{"id":5399,"date":"2020-08-28T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2020-08-27T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T01:28:44","slug":"lessons-from-the-bachelor-from-a-major-fangirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5399","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from The Bachelor- From a Major Fangirl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Kaelyn Spickler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To say the least, I\u2019m a big Bachelor franchise fan. I feel like that has been said on repeat here in the Brackety-Ack from articles written by me, but it is what it is. That being said, not having a new season of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bachelorette<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to look forward to this summer definitely put a damper on my Monday nights, but ABC revived them by airing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bachelor\u2019s Greatest of All Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Every Monday, they aired a different season voted to be one of Bachelor Nation\u2019s favorites, and by rewatching these in a condensed fashion, I realized some things I didn\u2019t the first go \u2018round, and lucky for you, I will be sharing these discoveries right here throughout the semester!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve heard the saying, \u201cIf you love something, set it free. If it comes back it\u2019s yours. If it doesn\u2019t, then it wasn\u2019t meant to be.\u201d During Jason Mesnick\u2019s season, he was torn between his final two women, Molly Malaney and Melissa Rycroft, who were very different from one another. Not to spoil the ending, but Jason ended up proposing to Rycroft after a very dramatic goodbye to Molly where she tells him she thinks he is making the wrong decision, yet he set her free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, guess what? She came back! No, it wasn\u2019t one of The Bachelor\u2019s smoothest endings, but Jason realized those feelings for Molly never went away, so ultimately he ended things with Melissa, and Molly came back to him. Molly didn\u2019t lose hope, nor did she lose her feelings for Jason because after all, she did tell him he was making a mistake. Now, they have been married for 10 years and have a little family of their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In real-world, outside of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bachelor<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> scenarios, sometimes we have to let things go. This doesn\u2019t just apply to someone torn between two people (because how often does that happen in the real world), but it might apply to letting your high school sweetheart go if distance gets too hard, or letting your S.O. figure out life on their own for a little bit post-graduation. Letting go may cause us to dramatically breakdown on the balcony like it did for Jason, but it is comforting to know that if we have enough confidence in the relationship to let it go and it comes back, it was meant to be, and if not, then there\u2019s something even more perfect for us waiting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Timing is everything, and sometimes people need space to figure things out for themselves, but distance or space can make the heart grow fonder and could lead to that person coming back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Kaelyn Spickler To say the least, I\u2019m a big Bachelor franchise fan. I feel like that has been said on repeat here in the Brackety-Ack from articles written by me, but it is what it is. That being said, not having a new season of The Bachelorette to look forward to this summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":5400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Red_rose.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}