Love Is Blind’s Danielle Ruhl, Nick Thompson’s Quotes About Break up

Transferring on. Whereas Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson might not have discovered long-lasting love within the pods, the Love Is Blind alums have tried to navigate their cut up with mutual respect.

“We have been very amicable and civil at first and that’s why folks have been confused with among the backwards and forwards that occurred however going by means of the divorce course of added much more stress and it’s powerful on each of us,” Ruhl stated throughout an emotional Instagram Story video in October 2022.

The Illinois native added on the time: “After we determined to separate, it was a mutual choice, like, we talked about it [and it] wasn’t only a spur-of-the-moment factor, though it looks as if that. We tried actually arduous, and once more, we have been similar to, ‘You recognize what? I believe it’s in our greatest curiosity and I must get out of the what if mode as a result of hindsight’s 20/20.’ It’s powerful.”

Ruhl and Thompson have been one in every of two {couples} to say “I Do” on the finish of the Netflix present’s second season — alongside Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones, who’ve additionally since separated. Shortly after celebrating their first wedding ceremony anniversary, Us Weekly confirmed in August 2022 that the affiliate advertising and marketing director had filed for divorce.

“It actually did come down to simply persona compatibility variations,” Ruhl defined throughout her social media video that October, noting that neither she nor her former partner had cheated on the opposite. “I believe that’s what makes it even more durable since you do reside on this, a minimum of for me, I form of reside on this state of denial the place it’s like, ‘However we love one another.’ You’ll be able to nonetheless love one another and nonetheless attempt your finest to maneuver on. It’s arduous, it’s very arduous.”

The “Conversations with Nick Thompson” podcast host has been equally emotional about navigating his new regular following their breakup.

“The previous couple of weeks have been particularly difficult for me,” he wrote partially through Instagram in September 2022. “Like many people going by means of a loss or life-altering occasion, we expertise cycles of grief whereas we navigate our feelings. Everybody perceives and experiences grief in a different way when a relationship ends, not to mention the lack of a wedding within the public eye.”

Whereas Ruhl and Thompson have been targeted on transferring ahead, their Love Is Blind costars have seen how tough their divorce course of has been.

“[Danielle and Iyanna are] doing very, very nicely,” Natalie Lee — who was briefly engaged to Shayne Jansen throughout season 2 — solely advised Us in September 2022, additionally referring to McNeely and Jones’ personal cut up that August. “I believe that they really had actual love for one another, like in these relationships, so I do know that these the choices that they needed to make have been very, very powerful and we felt it as their pals. I believe although, , as pals we hope that it might work out, however we fully respect and perceive why it didn’t.”

Scroll under for Ruhl and Thompson’s most candid quotes about their breakup: