Why MAFS’ Lyndall was ‘relieved’ by the couple swap challenge

Go behind the edit of week seven of Married At First Sight Australia season 11 with special guests Lyndall Grace and Ash Galati.

Video transcript

- What was your reaction when the couple swap was introduced?

LYNDALL GRACE: I mean, look, I'm not going to lie. I was a little bit relieved. Just like things were so bad in my relationship at that time, I needed to be around somebody else. And rather than, like, just listening to what Cam had to say and being in that dynamic, I had to kind of be exposed to something else. And like I will hand on heart say that even though the partner swap I have issues with, it did change the trajectory of my relationship 100%. Like I cried the first day because, like, Ollie's like still one of my, like, closest friends, I think. And I have so much respect for him just because he made it such a safe space.

And literally, like, the first day, I, like, sat down on the couch. He was, like, this is a safe space. You can talk to me about anything. And I was sitting like this as far away-- as far away as I could get from him because I felt so awkward about I guess letting that wall down and coming out of a preservation mode that I'd kind of gotten into with Cam of just, like, if I'm just good and I do what he wants me to do and I don't spark any debates and I don't pick any issues, then, like, then everything's going to be fine and he'll stay in the room and it'll all be OK. And I think then like being in an environment with someone who was, like, so how are you feeling, I was, like, huh, what, no, no. We don't talk about that. No, no, no.

And it was so hard. I cried to my, like, producer and [INAUDIBLE] later just because I was like, I feel like if I let that wall down, if I let that happen, it's going to be floodgates of, like, I don't know how to go back to that mode. So it did definitely make me be like, wow, this isn't actually who I am. Like I need to figure some stuff out I guess.