On their very own time! Love Is Blind couple Alexa Alfia and Brennon Lemieux wish to begin a household quickly — however they aren’t speeding the method.
“[We’re] working and twerking on it,” Alexa, 27, completely informed Us Weekly earlier than Love Is Blind: After the Altar hit Netflix on Friday, February 10.
The insurance coverage agent and Brennon, 32, had been one of many solely {couples} to trade vows on season 3 of the fact courting collection, which premiered in October 2022. The twosome fell in love sight unseen within the pods, however their relationship wasn’t at all times clean crusing in the actual world.
Alexa and the engineer had been pressured to navigate their totally different upbringings — she was raised in an outspoken Israeli household — earlier than saying “I do.” Brennon’s quiet demeanor and the truth that he isn’t Jewish made a few of Alexa’s relations skeptical about their romance, together with her father.
“It’s humorous ’trigger, properly, it’s all in love,” Alexa informed Us of her dad’s perspective towards her husband. “It’s how my dad treats me. He doesn’t deal with Brennon any totally different than he treats me. … Everybody [was] studying [into it], like, ‘Oh, he doesn’t like Brennan,’ or ‘Is your dad lastly accepting of him?’ And it’s like, my dad was accepting from the primary second that they met. They did a shot collectively and it was [like], ‘Hello, welcome to the household, son.’ That’s simply how my dad’s character is.”
Brennon reassured Us that he has “a terrific relationship” together with his father-in-law, acknowledging that the circumstances wherein they met had been a bit of unconventional. “I’ve gotta give your dad much more props,” he stated. “As a result of if our youngsters, like, deliver any individual dwelling in two weeks … I’m giving the third-degree. Like, we’re going out again. You already know what I’m saying?”
He teased: “If I used to be in his place, I’d’ve gone means tougher than what he went on me. … I attempt to be open-minded, but it surely’s onerous to place your self in these sneakers.”
Earlier than their marriage ceremony day, the couple tried to mix their cultures as a lot as potential. Their ceremony featured the Jewish custom of breaking the glass, and Brennon famous that he was open to changing to his spouse’s faith.
“Whereas Brennon by no means transformed to Judaism, he did convert me to that nation livin. We’ve spent the final yr and a half going to soccer video games on the weekends, spending time with household and mates, and falling much more in love,” Alexa wrote through Instagram in November 2022. “This man has modified the best way I take a look at life and proven me what really issues. He’s taught me learn how to love and learn how to not take life so critically. I really like you a lot my cowboy❤️.”
Brennon identified in a social media remark on the time that he’s a fan of their Shabbat dinners. “Alexa is affected person with my procrastination, beneficiant to others in want, type to rudeness, and loves deeply,” he wrote. “This girl makes me wish to be a greater man and husband. I really like you to infinity, my lobster ❤️.”
For the Dallas residents, adjusting to married life got here with a number of challenges — however the ups and downs solely made them stronger. “When … regular {couples} get collectively after which they lastly transfer in collectively, they’ve that sort of transition time and so they can work by issues and, you realize, they’ve an extended time period [to adjust],” Brennon informed Us. “We had been thrown in collectively [so] shortly. Though we knew it’s what we wished to do, you sort of must work by these, like, minute issues [and] kinks about every part. And that’s what we did so properly ’trigger we had been capable of speak [it out].”
Alexa, for her half, confessed that she was “glad” the duo had a number of arguments exterior of the pods. “All the things occurred so shortly. … Now I can take a look at him and I can see if he wants simply, like, time to regroup on one thing, you realize?” she informed Us. “Now we have these cues now that we didn’t have within the very starting.”
Love Is Blind: After the Altar is offered to stream on Netflix.
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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
