Spoilers for season two of The Ultimatum: Queer Love follow.The Ultimatum: Queer Love wraps up its second season today with its final episodes and reunion hitting Netflix. Once again, the experiment brought together couples where one partner is ready to walk down the aisle and the other isnt ready to commit. So, in a quest to move their relationship forward, they agree to split up and live with someone else for three weeks before reuniting.As you can imagine, the season closed out with plenty of dramatics, tears, and, incredibly, some actual happily ever afters. Perhaps the sweetest of them all were AJ Bloum and Britney Thompson. Prior to the show, the couple had been together for five years, building a beautiful life together, but AJ was dragging her feet when it came to getting engaged. Based on how the season started, no one would blame you for assuming these two would separate by the end. AJ quickly became one of the more controversial cast members because of their flirty dating style. Despite that and the fireworks on the night of The Choice, when each cast member chooses their new trial wife what ended up unfolding was an awakening in AJ that they really did want to be married to their partner. PRIDE sat down with Bloum to talk about that journey, its happy ending, and some of the more awkward bumps along the road. They also got vulnerable talking about what it meant to be the only Black couple this season, and issued a warning to future cast members who have the wrong impression of what the purpose and value of this show really are.PRIDE: You've been through this experience, the ups, the downs, all that, and now you've gotten to relive it again, but this time with all the noise of the world weighing in. How are you mentally and emotionally preparing for that?AJ: I'm staying super rooted in family right now, super rooted in community, self. I do a lot of community events here in Orlando. Being part of the Pride committee here in Orlando has been super grounding and is helping me take my mind off things.As queer people, we are always looking for better representation, fuller representation. I'm curious for you, how do you hope your story can help to create a fuller picture of what the queer community and queer love look like?Honestly, I'm hoping that [in] my story, people can really just see that it's just one of many. I can't tell all queer stories because I'm not everyone.Being the only Black couple [on] the show, I really just hope that people can not just see us as a monolith, but just see us as love. That's what it is. So, I hope that they can take that from it, that love comes in all shapes and sizes. It looks different to everybody, but it necessarily doesn't have to feel different than everybody else's love. I'm hoping that people can see that love is strong and it grows and it's challenging and it's hard and it's difficult, but I hope that they can see that story and just want something better for themselves.You do bring up an important point about the cast, because you're representing so many communities, including the Black community. Did that create added pressure for the two of you?If I'm being honest, slightly, because I think that if you look at me and Britney, with us being the only Black couple, I think a lot of people can look at that and say, Okay, well, if they mess up, that's the only representation we have. I think it was a lot of well, not a lot but a little bit of added pressure. But again, I can only talk about me and show what I have. I hope that people could just see that I'm just one person, Im not the voice of all Black people. I'm not the voice of the Black queer community, but I can shine a light, and I hope that this light will help lead other people to want to represent their love in their communities, in a bigger light and/or a bigger stage.Early in the process, you really put yourself out there and tried to connect with everyone, and some people may have misinterpreted that. As evidenced by some hurt feelings. I'm curious how you interpret things as you watch them played back.It was kind of crazy to see that people thought that I was, in a way, plotting to get with certain people. Like, I never went around telling people you should choose me, pick me as your number one. The fact that people already had that in their hearts and wanted to go on more dates with me, I honestly thought was a little surprising.It was interesting watching this, kind of like, 'the British are coming' Revolutionary [War style] plan to get at me, to make me out like I'm some person that was here for fun and games. I know how it comes off as far as, like, watching it back, but I really did have a lot of deep connections and deep conversations with a lot of these individuals.But I think that with my decision [to choose Marie as my trial wife], I would hope that people saw that I wasn't here for fun and games. It really was me trying to get clarity and answers, and my decision, for me, was more grounding and stable.Did you choose your partner based on someone you felt safe cohabiting with and that you connected with on an emotional level, but who maybe was not as threatening to the relationship, because your goal was always to find your way back to Britney?I think thats the goal, right? Everybody wants to find their way back to their partner. But that wasn't necessarily my entire goal. My goal really was: If we are meant to be together, then that will be. If we are not, then this process will show that, and maybe we're saving each other so much more time on deliberation and hard conversations than if we were in the real world.My overall understanding of this was really just to find somebody to help me understand if marriage is what I want? What's really my hesitancy? I know what it is, but can I get over that? Is living with somebody going to change my mind on that? I didn't necessarily find that answer in Marie, unfortunately, but I was able to find it throughout the process. So, I think that without this process, I really would not be here in a vibrant relationship with the love of my life today.Would you do it again? Absolutely not. I think once was enough.As one of the few people on this planet who has had this experience, what advice would you give to couples considering the experiment? I honestly would tell them, Make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. Don't do this if you think you're going to get something out of this. If you're looking for fame, this isn't one of those types of things. Do it because you generally need... answers. And you want clarity, you want understanding. And if you're able to come to the table with that, then I promise you the experience will be worth it.What advice would you have given yourself?I would tell myself: Don't do it. No, I'm just kidding! I think I just have a little bit more urgency during dating week. Be a little bit more decisive. As a Libra, you're not decisive.Speak up more when you feel uncomfortable. It's okay if you're not having the greatest experience, but speak up when you feel like something's wrong. Speak up when you feel like something wasn't said right. Really, let your voice be heard. I feel like I kind of didn't have that as much [of a voice] throughout my experience, and I wish in certain circumstances, when something was wrong, I would have spoken up more. OK, lets end on a fun note: if there were ever a celebrity couple edition of The Ultimatum: Queer Love, who would you like to see in the cast? Cynthia Erivo and Lena Waithe. They are still together, and I'm waiting for a marriage out of that. So, I probably would hope they would do something like this and maybe we throw in Ariana Grande because of Wicked.Oh, [and] JoJo Siwa, because, girl.