Inside that cringey 'Love Is Blind' split

Patrick Suzuki and his match seemed to hit it off. Then she said that they needed to talk.

- YVONNE VILLARREAL

PATRICK SUZUKI felt a connection with two women on "Love Is Blind," but it didn't work out in both cases.

This article contains spoilers for the first six episodes of Season 9 of “Love Is Blind.”

“Are you trying to break up with me?”

“Love Is Blind,” Netflix’s dating binge-fest, has documented its fair share of awkward and bizarre breakups throughout its run. But the one that arrives at the end of the ninth season's first batch of episodes, now streaming, is perhaps the most cringeworthy, and a sobering reminder of how the show’s fantasy premise doesn’t always triumph over the realities of dating.

The Colorado-set season introduced viewers to Patrick Suzuki, a project manager who came into the experiment open about his insecurities in the dating circuit as an Asian American man. During the show’s pod phases, in which participants get to know each other by having “dates” in a room where they’re separated by a glowing blue wall, Suzuki made his strongest connections with two women: Anna Yuan, a hairstylist, and Kacie McIntosh, a hair and makeup artist.

As much as the show's foundation is about testing whether singles can fall in love based on an emotional connection, curiosity about physical attributes arises and often gets discussed and, in some cases, become viral moments if you happen to mention your doppelgänger is Megan Fox. Suzuki bonded with Yuan over their shared experiences as Asian Americans living in Colorado; like him, she revealed that she has mostly dated white people. McIntosh, who is Mormon, assured Suzuki early on that dating outside her race was not an issue with her or her family.

In the end, Suzuki proposed to McIntosh (Yuan chose to leave the production early). While their interaction at the reveal seemed to go well, albeit somewhat awkward considering the whirlwind of circumstances, a few hours later, Suzuki was summoned by production to meet with McIntosh.