This Dude From ‘Love Is Blind’ Dodged A Major Bullet After His Fiancée Left Him At The Altar Because Of His Opinion On Gender Identity, BLM & The COVID Vaccine

Dodged a bullet on that one my guy.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never watched Love Is Blind, or really any of those “reality” dating shows like The Bachelor or Love Island. I assume they’re all fake anyway, and it’s just a bunch of supermodels hooking up to try to grow their social media following and become a C-list celebrity.

I’m pretty sure if I ever watched them I would just hate everybody on there anyway, but when I saw this clip going viral I did find myself cheering for our dude Ben.

If you’re like me and you aren’t familiar with Love Is Blind, apparently the Netflix series features a bunch of singles who go on “dates” with each other, but can’t actually see the other person until they’ve found a match and accepted a marriage proposal. Sounds like true love to me.

But one of those weddings went off the rails recently when the bride left her future husband at the altar – although it seems like nearly everybody agrees that he’s the one who really came out on top in this situation.

The recent season 8 finale was set to feature the wedding of contestants Sara Carton and Ben Mezzenga. But when it came time to tie the knot, Sara changed her mind at the last minute in front of all of their guests, telling Ben that she just couldn’t marry him:

“I love you so much, but I’ve always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength. And so today I can’t.

I’m sorry, I don’t want that to be misunderstood. I still love you, and everything about you is amazing, and I care about you so much.”

Ben said that he wanted to stay together and work on their relationship, but Sara didn’t seem to like that idea:

“We’ll see. We’ll talk about that. I know that the connection we have is so real, and my heart is there, but when we talked about a lot of the values that I hold so close to my heart, making this decision, my mind is telling me I can’t.”

So why did she decide to bail at the last minute and embarrass our guy Ben on national television? Well Sara explained that after leaving her wedding:

“He’s such a great person. I just, like, I just hope I made the right decision…

I feel like I know him. Like, I remember I asked him about Black Lives Matter, and I’m no expert, but like, when I asked him about it he was like, ‘I guess I never really thought too much about it.’ That affected me. Especially in our own city. Like how could it not? How did it not make you think about something?

I asked him too like, what his church’s views are. And he said he didn’t know. And so then I watched a sermon online about sexual identity and it was traditional.

I told that to Ben. He doesn’t really have much to say about it, you know? I want someone to think about that stuff.”

She says that she now wonders whether her connection with Ben was “surface level.”

A “surface level” connection on a reality dating show that pushes contestants to get married within weeks? Surely not. But apparently Sara is now questioning things:

“Sometimes I did wonder if it was surface, fun, carefree love that we had. Equality, religion, the vaccine, I brought up all these things, because I think they’re all important conversations.”

In Love is Blind season 8, Sara left Ben at the altar because he didn’t have an opinion on Black Lives Matter or the COVID vaccine, and because his church was too “traditional” and didn’t talk enough about LGBTQ pic.twitter.com/NqpftX61Ms

— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) March 8, 2025

For his part, Ben said he was “disappointed” that things didn’t work out – but it seems the internet all agrees that Ben dodged a major bullet with that one:

Ben dodged a bullet with Sara on Love Is Blind. She is a low IQ woman. #LoveIsBlind

— MFnJS (@MFing_JS) March 8, 2025

https://twitter.com/jakegyllenho/status/189822336254942434

https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/189847626113715

So she dumped him at the altar for not being woke enough?

Dodged a bullet, dude. Run for your life. https://t.co/soZFEPct7J

— TheLizVariant (@TheLizVariant) March 8, 2025

Well Sara sounds completely insufferable! https://t.co/BssTSiAN4q

— Shekinah Gray (@theshekinahgray) March 8, 2025

So congratulations Ben. You just got saved from a miserable marriage and dropping a ton of money on a divorce attorney. Time to go grab a beer with the boys to celebrate.