After three years collectively, “Love is Blind” stars Lydia Velez Gonzalez and Milton Johnson are getting a divorce. Gonzalez introduced the information throughout an look on fellow “Love is Blind” alum, Amber Desiree “AD” Smith’s podcast, “What’s the Actuality?”
Within the almost hour-long episode, Gonzalez revealed that after the present issues took a flip for the more serious for her and Johnson as they struggled with issues of infidelity, well being scares, and extra. She defined that their separation was not triggered by “one factor” however somewhat a end result of occasions. Nonetheless, one in every of her breaking factors was reportedly when Johnson claimed he refused to signal divorce papers until there was an hooked up non-disclosure settlement (NDA).
“That mentioned sufficient for me to know that I wanted to share my fact,” she mentioned reflecting on that second. “I’ve been struggling in silence [it] has been an excessive amount of for me to be quiet.”
She went on to element among the key moments that precipitated rigidity in her actuality present love story. One in all their first arguments dates again to October 2022, simply six months after they tied the knot, a few lady Milton beforehand dated, whom he allegedly refused to “reduce off.”
“He stored giving me excuses,” she claimed, explaining how she finally found texts between Milton and his finest good friend the place her then-husband alluded to desirous to have intercourse together with his ex. “My coronary heart went to the ground. I felt betrayed and disrespected.”
Although Gonzalez confronted Johnson in regards to the messages—which he reportedly gaslit her about—the 2 stayed collectively and agreed to go to {couples} remedy in hopes of salvaging their marriage.
“I didn’t really feel just like the remedy was working,” she admitted. In accordance with her, Johnson constantly scolded her for “nagging him on a regular basis,” and “disrespecting him” along with her alternative of swimsuits.
“It stored making me really feel small,” she mentioned, explaining how his habits and emotional unavailability led to their downfall. “Perhaps the web was proper, that he wasn’t prepared for marriage. I don’t suppose he was able to be a husband.”
From feeling “shut off and alone” on her birthday in 2024 to failed compromises about social media exercise, Gonzalez defined how emotionally indifferent Johnson grew to become of their relationship. A lot in order that when she was identified with Fibromyalgia, a power situation characterised by intense physique ache and fatigue in September 2024, he was removed from supportive.
“As an alternative of him being my assist, he instructed me, ‘You’re not dying, you simply must eat wholesome and work out,’” she mentioned, explaining how he additionally strongly discouraged her from taking medical go away at work.
Tensions have been so excessive of their relationship that, at one level, Lydia’s mother even confronted Johnson throughout an argument for his “merciless” habits towards her. That, paired with Gonzalez always receiving messages from girls claiming that Milton was flirting with them, paying for drinks and extra when he was out of city was one other factor that made her attain her breaking level.
“That was it for me. I used to be like, I can’t proceed,” Lydia added, explaining that Milton by no means took accountability for his alleged dishonest, a lot in order that he gave her the “silent therapy” ever since she requested for a divorce in March.
“I don’t consider he loves me. [But] I nonetheless love him, sadly, I do,” she mentioned saying she has fully separated from him. “I’m by no means gonna accept lower than I deserve… I’m not gonna hold selecting feeling belittled, feeling dismissed. I can’t hold being in a spot the place I’m not wished. I’m making an attempt to place again the items that he broke.”
