It appears that Bachelor star Juan Pablo Galarvis and girlfriend Nikki Ferrell have officially called it quits after attempting to rekindle their relationship in Couples Therapy. That makes 22 failed relationships from the ABC hit TV show, The Bachelor. So why do they have such a bad track record when it comes to love? After all, it is a show that is aimed to help people find the love of their lives.
Out of the 28 seasons of the Bachelor and the Bachelorette, only 6 couples have made it even after the cameras have stopped rolling and the season finales have aired. Some went on to get married and have children and others are planning their weddings at the moment, so be watching for that next Bachelor/Bachelorette live wedding!
Of that six, four are married and the other two are engaged. The very first couple to pull through, Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter got married in December of 2003 and now are married happily and have two children together. Jason Mesnick was a Bachelor and proposed to the winner of his season Melissa Rycroft but proceeded to break up with her on their After the Final Rose special, telling her that he fell back in love with his season’s runner up Molly Melaney, now Molly Mesnick as they got married and recently welcomed a baby girl, Riley.
Other couples are Bachelorette Ashley Hebert who is now Ashley Rosenbaum. Ashley married finalist J.P. Rosenbaum and they now have a son Fordham Rosenbaum. Season 18 Bachelor Sean Lowe, proposed to his bride to be Catherine Giudici and they wed on national television in a ABC live event. Desiree Hartstock who was sent home on Sean’s season became the next Bachelorette and is currently engaged to fiancee Chris Siegfried and Andi Dorfman, the most recent Bachelorette is now engaged to former baseball player Josh Murray.
So why out of 28 possible marriages did only 6 actually make it to their big day? I think that it’s easy to be in love and carry out that relationship when the cameras are rolling and it’s not out in the real world but when the filming ends and those couples are forced to adapt their relationship to reality, it makes it hard for them to make it work. It makes it especially hard to adapt when you become such a recognizable couple and the media is all over your relationship as if they’re just waiting for them to call it off so that they can be the first to report the breakup.
I believe that the Bachelor and the Bachelorette are good shows that try to help people find love, but I also believe that it’s really not relatable for people. When people are taken out of the context of reality, it makes it so much easier for them to focus on each other and pursue the relationship, but when the show ends and they are thrown back into reality, that’s when you see many of the relationships die because they now have to face all of the difficulties that come with that the first half of their relationship didn’t have to deal with.
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