My crush began in the Burlington, Vermont airport. I bought a magazine that featured the upcoming bachelor- southern pilot Jake Pavelka.
It was a combination of his good looks, his charm and the fact the he genuinely seemed to believe in true love that had me tuning in for each episode. As the season went on and all of the bachelorettes started falling for Jake I was kicking myself for not having applied to be one of the lucky ladies fighting for his attention.
I did, however, figure that if I couldn’t have him, the girl next door bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky should. When she left the show to return to her job at facebook, I wanted anyone to have him except mean, conniving, immature Vienna Giraldi.
When he asked her for her ring size I was REALLY hoping that it was just to trick us viewers into believing he would end the season by asking her to spend the rest of their life together, but that’s exactly what he did!!
Meeting your crush’s awful girlfriend has always been the best way for me to get over them. I mean if he likes, or worse loves, her, he’s probably not the man I thought he was.
And so the search for my prince charming continues…