Mal and Yoly also had a tumultuous relationship amongst the "Ultimatum: Queer Love" couples — one that blew up majorly during the reunion. Of course, the two found connections during the season: Mal formed a platonic bond with Lexi, while Yoly got into an intense romance with Xander. Despite these connections and their different views about marriage and the future, Mal proposed to Yoly in the season finale, which she accepted after asking, "What took you so long?"
As many expected, though, their engagement didn't last very long, as viewers learned at the reunion that they broke up shortly after the season wrapped. They got into a heated debate about their split and how long the engagement lasted, with Mal citing the way they each deal with conflict as the cause of their demise. "I think against both of our, I don't know, standards that we have for ourselves and just morally misaligned and so morally and fundamentally, completely misaligned," she told People. "We just didn't handle conflict [in] a way that I think either one of us appreciated. That was for me. I can't speak for her, but for me."
Yoly also added of their breakup, "I just wish we would've been able to talk about it as things were going on so that it wasn't so much of a explosion after filming, but it was just a matter of we couldn't have conversations about what went on between me and Xander." She continued, "We couldn't talk about the show. There was just a lot of things we couldn't talk about without it turning into an argument. It was not healthy. We were not bringing out the best of each other and it was just not the best choice. It was really apparent."
According to Tudum, the two exes are currently not on speaking terms, but Mal says she still "loves [Yoly] to death." Yoly added, "The love is there and the care is there, but it's just a matter of trying to navigate what to do with all of that."
