Fans will be rallying around Jamie Marinos tonight on Married At First Sight (MAFS) 2025 when she enters the Dinner Party alone and breaks down in front of her castmates.
After her relationship with Dave Hand seemingly crumbled in front of our eyes, she tells Chattr it was incredibly hard to make it through the evening.
“I never thought I would be walking to the Dinner Party alone, when I say my whole world was flipped upside down, it truly was,” she says.
“I felt very uncomfortable for the first time in Dave’s presence. I’ve never felt that, Dave was my safe space [previously]. I felt like I was looking at someone who I didn’t know. And I think that’s what was concerning.”
Jamie says she felt “led on” by Dave, because the pair had been discussing a future together at the family and friends meet and greet just a couple of weeks before.
“Every single member of production, every single person was blindsided. Nobody could make sense of what they were seeing, let alone what I was experiencing,” she adds.
“I went from someone who was talking about their soul smiles, and they have warm, fuzzy feelings, to almost like they just couldn’t stand me. And I think I haven’t really dealt with someone who shows avoidance tendencies [before],” Jamie says.
Jamie doesn’t know if her relationship with Dave will recover
During the partner swap where Jamie was paired with Adrian Araouzou, she realised that Dave might not be attracted to her.
“There were some revelations. I don’t think you’d ever be in a situation where you’d sleep with someone and then you think, are they attracted to me? But you forget you’ve been partnered with a stranger,” she says.
“I think all of these things started to dawn because he didn’t pick me. When have I ever been in a situation where I’m in a relationship with someone who hasn’t chosen me?”
At this point, she says it’s hard to see how their relationship can recover.
“I didn’t see how we were going to have a way forward, because I didn’t understand who Dave was — because he was showing me a very different person. And to me, that is concerning,” she admits.
“But then you look around the table, you see people like Jacqui [Burfoot] [and] Ryan [Donnelly], Adrian [and] Awhina [Rutene], who are powering through. It makes me feel like there’s some sort of hope.”
Fingers crossed Jamie and Dave manage to get over this pretty big hurdle!
Married At First Sight 2025 airs Sundays at 7pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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