Overview
- Sat.1's season introduced the on-location 'Herzenstage', where couples worked in groups and one-on-one with experts Beate Quinn, Dr. Sandra Köhldorfer and Markus Ernst.
- During a counseling round, a participant said he felt excluded from his partner’s life and warned he was nearing a personal breaking point.
- The partner described feeling pressured by constant affection and criticized high demands, while experts pointed to possible unresolved fears from the past.
- Mediation efforts did not resolve the conflict, and the pair voiced opposing views about continuing the experiment.
- Other couples showed mixed trajectories, from affectionate bonding to polite distance and friend-zone dynamics, with two episodes left before the 23 December finale.