Love Is Blind’s Bartise Bowden Offers Replace on Nancy Rodriguez

What may’ve been. Love Is Blind alum Bartise Bowden thinks that if he’d stated sure to his former fiancée, Nancy Rodriguez, on the altar, they’d nonetheless be collectively at the moment.

“That’s a part of the rationale why I stated no, as a result of I solely wanna make that call one time. Let’s say I say ‘sure,’ and we encounter issues or no matter, we’re sticking collectively,” Bartise, 27, completely instructed Us Weekly on Monday, November 21. “Her mother and father are divorced; my mother and father are divorced. I’m not going by that. So sure, if I stated sure, we might nonetheless be collectively.”

The fact TV character additionally revealed the place he and Nancy, 33, stand now.

“We took in all probability three to 4 weeks [apart] after [our] wedding ceremony day. Didn’t talk in any respect,” he defined. “After which a month later, she texted me and stated, ‘Hey, can we, like, discuss and type of decompress collectively and undergo every little thing?’”

 

The Texas native shared that he and Nancy spent “like 5 hours” speaking over dinner and drinks. “We determined to maneuver ahead attempting to be pals. Quick ahead a couple of extra months, [and] now we’re each in different relationships. And I discovered it laborious to take care of the extent of friendship that Nancy needed with me whereas I used to be additionally attempting to be respectful of a brand new lady I used to be courting as a result of, you understand, she would get jealous that I used to be speaking to Nancy,” he stated.

When it comes to what their dynamic seems to be like at the moment, Bartise instructed Us that the exes are “cordial work acquaintances.” Nonetheless, if it had been as much as him, they might’ve given their relationship one other shot after the marriage.

“That was my plan. I used to be like, ‘I’m not able to say sure for the remainder of my life with you proper now, however … if we preserve going romantically then, who is aware of what we might be?’” he stated. Nancy, for her half, didn’t share his optimism and selected to finish their romance that day. The CPA shed some mild on what he was feeling when his ex-fiancée instructed him she was accomplished.

“I’m like, ‘You understand you’re chopping me off proper now, regardless that you simply stated sure to spending the remainder of your life with me. Like, how does that make any sense?’ Which I imply, in hindsight, that was only a very emotional show from her as a result of she reached out to me three weeks later,” he defined.

Though the spark between Bartise and the speech pathologist didn’t final, he nonetheless thinks that the Love Is Blind experiment was successful in his case.

“I believe the objective for everyone is to search out out, are you able to fall in love with someone based mostly on who they’re on the within and have someone fall in love with you for who you’re on the within? So, I believe for me … the present labored. It didn’t finish in marriage; nonetheless, the present isn’t a failure for me or for Nancy,” he stated.

Throughout season 3 of Love Is Blind, which premiered in October, Bartise was trustworthy with Nancy about discovering one other girl he met within the pods, Raven Ross, bodily engaging.

“It was undoubtedly laborious and … embarrassing to look at [that conversation]. … I undoubtedly really feel unhealthy about that,” he shared with Us. Raven, 29, obtained engaged to Sikiru “SK” Alagbada on the courting present. Though SK, 34, stated “no” on the duo’s wedding ceremony day, they continued to pursue their relationship afterward. The previous fiancés introduced that they have been going their separate methods on Sunday, November 20.

“Their relationship actually was, like, probably the most secretive I suppose,” Bartise stated of Raven and SK, including that he didn’t have “a complete lot of ideas” on their cut up. “It’s not my spot to achieve out to them. I’ve are available between their relationship, you understand, loads of instances already.”

The College of Texas alum additionally weighed in on the controversial cuties’ scene between Cole Barnett and Zanab Jaffrey, who additionally went their separate methods after Zanab, 32, turned down Cole, 27, throughout their nuptials.

“I believe it was simply, like, the straw that broke the camel’s again,” Bartise stated of the second when Cole reminded his then-fiancée that they’d a “large ole’ supper” deliberate. Throughout the Love Is Blind reunion, Zanab claimed that the interplay was an instance of the realtor attempting to regulate her consuming habits.

“I don’t assume it seems to be unhealthy for Cole in any respect,” Bartise stated. “Zanab isn’t probably the most safe girl as is, so, like, that’s gonna be a difficulty for her.”