Are Love Is Blind Season 9’s Kacie and Patrick Still Together?

Spoilers below.

For the ninth season of Love Is Blind, 32 contestants entered the world-famous pods in search of romance. Kacie McIntosh and Patrick Suzuki were one of the couples to get engaged this season—but their relationship quickly became complicated. After meeting in person for the first time, Kacie asked to speak to Patrick privately before their planned vacation with the other couples. But are Kacie and Patrick still together after Love Is Blind season 9?

Patrick had two connections in the pods but proposed to Kacie.

In the Love Is Blind pods, Patrick Suzuki found himself developing connections with two women: Anna Yuan and Kacie McIntosh. But after Anna decided to leave the series, Patrick went all-in on his relationship with Kacie.

“Finding the love of my life was definitely the whole goal, so I’ve got to do everything I can to get there,” Patrick said in a confessional in episode 3. During the same episode, Patrick revealed he’s been “thinking about [his] connection with Kacie.” He explained, “In my head, she was my number two…if it’s not there, then, unfortunately, I’m going to have to go back to Denver by myself.”

“I feel like we are gonna be super hot for each other,” Kacie also told Patrick in episode 3. In the following episode, she assured him, “I’m not gonna screw you over.” Both Kacie and Patrick declared their love for one another in episode 4, and their conversation quickly turned sexual. At the end of the episode, Patrick proposed, Kacie accepted, and it seemed as though they were truly smitten with one another.

Patrick Suzuki and Kacie McIntosh in Love Is Blind season 9.

Prior to meeting in person for the first time, Patrick—an Asian American man with a Cambodian and Chinese heritage—explained in episode 5, “It’s huge to just be loved for who I am versus my ethnicity or how I look.” When the doors opened, Patrick seemed elated to be meeting Kacie, whereas she seemed a little nervous and reticent. However, she accepted his proposal, and the pair became pretty tactile before parting ways.

At the end of episode 5, Kacie was shown speaking with a producer, telling them, “He deserves somebody better than me.” During an in-person conversation in episode 6, Kacie told Patrick that she loved him, but that she couldn’t do the show anymore. When Patrick asked if Kacie was trying to break up with him, she denied it and reiterated that she simply didn’t want to go on the group vacation to Baja.

Some vague mutterings from Kacie, which Patrick visibly didn’t catch, seemed to suggest they wouldn’t be seeing one another when they returned home—but any hint of a split was subtle at best. As such, Patrick had no idea Kacie was calling off their engagement, and told producers, “I think she’s pretty genuine. I don’t think she’s gaslighting.” The episode then cut to footage of Kacie sitting down with the crew earlier that day and explaining, “I just unfortunately don’t think, like, my attraction to him is gonna grow that much. And it sucks.”

Kacie claims she never intended to break up with Patrick.

Kacie’s onscreen comments about Patrick appeared to suggest she had no intention of pursuing a relationship with him back in Denver. However, in an interview with Tudum, the hair and makeup artist said, “If we had any shot of it actually working out, I needed to do it off camera and wanted to date him slowly at our pace at home in Denver.” She continued, “It was hard. I remember being very emotional about it, and I felt bad.”

Despite what viewers might think, according to Kacie, she “really wanted to talk to [Patrick] more, pursue going on dates, and get to know each other on a more physical level to see if this was really real.” She also revealed that Patrick felt like a “stranger” to her outside of the pods, which made her “crash out a little.”

Kacie McIntosh and Patrick Suzuki Love Is Blind season 9.

As for whether or not it was Patrick’s appearance that contributed to Kacie’s shifting feelings, she told Tudum, “He’s a handsome guy…It was more about him being a stranger in my arms than it was what he looks like.” She also maintained that accepting the proposal was the right decision, saying, “I never lied to Patrick about how I was feeling. I am proud of myself for being very honest, not going somewhere and acting some way just to basically remain on a TV show.”

Patrick told the outlet that he “trusted” Kacie when she said “she wanted to go back home and try it out there.” He explained, “I can’t talk her into staying…I’m not even thinking that she’s breaking up with me, really. I didn’t really know that’s what was happening.”

Patrick doesn’t hold a grudge.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Patrick showed further grace towards the woman he proposed to, saying, “I think [Kacie] was being honest and truthful with everything that she told me, I just don’t think the experiment worked out for her.” He continued, “She wasn’t misleading. We were cool, we were kicking it. She just didn’t want to do it anymore. It is what it is.”

He also admitted to feeling confused during their breakup, telling the outlet, “I just didn’t understand what she was trying to tell me. But looking back on it, it’s like, ‘Oh, she was just trying to tell me she didn’t want to do it anymore.’ In the heat of the moment, your emotions are running high; I still fully trusted her.”

In a slight plot twist, Patrick told the Los Angeles Times that he “would have definitely proposed to” Anna—instead of Kacie—if she hadn’t left the series. While it sounds as though Kacie and Patrick haven’t continued their romance beyond Love Is Blind, perhaps Anna and Patrick will give their relationship another try?