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Chapter 1: How did Ashley get involved with Love Is Blind?
Very serious man.
Very serious. And in there, he wasn't though. In the pods, he wasn't. He was more kind of like,
fun and we're like all having fun behind the wall drinking and playing games it was cool and then i just think for me being such a progressive kind of woman and like i want to work and i want to do these things i think he has a very southern mentality about certain things and so i began to shy away from that but i thought he was a cool person for sure but they're just conversations and not connections yeah
It's interesting thinking about the psychology of that atmosphere and having never done it, but like hearing you speak about what your life is like leading up to it. You know, you had this year of kind of enlightenment, abstaining from sex, very centered around getting to know yourself, a very deliberate year. And it sounds like you really got out of that experience, what you hoped in that.
And it sounds like you felt like you could truly be yourself. And it's interesting that, to hear you speak on Tim, how the person you got to know outside of the pods is not who he represented inside of the pods. And I'm curious, I would be willing to bet there's probably a fairly even mix from not just Tim or yourself, But there was a lot, I think, is that true?
There's a lot of people who you got to know and you're like, yep, that's who I got to know. Or even some of the ladies you got to know versus other people where it's just like, wait, what? And I can't help but wonder, it seems like that type of environment would be very good at allowing people to kind of not be themselves in a way.
To kind of like play a character in this very weird world if they weren't truly comfortable with who they were. Like it seemed like you were, especially given the year leading up. Am I making sense?
Yeah, that makes sense. I think another part of it is when we're in there, we don't have any outside influence. So we have no phones, no mom, no best friend. And so you're able to be, yeah, maybe a different version of yourself. It almost seems like you have...
A lot of people go there claiming to want to find love, but in reality, what they're doing is going there to find themselves. And you had spent the year prior to that finding yourself so that you were actually ready to find love. And maybe Tim was just there to find himself.
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Chapter 2: What was Ashley's year of abstinence like?
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Should we just get to the... I mean, I feel like we can bounce around, of course, but... Well, I'm trying to get it in my head because... Well, let's get to the... It kind of did come out of nowhere on the show. The bomb of him having children. There she is.
But we're watching it, and then all of a sudden, there's a serious tone. And it's you and Tyler, and you're very distraught. And he's apologizing, and you're kind of speaking in this, like, I can't believe he didn't tell me type of energy. And I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but right before it seemed like those episodes dropped, there was chatter online about Tyler...
allegedly having children. We're like, holy shit, what's going on? How did he not bring this up in the pods? You know, especially all the conversation that you and Tyler had about kids. I think right after that, we had seen a conversation with your father and Tyler and you all about having kids. It was just like, this is not something you just leave out.
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Chapter 8: What did Ashley learn from her experiences on the show?
Why is it your mom?
Uh, she was just really, really strong. My brother, she had my brother at 18 and, um, his dad wanted nothing to do with him. So she raised me and my brother, but like, she raised me to be very bougie. And I'm like, how did you do that? Like, I can barely like, you know, like take care of myself, but you were, you had me in everything. You, you never missed a beat.
Like, you know, you, you, anything I ever wanted, I had, and I don't know how she did it. She always says the Lord, but I don't know how she did it. And she is like super woman to me. I, I, My brother has like five degrees. He has a doctorate. Like we beat the stereotype, right, of being raised by a single mom.
And so that's why I sympathize with Tyler and why he handled that the way as well, because I know what that's like. And my mom never let us really see her cry. Like, you know, she always says like I was her motivation. I was really wise at a young age to call me an old young lady.
And my mom, that's why I wanted to make sure at my wedding that she was honored and she was the one to give me away to Tyler because she did the heavy lifting. While my dad and I have a great relationship now and we have fun, she's my person and she is the one who did it all. That was a great moment when you walked down the aisle and your mom was definitely like, I got it from here.
Thank you so much. Yeah. It was pretty iconic. And I felt bad when I was kind of like, my dad's lucky to be here. It's a bitchy moment, but it also is kind of like for real though.
Yeah. For real though. It makes a lot of sense given the context. I don't even know if you remember, because we just watched the wedding, but right before you walked down the aisle, your dad was lifting a little bit. About the sun and the moon. You seemed a little annoyed.
I was. I was. Sorry, dad. I was. I was so confused on what was... I'm about to walk out here.
Are you performing? He's talking about rain and clouds.
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