Love Is Blind’s Ali Shares ‘Concern’ About Anton’s Drinking Habit (Excl)

Love Is Blind season 9 couple Ali Lima and Anton Yarosh are navigating the tough realities of blending their lives after their sight-unseen engagement and before walking down the wedding aisle.

In Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek of the 10th episode, Ali, 29, questioned Anton, also 29, about his daily drinking habits.

“A normal week for me is maybe having one to two nights, [where] I’ll turn on a movie and watch for a couple hours, [and] have a drink or two,” Anton told his fiancée. “That’s about it, and [then I] go to bed.”

Ali, meanwhile, revealed that Anton’s usual evening plans were concerning for her.

“What part of that isn’t a concern?” she added.

Anton made it a point to tell his fiancé that he doesn’t have a drinking problem.

“If you think it’s a problem, I have no issue at all showing you it’s not a problem,” he said. “I won’t drink for a week or two. If I were a drug addict or an alcoholic, whatever the case is, then it’s, like, there’s a pattern to it. There’s no pattern. Seems like you have something else to say about it?”

Ali hit back at Anton’s remark that she appeared mad at his explanation, adding, “Why are you being like this now?”

“I’m not giving you s*** for anything,” Anton responded to Ali, who works as a nurse. “Is your normal workweek you not cleaning up for yourself, you not doing the laundry?”

After Ali answered “yes,” Anton acknowledged that her normal behavior was “fine.”

“You’re just being defensive instead of being honest with me,” Ali continued. “Like, if it’s an issue, it’s an issue.”

After Anton learned that having “more drinks than [Ali] thinks is acceptable” in a 10-day period was concerning to her, he asked what should be done moving forward.

“No,” she said, shaking her head, refusing to tell Anton what to do.

Ali and Anton got engaged sight unseen in the Love Is Blind pods, bonding over their interests and respective immigrant heritages. After meeting in person, the couple navigated how to merge their daily lives in Denver in the lead-up to their wedding day. At one point, Ali admitted that cleaning habits sometimes fall to the wayside whenever she is preoccupied with nursing shifts.

“At the time the show was airing, I was working night shifts,” Ali later explained in a Thursday, October 9, TikTok video, detailing her 12-hour shifts. “When you are working nights, you are exhausted. Night shifts are not natural [and] should, honestly, be illegal for humans to do long-term. It drastically affects your health.”

She continued, “It was a lot. It was an intense period in both of our lives, so the ‘cleaning up after myself’ comment was me just saying, ‘During my workweek [and] my three shifts in a row, I am not gonna be worried about cleaning up. I’m going to be prioritizing my rest, surviving essentially.’”

Ali further stressed that she does clean up after herself both “before and after” workdays.

Love Is Blind is currently airing on Netflix. New episodes drop weekly.