AD and Clay on “Love Is Blind” have issues when it comes to fidelity, work schedules, and his hangups about physical appearance.
Amber Desiree “AD” Smith falls for Clay Gravesande in the “Love Is Blind” pods on season six, fully aware that he’s a work in progress.
While AD initially struggles to choose between Clay and another contestant, Matthew Duliba, her falling out with Matthew and her obvious chemistry with smooth-talker Clay lead her to accept Clay’s proposal.
At the end of the first six episodes, Clay and AD were one of the few couples on pretty good footing, barring one extremely WTF moment where Clay told AD he wouldn’t let her ever get out of shape and would insist she go to the gym with him even when she’s pregnant.
But that was only the beginning of the “Love Is Blind” process. More cracks begin to show in their relationship in the next three episodes, released Wednesday, as AD and Clay have several confrontations that make their deep-seated issues abundantly clear.
In the seventh episode, Clay derails an otherwise pleasant lunch date during the couples’ getaway trip by mentioning he’s afraid of letting AD down by being unable to commit to marriage.
At the end of the same episode, when they’ve made it back to North Carolina and Clay is showing AD his house, the two have a serious conversation about Clay’s hang-ups over fidelity. He tells her that his dad used to take him on “infidelity trips” where he’d cheat on Clay’s mom and that he’s never seen a Black man be faithful in a relationship, leading him to wonder whether it’s possible for him to only be with one woman forever.
