This post contains spoilers from Monday’s episode ofThe Bachelorette.
“I don’t think I did anything wrong, to be honest with you,” the leisure executive, 29, told the guys.
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“I don’t want to just settle,” Hayden continued to the disengaged group. “I can tell you right now, I don’t see how any guy in here can be like, ‘I want to f—ing marry these girls.'”
PARIS ONE-ON-ONES
“Kissing Tino in the rain, I feel excited again after a really hard week,” Rachel said in an on-camera interview.
After the daytime portion of their dates, the couples met up.
“I haven’t had that much fun in a while,” Jason told Tino.
Rachel admitted in a confessional that she had “strong” feelings for Tino.
“To feel feelings this strong this early on, it’s terrifying because I have been through so much rejection in the past, and if Tino does the same thing to me, that would just be 10 times worse,” she said.
“Your passion for your career, it lights me up inside because I need somebody who has that kind of devotion,” the general contractor said.
Tino added that his own parents always worked full time and made sacrifices to be with him and his little brothers. “There’s always a way to make it work,” he said. “With the right person there’s just no other way around it.”
Rachel confessed to Tino that she already had deep feelings for him. “I really like you and that scares me because it is really early,” she told him. “And I want to makes sure that we are on the same page.”
Tino assured, “I wouldn’t keep accepting roses from you if I I like wasn’t willing to go to war for it and didn’t see that potential.”
They kissed and Rachel offered him a rose. “This is the easiest rose I’ve had to give,” Rachel said.
The Bachelorette felt overjoyed to have followed her intuition about Jason. “I feel like this is all the validation I need,” she said.
“I never thought I would be able or deserving to find someone,” she gushed to the cameras. “And like now it’s right in front of my face.”
GABBY’S GROUP DATE
The men warmed up with squats, burpees and some shadowboxing. Then Jesse introduced “The Bachelorette’s Battle for Love.”
“No one cares,” Rachel told the cameras. “Today just made it that much more apparent to me that I just have no idea where anyone is.”
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“There’s a lot of things people can do to better the world around them and that was just kind of my path,” Spencer, now a venture capitalist, said of why he enlisted. “I felt like kind of indebted to.”
So Rachel confronted her men about her feelings.
“I was really looking forward to the next time I saw you guys,” she began. “You did accept my rose. You did tell me you want to be here and I do want you all here, but you really made me feel hurt and unseen. I want you guys to want to be here for me and I didn’t feel that tonight at all.”
Some of the guys felt bad about the situation. “It’s not a good feeling seeing the person you’re dating with tears in her eyes, feeling like she wasn’t noticed,” Ethan said in an on-camera interview. “It was a poor reflection one everyone and I take full responsibility for that.”
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RACHEL’S GROUP DATE
“It was tough for me today to show up,” Rachel told her men at the start of the date. “And I really want to move forward and I want to get past this.”
Rachel and the guys walked in on a couple making out and eventually the pair introduced themselves as Flora and Boris, romance experts who would take the men through tasks to help them seduce Rachel.
Then the guys had to French kiss their own fists before Rachel took a whiff of their armpits to sniff out any pheromones.
Last, the men read poems they wrote to Rachel. Tyler said he actually wrote one prior to the date. He cried while reading it to Rachel and it touched her so much that he invited her to the private afterparty.
“Everything you did truly touched me, especially down to the poem and the fact that you just had it in your pocket,” Rachel told Tyler, 25, when she got him one on one.
The small business owner said he wrote it because “I just had a lot of feelings from last night.”
He proceeded to talk about a previous relationship in which he found himself to be super committed — Tyler even purchased a house for him and his significant other — but then she bailed on the relationship “out of nowhere.”
“It hurts like hell but that love, that unconditional love that I was able to feel was the best feeling in the world and I want to give that to the right person,” Tyler told Rachel. “I’m not scared of getting hurt again.”
Rachel understood that sentiment. “I feel like I see so much of myself in you,” she said.
Tyler said that ultimately, he wanted “to be somebody’s rock.”
“I am so excited about Tyler,” Rachel gushed in an on-camera interview. “He is so unafraid of love. He truly did make me realize that this is working for me.”
ROSE CERMEONY
Hayden used the time to show Rachel pictures of his dog Rambo before revealing that Rambo had been diagnosed with a brain tumor that didn’t give him much more time to live.
“I want you to understand I wouldn’t be here if my intentions weren’t to try to obviously further our relationship,” Hayden told Rachel.
“I know how much it probably takes for you to be away from him,” Rachel responded.
Hayden even brought along the duck toy that his dog took to cancer treatment. But then Tino interrupted the tender moment to try to score some time with Rachel and she obliged.
“What I would’ve expected from Rachel is to, you know, give me a minute,” Hayden complained in an on-camera interview. “Let me finish this conversation, not get up quicker than she sat down.”
Hayden regrouped with Meatball. “It’s very difficult for me to feel okay walking out of that conversation and feel comfortable saying, ‘That’s the person for me,'” Hayden said.
After hearing this, Meatball, 25, figured he should tell Rachel everything Hayden had been saying about her.
Rachel immediately confronted Hayden, but he denied saying anything Meatball mentioned.
“I don’t speak like that,” Hayden claimed. “That’s not my character.”
Rachel told Hayden she trusted the person who brought the accusations to her, so she’d have to walk Hayden out. “I feel really stupid for giving Hayden the benefit of the doubt,” she told the cameras. “He just lies and I feel very taken advantage of.”
Hayden didn’t care too much about being sent home. “I’m ready to see Rambo,” he said in an on-camera interview.
Jesse let the guys know that Rachel felt “really hurt” after the talk with Hayden and would be canceling the rest of the cocktail party and going straight to the rose ceremony.
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