Love Is Blind's Tim Claims He Was 'Being Manipulated' and Shown 'No Serious Effort' in 'Toxic Situation' with Alex

Mar. 15, 2025

Tim Godbee and Alex Byrd in ‘Love Is Blind’ season 7.Photo:Courtesy of Netflix

Courtesy of Netflix

Warning: this story contains spoilers from episodes 10 and 11 ofLove Is Blindseason 7.

Love Is Blind’s Tim Godbee is speaking out after his breakup from fiancée Alex Byrd.

Things fell apart for the couple in the latest batch of season 7 episodes after Alex took a nap following a meeting with his family, and Tim felt her actions were disrespectful. Their disagreement quickly escalated as it was revealed they couldn’t see eye-to-eye on relationship expectations.

Tim, 33, then confirmed he did not want to marry someone like Alex, 33, and never wanted to see her again, before leaving their shared apartment and calling off their engagement.

“When love, authenticity and respect are consistently met with lack of effort, constant antagonizing and lack of respect for your physical and mental space, it must be met with firm and unmistakable terms,” he wrote inan Instagram post on Oct. 16. “There is much left out from our story, some of which out of an attempt to protect something I once held dear.”

Tim Godbee in ‘Love Is Blind’ season 7.Courtesy of Netflix

Noting that he has “never argued with someone with the amount of consistency I did as with this experience,” Tim claimed he did his “best” to keep most of their disagreements “off camera.”

“Through hours of tough conversations that weren’t seen, I made the decision to remove myself from what felt like a toxic situation where I was being manipulated and given no serious effort from my partner,” the web content strategist wrote. “I truly believe if someone displayed the same behavior to a partner and the genders [were] reversed, the conversation around our story would be entirely different.”

Tim said he wasn’t speaking out on social media in order “to be a victim” but rather to “point out the lack of accountability and sincere self-reflection that one should do when they subject anyone to such consistently mean-spirited treatment, let alone to someone you claim to love.”

“I offer you no apology,” he wrote. “I hate that my attempt to find love ended in a situation where I can’t even be friendly with a person I used to love because we live in what feels like two different realities.”

Tim also took a stand against accusations of how he was being portrayed, writing, “To frame me as an angry or controlling person is a projection of all the stereotypes I have to work against because of who I was born into this world as.”

Alex and Tim on ‘Love Is Blind’.Courtesy of Netflix

In the caption of his post, Tim thanked fans for their support through this time and wrote, “I hate that [this] had to be my story and will forever have to have it attached to my name, but I remain grateful for the experience, opportunity and the things it showed me about myself. It is what it is.”

Alex Byrd’s Instagram Story.Alexandra Byrd/Instagram

Alexandra Byrd/Instagram

Alex also spoke toTodayabout their breakup and insisted she was blindsided, especially after it came just two days after Tim asked her father for his blessing to marry her.

“Honestly, I don’t know [what happened]. I wish to this day I could give you an answer… It threw me off,” she said. “I literally thought we were going to go all the way. There wasn’t really a doubt in my mind. In my previous relationship, couples are going to argue, they’re not going to see eye to eye on everything. So I didn’t really think our issues would ever be too big to not go the whole way.”

Addressing her father’s reaction to their split, she added: “He was truly devastated. To this day, he does not like Tim. He didn’t like that [Tim] went through that entire process. He looked at the letter [that Tim wrote to him], because my dad still has the letter. He looks at it like it was just all a lie. He reread it and was like, ‘Was any of this true?'”

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source: people.com