Four couples get married again without having met, when the twelfth season of the reality series kicks off. One of them is Jannika Svensson, a sign language-using municipal guide in Örebro, who was not prepared for the emotional storm.
I would never have wanted to trade the experience, but you can't really imagine how fun it is, how sad it can be, how much you can laugh together with people you don't really know, she says.
For her, the biggest challenge during the journey was to meet herself.
I've had very low self-confidence and self-image and probably went in with the attitude that "if just this person likes me, the rest will be solved", she says - a thought she had to reconsider.
Last Resort
Jannika Svensson has never found someone she clicked with and wondered if the fault lay with her. She thought the experts' matchmaking was a kind of last resort.
The first meeting with the new partner, she describes as "really scary".
Trying not to have any expectations or hopes, because you have a type and it might not be the type you usually have, it was incredibly exciting.
Want to be Liked
If there was any love or not, Jannika Svensson won't reveal. But she feels that she has learned a lot about herself. She has got a new self-image, thanks to the conversations with the experts and the tools she got.
Still, it feels nervous to now be judged by the viewers.
You always want to be liked, so it's clear that I'm nervous. I hope I don't totally mess up. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be received well.
Facts: "Married at First Sight"
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Season twelve is broadcast on SVT Play and SVT1 on Mondays starting April 14, but the first episode has a sneak premiere on SVT Play already on Friday, April 11.
This year's experts are Suzann Larsdotter, specialist in clinical sexology, psychologist and psychotherapist Maria Farm, and psychologists Fredric Bohm and Hana Jamali.
