It’s officially over for Timothy Smith, 51, and Lucinda Light, 43, after they both wrote ‘Leave’ during the final MAFS commitment ceremony.
WATCH: Timothy’s heartbreaking wedding speech on MAFS
While their ‘slow burn’ had many MAFS viewers rooting for them, in the end, Lucinda and Timothy were just too different to form a romantic connection.
Saying goodbye, Lucinda wrote a “sassy” poem for her ‘husband’, joking that he never really tried. Timothy took it in his stride, telling Lu that they would be lifelong friends.
It’s really no surprise that these two didn’t make it work. Earlier this month, the bride all-but-confirmed the pair had broken up.
Appearing on radio show The Edge Breakfast, Lucinda was asked if she’d ever make the move to New Zealand – where the show is recorded.
“If I met a really…” Lucinda began, before realising her mistake. “Well, yeah maybe.”
This caused fans to speculate that the MAFS bride was about to say something along the lines of “If I met a really good man”.
In an apparent attempt to fix the blunder, Lucinda told the show’s hosts: “If I met a really nice job opportunity or something like that.”
It’s not really surprising that Lucinda and Timothy seem to have broken up outside of the experiment. After all, they were opposite from the very beginning.
While Lucinda, a wedding celebrant from New South Wales, is spiritual and open, Timothy, a business owner from Victoria, is a self-professed ‘tin-man’ who struggles to let people in due to his tumultuous past.
Their platonic connection has somewhat turned romantic as the experiment progresses. But evidence suggests that the slow burn will fizzle out.
In early February, Tim was spotted enjoying lunch with a mystery woman on Chapel Street in Melbourne, Victoria.
An onlooker told Yahoo! Lifestyle that Tim and his lunch companion arrived and left Betty’s Burgers together, but it was unclear if they were romantically involved.
Still together or not, Lucinda and Timothy’s relationship has been quite the journey to watch.
After many ups and downs, the couple proved they know how to have fun together when they became the “bulls**t detectors”, writing a letter to Tori Adams and Jack Dunkley about the shortcomings of their relationship.
They also strengthened their emotional connection after Timothy cried to Lucinda about losing his family. The bride, who has attempted to break down Tim’s walls throughout the entire experiment, was proud of his vulnerability.
Timothy’s last real relationship ended five years ago when his partner “found somebody better”. Along with the shock breakup, the business owner has suffered much loss in his life.
His mother and brother both passed away in the same year, 17 years ago, followed by his father who died just six weeks before the experiment, leaving the MAFS star with no family.
Closed off as a result, Tim told Nine that he is finally ready to open himself up to love. “I want to make space for somebody in my life,” he said. “I am here to break old habits.”
Meanwhile, Lucinda was introduced as the antithesis of Tim’s bordered-up demeanour. “She’s the Dorothy to his Tin-man,” said MAFS expert, Mel Schilling.
Upon matching Lucinda and Tim, the experts were adamant that the bride and groom were exactly what the other needed in a life partner.
While the two didn’t work out romantically, MAFS might have created a new lifelong friendship.
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