Love Is Blind alum Stacy Snyder desires the world to know she’s utterly cherished up.
Snyder, 35, shared a video through social media on Saturday, September 14, that detailed how she met her new girlfriend. The truth TV star publicly got here out as queer on August 28.
She revealed that she first met the advertising and marketing officer, who works for a similar Houston Pilates studio that Snyder teaches at, whereas season 5 of Love Is Blind was airing in September 2023.
“A few manufacturers and native companies reached out for a collab and … once I noticed her profile, I used to be like, ‘Wait, who’s this?’” Snyder mentioned within the Instagram clip. “We used to stay in the identical condominium complicated and we now have a ton of mutual buddies.”
Snyder, who got here out through an Instagram video put up that noticed her kissing her girlfriend in a wine bar, added that the pair grew to become buddies earlier than their relationship turned romantic.
“We began hanging out, going out collectively, hanging out with our mutual buddies. After my final relationship, I used to be taking time to myself to heal,” Snyder defined. “However after a number of months, it was simply form of this, like, unsaid factor. It was identical to, ‘Ought to we give this a whirl exterior of being buddies?’”
Snyder mentioned that she was hesitant to make a transfer as she didn’t wish to wreck the pair’s friendship, however she finally took the plunge and has by no means regarded again.
“It was one of the best choice that I’ve ever made. She is superb and it was simply such a simple transition as a result of we already had, like, the belief,” Snyder mentioned. “We knew a lot about one another.”
Snyder rose to fame on the fact sequence after getting engaged to Izzy Zapata within the pods. Snyder known as off the connection on the altar, explaining that they wanted to spend extra time collectively earlier than tying the knot.
Zapata, 32, later claimed that Snyder struggled to belief him after failing to reveal his funds to her.
As Snyder talked about in her newest Instagram video, she took the time to heal earlier than launching into a brand new relationship. A second Instagram video detailed how she and her girlfriend developed their connection past the good friend zone, making certain their first date felt vital.
“We’d been to dinner collectively one million occasions,” Snyder defined earlier than admitting she felt some uncertainty about navigating her means ahead. “I’m like, ‘Is that this a date? Like, does she pay? Do I pay? Is it bizarre if I don’t?’”
However as soon as the pair have been out collectively, Snyder mentioned she knew one thing was completely different.
“It was cutesy and we have been giddy … that very same first date awkwardness that you simply all the time have,” Snyder mentioned. “After that, the remaining was historical past. It’s been a few months [and] all is nicely. It’s positively that, like, honeymoon section.”