Spoiler notify: This post aspects occasions from the 1st eight episodes of The Ultimatum Year 2.

The premise of The Ultimatum is famously messy. The show expects contestants to crack up with their longtime associates and promptly check out a connection with a comprehensive stranger… who also just dumped their considerable other. Remarkably, some of these demo marriages really guide to authentic feelings, but for Antonio and Kat, there was never ever a genuine relationship. On the lookout back again on his expertise, Antonio tells Elite Day by day that he felt “more like friends” with Kat all over their trial marriage, and that he may perhaps have been much more challenged had he chosen an individual else.

It was pretty very clear to Ultimatum viewers that Antonio and Kat weren’t accurately clicking in the exact same way some of the other trial marriages were. No, they weren’t as disastrous as James and Riah’s uncomfortable connection, but they also hardly ever obtained as close as Roxanne and Alex or Trey and Ryann did. “I don’t think we related,” Antonio claims of his time with Kat. “It felt additional like pals.”

In spite of their absence of connection, Antonio does believe they the two grew from their experiences collectively. “Both of us felt like we were in a truly safe environment,” he says. “I bought to follow getting a greater lover as much as getting thoughtful and scheduling dates, and she discovered how to variety of stand up for herself a tiny little bit much more.”

He carries on by expressing he doesn’t regret selecting Kat for his trial relationship, but there was anyone else he was intrigued in asking to be his pretend spouse. “Lisa and I experienced some genuinely good dates,” Antonio states. “I didn’t snicker with any person like I laughed with Lisa, that is for absolutely sure. I definitely am curious to have found how we would have labored, simply because she reminds me a whole lot of Roxanne. She’s driven, she is familiar with what she wishes. She’s not like Kat. I believe that I possibly would’ve been extra challenged by anyone like Lisa.”

Of course, Antonio did not even have the choice to pick Lisa for a trial marriage due to the fact she exited the display because of to her being pregnant. But even if she had stayed, it doesn’t seem like a long run for Antonio and Lisa would have been in the playing cards. Lisa tells Elite Daily that she was organizing to pick Trey for her demo relationship. Oh, what a distinct year this could have been!