‘Love Is Blind’ Alum Cole Barnett Says He’s Been Doing ‘Some Much Needed Therapy’ Since the Show Wrapped

18.11.2022 - 22:31 / usmagazine.com

Focusing on himself. Love is Blind season 3 alum Cole Barnett revealed that he began therapy after filming of the Netflix show wrapped.

“[Since the show,] I’ve been flipping houses, representing buyers, and working on starting a podcast!” the real estate agent, 27, wrote via his Instagram Story during a fan Q&A on Thursday, November 17. “Oh, and some much needed therapy.” Cole, who was engaged to Zanab Jaffrey until she rejected him on their wedding day, then revealed some of the most valuable lessons he’s learned from his therapy sessions.

“The best thing I’ve gotten from therapy so far is honestly just how helpful it is to talk about the things that have impacted you or hurt you or were traumatizing,” the Texas native revealed. “It’s not that there’s some grand thing that you need to learn, necessarily, there’s a lot of things you can learn.”

He continued: “But sometimes as a guy you just don’t ever talk about emotions and feelings, you never do, so just sitting with someone and talking about those things in and of itself is freeing and liberating.”

Despite falling in love and getting engaged in the pods, Cole and the flight attendant, 32, had the most tumultuous relationship of the reality show’s third season. Tensions between the pair first flared during the cast’s trip to Malibu, where he rated Zanab a “9 out of 10” compared to other women’s perfect 10 — a moment which Cole later revealed he regretted.

“I mean, it’s really hard just remembering everything,” the former youth pastor exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month. “Everything that just feels out of character for me and that I’m, like, ‘I didn’t feel that way. I don’t know why it came across that way.’ I mean, the rating women thing was really ridiculous to