Warning: this post contains spoilers for the season finale ofLove Is Blind.
All season long, viewers watched the then-34-year-old struggle over her 10-year age gap with the then-24-year-old Mark.
Yeah, I mean, I had to stay.

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I definitely had a conversation about leaving and I wasn’t able to do that.
“This went on for ten days.”
I definitely had some conversations and attempted to leave, but I wasn’t able to."

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So nobody was forced to do anything."]
We weren’t ready to marry each other in that allotted amount of time that we had.
We were very much on the same page about that."

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“Then I started to really warm up to him a lot more actually.
It just wasn’t shown on camera when they made that decision.
It’s based on the theme of the show, which makes sense.

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What she’s seen in the episodes has not changed how she views her relationship with Mark.
You’re not getting a 15-minute sampling of a person.
You’re seeing them day in, day out, interactions with people, and experiencing things with them.
It was a totally different situation.”
Watching the episodes has also not changed how she views her previous connection with Barnett, either.
“That’s kind of the typical guy I always go after,” she admits.
We definitely weren’t meant to be together.
And I’m super happy for him and Amber.
I think watching those two, I definitely think they were right for each other.
I wish them nothing but the best."
“But before that, it had been a while since we’d spoke.
It was pretty traumatic with how that went down.
He and I weren’t meant to be but I’d love to continue a friendship with him.”
“I’m just super happy to be associated with a show that brought three couples together.
I think it’s awesome and I’m just so happy there are couples that worked out.
That makes me happy to have been involved.”
“I learned so much.
I feel like first and foremost, asking the serious questions is okay,” she says.
The first season ofLove Is Blindis now streaming onNetflix.