90 Day Fiance couple Tim Clarkson and Melyza Zeta are trying to rebuild their relationship after Tim cheated as shown on Season 2 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, so did Tim and Melyza buckle under pressure and break up or is the couple still together now?

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[90 Day Fiance Spoiler Warning: This report includes spoilers that reveal if Tim and Melyza are still together or if the 90 Day Fiance couple have broken up.]

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."

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Tim said he has "no game" but Melyza probably liked him since he's goofy and funny.

Melyza was working as an au pair in Iowa and learning English when they met, and he said it didn't take long for them 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.

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The pair continued dating, but then Melyza returned to Colombia to "finish her studies," according to Tim.

It didn't take long for Tim to grow tired of dating long distance. He also said the couple was struggling with "some insanely tough things."

"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."


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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."

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Tim hoped he could prove his commitment to Melyza, saying she was "worth" the sacrifice of leaving his life in America behind.

"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.

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Tim wanted to be more vulnerable with Melyza once they reunited in Colombia, but he noted it had been a while since he last heard Melyza tell him, "I love you."

Tim said he needed things to be happy in the relationship as well, which he felt guilty to say considering he had been the unfaithful person.

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."


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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.

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"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.

She later added, "When we tell [my dad], I think he's going to completely lose respect for Tim. And I think he's gonna be really heartbroken obviously, because he really, really loves Tim."

Tim noted it would be like "a death sentence" if Melyza's parents stopping liking him or didn't approve of their relationship.


While the pair had a sweet and happy reunion in Colombia, it didn't take long for Melyza to bring up their issues.

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.


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"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.

Melyza's dad said he had looked at Tim like a son and "all that image has changed."

Tim believed he had killed his relationship with Melyza's father, and he cried, saying that really hurt. Melyza told her dad that she wanted to work on her relationship despite the obstacle, 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," Melyza's dad said.

Tim set out to prove he was serious about rebuilding his relationship with Melyza after being unfaithful to her, so he headed to an employment agency in the hope of starting a life and career in Colombia.


"Once I do find a job, that would boost my confidence immensely -- just knowing I can truly take care of us so we can focus on our issues," Tim told the cameras.

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.


Are Tim and Melyza still together or has the 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way couple split?

Tim hasn't posted anything of Melyza on Instagram since June, and there is no sign of Tim on Melyza's Instagram page in recent months, except for a couple of old photos dating back to 2014.

Melyza and Tim, however, still follow each other on social media, and Tim hinted he still had some type of relationship with her back in late June.

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Tim shared how he and Melyza were bracing themselves for their TLC debut on 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way's second season by posting a video clip of the couple's story in late June.

"Tonight is the night. Our first episode," Tim captioned the video. "Melyza and I are feeling nervous and excited that tonight is our first episode that we will FINALLY appear @melyzazeta."

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."

Tim has tagged Melyza in a meme or two in recent months, according to In Touch Weekly, but his last photo with Melyza was from late February.

Tim posted an Instagram photo with Melyza in Brazil next to a giant sculpture that reads, "I [Heart] Medellin."


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Meanwhile, Melyza hasn't posted a photo with Tim on her Instagram account since July 2017.

On July 26, Melyza also apparently threw some shade at Tim when she shared a video of Tim recalling his affair.

"My eyes are light-sensitive, [which] makes me blink a lot. But, no worries, I can still see through the BS," Melyza wrote in the caption.

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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.


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"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."

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.


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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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About The Author: Elizabeth Kwiatkowski
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