It’s been another dramatic week on Married At First Sight UK, with not one, but two couples choosing to leave the experiment.
Not only did Holly Ditchfield and Alex Henry finally quit after yet another explosive row, but Emma Barnes and Caspar Todd also chose to go their separate ways after failing to spark a romantic connection.
Their marriage didn’t get off to the best start when Caspar confessed that Emma reminds him of his sister and it went even further downhill on their honeymoon when he made some questionable remarks about her body. The relationship never really got off the ground and they finally decided to call it quits.
Emma broke down in tears as she admitted, ‘It’s over, my marriage is over. I wanted to come here and and walk down the aisle and walk out hand-in-hand with my husband. It’s such a shame I didn't get someone to adore me and me adore them.’
Last week, Emma shared her thoughts on why her marriage to Caspar just didn’t work and actually, it makes a lot of sense.
She explained, ‘Caspar and I have never been in relationships, which is quite rare at our age, so we both have a disorganised attachment style, which means we show and exhibit all three of the different attachment styles; anxious, avoidant and secure.
‘So if we start off with anxious, that’s obviously our walls being thrown up when one of us says something out of whack, and love-hate week, the hate part was actually before Charlene came round, and you can kind of see how hate week brought up some negative energy. We kind of then were anxious, like, “what? What’s happening here? Obviously, it’s not going to work. Will it work? I don’t know.”’
Emma continued, ‘The avoidance attachment style Caspar has exhibited with the intimacy piece. So we’ve, you know, we shared a kiss, we’ve shared a melting hug. It kind of puts one of our guards up, and we’re like, no, no, I’m not sure about this. As soon as we get to love, because we’re avoidant of love, we exhibit parts of that the secure attachment style is shown in our love languages.’
‘You could see me giving love and giving a secure attachment style with the picnic that happened the week before. And like, yes, obviously production set up the picnic, but I knew about that before I’d baked a sourdough for it. The intimacy piece, I think a secure, happy relationship has a lot of physical touch and intimacy, and that’s my way of giving love to my friends and in relationships.’
The investment sales manager turned reality star also admitted that her and Caspar’s love languages clashed as he’s into ‘acts of service’ and ‘gift giving’, but they don’t resonate with her.
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Nathan Katnoria is heat and Closer online’s Senior Digital Writer. He’s been a Married At First Sight UK fan ever since the show was rebooted on E4 and has spent the past few years writing about the wild on and off screen antics of the cast.