Warning: Love Is Blind Season 8 spoilers ahead. Love Is Blind Season 8 started out rough, with six entire episodes spent in the pods and a lot of screentime devoted to couples that didn't even make it to the honeymoon in Honduras.

In the recently released Love Is Blind episodes, Lauren shed light on a fling she had with another Minneapolis local. It was never that serious, was all about having fun, and the term “friends with benefits” was used. But that wasn’t good enough for glaring red flag Dave.

Dave proposed to Lauren in the Love Is Blind pods during season 8, which was filmed in spring 2024 and started airing on Netflix earlier this month. They first met in person after Lauren accepted Dave’s pod proposal before jetting off on the cast’s trip to Honduras.

Love is Blind Season 8 Episode 8 premiered on Netflix on February 21, 2025. The episode featured the couples moving back to Minneapolis after spending their blissful honeymoon period in Honduras.

Love Is Blind hosts Nick Lachey and wife Vanessa Lachey defended season 8 star Lauren O’Brien after her relationship with fiancé David “Dave” Bettenburg hit a road bump. Dave, 33, became upset after learning that Lauren,

Netflix Dave Bettenburg is remembering the good times with Love Is Blind fiancée Lauren O'Brien amid ex drama. "No one I would've rather shared these moments with," Dave, 33, wrote via Instagram on Friday,