Love was fleeting for Kenneth and Brittany, who fizzled out in this week’s batch of Love Is Blind Season 6 episodes, now streaming on Netflix.
When Brittany expressed her concern about feeling a dearth of desire from Kenneth in Episode 8, the pair had a frank discussion about their relationship and made the tough decision to end their engagement. The breakup lacked the dramatic flair we’ve seen from past seasons, which Brittany attributes to their mutual respect.
“I think that within that moment, we were both so respectful to one another and have respect for ourselves and what we both want and need in a relationship. I don’t believe it could have gone any better,” she tells TVLine. “Breakups are hard… but because we actually truly loved one another so much, we were able to separate that from any negative feeling of a breakup and say, ‘OK, this is where our focus is. Just because we are ending our experience right now, we’re still focused on the fact that, ‘You are a wonderful person, Kenneth’ and he, of course, said the same to me. I think that if more breakups could go like ours, the world might be a little bit of a better place.”
Their breakup was surprising given that the pair, who were the second couple to get engaged after Kenneth proposed in Episode 3, had so much common. They both considered themselves to be spiritual people, had mothers who were twins, lost a parent a young age, and seemed to be emotionally politically aligned as well. So, what happened when they went out into the real world?
“Our pod experience was so intense in the best way and coming out of it, it was like ‘OK, how do we keep that still going?” Brittany explains. “I don’t really have the exact answer, and maybe with us seeing it on TV now we can try to get that exact answer, but we’re both human and this is such a unique experience.”
She adds that although their pod experience was “so organic and so natural, being in the Dominican Republic and then coming back home to Charlotte, we just started to drift apart. We’re both very passionate people and I think that when we both noticed that passion not being there as intensely as it was in the pods, it didn’t necessarily sit well with us both, and that’s where we see the transition and a change.”
Early on, Kenneth admitted that he had never dated a white woman before. And while the show didn’t delve into deeper discussions about race, Brittany notes they had discussed the possibility of raising biracial children.
“Kenneth and I actually talked about having biracial children nearly every day,” she notes. “I think that’s a topic that we that we should have been talking about and I’m very thankful to say that it was at the forefront of our minds, and we did have many conversations about it.”
“Not only did we have so many conversations about it, our views on everything appropriately aligned and so, that was something that we both felt comfortable in,” she adds.
