Love Is Blind Zack Reveals
“One day, when Galileo is old enough to understand, I’ll sit her down and tell her the story of how her mother and I found love,” Zack writes.
Season 4 of the popular Netflix series Love Is Blind is where Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi-Goytowski first met and were married. In April 2024, the couple welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Galileo Terri Rayne.
The delighted father tells PEOPLE his secrets to a successful marriage and the moment he determined he would one day tell Galileo how her parents fell in love, following the premiere of their new podcast Blind Love with Zack & Bliss.
Bliss and I take our seats on the couch as the door clicks gently shut and the baby monitor buzzes quietly on the table. Season 7 of Love is Blind flickers on the TV while Galileo sleeps soundly in the adjacent room. We can’t help but reflect on our own trip when the well-known music plays, with its turns, moments of uncertainty and revelation, and the love we discovered along the way.
In the pods, there were no distractions, no appearances to judge, no superficial crutches to lean on. Just the sound of a voice. It’s terrifying, really, to sit in a room, knowing that the only way to find love is to tear down the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building.
The screen flickers with new couples navigating the same emotional gauntlet we once faced. On-screen, a man gets on his knees and asks a woman who he’s never seen to spend the rest of her life with him. And we know, as we watch them, that the hardest part is still ahead no matter where their stories lead. Because in the pursuit of love, people get hurt. People make mistakes. And the truth is, it’s hard to forgive.
I glance at Bliss, her hand resting lightly on mine, and I’m reminded of how much grace she’s shown me over the years. There were moments when I didn’t deserve her patience or her understanding. But she gave it anyway. And that grace brought us here, to this life we’ve built together.
Love is Blind isn’t just about whether love can grow without physical appearance but whether it can survive the inevitable mistakes and missteps along the way. Every season, as much as we’re rooting for couples to find love, we’re also rooting for each to discover something just as beautiful— grace. Because without it, love can’t survive.
Bliss and I often talk about forgiveness and grace’s importance in our journey. They allowed our love to grow, deepen, and endure. Some wounds take time to heal, and not every story ends like ours. But if you can forgive and give grace, you can move forward. And that’s what I hope for, every time we sit down to watch a new season. I hope that even the ones who don’t find their person can find peace and walk away not with bitterness but with the knowledge that love is still out there, waiting for them.
When Galileo is old enough to comprehend, I’ll sit her down and tell her the tale of how her mother and I met and fell in love, starting on different sides of a wall and using only words to communicate. I’ll tell her that love requires patience, vulnerability, and forgiveness. It’s both beautiful and difficult.
I’ll let her know that without grace, I wouldn’t have felt her mother’s hand stabilizing me in the calm of the evening. Nor would I be able to enjoy the silent delight of seeing the most significant person in my life sleep peacefully, bundled up in warmth, and daydreaming about all the experiences ahead.
