Married at First Sight’s stars Madison and David are vowing to continue their love story despite their dramatic start.
During the Tuesday, March 4, episode of Lifetime’s reality show, the pair proved they are growing their romance long after the dramatic Decision Day shakeup.
“David and I are being very intentional with each other and setting boundaries and being vulnerable and honest,” Madison, 30, told her costars. “He’s making me feel really special.”
David, 36, added, “We are special. … You can’t fight fate. It’s in the past now. I just want to continue moving forward with you and being honest with you and building that friendship and that foundation. Here we are.”
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During season 18 of Married at First Sight, viewers watched Madison develop feelings for David while she was married to Allen and David was married to Michelle.
While the cheating scandal is not what the show’s experts Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Pastor Cal Roberson and Dr. Pia Goff predicted — or wanted to see — both parties made it clear that they want to continue to see where their relationship goes.
During the season finale, David celebrated Madison’s 30th birthday by planning a date and hotel stay. During the celebrations, the pair said “I love you” to each other for the first time.
“I feel like I won the lottery,” Madison said in a confessional interview. “We all deserve happiness and I hope that people see the true genuine connection that David and I have is something some people spend their whole lives looking for. I’m ready for this. I want a partner. I want David, and he wants me back so we’re doing the damn thing.”
Sixteen days after Decision Day, David went as far as to tell cameras, “I want to be married to Madison one day.”
While the honeymoon phase of the relationship continues, David and Madison’s bond certainly wasn’t supported by exes — perhaps understandably so.
In Tuesday’s episode, Michelle, 38, had a tense conversation with Madison as she questioned why she lied about the relationship for several weeks.
“I thought you were my friend and the fact that you lied to me is what hurt me,” she said. “You acted like my friend and you were texting David. Do you not understand that?”
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While David offered to leave the room because he didn’t like the back and forth over “my mistake,” Madison shocked her costars by proclaiming their love story is “not a mistake.”
“Where are my devil horns,” she joked after leaving the cast event with David. “Put me in the ring with Michelle baby. She won’t last two seconds.”
Married at First Sight (produced by Kinetic Content) airs on Lifetime Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
