MAFS’ Melinda and Layton reveal why they think their relationship worked

MAFS’ Melinda and Layton reveal why they think their relationship worked.

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LAYTON MILLS: I think because we're really similar. And so we I think when we-- every couple goes up and down. I think when Mel and I go up and down, we see ourselves in each other. And so we can kind of get over it a little bit better, because it's like, well, I'm arguing with myself. Yeah?

MELINDA WILLIS: Mm-hmm.

LAYTON MILLS: Because the things I'm getting annoyed at you at--

MELINDA WILLIS: You're also doing.

LAYTON MILLS: --I have done.

MELINDA WILLIS: It's, like, hypocritical all the time.

LAYTON MILLS: And so I think that's probably one. I think it was a good match. I feel like you never really know if they're matching you to be a couple that's gonna be successful, or they match you because they think that this is maybe a couple that might not be successful. Because let's be real. They don't match everyone-- well, I don't think everyone is matched knowing that they would 100% work out. It could work out. But more likely than not, you know, some of those matches are gonna be pretty explosive.

I genuinely feel like for us, like, it was a match that had a high likelihood of success. And I feel like they knew that.

MELINDA WILLIS: I think so, too. Like, it was literally down to when you watched our backstories before the wedding. And it was, like, me driving my car, him hopping out of the same car. It was, like, right from there. We had almost an identical kind of life and story and work ethic and similar, like, interests, similar everything.

So I do feel like on paper, like, when in the beginning when I was like, this isn't gonna work, but on paper everything's so perfect. So I do think we were meant to work.

LAYTON MILLS: And then we found out, like, more little idiosyncrasies that you find out that you share with that person. Like, and you're like, ah, OK. Or you learn something about their past that you can relate to. And you go, ah, OK. That's why that--

MELINDA WILLIS: Yeah, because you're judging at first.

LAYTON MILLS: That's why maybe, you know, this is how you respond. Or in this situation, you start to get to understand a bit better.