50 secrets only true Bachelor fanatics know

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THE BACHELOR -“Episode 2108” – Corinne, Rachel, Raven and Vanessa are left in Bimini, still shocked that Nick sent Kristina home before the rose ceremony. They wonder if they still will get a coveted hometown date from the unpredictable Bachelor. But with the stakes being so high, Nick will go on an emotionally charged journey to visit these final four women’s hometowns. Raven meets him in Hoxie, Arkansas, and cute couple have some great, sexy fun, but Raven’s father reveals some serious news. Then, it is on to Dallas where Rachel and Nick confront the challenges that might meet an interracial couple. Corinne is waiting in Miami where her father waits with some tough questions. Finally, Nick travels to Montreal to reunite with Vanessa. Although her special needs adult students give him a big thumbs up, things don’t go quite so well with her big Italian family, especially after her father drops a bomb about Nick that has Vanessa questioning their relationship. Just as Nick gets ready to make the gut-wrenching decision to send one woman home, he gets a surprise visitor, who could change everything, on “The Bachelor,” MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EST), on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Jeff Daly)NICK VIALL, CORINNE /

34. Couples Only Spend About 72 Hours Together

You wouldn’t know it by the way the contestants snivel, sob, and carry on to the camera, but they don’t get a whole lot of time together. In fact, according to Bachelor pro Ali Fedotowsky, by the time the couple gets engaged, they’ve only spent a sum total of 3 whole days together. That’s not consecutively, either folks.

Ali admits, “When you get engaged, you probably spent a total of 72 hours with that person.” And things don’t really get any easier once the cameras go away. She confesses, “We went back into the real world, and we realized we weren’t right for each other.”

Most of the contestants get caught up in the romance of it all. They’re cooped up in a beautiful mansion, completely cut off from the world, with nothing but booze and thoughts of your future boyfriend to keep you busy. I can see how feelings could develop pretty fast.

Without anyone to offer any perspective, or any real world experiences to provide balance, those dates start to mean a lot more than they would in a real world situation. This, among a lot of other factors, heavily contributes to break up rate among couples who meet on the show.

Now that Ali has some distance from the whole “journey” she freely admits that it’s mostly lust that drives the feelings and not true love.

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