Are Lydia and Milton still together from Love Is Blind Season 5?
Are Lydia and Milton still together from Love Is Blind Season 5? The answer seems to be yes. Lydia Arlene Velez Gonzalez and James Milton Johnson IV met and got engaged in The Pods on Love Is Blind Season 5. Lydia and Milton were one of three couples who got engaged on Love Is Blind Season 5, along with JP and Taylor; and Izzy and Stacy.
Lydia and Milton were the only couple on Love Is Blind Season 5 to get married, according to public records from the Harris County Clerk’s Office in Texas, where Houston is located and Love Is Blind Season 5 was filmed. According to the records, Lydia and Milton were issued their marriage license on May 13, 2022; they married on May 31, 2022; and their marriage license was processed and returned on June 27, 2022. The records also note that their wedding was officiated by Chaplain Anthony Cop.
Lydia and Milton got married in the Love Is Blind Season 5 finale after they both said “I do” at their wedding. Lydia and Milton confirmed they were still together and married in the Love Is Blind Season 5 reunion.
In an interview with Rolling Stone in October 2023, Lydia explained why she believed she and Milton were the only couple to get married from Love Is Blind Season 5. “I’m feeling great. I’m feeling awesome. I think that it’s the closure that we needed from all this chaos and to actually get our happy ending to a long and tumultuous story,” she said. “Our relationship surpassed any obstacles and I think it speaks to both of our characters and our relationship. We were able to deal with all that and ended up being stronger and more in love than ever. Milton’s my person, so I am happy, I’m thriving. I feel so good about everything in terms of my marriage. I chose the perfect person for me and I am proud of myself for that and for being able to recognize where in the dating scene I was going wrong and actually landing my husband. That is something that’s not small.”
She also explained how her relationship with Milton’s family has become better since filming on Love Is Blind Season 5 ended. “They are my support system. They are the ones, besides my own family, who are constantly there for me. His mom has become my second mom. We were on the phone the other day for an hour and a half and I was like, “Oh my god, this is a lot,” and she was just being my support. It feels so good because right now my husband is in Long Beach, he’s not in Houston, so we have been traveling back and forth. When he’s not here in Houston, I have them and they are amazing,” she said. “They’re my family. I never got a bad feeling about meeting them. I never got that vibe or had that perception. I think their worries and concerns were granted. If you’re not in the whole experiment, there are a lot of questions to be asked and rightfully so. Right now, I love all of them: My sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, my pops. I call him ‘pops.’ I love them all for who they are. Right now they’re calling me like, Lydia, who do we need to fight?”
Lydia also responded to criticism over her and Milton’s relationship, especially after her drama with her ex-boyfriend, Uche Okoroha, on Love Is Blind Season 5. “People have a lot of time on their hands, let me tell you. People can say whatever they want to say. I don’t judge them,” she said. “They’re forming opinions based on a five-minute conversation because that’s what they saw, but they don’t know me. I know myself. I know who I am, my family and friends know who I am, and that’s all I care about, really. People really feel the need to go on social media and bully.”
She continued, “The other day, I had a situation with a comment where it said something like, ‘Please take her out of this planet.’ I’m like, you don’t know me and I am not this bad person. Actually, I think it speaks more to my fellow castmates who are trying to not respect what we were instructed to do than me and how I’m acting. I’m trying to keep my composure in all of this. I am not interested in the drama. I’m not interested in the negative aspects of it. I’m choosing to remember the experience in a positive light because I ended with the best outcome I could: my husband.”
In an interview with Netflix in October 2023, Lydia responded to the criticism over her relationship with Milton. “The aftermath of this experience is not what I expected it to be. I had this idea in my brain that it was going to be nice and, yes, there’s going to be some negativity, but not to this scale,” she said. “You start to reassure yourself and say, ‘Yeah, this is not the person who I am and no one is the person they were two years ago anyway.’” She continued, “My conscience is clear because I never did anything with ill intentions. I’m not this Machiavellian [person]. People are giving me too much credit. All of these conspiracy theories about how I got on the show don’t even make sense.”
She also addressed her drama with her Aaliyah, her best friend in The Pods, and Uche Okoroha, her ex-boyfriend from before Love Is Blind Season 5. “I only presented my side of the story. Did I share a lot of details? Yes, but it was the excitement,” Lydia said about her telling Aaliyah details about her relationship with Uche despite Aaliyah not wanting to hear them. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I can finally talk to you about this.’ If I go back, heck yeah, I would’ve done it differently. I wouldn’t have told her anything if I knew that’s what she was really thinking and just stayed in the corner.”
She continued, “I can now hold myself accountable when I have done things wrong, but I have not done anything wrong. Yes, mistakes happen, but they are mistakes and I learn from them. But doing something to harm anybody? No, I will never. That is not me.”
