What's the Reality?
Minnesota Nice with Love is Blind Season 8's Lauren, Taylor & Daniel
Wed, 12 Mar 2025
The Love Is Blind Season 8 drama doesn’t stop at the altar! AD sits down with Love Is Blind Season 8’s Lauren and the last couple standing, Taylor and Daniel, for an exclusive tell-all. They open up about their experiences on the show, the unexpected twists and turns, and spill behind-the-scenes tea from their season. From the pods to the real world, they share their personal growth, relationship highs and lows, and what life has been like since the cameras stopped rolling. This is the Love Is Blind conversation you won’t want to miss!
Chapter 1: Who is Lauren and what has she been up to since Love is Blind?
You guys, what's up? What's up? Welcome to What's the Reality? Today we are joined by our girl Lauren from season eight of Love is Blind. Welcome. Thank you. We're going to dive into all things LIB, but first catch me up. How's life? What are we up to?
Yeah, life is good. It's been a crazy year to look back because obviously like all of this happened a year ago and then you kind of have to go back and live your normal life. Yeah, well like attempt to live a normal life and then experience it all over again. And I was definitely anxious coming into this thinking about like how it would feel watching it all back.
And for the most part, it feels like a similar roller coaster than it felt at the time. But I also feel so much more emotionally removed from it than I did when I was going through it, obviously. So that helps to have like a different lens. Yeah. So how's your life changed since the show came out? I mean, I think the biggest thing is the friendships that I've made from it.
Like I've gotten so close with like Taylor and Sarah and we live like so close to each other. And so we just see each other a lot and it's nice to have friendships from it, but also like friendships who experienced this and can speak to what we went through. And relate to you.
Yeah, I mean, no one, unless you've gone through this, you truly don't understand the emotional roller coaster that it puts you on. So having girls from it is huge. So, okay, I guess we'll get right into the tea. Are you dating? Are you single? I'm not dating anyone. I am single. I feel like I need to be after the last year that I had. I just need to like take a beat. Yeah.
Yeah. So you saw Dave at the reunion. Was that the first time seeing him? Have you guys spoken before?
So throughout the last year, we, I mean, again, you'll see it. We talk about it a million times. Like Minneapolis is so small. We were joking yesterday at the reunion that how many times was it mentioned? Like I ran into you at a bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It seems like there's one bar in Minneapolis. There's probably three. Okay.
So I would say like we've ran into each other throughout the last year, but we've never really like had a conversation about anything. So when I ran into him a week ago, he was, I could tell he was like excited to talk to me about it because I don't think that he's seen it this way in the last year. And I think he was excited to be like, look at this revelation that I've come to.
And so we were sitting talking or we were like standing talking when we ran into each other a week ago and he was like, I just see it so differently now. Like this guy ruined our relationship. Yeah. And my gut reaction is like, he didn't ruin the relationship. I didn't ruin the relationship. You ruined it. You ruined the relationship. Let's be clear. This is on you.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Lauren face during and after the show?
And engagement, you know? But like, you never think like, how is my past going to show up so heavily in my day to day? And that was one, I feel like this relationship from all seasons, that back home, that outsized factor really destroyed, in essence, your engagement. Yeah.
I mean, I think the noise destroyed it. I also think his like inability to work through that in a relationship destroyed it. Like I think, I mean, I remember thinking at the time too, every other couple that we were with was dealing with shit. As you see, there was noise from other sisters or from TikTok or from family. A lot of sisters this season.
And everyone else, like it honestly seemed like some of the couples got stronger for it. The way that they communicated through it, the way they kind of had each other's backs. Um, like you see Sarah too, talking about how she's like, I'm not going to dismiss her, but I do like, I'm engaged to you. I want to believe you. And I trust that.
And I remember thinking like, how come every other couple is going through this conflict with this noise and is coming out stronger because of it. And Dave and I weren't. Do you feel like he tried to kind of like villainize you for your past? Yeah. I think he wanted it to be my fault or this guy's fault or his or my dad's fault. It was everybody else's fault.
So you guys met up, you, Dave and your dad did a whole off camera thing that he got really emotional about. Do you want to talk about that and tell us what happened?
Yeah. So that was actually, it was over two times that he had met my dad. So he met, we met my parents for drinks the first night and my dad just had a lot of questions. Like I remember he came in and he had like a napkin of like 15 handwritten questions for this person. Like I cried when he pulled it out and saw it. And it was like, I mean the basic stuff of like, How do you feel about Lauren?
Like, how do you feel about marriage? Are you ready for this? All these things. And he also knew that Dave didn't come home the night before because I went to go see my parents. So he was like, what happened last night? And honestly, it was a really good conversation. I remember like Dave answered the questions really well. He was very engaged in it.
He was trying to under, like they were, it was a really good conversation between everyone. And then I think, and then so we go back and we made it, we meet up for coffee the next morning. And I think my dad had sat there and just like thought about it and was just like, oh my gosh, you're going to get married in two weeks. And he didn't come home the night before.
And you guys are still tackling stuff that maybe you should not be tackling at this stage of a relationship. And so he was just much more direct with Dave and was like, if this isn't 100%, don't get married. Like this is the biggest decision you'll ever make. And I remember feeling an energy shift with Dave. Like, he kind of, like, sat back and, like, crossed his arms, too.
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Chapter 3: How did Lauren handle her relationship with Dave?
So I think he took accountability for the fact that like, that was too much noise for him, but not for the fact that he, if he was emotionally ready to be married and really wanted to be with me, we would have been together. Do you feel like you said everything you need to say on that couch?
I mean, for the most part, I feel like it's one of those things that like, there was a moment that I'm like, am I just beating the dead horse? Like I'm kind of saying the same things over again. And Watching it back, I definitely am like, okay, was he not ready for marriage or did he not want to be with me? And yesterday I was like, I don't care enough to know which one it is.
Like, I don't even want clarity in that sense. So, yeah, I feel like I said everything I, like, needed to. Like, I don't need anything else from him in that way. You've moved on. Yeah. Yeah. Is he dating to me now?
No, I don't think he's dating. Mm-hmm. If he calls you to say hi, are you going to go say hi? I'm not going to say hi.
You can say hi elsewhere in Minneapolis.
At the bar. Right, at that one bar. So the show is done. The reunion's done. We're almost a year out. What would you say is your biggest thing that you learned from the show?
I honestly, going into it, like I was saying before, I really only had short-term relationships, and I've been single for a while, like pretty on and off consistently single. And there were definitely moments throughout the last few years where I was like, okay, am I too set in my ways at this point?
Am I at this point that I've just become very independent in my own life, that I don't have space for someone else? And as hard as it was to watch how Dave and I
ended things I really was so invested in him and I like fought for him so hard and I it was very in a lot of ways like we kind of talk about this it was easy to blend our lives when we were in Honduras and kind of imagine what that would look like and I was so genuinely excited about the possibility of that
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