Love Is Blind's Zack Reveals Secret to Happy Marriage with Wife Bliss After Initially Getting Engaged to Someone Else

Zack Goytowski and Bliss Poureetezadi-Goytowski met and married on season 4 of the hit Netflix series Love Is Blind. The couple recently welcomed their first baby together, daughter Galileo Terri Rayne, in April 2024.

Following the release of their new podcast Blind Love with Zack & Bliss, the proud dad shares with PEOPLE his secrets to a long-lasting marriage, as well as the moment he decided he would one day explain to Galileo exactly how her parents fell in love.

The door softly clicks shut, the baby monitor buzzing faintly on the table, and Bliss and I settle in on the couch. Galileo is sleeping peacefully in the other room, and season 7 of Love is Blind flickers on the screen. As the familiar music plays, we can't help but think of our own journey — the twists and turns, the moments of doubt and discovery, and the love we found on the other side.

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 no matter where their stories lead, the hardest part is still ahead. 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 just 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 is what brought us here, to this life we’ve built together.

Love is Blind isn’t just about whether love can grow in the absence of 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 of them to discover something just as beautiful— grace. Because without it, love can’t survive.

Bliss and I often talk about how important forgiveness and grace were in our journey. They’re what allowed our love to grow, to deepen, to endure. Some wounds take time to heal, and not every story ends the way ours did. But if you can forgive, if you can 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, can walk away not with bitterness, but with the knowledge that love is still out there, waiting for them.

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—how it began on opposite sides of a wall, with only our words to bridge the distance between us. I’ll tell her that love is as breathtaking as it is challenging. And that It takes patience, vulnerability, and, most of all, forgiveness.

I’ll tell her that if not for grace, I wouldn’t feel the warmth of her mother’s hand in mine, steadying me in the stillness of the evening. Nor would I have the quiet joy of watching the most important person in my world sleeping soundly, wrapped in warmth, dreaming of all the adventures that await her.