Are Emily & Brennan Still Together From Married at First Sight Season 17? She Says…
If you can’t get enough of strangers marrying strangers but need your spoilers, you might be wondering if Emily and Brennan still together from Married at First Sight season 17. The Lifetime TV show was created on July 2014 on FYI. The premise derives from the Danish TV show Gift Ved Første Blik. The first season took place in New York City and New Jersey and showed off three couples, who like the show describes, are married when they first meet each other.
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The couples then spend time together at their honeymoon and spend eight weeks together living a family lifestyle. After eight weeks, they get to decide whether they want to divorce or stay together on Decision Day. There are several experts on the show that examine the couples’ compatibility with each other. For season 17, experts Pastor Cal and Dr. Pepper and are reunited in the host city of Denver, Colorado, along with Dr. Pia, who joins the show as a full-time expert.
Talking to E! News, Dr. Pepper Schwartz revealed the tedious process of making the couples. Hundreds of people apply to the show and the experts go to churches, bars, dating apps or anywhere that people meet to “make the prospective pool as big as people.” There’s more steps to the vetting process including a meet-and-greet, several interview sessions and psychological and background checks. The final step is a home visit from Dr. Pepper.
“My hope was that we would be able to support these people and help them grow into better versions of themselves by bringing out skills to the process, by matching them through science and maybe this really could work and it could work even beyond helping these people grow and get more information about themselves, but to give them skills. And to augment what we hoped was already thought was a good match according to our scientific tools. And the more we went on, the more I believed in it because I could see people listen and learn and it was fascinating and wonderful. She continued, “It worked out beyond my wildest fantasies.”
Pastor Cal told the site about his views on marriage on the show. “I’ve learned and tell couples now that marriage doesn’t work—people work. And quite often, we want the marriage to work,” he said. “Sometimes we want to blame the marriage and say the marriage is not working, but it’s you. You’re not working. You’re not doing the things that are necessary. You’re not communicating and not being vulnerable. You got to be kind. You got to be honest. And you’re gonna have to put in the time and don’t give up too quickly.”
Since its premiere, the show’s overall success rate of marriages after the show is 20 percent. So are Emily and Brennan still together from Married at First Sight Season 17? Read more below to find out.
Who’s still together from Married at First Sight season 17?
In the trailer for season 17, one bride tells the camera: “I’m getting married to a rando,” then asks: “What did I get myself into?” A man is heard saying, “If you don’t want to do this, we’ll get you out of here.” Wedding bells play, then a voiceover says: “For the first time in Married at First Sight history, five brides go to the altar but only four come out married.”
Married at First Sight airs on Wednesdays, 8 pm ET on Lifetime. Here’s how to watch it for free.
Are Emily and Brennan still together from Married at First Sight season 17?
Status: Divorced.
Are Emily and Brennan still together from Married at First Sight season 17? Nope, they didn’t make it past Decision Day. During the reunion episode, Brennan tried to explain what went wrong. “I was way too concerned with how it would make Emily feel,” Brennan said.
Although, Emily was convinced he was more concerned about how things made him feel. “I told you a million times, ‘I’m a big girl.’ You’d say the meanest things and I’d be like, ‘Great,’” she explained. “You saying something mean is actually progress for us.”
In one episode, Dr. Pia asked Brennan if he was “holding back” from being “fully honest” to protect his wife’s feelings after a rocky start to their marriage. “I’m definitely mindful of being respectful and taking very much into account her feelings and I’m not going to say anything that won’t help anything but do damage,” he said, but Emily seemed confused by his response.
Dr. Pia turned to Emily to address her body language. “So, I’m noticing your body language and your eye movements as he’s saying that…” Brennan chimed in, “That’s just her.” Dr. Pia again tried to discuss Emily’s body language, asking, “But, there’s something behind that. So when you’re squinting your eyes and looking like that, what does that mean?” Brennan tried to cut in again, to which Dr Pia said, “Let me talk to her. Brennan, I’m talking to Emily.”
But he won’t back down. “I’m just helping,” he claimed. “This is a lot, right, so I’m just gonna help her take a step back.” Dr. Pia said: “She doesn’t need your help though,” to which Brennan responded: “This is my wife, so I’m just gonna make sure she’s okay.” Dr. Pia affirmed, “That’s my job is to ask her if she’s okay.”
In the episode that aired on January 17, 2024, Brennan asked his friend Richie for some advice because the marriage has been challenging from a physical perspective. “I know we talk pretty much every day so you kind of know what’s been going on,” he says during a video chat with his friend. “So I was just hoping to get a little advice from the master of marriage himself.” He added: “We have a lot of trust with one another so he can speak as freely as he wants without me having to worry if he’s holding back. Even though Emily and I are in a better place, I just want his honesty and so I feel like he can give the best advice about how to keep the momentum going,” he explained.
Richie gave Brennan a hard truth relating to his past relationships, telling his mate, “I think you can get stuck in your head sometimes about things. You know, your roommate leaves something out and you’d just be pissed at the roommate. It’s happened with relationships in the past, you know, there can be one little thing that bothers you and that one little thing will trump any other connection you had.”
He continues: “And once a thought gets in your brain, I think it’s hard for you to maybe snap out of it so I worry that in your head you said there’s no romantic connection, and now you’re kind of… I don’t want you to close your doors to the opportunity that it could happen.”
Emily spoke with Distractify about seeing Brennan for the first time—happening, in a rare instance, before they’d met. “My best guy friend in Chicago sent me one of Brennan’s Instagram pictures after I told him I was matched,” Emily said. And I was like, ‘Ahh, no I can’t see this.’ So I pretended I never saw it since there was a good chance that wasn’t him and essentially blocked it out of my memory. Once I walked down the aisle and looked [Brennan] in the eyes, it all came back to me, and overall, I was very pleased with what I saw and very excited that he was all mine.”
Emily explained that “being disrespectful, not self-aware, given [that] they lack emotional intelligence, someone who is egotistical, [and] someone who is insecure and manipulative” are some of her red flags.
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