Married At First Sight’s Awhina Rutene and Adrian Araouzou have shed some light on their confusing Final Vows Ceremony.
The couple revealed their decision to part ways during Sunday night’s episode, citing long-distance and multiple fiery clashes as the nail in the coffin of their relationship.
However, after a little bit of flirting and a sexy smirk from Adrian, 36, the pair changed their minds and decided to try and make it work outside of the experiment.
When bride Awhina, 31, was asked by 9Entertainment if she was surprised by the couple’s confusing Final Vows, she replied: ‘Absolutely not.’
‘Have you seen Adrian and I’s relationship? You never know what we’re gonna do,’ she giggled.
Even Adrian confessed that he was ‘still trying to process’ the 180 degree turnaround.
‘I was going into Final Vows thinking that we were both going our seperate ways,’ he told the camera, but ‘deep down’ he knew it wasn’t time for him and Awhina to part ways.
In Sunday night’s episode, Adrian and Awhina both admitted to having an undeniable attraction to each other and undeniable hurdles that they couldn’t overcome.
‘Looking back, I can admit I could’ve been a better partner to you,’ Adrian confessed to his on-screen wife.
‘We both felt like we haven’t had each other’s back and that we haven’t shown up for each other.’
However, at the end of their vows, both agreed that the biggest obstacle in their relationship was their far-spread homes, with Awhina living in Perth and Adrian living in Sydney.
‘The brown haired, brown-eyed boy I’ve been looking for is at home, missing his mum,’ Awhina told her partner.
Adrian chimed in: ‘You are an amazing mother and I understand how important it is for you to get back to Perth to be with your son. And that’s the problem.’
The pair then both decided to walk away from the relationship and leave the experiment separately.
However, as viewers at home waited for the couple to go their seperate ways, they continued to stare at each other lovingly, hinting that it may not be over just yet.
‘Don’t look at me like that, Adrian,’ Awhina told off her husband.
‘I can’t help it,’ he flirted back.
Awhina then turned up the heat, asking her beau a series of questions that left a giant question mark on their final decision.
‘Do you want to spend time with me tonight?’ she asked. ‘Do you want to still talk to me?’
After saying he did, Awhina told him: ‘Adrian you like me.’
‘I know I do,’ he told her back.
‘Right now we’re both saying we like each other,’ she pointed out.
The couple decided to ‘see where this goes’, admitting that they looked at the decision ‘too black and white’ and wanted to give their relationship a crack outside of the experiment.
They then left the final ceremony hand-in-hand.