Like any couple Married At First Sight Australia, we have high hopes, but ultimately most of them will fall to the curse – could this be true for 2025 pairing Adrian and Awhina?
MAFS is wrapping up for the 2025 season, and these lovebirds have made their decision at the final vows. To read their journey on MAFS and outside, continue scrolling.
Initially, Adrian seemed to tick off all of Awhina’s romantic wishlist for her future partner. Their biggest issue, however, was that Adrian didn’t know if he wanted to father another person’s child.
Awhina is a single mother to a six-year-old son. The entire wedding, Awhina was gathering her courage to reveal her mum-status to her new husband, when her own mother dropped the major bombshell mid-speech.
While Adrian was enthusiastic about becoming a father in his audition tape, he admitted: “I didn’t say I want someone else’s kid.”
“It wasn’t ideal. If I could have it my way, I’d like to have that first with someone. Had we been in the outside world and known she had a kid, I never would have entertained it,” he then told the camera crew.
We thought this would be the biggest hurdle for Adrian and Awhina, but it wouldn’t be MAFS without a few twists and turns. And oh boy, this 2025 pairing is an emotional rollercoaster – one dashing smile from Adrian, and their issues fade to dust.
Trust became a major issue when Sierah confessed during a commitment ceremony that she emotionally opened up to Adriana, and he to her, despite refusing to confide in Awhina during the letter challenge.
Shortly after, a selected number of this year’s participants were chosen to partake in the 2025 promo video – Adrian was one of the few participants not asked. Awhina came home to an empty apartment and Adrian’s ring was left behind.
“I’m p****d off that I’m not in the promo. It’s disrespectful, and I’m not going to be treated like that,” he told Awhina over the phone. “I’m not coming back until they get me in the promo.”
At the dinner party, Awhina didn’t hold back, feeling that she and Adrian “aren’t a couple” given was the only person putting effort into their relationship.
“I was empathetic to your situation, you then tried to turn the tables and re-navigate how we ended up here. You didn’t offer me any genuine apology or even still ask me how I am,” she expressed.
“Sometimes in life you need to be selfish,” Adrian responded, as he explained his side of the story. “This time in my life, and my day, I need to be selfish and remove myself from the situation. She calls me, she’s messaging me saying ‘hey Adrian, you’re leaving, you’re ruining my experience-“
Awhina denied sending such text messages, and Adrian’s response had a few women around the table fired up.
“You’re gaslighting because you missed half of the story,” he said. “You females deflect, deflect, deflect.”
Unfortunately, during Adrian’s absence, he also went out for dinner with Sierah and Tony, which certainly did not helped his marriage…
“No one wants to hear my side. Everyone was coming at me,” he told the camera crew.
A surprise to no one but Adrian, Awhina wrote ‘leave’ in the following commitment ceremony, while the groom wrote ‘stay’, meaning the pair were forced to remain in the experiment.
“I just messed up. I’ve done that in the past, I self-sabotage. I don’t give a shit about anything or anyone. I was heated, and I reacted with emotion. Us men can act heavily on emotions, and we’re not good with emotions and we make dumb decisions and that’s what I’ve done,” Adrian said.
And just when we thought the pair had hit rock bottom, the MAFS Family and Friends Week threw another spanner in the works when Adrian’s twin sisters and friend began firing questions at Awhina – until her twin sister, Cleo arrived.
After facing a tough round of questions, Awhina confessed she “struggled to have a voice” with her husband, and he isn’t curious about her personal life.
“Okay, so what I’m hearing is this is all about Adrian right now, so you can confidently sit here and say that you don’t partake in any of these problems?” Adrian’s friend, Jasmine said.
Noticing Awhina’s “swollen” eyes, Cleo came in defence of her sister.
“[Adrian] has not even shown up, not even once,” she said. “They are not good enough to be in your life,” Cleo said of Adrian’s family and friend. “He is definitely not good enough to be in my nephew’s life.”
Adrian and his guests furiously walked away from the table, with the groom stating he felt “embarrassed” for Awhina and Cleo.
“I feel upset that I put my sisters and Jasmine in that situation,” Adrian told the camera crew. “I’ve given up just as much as her, I’ve given up my job, I’ve given up time away from my dog… even though I feel like pulling up Cleo, but at the same time, I want to let her embarrass herself.”
Just when we thought this argument was the final straw, Awhina wrote ‘stay’ during the following commitment ceremony! But what’s even more shocking, the pair seemingly turned their relationship during Retreat Week – whether it was watching the other couples argue or a true connection that brought them back together, we’re still not sure.
Despite this, Awhina didn’t introduce her husband to her son during Homestay Week on MAFS given the “chaotic” nature of their relationship.
“There was so much uncertainty in my relationship with Adrian, and I guess it was such a chaotic relationship at this point,” she told Yahoo Lifestyle. “Yes, we are in a better and healthier place, you know, in that moment. But I’ve never introduced anyone I’ve been intimate with to my son before, and there was no way we were at a place that we were strong enough…”
“It just wasn’t a safe space to invite my son into.”
In the episodes leading up to final vows, Awhina and Adrian’s relationship turned rocky once more as both couples chose to partake in the Final Test – where they go on a date with a compatible match.
MAFS viewers have come to expect a rollercoaster from Awhina and Adrian, but we wholeheartedly believed them when they called it quits during the final dinner party – oh boy were we wrong.
In one of the most confusing MAFS final vows for 2025, Awhina and Adrian decided to remain together, despite initially rejecting one other in their vows.
“You’re not my future right now. This is where our journey ends,” Awhina concluded her speech, while Adrian said, “I’m now deciding [to] walk away.”
Like we said earlier, one smile from Adrian and all the problems melt away.
“I feel like we looked at this decision too black and white. Do you want to try right now though?” Awhina said.
The pair walked away, hand-in-hand and smiling as Adrian told the producers they’ll do long distance and “see where [they] stand.”
“The future is bright,” he said.
This mentality of ‘seeing where the relationship goes’ is apparently continuing as Adrian explained to 9Entertainment.
“I’m leaving my doors open and I want to see what happens and whatever’s to come will come,” Adrian said. “I’ll decide then, I genuinely don’t know but I’m excited for it.”
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