The psychologist John Gottman has posited that there are four horsemen that portended doom in a relationship: contempt, criticism, defensiveness and stonewalling. If this theory didn’t already exist, it could have been developed simply by watching this season of “Love Is Blind,” in which contempt and criticism have infected several of the relationships root and branch.

Any amateur shrink could look at the couples who emerged from a less-than-blissful Mexican honeymoon and identify that Alex and Tim, Stephen and Monica, and Hannah and Nick hated each other on a bone-deep level, and they all simply needed to break up. After Stephen and Monica’s dramatic split in last week’s episode drop, the other two toxic couples finally ended things. Tim and Hannah, true to form, executed their respective breakups in the most contemptuous manner possible.

Meanwhile, Tyler has committed to lying through his teeth to his fiancée Ashley about his three children, thus preserving their relationship (for now, at least). Ramses continues to expose his condom-averse fuckboy side, doing far too little to assure Marissa that he will stick by her when she’s not in peak sexual form. Garrett responds to a text from an ex, but maybe just to say that he’s engaged. Are these really the best bachelors the DMV has to offer?

In this episode, we discuss the two unnecessarily nasty dumpings, a conspicuously Leo-free pod mixer, Tyler’s ongoing lies and the many moments of dramatic irony they occasion, Garrett and Taylor’s biggest hurdle to date, and the creeping sense of doom surrounding Marissa and Ramses’s romance. Hope you enjoy! xo

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