Rachael Kirkconnell Says She and Matt James Discussed Engagement Before Split

Before they abruptly broke up aft 4 years of dating, Rachael Kirkconnell says she and her now-ex Matt James discussed getting engaged, arsenic good arsenic plans to commencement a household successful the future, during her Jan. 28 interrogation connected Call Her Daddy.

“We talked astir rings,” she said. “He told maine a fewer months agone to start, you know, redeeming immoderate things, picking things retired oregon that we should spell look astatine some—and that was a large deal, I would say, for him to say. That's erstwhile I was like, ‘Wow, okay. He truly is connected committee with this.’ That was specified a greenish emblem to maine and I felt similar the longer we were together, the much helium was capable to speech astir it and I deliberation astatine first, I could archer it was thing that did scare him a batch oregon it was similar a truly hard happening for him to speech astir and it conscionable seemed easier and easier arsenic our narration went on, truthful I felt similar that was a bully sign.”

Rachael Kirkconnell Details Tense Moments That Led to Breakup

During their travel to Tokyo, arsenic Rachael explained, the mates got into tiny arguments stemming from Rachael feeling “overwhelmed” implicit choosing places for them to devour and for Matt to movie his content. Those disagreements past snowballed into the bigger issues that were betwixt them.

“We had gotten into an statement close past and there, similar walking successful the street, we skipped lunch, we went backmost to the edifice and conscionable ended up having a bigger conversation,” the 28-year-old explained. “We were conscionable a small irritated with 1 another. But past it was like, okay, present that we're backmost present again wherever you're annoyed with me, I'm annoyed with you. I consciousness similar you're successful the wrong. You consciousness similar I'm successful the wrong. He truly conscionable benignant of fto retired everything that I conjecture helium had been feeling for a while. I don't know.”

Rachael Kirkconnell Reveals Real Reason Matt James Broke Up With Her

According to Rachael, Matt said that “at the extremity of the time determination were conscionable qualities astir maine that helium worries astir having successful a wife.”

“Like astatine the extremity of the day, determination are things that we aren't compatible with,” she recalled. “It was conscionable 1 of those things wherever helium I deliberation conscionable had this realization that I should privation to suggest to you by this time. Like astatine this constituent successful our relationship, ‘I should beryllium wanting those things and I should beryllium acceptable for that. But I'm not still, I inactive don't consciousness similar we're acceptable oregon I don't consciousness similar I'm ready. I don't cognize if I ever spot myself proposing to you. I can't really spot myself joined to you.’"

“He said that, you know, ‘Maybe 1 time helium would get there, but helium doesn't consciousness acceptable now.’ And I told him, I said, ‘Well, I consciousness similar aft 4 years you should cognize oregon you should consciousness ready. And if you don't past that's not a bully thing. We astir apt shouldn't beryllium unneurotic if you don't consciousness similar that aft 4 years due to the fact that you cognize maine amended than anyone.’”

Rachael Kirkconnell Details Learning About Matt James’ Breakup Post connected Airplane

As the Bachelor Nation prima explained, arsenic she boarded a level to pitchy retired of Tokyo, that’s erstwhile she was alerted that their divided had present go public, acknowledgment to Matt’s Instagram station announcing their split—and that she was past incapable to entree Wi-Fi for different 12 hours.

“We’re virtually getting acceptable to instrumentality disconnected and my telephone blows up,” she noted. “It’s 1 of my champion friends and it says, ‘Rach,’ with a clump of question marks, and arsenic soon arsenic I saw that, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, however does she know,’ and past she texts maine again and said, 'I saw Matt’s post. Is this existent life?’ And that’s however I recovered retired that helium posted. So then, virtually the level is taking disconnected and I spot his post, and that’s it. I don’t person immoderate work oregon thing for the adjacent 12 hours."

"So, I’m freaking retired because, you know, conscionable got breached up with and now, a fewer hours later, it’s for the full satellite to spot and I’m inactive trying to process it," she continued. "I’m inactive successful full shock, truthful past knowing similar the full satellite is seeing this. I’m like, 'This is truthful crazy. I can’t adjacent wrapper my caput astir this close now.’”

Rachael Kirkconnell Shares Whether She’s Spoken to Ex Matt James After Breakup

Noting that she inactive “would emotion to know” the nonstop crushed down Matt’s societal media post, Rachael noted the determination “really yet conscionable enactment a nail successful the coffin.”

“But I person spoken with him since each of that,” she said, “and I bash cognize that helium decidedly acknowledges that that was not the close decision.”

Rachael Kirkconnell Reveals Whether She'd Reconcile With Matt James

“I don’t deliberation I can ‘cause I deliberation erstwhile idiosyncratic says those things that helium said, you know, ‘I don’t deliberation you’re my person. I don’t spot america getting married,’ I deliberation that’s erstwhile you person to telephone it quits,” she explained connected Call Her Daddy. “Just the mode that helium handled each of this and this station and everything. I forgive him, but I conscionable don’t deliberation I tin beryllium with idiosyncratic that—I felt similar helium disrespected maine astatine the extremity of the time doing that.”

She added, “It’s conscionable 1 of those things wherever you person to basal up for yourself adjacent if you don’t privation to. Of course, there’s portion of maine that [wishes] we could conscionable get backmost unneurotic and unreal that this ne'er happened, but that’s not the lawsuit and I deliberation arsenic hard arsenic it is, I deliberation the close determination is to basal up for myself and beryllium connected my own.”