Cindy Culler is detailing what made her call timeout on her budding romance with Golden Bachelor Mel Owens.
Despite making it to the finale of The Golden Bachelor season two alongside Peg Munson, the retired biomedical engineer ultimately decided to self-eliminate before she and Mel made it to the fantasy suite. After all, when it came down to it, Mel’s unreadiness for an engagement was a hurdle they simply couldn’t overcome.
“I have a philosophy,” she told the NFL alum during the Nov. 12 episode. “It is to behave as if my future husband will be proud of how I’m living. If it’s you, if it’s someone else. I mean, it’s a short process, for sure, and maybe you don’t have all the answers about me, about Peg, about yourself. I kind of want my guy to feel like he got struck by lightning and can’t live without me.”
She continued, “I think you’re great, but I’m not sure I want to free fall for that long.”
To Mel’s disappointed look, she solidified her choice before he walked her out in a heartbreaking exit.
“I’m sorry. It’s not what I want,” she concluded. “That’s really hard for me to say, you’re as good as they get.”
Prior to the breakup, Cindy and Mel had a candid discussion about the end game, with her point blank asking if he was ready to be engaged at the end of his run on the ABC dating series. This led him to admit, “No. It has to develop over time. I don’t have to propose when in my own head I go, ‘In two years, I probably would marry her.'”
For Cindy, that admission solidified that he was ultimately not the forever teammate the 60-year-old was looking for.
“I gave him every opportunity to say, ‘Just be patient with me. I’m falling for you.’ And he still couldn’t even go there,” she said in a confessional prior to her exit. “He’s like, ‘Just wait for two years. Let me see where I am in two years.’ I’m sorry, but if you find a person that makes a good partner, that’s your time to commit.”
Pointing to Mel, 66, noting that he didn’t see himself getting engaged for a year or two, she later emphasized, “I’m in my golden years. I’m 60 years old. And I’m not interested in being put on hold. He is just not my person.”
Peg, however, was on the same page as Mel when it came to walking away engaged, with the duo not leaving Antigua as fiancés. However, she didn’t leave empty handed, as Mel did place a Neil Lane diamond ring on that finger.
But the jewelry, as Mel told her, “represents our commitment to love, to give us time to figure out together what our future holds.”
And it proved to be a winning playbook for the duo. “You know what’s nice about being in your 60s and going through life,” Peg, 62, shared on After the Final Rose, “you get to write your own love story—and we’re on the same page. That’s a love story the way that we get to do it.”
It’s the last person anyone would expect.
General Hospital keeps throwing suspects at us in the Who Shot Drew mystery. Was it Willow? Michael? Portia? Nina? Jacinda? They all have good reasons to do it. (Most of the audience feels the same.) But there is one person who has the best reason to want Drew gone. And, so far, no one has considered them….
Key Takeaways
You’d think, what with gaslighting Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), taunting Michael (Rory Gibson), harassing Portia (Brook Kerr), and trying to steal Monica’s (Leslie Charleson) house — not to mention swiping Tracy’s (Jane Elliot) luggage (SO mature) — Drew (Cameron Mathison) would have no time to be making his daughter Scout’s (Cosette Abinante) life miserable. And if you ask Drew, it’s not Scout he’s trying to make miserable, it’s her brothers, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr). And her grandmother, Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn).
Drew is throwing out restraining orders, right and left, to keep them all away from his little girl. For her own good, of course.
Well, Scout isn’t appreciating his efforts. She hasn’t said much about it to Drew. Probably because the poor girl has already lost her mother, Sam (Kelly Monaco).
Drew has isolated her from most of her family. Scout doesn’t want to risk losing her father’s life, too. While he’s alive, that is. If Scout is forced to live with only Drew, it would be nice if he didn’t hate her. On the other hand…
On the other hand… if Scout didn’t have to live with Drew… if he were, say, dead… why, that would be a whole other story! If Drew were out of the way, Scout could see her brothers. And her grandma. And her aunts. And basically anyone she wanted, without fear that Drew might remember that they snubbed him in an elevator once by letting the door shut in his face, and now he has a score to settle.
Could Scout have been the one to shoot Drew? Maybe because she heard about this girl in Salem, who shot her uncle… and got away with it, scot-free.