golden bachelor Mel Owens is providing some clarity (and closure) to the runner-up Cindy Angelcyk Cullers after their shocking separation.
During the Wednesday, Nov. 12 finale, Cindy, 60, dumped Mel, 66, during their Fantasy Suite date after realizing Mel wasn’t sure whether to marry her or him. Peg Munson.
“I don’t need to convince a man to love me,” she told the host. Jesse Palmer during After the final rosenoting that she was even willing to move from Texas to California to be with Mel.
Moments later, Cindy came face to face with Mel.
“It was interesting to see it come back to the dock. I had replayed it in my mind a million times because I really thought it was you. I really thought it was you,” he told Mel. “I’m just disappointed that you went this far without helping me understand that you weren’t ready for a commitment. Not just me, but all those women you brought along on this journey, when did you know you weren’t ready for something?”
Meanwhile, Mel said he was “ready” to make a long-term commitment but simply needed more time.
“What you wanted was a proposal. But there’s another person there. And you can’t just overlook that person,” he said, referring to Peg. “You have to continue the journey like I told you before. It will take time. You know the saying: first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby carriage. That won’t happen, but that’s the saying. We talked about the leap of faith, I don’t operate that way in my life.”
Then he said to Jesse, “My feelings for [Cindy] They were simple. I liked him, otherwise we wouldn’t have been together in Antigua.”
Cindy.
Disney/John FleenorAt the end of the day, Cindy said the couple just wasn’t “aligned” on what they wanted.
“I am a very wise woman. [I knew I was] not marry There was no wedding at the end of this week,” he continued. “There was a hope of engagement and bringing this fairy tale to a happy ending. That’s what I expected. I even told you that I would be willing to leave my life in Austin, move near you, not with you but near you, to pursue a life with you.”
Despite everything, Cindy hopes Mel finds the one.
“I want you to be happy, I pray for you every day. You are a great guy,” she concluded, also revealing whether she is ready to find lasting love. “My heart is very open. I learned a lot about myself on this trip. I think [my person] It’s out there.”
The episode began after a cliffhanger between Mel and Cindy, who wondered where their connection was going when she admitted that she had doubts about remarrying and was undecided between the latter two women.
“I love spending time with you. I love being with you. You’re supportive, loving, smart, but it’s a tough situation. I’m torn between you and Peg,” Mel told Cindy, who admitted she “struggled not to shut down” the environment. “You’re a brave soul for overcoming it. It’s hard to find a partner, but it could happen here, right?”
In the end, the couple didn’t spend the night in their fantasy suite together after his date night with Peg, which “exceeded” their expectations. Peg, for her part, shared a similar sentiment.
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“I feel like we understand each other better now,” he said in a confessional, after previously worrying whether Mel was “emotionally available” for a relationship. “All my concerns were definitely answered last night.”
Before the season ended, Mel exclusively told Us weekly who made a pros and cons list as he tried to narrow down the pool of women and find the one.
“I don’t normally make those kinds of lists. I can do it in my head, but when you write things down, it makes sense,” Mel said in her Us cover story. “I wanted to write down my first impressions, the good, the bad and the neutral. It didn’t really convince me, but I still managed to look at them.”
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“It was tough,” he continued, “and I’m just trying to figure out who’s going to be the best fit for me, who I’d like to be with. All the hometowns are great. But there’s that magnetism that pulls you in that direction no matter what, and it’s a little bit more toward one person than the other, so I went with my gut.”
Mel noted that the show “could be a production,” gushing about the picturesque backdrop of Antigua, where she prepared to pop the question.
“I’ve never been there,” he said of the place. “I’ve been to islands, but I’ve never been there. But whoever explored them and set them up and set things up, just the little details, it’s so good.”
From Mel’s perspective, the ending is “really emotional.”
“And you’re a little nervous, but it’s so brilliant,” he said. “It’s so good you won’t believe it… You won’t believe how we got there, not mechanically, but emotionally. There’s some movement and twists and turns.”