Warning: Major spoilers for Love is Blind season seven, episodes one through eleven, ahead.
Tim and Alex from Love Is Blind have already been on quite a tumultuous journey, and the season hasn’t even finished yet. While their union had seemed promising in the pods, things got a little rocky once the newly engaged couple made it to Mexico. Back in Washington D.C., they met each other’s families and continued to try and make it work. Still, the question of whether or not they’d make it down the aisle always remained.
Here’s everything we know about the couple, and where their relationship stands today.
Who are Tim and Alex from Love Is Blind?
Tim Godbee is a 33-year-old digital content strategist for a consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia, but he has had a pretty long and interesting career. He spent more than a decade as a communications specialist in the US Navy, where one of his assignments was as the personal photojournalist to former secretary of defense Ashton Carter. Fancy!
On the show Tim shared some of the personal losses he’d experienced, telling Alex that both of his older sisters passed away. Losing his sisters has led him, he said, to want to create his own family and give his parents another daughter to love. His sisters are very much present in his life, and he frequently posts about them on his Instagram account.
Alex Byrd is a 33-year-old producer in the fashion industry who likes to make mini vlogs of her travel content on social media. In the pods she described herself as “spiritual” and said she was looking for a relationship where they would stick by each other’s sides, no matter what. She shared that she feels especially strong about this because both of her parents have multiple sclerosis, and she has watched how their illnesses have impacted their respective relationships. Alex also shares some pretty adorable TikToks of her dog, Cleo.
What went down on the show?
In the pods these two had a pretty instant connection (they quipped that their last names were “Birds and the Bees”), and they got deep fast. Alex shared about her parents’ health struggles, while Tim opened up about losing his two sisters and his time in the Navy. When Tim shared his experience saying goodbye to his oldest sister, who died as a teenager from lupus, there certainly wasn’t a dry eye among viewers.
It was clear incredibly fast that these two had a deep connection and seemed comfortable sharing with each other the most intimate details of their lives. Despite that, Tim noted that they still had fun joking around together, as on the date when they painted some…um…interesting art pieces. So it wasn’t hugely surprising that Tim proposed in episode four and Alex tearfully said yes.
When they met for the first time, the most dramatic thing that happened was that Tim expressed surprise that Alex had a nose ring (but he liked it). And while Tim did make some jokes that Alex seemed to think were a little annoying, she seemed charmed by him and they seemed happy. And off they went to Mexico.
Once there, the couple seemed to be enjoying themselves with snuggling and appetizers by the pool. During one of their conversations, Alex admitted that she “used to have a really short temper” and gets “annoyed” really easily. Tim said he was essentially the opposite, that he tries not to argue and tends to peace out when things get heated. Hmmm.
Then came the cocktail party with all their other podmates. Though cameras didn’t catch anything too significant going down between the pair, clearly the vibes were off IRL. Later, podster Monica Davis is seen telling her fiancé, Stephen Richardson, that she wanted to chat about Tim and Alex, because “something weird was happening there.”
“I kind of noticed them.… But they were closer to you for sure,” said Stephen, who admitted he hadn’t noticed anything wrong.
The next time we see Tim and Alex, it’s clear something was very wrong. First of all, she was shown letting him into the room they were supposed to be sharing, making it obvious that the couple hadn’t spent the night together.
When Tim comes in, it’s discovered the duo had gotten into a big argument that wasn’t captured on camera. He described leaving the party as normal, then suddenly, he felt a huge change in energy from her. She explained that she was just in a bad mood and wanted to be left alone, but then “we all know what happened after that.” Whaaat?
The couple kind of explained the fight, with Tim apologizing for pushing her to tell him what was wrong and Alex apologizing for “covering his mouth” and shutting him out. It’s clear, though, that Tim was rattled.
“I don’t argue with people like that,” he said, later adding, “I don’t take some of the things that were implied about me and my character lightly.”
It turns out that the night before, Tim had packed his stuff and left, and he told Alex that he was questioning their relationship. “So where does this leave us?” she asked.
“I’m not sure,” he responded. “I will tell you that when I came in here I came with the full intention that this was probably gonna be the last conversation we ever had.”
However, in the next batch of episodes, we see that the couple seems to have smoothed things over. Tim met Alex’s parents, and her dad tearfully gave Tim his blessing to marry her, and the couple enjoy dates and living together. While they definitely aren’t matched in terms of cleanliness (he’s tidy while she is…not), they seem to be getting along for the most part.
When Alex met Tim’s parents, the visit seemed to go well at first. His mom shared some wisdom on marriage, and his father called her a “beautiful person, inside and out.” However, Tim opened up to his parents about some of his concerns. “You’re never gonna find perfection,” his mom replied. “I can’t say enough, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve known somebody, you’re still going to have to go through some drama. That’s just a part of the process of becoming one. It’s not easy to become one with two minds.”
Despite all this, the next time we see Tim and Alex, the vibes are awkward and tense. He tells her that he’s upset because his parents drove 10 hours to meet her, but she took a nap as soon as the cameras stopped filming. “These are the most important people in my life…and the choice you made in that moment was to go to sleep,” he said. Alex’s reply? “I like to take my naps. We talked for hours about you…if it really meant that to you, I would have stayed up.”
They bickered some more about their communication—or the lack thereof—and the lengths of her naps. She argued that she is not a mind reader, and he needs to tell her if and when something is important; he responds by saying that after reflecting on what he wants out of life, he doesn’t feel this relationship can continue.
“Nothing has happened to actually do the work to give it a shot,” she says. He replies that he feels she didn’t fully see or appreciate all the work he’s been doing all along. “If I have to communicate [these things], I am not the one for you,” he says.
And then it comes: “There is no scenario, that I see myself standing there and saying yes to making you my wife forever,” Tim says. “And with that in mind, and I’m glad that we can at least agree, that I don’t ever want to see you again.”
Did they get married on the show, and are they still together?
Given that brutal ending of the relationship, it seems safe to say that they are not married or still together. Then again, this is Love Is Blind—there’s always room for a twist! We’ll know for sure when the finale airs on October 23.
This story will be updated.
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