Who hasn’t daydreamed of falling inlovein paradise?
And Amber and Daniel’s story is particularly compelling.
When you first met, how long did you spend in person together?
No, I was traveling and living my best life.
How long has it been since you guys first met?
How long have you been dating?
I have been over 15 times, and he’s been to the United States zero.
He’s from Venezuela.
His passport’s Venezuelan.
That makes it tough for him to get a visa?
When you love someone, you love someone, right?
Exactly, it doesn’t matter the distance.
Can you describe the moment you met Daniel?
Did you know right away that he was someone special?
Did it bloom over time?
It bloomed over time.
So, I didn’t think anything too serious would come from it.
No, but at that moment I was like, “Oh, he is so fine.”
He really wanted to know who I was.
He’s so funny.
He’s so fine.
Besides him being so handsome, he just has this presence.
There’s something about him.
For me, when he walks into a room, it’s the first thing I notice.
It’s the only thing.
He’s the only one I notice.
He’s just so eager, eager to learn, eager to understand who I am.
Tell me a little bit more about that because he speaks Spanish, I’m assuming
Yeah.
Do you speak any Spanish?
How does it work then?
He must obviously speak a little bit of English.
Well, sometimes Translate doesn’t get it right all the time.
It’s not easy.
It’s really incredible.
The lengths that he went, just so we can communicate properly and not even properly.
He learned English so he could talk to me and so he could understand me better.
I’ve never had anybody do that for me.
Tell me more about what it was like falling in love in Costa Rica.
Talk about romance, right?
A wild ride, wild ride.
It’s what keeps me so involved.
Every time, every new trip, that happened.
That flame got bigger and bigger, and it made me feel alive.
It made me feel so sexual, so feminine, so aware, and yet, so scandalous.
I would say, having an intense love like that, it brought me alive.
How has that process been?
Well, doing anything with the government is a nightmare.
There’s no book on it.
There’s not enough blogs.
Being from Venezuela, living in Costa Rica, we faced hurdles with that.
Venezuela being sanctioned here in the United States.
You face hurdles with that too.
There’s nobody that can answer your question.
You have to figure it out and that’s what everyone’s going to see.
I don’t know how somebody could go through this and not even speak the language.
It’s the hardest thing even when you want to start with form one, it’s overwhelming.
There’s like 42 pages [that] involved your whole life.
I use my own brain.
There’s just a lot riding on this paperwork.
Whole life and, then, it affects somebody else’s life.
So it’s a journey that’s for sure.
No, not at all.
So if something was wrong, that would be the end.
Yeah, I don’t speak Spanish.
I don’t speak the language, and this is my home.
Have you guys had conversations about that possibility?
We talk about a lot of things.
You know what I mean?
It’s so hard.
Gosh, favorite memory?
I don’t know, it’s little things.
It’s the little things that Daniel does from just in the kitchen.
Whenever [he] sings.
He sings to me; he likes serenades.
I would never be dancing in the kitchen.
It makes me feel so loved.
How has your relationship changed since when you first got together?
I didn’t expect so much pressure really.
I don’t know.
I’ve never done anything like this.
I’ve never been in love with somebody in another country.
I never had a pandemic tell me I can’t go anywhere.
You know what I mean?
The pressure, it’s a lot.
I think it’s a roller coaster.
We all struggled in different ways.
I can’t imagine going through another year like that.
When was the last time you saw Daniel?
I got to work.
I got to work.
What do you do?
I’m a server-slash-bartender.
Do you have a favorite moment from this season?
I think being able to see him again.
We had to be apart for so long and not by choice.
When I was with him, I felt free again.
I felt like, “Oh, I’m myself again.”
I’m really lucky.
They say love conquers all.
I’m still hoping and waiting for that to be conquered.
I’m like, “Yeah, I can’t believe it either.”
I don’t even know where to start, where to begin, where it ends.
Love being one of them, selflessness being another, and and motive, being ambitious.
I’m ambitious about this love.
I’m here to do the work for this love and I’m really lucky.
No relationship is perfect.
I really don’t know.
I don’t know offhand anything that I could think of that like wasn’t shown.
[He] wanted to understand what I was saying.
From that moment on, we just talked more and more about each other and about likes and dislikes.
It’s not a good balance.
I don’t want to settle for somebody and I don’t want a man that I can …
He’s still going to do and say what he wants to do.
I wanted to learn.
I’m practicing Spanish, but is it good?
No, he’s better at it so it’s easier.
It comes really easy to him and I’m so intrigued.
He’ll tell me something.
I’m like, oh, I didn’t know that.
Very inquisitive, yet, I don’t know.
It lights the flame.
I’ve never had anybody to be so swarmed by me.
I don’t really care.
I don’t really care what anyone’s got to say.
It’s my life.
Nobody knows the struggles.
Nobody knows the hardship.
Nobody knows the love that we know is what goes on between.
I think just reminding people through everything, through COVID, and love is work.
It’s so easy to do that.
Anyone can do that.
Anyone can give up.
Do you have any regrets about your relationship or your story?
Everything’s really a lesson.
I’ve never had to do a K1 software.
I never even had to be this serious with somebody, so I don’t regret anything.
I just take it as a lesson and give a shot to do better next time and be better.
What are your hopes for your relationship?
When you sit and you envision you and Daniel’s future together, what does that look like?
Looks like a big old house, children, a family.
We want to start a family.
I want to start the next chapter with us together as in the same place.
Call me crazy fairytale land, kids, family, a big house, white picket fence.
I’m going to start off small as everyone’s going to see.
We face a lot of hurdles.
One step at a time.
I can’t do 10.
I can’t do 10 because disappointment comes.
Yeah, you just want to be together.
“Love in Paradise: The Caribbean, a 90 Day Story” premieres July 18th on discovery+.
