6 Issues In regards to the Nurse, Her Late Fiance

Prepared for spherical two? Danielle Maltby is heading again to Bachelor in Paradise for a second time after competing in 2017 — and this time she’s hoping to search out her without end love.

Bachelor Nation was launched to the 37-year-old in 2017 when she was a contestant on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor.

Throughout her time on the sequence, followers realized that Danielle suffered a tragic loss in 2011 when her then-fiancé, Nick Haag, died on the age of 29. The previous couple have been engaged for simply three months when he handed away.

Danielle proceeded to try to discover The One on season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise. Two years later, the ABC persona solely informed Us Weekly whether or not she’d ever need to be the Bachelorette after two failed makes an attempt at discovering romance inside the franchise.

“I used to be like, nicely, ‘I don’t suppose I can do it’ after which I used to be like, ‘Effectively, it may be sort of good to have 30 males chasing after me,’” she stated in March 2019. “I imply, possibly sooner or later, yeah, I’d take into account it.”

The previous neonatal nurse added: “My life is gold proper now. I’m simply very joyful on this house that I’m in and I suppose we’ll simply must see what the longer term holds.”

In 2021, Danielle mirrored on how far she’s come since shedding her fiancé 10 years prior — and the way what she needed subsequent in life.

“At this time marks 10 years since my fiancé handed away. I’ve been pondering lots about it once more the final month. I used to be down on the seaside a pair weeks in the past having an early morning sit by the ocean and simply began crying. I had no thought why, after which it hit me. 10 years … lots has modified in 10 years,” she wrote by way of Instagram in March 2021. “SO MUCH has modified. I’m totally different in nearly each manner. I’ve completed some unimaginable issues and have among the best people in my life that wouldn’t be there, if issues hadn’t gone the way in which they did 10 years in the past. Cue the grief guilt, or survivors guilt, it has a number of names. This life I cherish wouldn’t exist proper now.”

The Midwest native defined to anybody who has misplaced somebody that it’s “OK to snicker” and it’s “OK to really feel heavy when your tune comes on the radio.” She continued: “It’s OK to begin over. It’s OK to like and embrace a contented life and its okay to acknowledge the faults in that relationship. It’s OK. Whoever you misplaced needs you to be joyful they usually need you to be joyful for you.”

The next 12 months, Danielle shared by way of Instagram that she had been seeing a therapist for 2 years and had just lately hit a “HUGE private milestone” when it got here to “committing” to herself and her happiness.

“I hadn’t dated anybody severely and knew I nonetheless had triggers surrounding relationships and love. I had reached the purpose although the place I used to be fully joyful alone and at peace with the place I used to be in life. However, I additionally knew the considered anybody probably disrupting that peace scared the crap out of me,” she wrote of the self-care expertise in September. “I’m so grateful for the connection I’ve been in a position to foster with myself and my therapist. There are periods the place I’m joyful and issues are nice and there are periods the place issues are actually f–king robust and trauma and grief rears its head.”

The truth star revealed: “The time I’ve devoted to therapeutic and processing has helped me a lot and I hope it makes me a greater future companion, however regardless, I’m so rattling happy with myself and nonetheless have a protracted methods to go. … If nobody has informed you, I feel you matter and your psychological well being issues 💛.”

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