A roundabout way of loving! It took time to Love is blindIt is Bonds Jackelina “Jackie” And Josh Demas to finally find their way to each other.
Jackie and Josh met in the pods during season 4 of the Netflix reality series in 2023. While they had a strong bond, the dental assistant also struck up a bond with Marshall Glaze. Torn between the two men, Jackie finally accepted Marshall’s proposal after the pod phase of the dating experience.
However, Jackie and the marketing manager began to bicker and engage in a series of heated arguments leading up to their wedding day. After Marshall made a comment that Jackie didn’t like, she felt the need to call off their engagement.
“[It was] This [moment] and then there was another comment he made, and I’m not going to go into that because it’s very, very derogatory to a band,” Jackie told We Weekly in April 2023 about an alleged unaired conversation between her and her ex-fiancé, which Marshall has not spoken about publicly. “But, he made that comment and I was just, like, ‘Yeah, I’m cool.’ Once you disrespect me and call me out on my character, as a woman, I’m not defending it. I’m leaving.”
On the show, Jackie skipped her wedding dress fitting to find Josh at a cafe. The project engineer confessed that he still had feelings for her and brought her a bouquet of roses. Jackie then took to social media to clarify that she had already called things off with Marshall before rekindling her romance with Josh.
“I’ve seen the latest episodes that aired on Love is blind and I have to tell the truth. Marshall and I broke up before we saw Josh at the cafe,” she wrote via Instagram after the show aired in April 2023. “I wear different clothes, my hair is done [differently] and at the end of [episode]I say, ‘I DON’T KNOW IF I’M GOING TO BE WITH JOSH.’”
Marshall, for his part, said We that he had “no ill will towards Jackie or Josh”, following their love triangle.
“[Jackie and I] shared this experience for a while, and I will always have it to remember, and I choose to hold on to the good memories and let go of the hurtful ones and the one that ultimately ended us,” he shared in April 2023 “I think it’s better to put that under the bridge and keep moving forward and put that in the rear view mirror.”
After the dating show aired special in April 2023, Jackie revealed to We that she and Josh were going strong and currently living together.
“That’s exactly how it was supposed to be,” Jackie said at the time. “I think if Josh and I would have [chosen] each other in modules, I think our story might have been a little different than it is now. But to be honest, it was already in the motion [and] in the plan because of the Lord above.
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