‘Love Is Blind’ season 5’s Lydia and Milton are a long-distance couple

“We actually miss one another and it simply makes you even love one another extra,” she tells EW.

A 12 months and half after getting married within the Love Is Blind season 5 finale, Lydia Velez Gonzalez and James Milton Johnson IV are still together — however they’re going through a brand new impediment as they are a long-distance couple now.

“Proper now we’re actually targeted on our careers — I bought a brand new job, it simply began a month in the past, he has a brand new job, has been there for a 12 months however he simply bought relocated to Lengthy Seaside really,” Lydia tells EW. “We try to get used to this new schedule and he is additionally doing his MBA. He likes to go to highschool, apparently, that is his second grasp’s. We’re simply attempting to essentially thrive in our careers.”

Lydia lives in Houston whereas Milton is now in Lengthy Seaside, Calif., and Lydia says they’ve each been touring rather a lot to make their new actuality work. “We simply miss one another a lot, so each second that we’ve collectively, we attempt to actually cherish it and attempt to be there as a lot as we are able to for one another once we are literally in the identical place,” she says. “Proper now we’re restricted. The problem is simply touring in airports, I hate airports a lot, however in addition to that, it has been wonderful. We actually miss one another and it simply makes you even love one another extra. It is so good to have him right here while you come from work as an alternative of being alone. It’s your finest good friend so clearly you need to see them on a regular basis.”

As for any plans to introduce the first-ever Love Is Blind child, Lydia says it is too quickly to be serious about that. “We’re not there, we’re not in our full potential but,” she says. “However sure, it’s in our plans to kind a household, have a child. That’ll come alongside the best way.”

Lydia gushes that she and Milton are nonetheless “so in love” at present, and desires that the extra enjoyable and constructive elements of their relationship have been proven within the episodes reasonably than all of the negatives of their fights or her historical past with ex Uche Okorhoa.

“This isn’t my present and I recognize that everyone has their job to place [out] essentially the most entertaining present for the viewers, however one factor that I might love for everyone to see is how a lot we love one another, how playful we’re,” she says. “You simply noticed a tiny little bit of it. We play and prank one another and attempt to tickle one another or attempt to spank one another, it is simply enjoyable.”

As for her relationship with former pod good friend Aaliyah Cosby? After the drama unfolded with Uche, Lydia reveals that they by no means grew to become associates once more. “I haven’t got any relationship together with her,” she says. “I want her the most effective. She seems like she’s thriving and I am completely happy for her.”

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