Love Is Blind’s Dave Opens Up About His Split from Lauren (Exclusive)

Warning: this tale includes looters from episodes 1-12 of Love Is Blind period 8.

David “Dave” Bettenberg is waiting his reality, also if his experience on Love Is Blind really did not go precisely as intended.

In period 8, followers enjoyed as Dave, 33, developed a link with Lauren O’Brien in the sheaths prior to suggesting to her view hidden. Things seemed plain sailing for both up until it was exposed that Lauren, 31, had actually been seeing a male prior to beginning the program– and Dave’s internal circle occurred to understand him.

The clinical tool sales worker after that began to concern Lauren’s intents and whether she was really prepared for marital relationship. They stopped working to see eye-to-eye on the subject or involve an understanding, prior to inevitably calling it gives up in episode 11.

Dave currently informs individuals “the reason it didn’t work out was mostly the timeline of everything” integrated with the truth that he really did not understand the reality concerning Lauren’s relationships with this guy.

“I think the whole situation of her having a ‘boyfriend’ going into it and me having to experience and try to play — not play two different roles, but I was trying to be the best to everybody and trying to figure this out,” he remembers. “This is coming from not only my sister, who knows this guy’s best friend but also, my really close college friends that know him [and] were all telling me that they had been dating for three months, she was staying at his place the week before she left.”

“I am hearing all these things and I’m just like, there’s just no way I’m going to marry this person if that’s what she was doing coming into it,” he clarifies. “I just can’t justify that.”

Reflecting on the death of their partnership, Dave confesses he would certainly’ve stuck with Lauren and “been okay with that whole situation” if this were just “an experiment to find somebody to date, find somebody that you connect with and you just want to date for a while and then see if it works.”

“But having to explain that to — I know my sister’s a big part of it. But the reason she’s such a big part of that is because she knows the guy that Lauren had been ‘seeing,’ and she was just like, there’s just absolutely no way,” he clarifies. “And I got to the point where I was like, I’m not going to force my best friends and family members to come watch me say no at the altar when I knew that was going to be my answer based off of the information I had at that time.”

“I just thought it was pointless,” he includes.

Though Lauren urged often times that they weren’t severe and begged Dave to allow her discuss herself to his family and friends, he never ever offered her the opportunity.

“I’m just making the best judgment call I can in that time with the information that I have from people that I trust,” Dave clarifies of his thinking. “They’re really close friends of mine. And then obviously my sister. There was no way I was going to spin that in [Lauren’s] favor unfortunately at the time. And me and Lauren have discussed too, and I was like, ‘Hey, I hope whatever they show when it comes out, I hope you understand. That’s how I felt in that time.’ It was really hard.”

“I thought I’d finally put myself out there and I don’t usually do that. And then just to have it blow up in my face was really hard to deal with,” he keeps in mind.

But Lauren saw it in different ways, informing individuals: “I say it very clearly and I still stand by everything I said. This guy knew that I was having casting conversations the entire time that we were hooking up. And this was a friends with benefits. And I truly do think that he also saw it that way at the time.”

She proceeds of Dave, “I think it was fair of him to question me. I don’t think it was fair to not let me be part of the conversation or to not hear me out.”

“At the time, I will say I was really conflicted on who is in the right here. Am I not reading this right? Did I f— up and or is Dave over-exaggerating? I really did kind of grapple with the truth, but at the end of the day I was like, I know my story and I know the narrative and I know everything about this. So I just couldn’t fully see why it was breaking up an engagement,” she includes.

Though points really did not exercise for them in the future, Dave claims he’s still hopeful for love in the future.

“I’m absolutely ready for marriage. I think going into the experiment, I was testing myself. I did not ever think it was going to work for me,” he claims. “I thought I was going to be there for a few days and be on my way. But I feel like what I’ve learned most about myself is just I can be vulnerable and I can put myself out there to meet the love of my life and who I’m going to spend the rest of my life with. I think that’s something I’ve been running away from for a while, and it’s definitely something I learned about myself.”

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Episodes 1-12 of Love Is Blind period 8 are currently streaming onNetflix The ending declines Friday, March 7, complied with by the period 8 get-together on Sunday, March 9 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.