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22.11.2022 - 02:39 / usmagazine.com
What might’ve been. Love Is Blind alum Bartise Bowden thinks that if he’d said yes to his former fiancée, Nancy Rodriguez, at the altar, they’d still be together today.
“That’s part of the reason why I said no, because I only wanna make that decision one time. Let’s say I say ‘yes,’ and we encounter problems or whatever, we’re sticking together,” Bartise, 27, exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, November 21. “Her parents are divorced; my parents are divorced. I’m not going through that. So yes, if I said yes, we would still be together.”
The reality TV personality also revealed where he and Nancy, 33, stand now.
“We took probably three to four weeks [apart] after [our] wedding day. Did not communicate at all,” he explained. “And then a month later, she texted me and said, ‘Hey, can we, like, talk and kind of decompress together and go through everything?’”
The Texas native shared that he and Nancy spent “like five hours” talking over dinner and drinks. “We decided to move forward trying to be friends. Fast forward a few more months, [and] now we’re both in other relationships. And I found it hard to maintain the level of friendship that Nancy wanted with me while I was also trying to be respectful of a new girl I was dating because, you know, she would get jealous that I was talking to Nancy,” he said.
In terms of what their dynamic looks like today, Bartise told Us that the exes are “cordial work acquaintances.” However, if it had been up to him, they would’ve given their relationship another shot after the wedding.
“That was my plan. I was like, ‘I’m not ready to say yes for the rest of my life with you right now, but … if we keep going romantically then, who knows what we could be?'” he said. Nancy, for her part, didn’t
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