Summary
- Alex and Adriano fight about triplets and religion and show their struggle to accept each other’s beliefs.
- The threesome’s conversations hinder their relationship; Alex’s religious beliefs conflict with Adriano’s atheism.
- Alex feels pressured to compromise her values for a future with Adriano, but their relationship continues to face obstacles.
90 Day Fiancé: Love in Paradise season 4 couple Alex Roshon and Adriano Cardinale keep their heads down about their personal beliefs. The Love in paradise the spinoff was originally titled Love in Paradise: The Caribbean, a 90 Day Story for the first two seasons, and featured people who had met on vacation in the Caribbean. In 2021, the show expanded 90 Day Fiancé: Love In Paradiseand now follows Americans who fell in love at all different resorts.
Alex, 30, is a family therapist from Dallas, Texas. She met Adriano, 33, on a dating app while traveling in Italy. After nearly a year of dating, Alex and Adriano had only spent ten days together in person. Alex eventually traveled to Naples to be with Adriano and work out their differences. The couple is gorgeous and has strong chemistry, but their views may turn out to be incompatible.
Alex does not share Adriano’s interest in threesomes
He is “disappointed” every time he brings up the subject
Alex and Adriano’s journey continues 90 Day Fiancé: Love in Paradise season 4 (via ET) initially focused on his conflicting views on his sex life. Adriano worries about the triplets that Alex doesn’t share. She had previously dated in a threesome, but she made it clear that she did not want to bring other partners into her relationship with Adriano. Alex admitted that the three-person conversation was “prevent” their relationship and could be a deal breaker.
Adriano had a different take on the matter, claiming to his friend that Alex had expressed his interest in threesomes when they met. After she changed her mind and told him she wanted moretraditional” regarding, Adriano was disappointed, but he didn’t understand how serious Alex’s refusal was. Adriano seems to think it’s still up for debate, which shows just how big the difference is between him and Alex.
Adriano’s atheism bothers Alex
Alex’s religious beliefs are non-negotiable
Religion was not brought up between Alex and Adriano until several episodes into their appearance 90 Day Fiancé: Love in Paradise. In a conversation with Alex’s cousin, the couple revealed their conflicting views on religion. Adriano is an atheist, while Alex has a strong belief in God. At first, Alex presented his religion as simply important, just as triplets are important to Adriano. However, Alex soon admitted that he saw religion becoming a problem in the future.
When Adriano brought Alex to meet his parents, the evening went well until Alex brought up religion. Adriano and Alex both expressed concern about how religion would be a problem in their future, and neither showed openness to change. Alex knew that Adriano’s parents were religious and thought that he would find support and together they could make him change. Instead, Adriano’s mother defended her son’s right to his religious views. Despite bonding with Alex as they prepared a lovely Italian meal, Adriano’s mother was upset that her son’s girlfriend didn’t want to accept him for who he is.
Alex and Adriano cannot accept each other’s beliefs
Their relationship doesn’t work without compromise
On the way home from their parents’ house, Alex and Adriano continued to discuss their differences. Alex feared that Adriano’s lack of beliefs would affect her ability to love and support him. Adriano had already broken up with her twice because she refused to bring other partners into their bedroom. Heartbreakingly, she reminded him that she was still with him and trying to make it work. Now that Alex is in his 30s, he feels pressured to start a family, and because of that, he forces a relationship that might not be right for him.
Alex explained that his partners had previously pressured him to change his lifestyle for them. She had been into partying and threesomes, and it wasn’t until she found religion that she was able to set boundaries and be sure of her refusal. This reveals that Alex’s religion is the cause of their sexual incompatibility as well as a separate problem in itself. Since both Alex and Adriano’s beliefs are central to their personal values, they seem to have no place where they can meet in the middle.
90 Day Fiancé: Love in Paradise is about couples learning to accept their separation. Since both Alex and Adriano seem unwilling to do this, it’s hard to see how their romance can have a future. Their love for each other is not enough to sustain a relationship if they refuse to compromise their beliefs.
90 Day Fiancé: Love in Paradise
airs Mondays at 8pm EDT on TLC.
Source: ET/YouTube