Here’s a pro-tip for everyone. If you’re going to cheat on your fiancée, don’t do it while you’re filming Love Is Blind, like Stephen Richardson did on Season 7 of the Netflix dating show. (Better still would be to not cheat at all, obviously.) But Richardson apparently took another life lesson from his sleep test sexting scandal, according to a post–Love Is Blind interview, which is to “put a password on your phone.”
The engagement-ending debacle went like this. After meeting and getting engaged to Monica Davis, Richardson had to leave their shared apartment one night for a sleep test. While he was gone, he spent some time sexting another woman. Davis found the texts and promptly ended their relationship.
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Speaking to People after the fact, Richardson joked that the biggest thing he learned from the experiment was that, “It is probably smart to put a password on your phone.” But, more seriously, the 34-year-old went on to say the real answer is “self-reflection.”
“You don’t know if you’re fully healed until your next relationship,” he explained. “And you see a lot of people talking about, ‘Well, you should have completed therapy before you entered this.’ And I’m always like, ‘Is therapy a completion? Do you complete therapy?’ No, it should be an ongoing thing.”
Even though the relationship ended, Love Is Blind did prove to Stephen Richardson that a person really can find love in as little as a week and a half. “I can confidently say, no matter what, as a cynic, that I fell in love with Monica within 10 days. I fell in love with her in those pods, 100%. There’s no doubt in my mind that I did.”
