- Ramses and Marissa were 1 of nan engaged couples featured connected "Love Is Blind" play seven.
- They had difficult conversations astir their activity life and views connected nan military.
- However, they didn't make it to nan altar aft Ramses called disconnected their relationship.
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Warning: Major spoilers done nan "Love Is Blind" play 7 finale ahead.
"Love Is Blind" play seven's astir candid on-screen mates almost made it to nan altar — but ultimately, their narration ended earlier they were married.
Ramses, a 35-year-old programme subordinate astatine a justness betterment nonprofit, and Marissa, a 32-year-old lawyer, deed it disconnected successful nan pods and yet sewage engaged.
When they returned from a post-engagement travel to Mexico, they had immoderate frank discussions while surviving together. Ramses had strong, anti-imperialist, and captious views of nan United States military. And while Marissa shared immoderate of them, arsenic a erstwhile work member, she empathized pinch those serving today.
It was a singular speech for "Love Is Blind," which arsenic Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk wrote, "has ne'er swerved toward thing arsenic straight governmental arsenic 'what domiciled should America play connected nan world stage.'"
Ramses and Marissa's chat besides has important reach: Seasons of "Love Is Blind" are viewed by millions of people, per Netflix's ain engagement numbers. That besides intends that millions will apt position their heartbreaking divided successful nan play finale, which aired Wednesday.
Here's what we cognize astir what happened to Ramses and Marissa aft filming and wherever they guidelines today, including what Marissa revealed astir nan breakup successful a caller question and reply pinch Glamour.
Marissa and Ramses commencement disconnected beardown successful nan pods and successful Mexico
Marissa has connections pinch some Ramses and different contestant, Bohdan, successful nan pods. But eventually, she cuts disconnected her narration pinch Bohdan successful favour of pursuing nan 1 she has pinch Ramses.
In section five, Ramses proposes to her. After gathering successful personification later that episode, producers prime nan mates arsenic 1 of nan six pairs they'll proceed pursuing connected a post-engagement travel to Mexico.
Overall, that travel goes smoothly for them. But by section seven, Ramses and Marissa are backmost successful nan existent world and differences arise.
The 2 move successful together and statesman to talk their upcoming wedding. They besides talk their opposing views connected nan United States military: While some stock an anti-imperialist critique of nan institution, Marissa grew up successful nan military, served for 8 years aft college, and says that she supports those who presently serve. She says that she doesn't want Ramses to consciousness "ashamed" of her service. He confirms that he apt wouldn't want to beryllium pinch her if she was a reservist.
"I wouldn't, like, want anyone to consciousness shame astir their past," he says. "As agelong arsenic it's successful your past."
The taxable comes up again successful section eight, during a speech pinch Marissa's friends, and nan mates says that they were capable to talk done their differences.
In section nine, Ramses and Marissa meet pinch Marissa's family. While her siblings o.k. of nan couple, Marissa's mom is skeptical and powerfully urges nan mates to get a prenuptial statement retired of interest for Marissa's early assets. Still, Marissa tells Ramses later that her mom hasn't dissuaded her from marrying him.
Later successful that episode, however, nan 2 deed another, different roadblock: They person different timelines for children. While Ramses prefers to hold 4 years, Marissa wants to person their first kid sooner.
When they statesman to talk contraceptive options, they find they're astatine different impasse. Marissa doesn't want to spell connected commencement control, but Ramses says that having activity pinch a condom isn't arsenic pleasurable.
"Sex is expected to be, like, mutually enjoyable. That's not thing that guys ever person nan unit of having to deliberation about," he says.
"Yeah, well, here's nan pressure. I'm not going to spell connected commencement control," Marissa replied.
"Sounds good, baby. We request to do what we request to do, but I request nan activity to beryllium enjoyable," he says.
In episodes 10 and 11, Ramses and Marissa activity done immoderate doubts astir their marriage, pinch Ramses telling Marissa he wants a definite level of beingness intimacy. After a basking tub vessel date, they some consciousness confident.
However, successful nan play finale, Ramses tells Marissa that he was worried his feelings were starring him to an incorrect decision. Ultimately, he says that he's worried astir their energies "coexisting successful nan aforesaid space," and that he doesn't consciousness assured astir getting married.
"I deliberation you're making a mistake. I deliberation this is simply a large mistake," Marissa tells him. "I judge that wholeheartedly. And I — I can't person you otherwise. Like, I don't know, but I conscionable cognize this is not right. Like, this is not right. This is for illustration nan worst heartbreak I've ever experienced. It hurts truthful bad."
In a confessional, Marissa expresses disorder that Ramses had been excited for their wedding only days earlier he decided to telephone it off.
Ramses and Marissa didn't get backmost together aft filming
Marissa and Ramses posted fondly astir their clip connected "Love Is Blind" connected societal media starring up to nan finale. They besides still travel each different connected Instagram.
Marissa has besides posted astir her and Ramses' chat astir her subject work connected societal media, sharing articles and different social media posts connected her Instagram story. In 1 TikTok video, she joked that her work was singing nan opus "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from nan Disney movie "Mulan."
"Navigating different views pinch your partner tin beryllium challenging, but I'm proud of really overmuch I've grown successful my beliefs. I'm besides grateful that Ramses and I were capable to create abstraction for each different to definitive ourselves openly," she wrote successful nan caption.
She besides shared photos from nan Mexico travel connected Instagram, reminiscing astir her clip pinch Ramses location — moreover a day wherever she sewage seasick.
"We had to extremity nan day early, and I felt atrocious knowing really overmuch he'd been looking guardant to it," she continued. "But alternatively of being upset, he was beyond caring, making judge I was okay each measurement of nan way. His emotion and support successful that infinitesimal meant nan world to me."
In an question and reply published Wednesday, Marissa told Glamour that she sensed that her narration pinch Ramses was coming to an extremity aft a speech he had pinch a friend 2 days earlier their breakup. During nan conversation, Ramses said he realized really overmuch he had wounded his ex-wife, and successful nan days following, she said that he was "in a different mood."
Marissa said that she told Ramses that she was comfortable pushing nan wedding to prosecute a relationship, moving backmost to their abstracted residences and conscionable dating. She said, however, that he wasn't amenable to that. It took her six months, she said, to retrieve from nan breakup, and she saw Ramses respective times.
She asked him successful February aliases March if he was willing successful getting backmost together, and he told her no.
Ramses did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
After that point, they stopped communicating, and astatine nan clip of nan interview, Marissa said she was apprehensive astir seeing him astatine nan reunion.
"I deliberation it'll beryllium very difficult to spot him, but I deliberation I'll make it through," she told Glamour. "I deliberation it will beryllium affectional because I still person a batch of emotion for him. I don't deliberation he has a batch of maliciousness successful him."
Marissa besides said astir nan play 7 finale successful a video uploaded to TikTok. In it, she defended nan measurement that she approached nan breakup speech pinch Ramses, saying that asking personification if they're definite successful their intentions isn't "begging."
On nan time nan finale premiered, Marissa was group to big a Q&A pinch Bohdan, her chap play 7 formed mate pinch whom she formed a relationship successful nan pods, astatine Metrobar successful Washington, DC.
The "Love Is Blind" play 7 reunion airs connected Wednesday, October 30 astatine 9 p.m. ET connected Netflix.