Warning: This submit incorporates spoilers for Love Is Blind season 4.
A mistake to start with? While Zack Goytowski and Irina Solomonova’s Love Is Blind engagement didn’t make it previous the couple’s post-pod trip, the writing had been on the wall from the beginning.
“I would say I made a mistake with not picking Bliss [Poureetezadi in the first place], and I think that was the real mistake,” Zack, 31, completely advised Us Weekly forward of the Love Is Blind season 4 premiere on Friday, March 24. “I knew that when I ended it [with Irina] and was kind of dealing with that. I don’t know how much you could see of the turmoil that I was going through, but when I did end it, then my very first thing was I wanted to go and tell [producers] to bring [Bliss] back and that I had made the wrong choice, but I knew I had to live with the decision.”

Zack Goytowski and Irina Solomonova on ‘Love is Blind.’ Courtesy of Netflix
The legal protection legal professional, one of many suitors on Love Is Blind season 4, was initially torn between his emotions for Irina, 26, and Bliss, 33, within the pods. After weighing his proposal choices, he finally dumped the senior program supervisor for Irina. “At that point, I had fallen in love with two different people and I made a choice and I was gonna go forward with that choice,” Zack advised Us earlier this month. “So yeah, that was how I felt.”
The Solo boutique proprietor, for her half, fortunately accepted Zack’s proposal after a barely off-key serenade within the pods. However, their emotional pod connection was gradual to transition into the actual world as Irina wished to attend to discover their bodily intimacy.
“I think there’s a reason that we chose each other, in that sense, and I knew that it was gonna be difficult seeing him in general. We talked about it,” Irina — who even sported her engagement ring on her pointer and center fingers, respectively — confessed to Us in March. “We talked about that I [didn’t] think I’d want to kiss him or have sex before marriage.”
She added: “[Meeting him] was a lot more challenging than I thought it was gonna be. Like, it was really hard to connect the connection we made in the pods versus being together. I will say that when I saw him it wasn’t anything about his looks or anything, but I just had this gut feeling that something just didn’t feel right and I didn’t feel safe or comfortable. … It was just something that grew and I feel I was kinda trying to force or pressure myself to feel these feelings for him.”

Zack Goytowski and Irina Solomonova. Courtesy of Zack Goytowski/Instagram; Courtesy of Irina Solomonova/Instagram
Zack, who may sense that his fiancée wasn’t feeling a romantic vibe, often questioned the place Irina was at within the fourth and fifth episodes of Love Is Blind season 4. The Russia native, for her half, stored quiet about her feelings to his face however confided in pal Micah Lussier that she obtained a “major ick” every time the lawyer tried to the touch her. Irina ultimately advised Zack that she didn’t wish to sit beside him on their flight house from the Mexican getaway, main the Seattle resident to ask if they need to “call it” on their relationship.
“It sucks. I do think, like, you’re a really — I’m not done talking,” Irina advised him in the course of the episode, leaping in after Zack interrupted to ask if they might keep associates. “I still know that you’re one of the best people that I met. I loved our second day talking, like, my heart was just like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ … I just hope you know I don’t have any regrets.”
Irina additional revealed that having a five-minute dialog with Micah’s fiancé, Paul Peden, made her see the sunshine.

Zack Goytowski and Irina Solomonova on ‘Love is Blind.’ Courtesy of Netflix
“I believe perhaps after I noticed Paul — as a result of I had a simple power feeling with Paul — that I used to be like, ‘Wow, I really wanna have what I have with Paul [with my future husband],” Irina explained to Us of trusting her gut to break off her engagement, noting she did have an “amazing” pod connection with Zack. “I just felt, like, even [if Paul is just] a friend, I’m making an attempt so exhausting with Zack and I don’t have that [same feeling], and I wanna have that in my future and with my future partner.”
Once the now-exes returned house to Seattle, Zack was eager to reunite with Bliss. “I made the wrong choice. You know I did, and [You] did too,” he stated after coming face-to-face with the yoga fanatic for the primary time. The episode lower to black earlier than Bliss may reply, revealing a “To Be Continued” graphic on the display.
The first 5 episodes of Love Is Blind are presently streaming. New episodes drop on Fridays.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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