Danielle Ruhl and Nick ThompsonSer Baffo/Netflix (2)
A mini Love Is Blind reunion! Exes Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson fueled rumors that they’ve rekindled their romance practically one 12 months after calling it quits.
“Sup,” Ruhl, 29, cryptically captioned a selfie by way of Instagram of her and her ex-husband, 37, on Sunday, Might 7. Within the photograph, the previous couple might be seen cozily snuggled up collectively on a sofa.
The pair had been considered one of two {couples} who ended season 2 of Netflix’s Love Is Blind married, having first fallen in love within the present’s courting pods. In March 2022, they completely opened as much as Us Weekly about attending {couples} remedy collectively since their time on the present. “The more durable we attempt, the extra our therapist is a translator for us, the simpler it turns into,” Danielle stated on the time. “… I’ve to verbalize, ‘That is what I want from you proper now,’ and be affected person with him not utterly, at all times understanding what to do in these conditions.”
Danielle additionally dished about planning a second wedding ceremony reception for family and friends unable to attend theirs on the present. “I’ve at all times dreamt of my dream wedding ceremony and wedding ceremony planning and a bachelorette occasion,” she instructed Us in July 2022. “And so we’re redoing all of that. It’s similar to when we’ve the time.”
Nevertheless, regardless of their plans for the long run, the 2 known as it quits 5 months after the present’s season 2 reunion aired. Danielle later filed for divorce from the Nick after one 12 months of marriage in August 2022.
The Illinois native addressed her and Nick’s breakup by way of Instagram in September 2022 after followers questioned why she didn’t appear upset about it on-line. “Would you reasonably have me publish an Instagram Stay of me crying for eight hours straight as a result of I can do this if you need [me] to. That’s my actuality,” she stated by way of her Instagram Tales on the time.
Nick, for his half, broke his silence that very same month, explaining that Love Is Blind viewers had “little perception into the fact” of his and Danielle’s relationship. “Everybody perceives and experiences grief in another way when a relationship ends, not to mention the lack of a wedding within the public eye,” he added. “I’m working by means of my very own psychological and emotional challenges to beat emotions of hysteria and despair.”
The “Conversations” podcast host gave new perception into what led to their marriage’s demise in October 2022, completely telling Us that “there wasn’t an enormous catastrophic occasion” that led to the break up, reasonably, “Simply over time, these items began increase.”
Nick continued: “As we moved ahead and we began integrating our lives collectively, you begin to see form of some cracks that you simply don’t see [right away] primarily based on the best way that we met. And, you already know, we had been nonetheless constructing our connection, however you go from being utterly scheduled to type of being out on this planet to fend for your self.”
Danielle later revealed that she underwent trauma remedy for 4 weeks amid her and her former husband’s troubles. “I used to be like, ‘You recognize what? I don’t wish to really feel this fashion anymore,’ and it wasn’t simply with [Nick], it was with different folks too,” she shared on an October 2022 episode of the “Deux Me After Darkish” podcast. “I truly haven’t disclosed this, however I took a four-week go away of absence from work with a purpose to go to [an] outpatient [program] as a result of I continuously wish to be one of the best model of myself.”
She additionally shared that she was “loving [the] single life,” telling Us in March, “I’ve been courting a little bit bit [so I’m] again on the scene.”
Forward of their social media reunion, the duo teamed as much as slam Bachelor Nation’s Nick Viall after he seemingly dissed Nick’s nonprofit the UCAN Basis, which offers psychological well being and authorized assist to actuality TV stars. “Regardless of all of the items, entry and alternatives that include it, the poor actuality television stars want your assist. 🤢,” the 42-year-old Bachelor alum wrote by way of Instagram on April 27. “Please donate to their ridiculous trigger so that they don’t cope with any stress whereas they get pleasure from their free Coachella expertise, free garments, and 5-figure paydays.”
Nick clapped again by way of his Instagram Story, calling Viall’s tackle his group “pathetic.” He added, “Maintain defending actuality TV productions for his or her inhumane solid remedy out of your studio and I’ll hold doing the correct factor.”
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Having been candid about her personal experiences with psychological well being on the Netflix courting collection, Danielle stated it was exhausting to hearken to Viall “proceed to stigmatize psychological well being [and] discuss negatively about suicide,” on his podcast “The Viall Information.” (She instructed Enterprise Insider earlier that month that she developed “suicidal ideas” throughout her time on Love Is Blind.)
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