90 Day Fiance star Melyza Zeta admitted she was hiding something amid relationship troubles with Tim Clarkson on the mid-season finale of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way's second season, so did the couple make it or did they break up -- and are they still together now?
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[90 Day Fiance Spoiler Warning: This report features spoilers revealing if Tim and Melyza are still together or if the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way couple has split.]
Tim, a 34-year-old from Dallas, TX, and Melyza, a 29-year-old from Colombia, met when Tim was enrolled in school at the University of Ohio. They met at a bar where Tim worked in college, and he thought Melyza was "absolutely gorgeous."RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOW: WHO IS STILL TOGETHER? WHO HAS SPLIT? WHERE ARE THEY KNOW? (PHOTOS)
Tim thought Melyza liked the fact he had "no game" and came across goofy and funny.
Melyza was working as an au pair in Iowa and learning English when they met, and it apparently took them no time at all to fall in love. However, Melyza had to move to Boston a week after they met in order to take another job as an au pair.
The pair continued dating and then Melyza returned to Colombia to "finish her studies," according to Tim.
After growing tired of dating long distance, Tim decided to move to Colombia to address some of the "insanely tough things" the couple had been going through.
"The main reason I decided to move there is -- I actually cheated on her," Tim admitted to his friends one week before his scheduled flight to Colombia.
When Melyza traveled to the United States before on a Tourist Visa for about six months, Tim said the plan was to propose marriage to her but he ended up cheating on her a month before her arrival.
Tim explained in a confessional, "Last year, the distance between me and Melyza at that time was very difficult. I felt lonely. And the girl that I ultimately cheated with was a co-worker. It just started off as casual conversation and it got to a point to where we did have a full-out, intimate sexual encounter."
Tim recalled that Melyza "had her suspicions" when she came to visit him in the United States.
"She noticed with my social media that something was up and prompted her to start digging, and she eventually confronted me about it," Tim told the cameras. "After that, we started arguing all the time."
Tim decided to leave his life in the United States behind to prove to Melyza he was committed to her and only wanted her.
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"There's no way I expect her to trust me or believe me again, but everything I'm doing right now, I'm genuine about. And I genuinely want to do all of the right things to redeem myself and to just deserve her again," Tim cried to the cameras.
Tim wanted to give Melyza the world, but he also hoped she would meet his needs and express her love to him as well. He said it had been a while since Melyza last professed her love for him.
As for Melyza, she said she had envisioned herself marrying and having children with Tim prior to the cheating incident.
"I found out that he cheated on me. I never in a million years thought that he's the kind of person who cheats -- ever," Melyza explained in a confessional.
"The pain I was going through completely consumed me. I was angry and upset, but I love him and have been with him for years now, so he kind of deserves a second chance."
But Tim also had to win back the support and approval of Melyza's parents. While Melyza had yet to inform her father of Tim's betrayal, Melyza's mother was furious at Tim and lost all trust in him.
"It makes me upset obviously, because I doubt that he can win my mom back. But I do think it's worth a try, so I am still hoping for the best," Melyza said.
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Tim noted it would be like "a death sentence" for Melyza's parents to stop liking him or disapprove of him pursuing Melyza.
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While the pair had a sweet and happy reunion in Colombia, it didn't take long for Melyza to bring up the past.
Tim told Melyza he didn't come clean to her after cheating because Melyza would've gotten extremely angry with him and maybe would have left him entirely.
"You keep telling me to be open and honest with you, but then every time I am, you just break up with me. So that prevented me from being open and honest with you," Tim said.
Melyza complained Tim was being "selfish" and trying to blame his mistakes on her. Melyza didn't appreciate Tim being manipulative by making her feel bad about wanting to know the truth.
"This conversation puts doubts in my mind. It's been over a year, and I thought we discussed this at nauseam. The fact that she still feels like she needs to know the same things, I don't know if we're ever going to get past that," Tim told the cameras.
To make matters worse, Tim spoke to Melyza's father man-to-man and confessed he had been with another woman -- and Melyza's father seemed horrified.
"Badly done man. We opened the doors of our home so that you could live with us. And well, for this to happen? That's no good in my book," Melyza's father responded, adding that he felt Tim was playing with his heart and playing with his daughter's heart.
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Melyza's dad said he had looked at Tim like a son and "all that image has changed."
Melyza told her dad that she wanted to work on her relationship, but her father said, "The healthiest thing would be to break up... Love is based on trust. When trust is lost, as much love there is, nothing else is left."
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Tim was told at an employment agency he needed a worker's permit in order to get a job or a visa or a residency card. He discovered the easiest way to get a job would be to marry a woman who could obtain all the legal paperwork for him.
"Hearing her say getting married is the easier option is very unfortunate because I don't think that's on Melyza's radar or mine right now. It's one more hurdle to cross that I wasn't anticipating," Tim admitted.
Tim told Melyza that if they got married, it would be a much quicker process for him to work legally in Brazil.
Melyza admitted getting married was not on her mind "at all," even though she and Tim had previously discussed tying the knot.
"I'm just not going to jump into marriage with somebody I don't even trust," Melyza said in a confessional.
Tim was happy he still had a job in the United States because if he needed to make money and pay bills, he could always return and work. Melyza, however, was angry and hurt that Tim had never told her that he kept his job in America.
Melyza said it seemed like Tim was scared their relationship wasn't going to work out and so he had a backup plan, and Tim acknowledged he was scared and needed something to fall back on if he ended up returning to the United States.
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Melyza told Tim that she was nervous and scared as well, but Tim said he had sacrificed everything to move to Colombia for her. Melyza responded with "for us."
"I didn't ask you to come here and sacrifice everything," Melyza insisted.
"I guess I feel a little bit sometimes that you might not be as committed to this as I am. I mean, I understand why you wouldn't be," Tim said.
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Melyza didn't appreciate Tim minimizing the sacrifices she had made, but she shared, "At the same time, there are certain things I've been hiding from him."
Have Tim and Melyza broken up or is the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way couple still together?
There is no sign of Melyza on Tim's Instagram account except for a post on February 25, when he shared a photo of the pair standing in front of an "I [Heart] Medellin" sculpture, as well as very old photos dating back to 2017.Tim hinted he still had some type of relationship with Melyza back in late June when he shared how they were bracing themselves for their TLC debut on 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way's second season.
"Tonight is the night. Our first episode," Tim captioned a video. "Melyza and I are feeling nervous and excited that tonight is our first episode that we will FINALLY appear @melyzazeta."
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When a fan wrote she was "rooting" for Tim and Melyza to be together, another one of Tim's followers asked, "Why?"
Tim replied, "Bc she recognizes that I messed up and I am a dork BUT even dorks deserve redemption."
However, Tim has since deleted the post.
Meanwhile, Melyza hasn't posted a photo with Tim on her Instagram account since July 2017.
"You're committed, incredibly annoying, THE cutest, and definitely my favorite person in the world," she wrote alongside the photo at the time.
On July 26, Melyza threw some shade at Tim when she shared a video of Tim recalling his affair. However, that post has since been deleted.
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Tim told the Dallas Observer in June that he wasn't looking for a serious relationship when he met Melyza.
"When I laid eyes on her for the first time it was obviously someone who was very gorgeous, but she also had this kind of aura to her. I knew I had to try," Tim noted, although Melyza lived in Colombia.
"The Catch-22 is that you might be pursuing something for longer than you would have otherwise because you've invested more in the long-distance relationship."
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When choosing to sign up for the 90 Day Fiance spinoff, Tim admitted, "We didn't know how it would affect our relationship. We knew the audience would be able to see us for better or for worse... I never saw myself as being on TV, especially reality TV, because of the negative stereotypes."
Tim also teased during his interview fans would see a lot of "growth" come from Tim and Melyza separately as well as a couple.
"I think [the viewers] start out with preconceived notions and I think how it progresses will make them think differently," Tim shared. "Not just from the perspective of our story, but also from the self-reflection that they'll have."
While Tim didn't disclose his relationship status with Melyza at the time, he told the Dallas Observer that appearing on 90 Day Fiance actually benefited his relationship in surprising ways.
"It really kind of made us analyze and examine our relationship in a much more positive fashion than I thought we would have been able to do," Tim said.
He added, "One of the things I do like about this is that there are people out there who can find similarities to my story or her [Melyza's] story... I was 100% myself."
Tim concluded his interview by saying the couple's story is "all true" and "valid."
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