for three weeks. Then, contestants move in with their original partner to confront their issues for another three weeks, all before a possible engagement. Got it? Us neither.

But before all that begins, who gave the ultimatums that landed us here in the first place? Below, meet the cast of The Ultimatum before they make up — or break up. 

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Alexis and Hunter

Ultimatum Giver: Alexis, 25
 Ultimatum Receiver: Hunter, 28
After two years, Alexis is ready to say “I do” to her boyfriend, but he’s only willing to start living together. Will Hunter be willing to put a ring on it before Alexis says “I do” to shacking up with someone else? 

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April and Jake

Ultimatum Giver: April, 23
Ultimatum Receiver: Jake, 26 
Just one year after leaving the military, Jake wants to travel and become financially stable before he proposes to girlfriend April. But April, who wants a family as soon as possible, says she’ll be “done” with the relationship if this experience doesn’t push him toward engagement. 

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Lauren and Nate

Ultimatum Giver: Nate, 30
Ultimatum Receiver: Lauren, 30
Nate and Lauren have a fundamental issue in their relationship — he wants to have children, while she doesn’t. He’s hoping an ultimatum will solve it, but could it send two and a half years of the relationship down the drain? 

Madlyn and Colby

Ultimatum Giver: Colby, 25
Ultimatum Receiver: Madlyn, 24 
After meeting at a bar in college, Colby immediately knew Madlyn was “the one.” And after a year and a half of dating, Colby needs her to realize that too; otherwise he says he’ll walk away. 

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Rae and Zay

Ultimatum Giver: Rae, 24
Ultimatum Receiver: Zay, 25
Rae has everything mapped out in her life — now that she’s graduated from college, the next steps are a proposal from her boyfriend of two and a half years, a honeymoon in Cancun and, eventually, a family. Only problem? Zay isn’t ready to fit into that plan just yet. 

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Shanique and Randall

Ultimatum Giver: Shanique, 24
Ultimatum Receiver: Randall, 26
Shanique wants a big family and a big wedding, while Randall wants to hold off until he can get out of debt. Through this process, Randall hopes to prove that Shanique isn’t quite as ready for marriage as she says she is.