The Bachelor Season 19 Chris - Prince Farming NO SPOILERS

[Imzadi]

I think Chris is gonna wake up one morning really regretting that he sold his "Soules". I really, really think he knows his life is not going to be the passionate one he seemed pretty happy chasing so he is having his last hurrah in LA. Word is that this is a business arrangement, and I honestly believe that over them being "Soule-mates"

But, isn't that what most "old fashioned" marriages are? They pick someone with the best "fit" and make it work, over going with their hearts? In some ways, I think Chris has those old fashioned values. Got them from his parents down the road, and generations upon generations of the farm life.

The problem today is we are living decades longer than before and there are more opportunities of other kinds. Like I DO think Whitney will be over the SAHM and farmer's wife routine in 6-7 years when the last kid is finally out of diapers and is in school all day. She will want back into a faster, more high-powered city life. And that's when both Chris & her find there may not be enough love there after all to keep them together, even with the kids. Or they stay together and she & the kids are basically in Chicago.

Those kids will be going to very competitive colleges, and she will do what it takes to prepare them for it. Just like she has a 10 year planned outlined for herself now. And if some small high school in Arlington, with very few extra-curricular activities to put on their college applications isn't the place, she WILL move those kids, farm or no farm.

 

[FINFAN]

But, isn't that what most "old fashioned" marriages are? They pick someone with the best "fit" and make it work, over going with their hearts? In some ways, I think Chris has those old fashioned values. Got them from his parents down the road, and generations upon generations of the farm life.

The problem today is we are living decades longer than before and there are more opportunities of other kinds. Like I DO think Whitney will be over the SAHM and farmer's wife routine in 6-7 years when the last kid is finally out of diapers and is in school all day. She will want back into a faster, more high-powered city life. And that's when both Chris & her find there may not be enough love there after all to keep them together, even with the kids. Or they stay together and she & the kids are basically in Chicago.

Those kids will be going to very competitive colleges, and she will do what it takes to prepare them for it. Just like she has a 10 year planned outlined for herself now. And if some small high school in Arlington, with very few extra-curricular activities to put on their college applications isn't the place, she WILL move those kids, farm or no farm.

that's what I mean by he's gonna wake up and uh-oh.....his visions of his kids going to his high school, learning to shoot hoops at the same barn he did yadda yadda~poof! I guess I am totally off but I think that is what he was after, and while Whitney says she's all in, it is on her terms not his. I guess he is willing to settle for a few years of family in Arlington rather than no family at all. That's a sell out to me and it makes the women who were up front about not dealing with Arlington from the get-go more honest IMHO. However, Chris made a deal with the ABC Network devil so guess he gets what he asked for lol, Again, it also explains his hound dog ways with all the women...getting what he could WHILE he could as he knew the reality of Whitney was waiting. If you watch his actual proposal to her, he is looking at the ring/ground when he says "I love you, and THEN looks up to ask her if she will marry him. That is a huge sign to me...

 

[kimmar067]

Whitney, on the other hand, has a PLAN! She's had one looooong before Chris came into the picture. She knows what she wants. She already had her eggs frozen and has been planning ahead for quite some time now. Now, she's rearranged her career and seems to have some contingency plans in place with the sisters already.

She probably already has Chris' kitchen cabinets reorganized and everything alphabetized to her liking. She's a strong, type-A personality. To me, while she is certainly going to go after and get what she wants, she also knows she may have to compromise to get things to work. That's an old fashioned marriage value from previous generations, that isn't as popular in our quick, "in a microwave minute" current generation that tosses out things that get the slightest speed bump rather than doing what it takes to make them work. While the marriage may ultimately fail, I'd say after about 6-7 years, by then they will have 2-3 kids, and will really have given it all they've got to make it work. OR she & the kids will basically be spending the majority of their time in Chicago, (they go to a progressive school,) as their marriage drifted apart, but they do what they must to make it work for the kids.

In that sense, while Chris' heart may prefer someone softer like Becca or Britt, living on a farm, even if in more of a management position, he needs someone strong, more organized and knows what she wants. So Whitney fits better the kind of life and lifestyle he leads.

....while this may be true [and trust me, I agree with you whole-heartedly about everything here] I just don't get 'the love vibe'....

 

[robinb]

My daughter had a track meet on Dubuque in Friday and we passed the Hotel Julian of Bachelor fame. The editing made Dubque look much nicer!

 

[Mizzoufan]

I hope this isn't aganist the thread rules. Does anyone have any clue what Whitney big reveal that she doing on GMA this week. I keep seeing clips about it.

Once again I'm sorry if this goes aganist the threads no spoilers policy

 

[FINFAN]

My daughter had a track meet on Dubuque in Friday and we passed the Hotel Julian of Bachelor fame. The editing made Dubque look much nicer!

lol yep. No offense to those who live/love it, but yeah...editing made a LOT of things look nicer than they are

 

[FINFAN]

I hope this isn't aganist the thread rules. Does anyone have any clue what Whitney big reveal that she doing on GMA this week. I keep seeing clips about it.

Once again I'm sorry if this goes aganist the threads no spoilers policy

I will send you a pm with what I think it is

 

[Mizzoufan]

I will send you a pm with what I think it is

I will turn on my pm for it!

 

[FINFAN]

I will turn on my pm for it!

it's not letting me start a convo with you...try starting one with me?

 

[Mizzoufan]

it's not letting me start a convo with you...try starting one with me?

I got it. took me a while to remember how to turn it back on lol

 

[FINFAN]

I got it. took me a while to remember how to turn it back on lol

ok good...not that it's all that exciting lol or that I'm even right

 

[Mizzoufan]

ok good...not that it's all that exciting lol or that I'm even right

Did you get my response. I think I did it right LOL

 

[FINFAN]

Did you get my response. I think I did it right LOL

nothing yet....?

 

[robinb]

The show's over. You can talk about Whitney now .

 

[robinb]

lol yep. No offense to those who live/love it, but yeah...editing made a LOT of things look nicer than they are

I've been to Dubuque before, I just forgot how industrial it is.

 

[Imzadi]

I hope this isn't aganist the thread rules. Does anyone have any clue what Whitney big reveal that she doing on GMA this week. I keep seeing clips about it.

Once again I'm sorry if this goes against the threads no spoilers policy

The Spoiler only had to do with which girl was going to win. Now that that is over, anything else, I would think is fine. I didn't even know Whitney was going to reveal anything. So do post if it is something juicy.

 

[FINFAN]

The Spoiler only had to do with which girl was going to win. Now that that is over, anything else, I would think is fine. I didn't even know Whitney was going to reveal anything. So do post if it is something juicy.

ok...I basically pm'd that Whitney froze her eggs and is "great friends" with Becca. I figure she is friends with her to keep an eye on things

 

[Imzadi]

ok...I basically pm'd that Whitney froze her eggs and is "great friends" with Becca. I figure she is friends with her to keep an eye on things

So, if Becca comes for a visit and "falls" off a high bale of hay, we'll know it's NO accident.

 

[Mizzoufan]

I was hoping it was Whitney was pregnant

 

[kimmar067]

The Spoiler only had to do with which girl was going to win. Now that that is over, anything else, I would think is fine. I didn't even know Whitney was going to reveal anything. So do post if it is something juicy.

....like, she's preggers or something...