(Probably) not together
How cute were these two? That Love Actually moment during intimacy week was one of the sweetest things ever. One of this season’s faves, Rachel and Steven’s biggest hurdle was the very, very big distance between them — 900 km to be precise. When they made it to final vows, they actually decided to stay together.
“You’ve never asked me to tone it down, be less or shrink myself to fit beside you. You’ve let me, be me, completely, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted. I choose you Steven,” Rachel said.
Steven’s vows read: “I promise from this day forward, to show up for you, take every risk with you, and to never stop choosing you. I am falling for you.”
However, things aren’t looking great. Apparently, things ended just days after final vows. “Rachel gave everything to that relationship and everyone saw Steven start to come around at the end,” a source told Refinery29 Australia.
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Not together
And to finish off a pretty unsuccessful season, we have Sam and Chris. Things quickly turned sour for this pair when Sam shared that he wasn’t ready for fatherhood — and Chris shared that he was expecting a child with a friend through IVF. There were plenty of arguments, and eventually, they called it quits.
And apparently, it was never going to work. “Off-camera, I got nothing from [Sam]. We went on one date,” Chris later told Nine. “He didn’t hold my hand, no affection. He didn’t even know my kids’ names. He didn’t know my mum’s name who came to the wedding, my sister’s name who came to the wedding.”
He added, “When there was a camera in front of Sam’s face, he said all the right things.”
As for Sam, he said, “I think it’s learned behaviour through his whole life, and getting Chris to change the way he reacts to feedback in just a couple of weeks was impossible. I think I just decided that I’m looking for someone who has that emotional maturity now, and not someone that I would need to work through these things with.”
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