Love Is Blind's Tyler Tells Ashley He's a Sperm Donor to Three Children: Summary

Love is blind Participants of the seventh season Ashley Adionser And Tyler Francis Their engagement fell through when Tyler revealed he was the sperm donor to three children.

Ashley, 32, and Tyler, 34, started out as one of Season 7's strongest couples in and out of the pods, but things took a shocking turn in the final minutes of Episode 9, revealing that Tyler had been keeping a major secret, which remains hidden during their courtship and engagement.

“I left, I needed to separate and be alone and just get my thoughts together,” Ashley said during the episode, which dropped on Netflix on Wednesday, October 9th. “I just don't understand what our superpower looks like, It's not our superpower anymore. I feel like we had such great communication and I don't understand how they could drop a bombshell like that two weeks before our wedding.”

While Tyler remained silent, Ashley said she replayed “every conversation” the couple had about kids and family and couldn't understand why he didn't bring up the topic. “We’re talking about unionizing and living lives together. I should have known that before I agreed to say yes (to marry you),” she explained.

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Tyler responded that losing her “trust” was the “last” thing he wanted to do. “Especially two weeks before the wedding when I was running around screaming that we were getting married,” he added.

“You've been running around here talking about us getting married, but you've also said you want to have kids now. And it’s like, whoa,” she said. “How did you even talk about this? I just can’t face it without even thinking about your past?”

“We talked about children every day. They're not your kids, but they are your kids,” she continued, sharing that he apparently donated his sperm to someone he knows.

While Tyler revealed that the babies were “two girls and a boy,” Ashley still needed more from him.

“That’s what? Three additional children? That's wild. Who are these people? I just feel like I should know,” she said, adding that she should be given “a picture” for reference. “But I have nothing. You didn't show me anything. For example: “Here are the documents that show I'm not involved. I need to know everything, so to speak.”

Ashley clarified that the issue wasn't because Tyler “wanted to help a couple have children” – which she described as “admirable” in some ways – but rather that he was hiding the “full picture” of himself from her .

“And when you don't get the full picture of something, it's hard not to question everything,” she continued. “It's a lot for me as a single woman to process, falling into this scenario and falling in love with a man who has three sperm donor babies. And the wedding is in about two weeks.”

After apologizing profusely, Tyler told Ashley that her feelings were “valid” and that he was “not asking for forgiveness, just a chance.”

The episode ended with Ashley wondering if they could even move on after the deception. “What do we have, love? Is love enough? For a relationship or marriage? “I don’t know,” she admitted.

When season seven premiered last month, viewers watched Ashley and Tyler fall in love instantly and unseen. When other contestants suffered through love triangles, squares, doubts, and drama, Tyler and Ashley knew what they wanted from the start.

“I was Tyler's first date, he was like my fifth,” Ashley shared exclusively Us weekly last month that the duo “hit it off straight away” when they first met. “So I was there for a second. He seemed super shy and was immediately nervous and vulnerable and authentic, and everyone else kind of put it under the hood and tried to be cool. And (he) was a little deer on the road and I just wanted to help him.”

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Just like Ashley acknowledges Tyler's “vulnerability,” Tyler said Us that Ashley made him feel “safe” in the overwhelming environment.

“Many men seek security, and when I first met her, she made me feel extremely safe and comforting,” he recalls. “It was like a warm soul coming through the wall and I just knew that was who I was.”

Tyler said that at first he wondered if he was falling too fast or “moving too fast,” but ultimately he knew he had found someone special.

“There were a lot of things going through my mind, but once I knew that was who I was, I was like, 'Yeah, I'm all in,'” he confessed.

The final episodes of Love is blind Season 7 will be released on Netflix on Wednesday, October 16th.