Love Is Blind’s Zack Reveals Secret to Comfortable Marriage with Spouse Bliss (Unique)

Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi-Goytowski met and married on season 4 of the hit Netflix sequence Love Is Blind. The couple just lately welcomed their first child collectively, daughter Galileo Terri Rayne, in April 2024.

Following the discharge of their new podcast Blind Love with Zack & Bliss, the proud dad shares with PEOPLE his secrets and techniques to a long-lasting marriage, in addition to the second he determined he would in the future clarify to Galileo precisely how her dad and mom fell in love.

The door softly clicks shut, the newborn monitor buzzing faintly on the desk, and Bliss and I settle in on the sofa. Galileo is sleeping peacefully within the different room, and season 7 of Love is Blind glints on the display screen. Because the acquainted music performs, we will not assist however consider our personal journey — the twists and turns, the moments of doubt and discovery, and the love we discovered on the opposite facet.

Within the pods, there have been no distractions, no appearances to evaluate, no superficial crutches to lean on. Simply the sound of a voice. It’s terrifying, actually, to take a seat in a room, realizing that the one method to discover love is to tear down the partitions you’ve spent a lifetime constructing.

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The display screen glints with new {couples} navigating the identical emotional gauntlet we as soon as confronted. On display screen, a person will get on his knees and asks a lady, who he’s by no means seen, to spend the remainder of her life with him. And we all know, as we watch them, that irrespective of the place their tales lead, the toughest half remains to be forward. As a result of within the pursuit of affection, folks get harm. Folks make errors. And the reality is, it’s exhausting to forgive.

I look at Bliss, her hand resting calmly on mine, and I’m reminded of simply how a lot grace she’s proven me over time. There have been moments once I didn’t deserve her persistence or her understanding. However she gave it anyway. And that grace is what introduced us right here, to this life we’ve constructed collectively.

Love is Blind isn’t nearly whether or not love can develop within the absence of bodily look, however whether or not it may well survive the inevitable errors and missteps alongside the way in which. Each season, as a lot as we’re rooting for {couples} to search out love, we’re additionally rooting for every of them to find one thing simply as stunning— grace. As a result of with out it, love can’t survive.

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Bliss and I typically speak about how necessary forgiveness and style had been in our journey. They’re what allowed our like to develop, to deepen, to endure. Some wounds take time to heal, and never each story ends the way in which ours did. However should you can forgive, should you can provide grace, you possibly can transfer ahead. And that’s what I hope for, each time we sit down to look at a brand new season. I hope that even those who don’t discover their individual can discover peace, can stroll away not with bitterness, however with the information that love remains to be on the market, ready for them.

Sooner or later, when Galileo is sufficiently old to grasp, I’ll sit her down and inform her the story of how her mom and I discovered love—the way it started on reverse sides of a wall, with solely our phrases to bridge the gap between us. I’ll inform her that love is as breathtaking as it’s difficult. And that It takes persistence, vulnerability, and, most of all, forgiveness.

I’ll inform her that if not for grace, I wouldn’t really feel the heat of her mom’s hand in mine, steadying me within the stillness of the night. Nor would I’ve the quiet pleasure of watching an important individual in my world sleeping soundly, wrapped in heat, dreaming of all of the adventures that await her.