Love Is Blind's Madison Is Single Again! Watch Her Break Down Her Split From New Boyfriend As Fans React!
It’s already over between Madison Maidenberg and her mystery man!
Last month, the Love Is Blind alum hard launched her new boyfriend, sharing pictures from their New Year’s Eve celebration in Colorado on Instagram.
She even took to TikTok to post a video gushing about how he is such a “good” guy with such a “beautiful heart,” going as far as to say that he is the one! Madison literally thought she would “marry” this guy one day!
Watch for yourself (below):
@madisonvm Here to 2026, a new year and a new love???? #loveisblind #boyfriendreveal #madiaonLIB #madisonloveisblind
And take a look at their NYE pics (below):
Well, it turns out Madison didn’t find her hubby after all! She revealed in a three-part video on TikTok on Wednesday that they already broke up — and she spilled all the tea about what went wrong!
What follows is the story of their split from her perspective…
According to Madison, “things were going very well” at the beginning of their relationship to the point where she introduced him to her mom and “a ton” of her friends.
Roughly three months ago, she got invited to a free brand trip and asked her mother to go with her. She also started to make plans for part two of the getaway to stay at a hotel and see friends in New York City for two nights, including her Love Is Blind producer.
They had it all planned out. However, when Madison and her boyfriend started “getting more serious,” her mom suggested she bring him instead. When the Netflix personality brought it up to him, she said that “he was absolutely on board” with everything. She continued:
“I told him the whole itinerary. I told him about the branded part and the second part of the trip. I also explained that, obviously, airfare would be covered, and the first part of the trip is covered, but the second part of the trip is not covered. So we would just need to figure that out together. He was absolutely on board. He had zero reservations. He was interested in doing it. I laid out exactly what the cost would be, and kind of like what we were looking at, right? He was on board for it.”
Three days before the trip, though, he changed his mind. Madison recalled that he called her to tell her he couldn’t go to New York anymore because he couldn’t “swing it” financially like he originally thought.
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The reality star, understandably, became upset – not because of his financial situation but because he backed out at the last minute after swearing he was OK with the plans:
“Let me be extremely clear. I am not upset about the fact that his financial situation did not lend itself to the plan. What I’m upset about is the fact that I talked through the entire plan with him three weeks prior. We were both on board for what expenses were gonna be had in New York. We talked about the whole thing, and now it’s three days until the trip, and he’s bailing on me. And mind you, this isn’t the kind of thing that I can just reschedule, like, I have a contract. I’m contracted to go for the branded part of the trip. I’ve also given my word to people in the city, my producer, my friends. We already started making plans, and now I don’t know what to do.”
Madison then started to go into “panic mode” and tried to find someone to take his place, including her mom, but no one could go.
Since her mother wasn’t going on the trip anymore, she “took extended time off” during the holidays and “ no longer had the PTO to come.” She continued to “panic,” especially because she “booked a non-transferable ticket,” and tried to “problem-solve the situation.”
Madison then came up with a great idea… or so she thought. She said:
“If finances are an issue, how about this? You come to the first part of the trip, which is free to me and him. It’s branded, right? So he doesn’t even have to pay for his flight. Accommodations, food, everything is covered. So I was like, why don’t you come to that part? And then when we come back, I’ll drop you off at the airport, you can go home, and I’ll go into the city and see my friends that I’ve already made plans with, and I’ve already committed to.”
That sounds like a genius plan! Everyone wins in this situation!
Madison pointed out that she probably was not “communicating as efficiently as” she could have, and was “a little bit frazzled and overwhelmed” at the moment. In her defense, she was “upset” and felt “he completely blindsided” her.
But at least she came up with a solution that should have made everyone happy. Well, her boyfriend wasn’t down for it! Madison explained:
“He’s like, ‘No, if you go to the second part without me, I’m not going at all.’ Literally says to me, if you go to the second part without me, I’m not going at all. So at this point, this is not about finances. This feels manipulative and controlling. Like, I seriously don’t get it. What’s it to you? If you come to the free part, I go on to the second part. That was always part of the itinerary that I’ve given my word to people, that I’ve made plans on, that you agreed to. Why would it matter if I go by myself?”
Yeah, why would it matter? What is the big deal? He literally was getting to go away for a few days for free! Say thank you and move on!
Feeling “backed into a corner,” Madison decided to back out of the second part of her trip and made up “an excuse to cover for him because [she] felt embarrassed” when she called her friends to tell them. Ugh! She should’ve just gone without him! Don’t let a man ruin all your fun, girl!
Following the debacle, Madison had a heart-to-heart with her boyfriend during the brand trip, saying that what happened caused “emotional distrust” for her:
“I trusted what you said when you told me that you were in, and I booked a non-transferable ticket based on your word.”
She also “felt like the dynamic had shifted” between them. Oof.
Madison shared that he understood and promised to “step up” when they got back to Denver. Those hurt feelings didn’t just go away, though. The content creator thought her “thing got kind of ruined.”
And at this point, she started to notice all the red flags about him:
“Something else that he said while we were in New York was, he mentioned the fact that he feels like it’s the Madison show, and he feels like we just do my stuff all the time. And I’m like, then invite me into your life. Like, I have these events going on, and I’m trying to integrate you into my life. I would happily do whatever you wanna do as well. I want to be a part of your life, and that’s a relationship.”
Madison apparently “hadn’t even met any of his friends!” That’s weird, right?!
He promised to step up and invite her to more things, so she “trusted his word once again.” But “fast forward a few weeks,” Madison said “the dynamic still feels off,” and he is “not really putting in a lot of effort.”
She started to notice “a pattern” with him, where she would always plan dates, or he would commit to plans and bail on them, and she didn’t like that. The social media star felt like he got “comfortable” in the relationship and believed “he didn’t need to put in as much effort anymore.”
It reached the point where she wanted to break up with him and planned to do so last week:
“So last Tuesday, I go over to his house, and I really had the intention of either ending it or at least hoping that he would really hear me out, and we could come to a good space. But I was pretty much in the camp that I was gonna end it. So I go over, we’re talking about things. I don’t feel like we’re really getting anywhere. I’m trying to talk about the New York situation. And really, truly, that’s kind of where it all started. That’s where my resentment started. That’s where my frustration came from. So I bring up New York, and he stands up, and he says, ‘I’m going to bed. I’m not talking about this again, okay?’”
Because he didn’t want to hear her out, Madison decided to grab her things and leave – all of her things!
She continued:
“I was grabbing my things, and he was like, wait, you’re, like, taking all of your things? I’m like, yes. Like, I don’t know where we stand right now. Like, I need to sleep on this. I need to think about it. My partner won’t have a conversation with me regarding something that was pretty detrimental — detrimental in our relationship. So I left.”
Although Madison wanted to break up with him that day, the next morning, things changed:
“I have text messages of him saying, ‘Madison, I’m so sorry. I wanna make this right. Give me a call when you wake up. I don’t wanna lose you. I wanna be with you. Like, I was an idiot.’”
So, Madison gave him a call, and she said, “It was night and day,” in how he was talking to her:
“He literally was like, Madison, you were absolutely right. I was so selfish. I didn’t think about how this would really affect you. I didn’t honestly think about all the ramifications when I bailed on New York and held me hostage with no options. He acknowledged everything. I mean, truly, he took full accountability to the point that I was like, wow, okay, this actually might be salvageable.”
But don’t give him too much credit! Apparently he didn’t realize this on his own!
Madison shared that his friend ended up explaining to him why he was in the wrong! Soooo, the guy wouldn’t listen to his girlfriend, but his friend made him see the light. OK. She ultimately decided to give her man another chance, as he swore once again he would “step up” and show her that he wanted to be with her. He even called her “my person.” The guy must’ve had his fingers crossed behind his back or something…
Anyway, he invited Madison to a Nuggets game that day and “made a dinner reservation.” The two go on to “have a wonderful weekend together.” They were then going to be apart for about a week as he was going on a work trip, while she was seeing family. Talking on Sunday, her boyfriend expressed that he was going to “miss” her. But what does he do the next day? HE BREAKS UP WITH MADISON! NO JOKE! She said:
“Then on Monday, I get a call in the afternoon after he’s landed for his work trip, and he goes, do you have a minute? I’m like, yeah, what’s up? And he breaks up with me.”
Does this sound like a case of classic love-bombing to you? This man literally went from calling Madison his person, wanting to make it work with her, and saying how much he would miss her… to dumping her the next day. What. the. f**k.
Madison wasn’t “surprised,” though. She explained:
“I was ready to end it last Tuesday. I let him know that, and it almost makes me feel like he just wanted to have the last word. I feel like at the end of the day, honestly, there were a lot of things, ego-wise, that I could tell he could not handle in our relationship, and that is what that is.”
His reasoning? Madison told her followers he said he felt like they didn’t “have the same communication style” and thought they weren’t “going down a healthy path,” which she agreed with. At the same time, in part three of the breakup series, she also thinks that he was intimidated by her success, how many more friends she had than he did, and he wanted to be with other girls. Yeah…
Madison revealed that the night before the breakup, he went out with a guy friend, his girlfriend, and another girl. Upon hearing this, she questioned if he went on a “double date.” We would’ve thought the same thing, girl! OMG! He insisted it wasn’t, but she doesn’t believe him now! Especially given that he dumped her the next day! She also noted that he told her his work trip is “such a party,” so she thinks he wanted to be able to let loose and “have fun” without a girlfriend in the picture. Ick!
But at the end of the day, it was a blessing in disguise! Madison now knows she wants someone she “can rely on and that their word actually has substance,” adding:
“I will say I learned a lot about myself in this relationship. I will say I learned things that I also really love in a relationship and things that I really don’t love in a relationship. So, you know, we live and we learn. And honestly, I wish him the best, um, and onward and upward.”
Watch the entire breakup breakdown (below):
@madisonvm Break down my breakup with me pt. 1 #breakup #grwm #storytime
@madisonvm Breaking down my breakup pt 2. #dating #single #grwm #storytime
@madisonvm Breakdown my breakup pt. 3 — new things have come to light ???? #single #breakup #denver
Good for Madison! She deserves someone better!
And fans are applauding her, too! See some of the reactions to her series (below):
“The ego thing is full circle when he had to be the one to break up with you first”
“lol the not wanting to talk about it and wanting to go to sleep , it’s def giving love is blind situation at the hotel”
“Never meeting his friends, lack of him planning, multiple cancellations… [red flag]”
“You dodged a bullet!! You not crying says A LOT! Onward and upward is right!”
“the emotional whiplash is a little wild but probably for the best. onto the next girl”
“This is literally a Carrie and Berger situation from SATC”
“I actually think he wanted you to fund the New York trip for him. And that may be why he said he won’t go at all if he wasn’t included in everything”
“But like why wasn’t he allowing you to go by yourself to NY cuz that’s just crazy how he thought he could control that”
“hell yeah good for you!! it’s sad but if they don’t listen and care the very first or second time you bring it up, and they avoid important conversations, they genuinely don’t care”
“Men hate to see a successful woman take flight. Find you a man who not only supports you but pushes you to even more success!”
What are YOUR thoughts on the relationship drama? Sound OFF in the comments (below)!
[Image via Madison Maidenberg/TikTok/Instagram]
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