“I Was Never Enough for Her”: Love Is Blind’s Daniel Hastings Breaks Down Over Taylor’s Cold Love, Says He Partied to Feel Alive

In a heart-wrenching confession that’s already shaking up the Love Is Blind fandom, Daniel Hastings is finally opening up about the real reason his marriage to Taylor Haag began to unravel — and it wasn’t just the partying.

After months of criticism for putting nights out before his wife, Daniel is telling his side of the story — and revealing that behind the wild behavior was a man desperately searching for warmth in a marriage that made him feel invisible.

“She said she loved me, but I never felt it. Not really. I felt tolerated — like I was always one mistake away from being discarded.”

“The More I Tried, The Colder She Got”

Daniel says that while Taylor appeared supportive to the outside world, things behind closed doors were far more distant and painful.

“I’d come home and feel like a stranger in my own marriage. She’d roll her eyes, shut down, freeze me out. I started questioning everything — my worth, my place, my value as a husband.”

 

He claims he tried to communicate, to connect, but nothing got through.

“Every time I opened up, she’d just look at me like I was weak. I started shutting down. And when that didn’t work, I started going out — because at least when I was partying, I didn’t feel like I was dying inside.”

Escaping the Silence

The club scenes, the late nights, the reckless behavior — Daniel admits they weren’t about fun. They were about escape.

“People say I chose parties over her. But the truth is, I felt more alive surrounded by strangers than I did sitting next to the woman who promised to love me.”

He says he knows how bad it looked — and he’s not proud of his choices. But he wants people to understand that his actions weren’t born out of selfishness, but starvation.

“I wasn’t chasing shots. I was chasing warmth. Connection. Something I couldn’t find at home.”

“I Just Wanted to Be Loved for Who I Am”

Daniel says Taylor had an ideal in her head — a version of him she wanted to mold into perfection. And no matter how much he bent, changed, or held back parts of himself, it was never enough.

“She wanted a husband, not a human,” he said quietly. “And I couldn’t keep pretending to be someone I’m not.”

He admits he made mistakes — big ones. But what hurt most was feeling like his real self was never truly accepted.

“I know I’m flawed. But I needed grace. I needed space to grow. She didn’t give me that.”

A Broken Man Rebuilding

Now, Daniel says he’s trying to do the work — in therapy, in solitude, in honesty — to become a better version of himself. Not for Taylor. For him.

“I didn’t get the love I needed in that marriage. But maybe that was the wake-up call I needed to give it to myself.”

He still wishes her peace, still prays she finds what she’s looking for — but he’s no longer willing to carry the blame alone.

“I broke, yes. But I didn’t break first. I just broke louder.”