Married At First Sight 9 - Episode 12

Married at First Sight is an American reality television series based on a Danish series of the same name titled Gift Ved Første Blik. The series first aired in the United States on FYI. Beginning with season two, it aired in simulcast on sister network A&E. The series features three couples, paired up by relationship experts, who agree to marry when they first meet. For the first three seasons, the experts were clinical psychologist Dr. Joseph Cilona, sexologist Dr. Logan Levkoff, sociologist Dr. Pepper Schwartz, and humanist chaplain Greg Epstein. Starting with the fourth season, the experts are Schwartz, pastor and marriage counselor Calvin Roberson, and communication and relationship expert Rachel DeAlto. The couples spend their wedding night in a hotel before leaving for a honeymoon. Upon returning home, they live together as a married couple for eight weeks. Thereafter they choose to divorce or stay married. On October 25, 2016 FYI renewed the show for a fifth season. In 2017, for the fifth season, the show moved to the Lifetime channel. The following year, two spinoffs were announced to premiere that October, Married at First Sight: Honeymoon Island and Married at First Sight: Happily Ever After.

On April 25, 2019, it was announced that the ninth season will premiere on June 12, 2019
Over the first seven seasons of MAFS, 25 couples were chosen for the experiment. Out of these 25, seventeen chose to stay married after the six to eight week time period. As of April 2019, however, only six couples are still married, making for an overall 24% success rate of the experiment.