“We’re all kind of…I guess ‘amazed’ is the word because Joey has always had some trepidations about marriage, just because of his past,” his friend Stef told Monica while another friend nodded along.
Monica looked visibly shocked, telling the friend, “Oh, I didn’t know about this at all.”
The group of girls seemed to confirm Stef’s words. “It was always a big topic of conversation of, ‘where do you see yourself?’” Stef continued. “That’s the biggest commitment to him, too, so the fact that he met someone and is serious about it and serious about it is a big deal.”
Interestingly, Joey was had a similar conversation with his guy friends during the same outing. “You in the past have also been not interested in getting married at times and you’ve been vocal on that,” Joey’s friend Scott said in the deleted scene. “And so, going through this so fast all of a sudden… That seems odd.”
Joey said that his views on marriage had “changed,” but listed her dog and lack of employment as “obstacles” in their relationship, noting that he didn’t know how she “handles work stress.” You can watch the scenes here.
Some fans of the show are now wondering if he was on the show for the right reasons, while others were upset about his claim that she was “not working” while helping care for her grandparents with Alzheimer’s disease.
“Why did Joey even go on the show if he isn’t sure he wants to get married?” one fan asked on a Reddit post about the deleted scenes, while another responded, “To get famous, sadly.”
In another thread on the same post, a fan insisted that Love Is Blind should have aired the scene with Joeys friends. “Unpopular opinion but he had no intention to get married,” they wrote. “His friends saying he was kinda against marriage for a long time and was vocal about it is quite telling.”
They continued, “Him talking about stress when it comes to a job when she’s caring for her elderly grandparents with Alzheimer’s which is probably more stress than the regular workplace and what does workplace/stress have to do with a relationship.” This echoed a similar comments about Joey’s concerns.
One Reddit user reminded viewers that Joey “probably deals with good amount of stress” as a healthcare worker, but conceded the other point, writing, “But why [the fuck] go on LIB if he’s against marriage? I’m side eyeing him more and more.”
Another replied to that comment, writing, “Being against marriage and going on LIB does make me think he had no intention following through.”
Those weren’t the only critiques of Joey on the deleted scenes Reddit post. Yet another fan said the scenes made them “doubt Joey’s intentions,” while another thought he “10000% did this show ‘for the plot’” and because it would make “a cool story.”
