Bachelor’s Sarah says she never fell for Sam Wood
Sarah Recieves A Rose And More
SHE was the first lady to catch the Bachelor’s eye and score a rose, but Sarah says she has come to terms with Sam’s decision to send her home because she “didn’t want another Blake situation.”
The 26-year-old Bachelorette became the second last lady to leave the mansion after tonight’s rose ceremony, but it was nowhere near as emotional as last week’s teary farewell with Heather Maltman.
“You are this beautiful, driven, intelligent woman and I know you’re destined for love. I have seen all the glimpses of your amazing qualities, but I just feel like I probably didn’t see those glimpses enough,” Sam told Sarah before she left.
“The last two weeks we’ve probably grown the most together, but I just feel that we probably didn’t grow as much as I would have hoped.”
Sarah said, while she had definitely developed “strong feelings” for Sam, she didn’t ever love him. “I could definitely see us having a relationship in the outside world and I could see him just slot into my life so easily,” she told news.com.au
“I never fell in love with Sam. I had strong, strong feelings for him but I wasn’t in love with him.”
Sarah’s final date with Sam saw the pair head to the country for a horse and cart ride and some high tea, where the conversation soon shifted to the other
remaining ladies, Snezana and Lana. “All was going well, until he said, ‘I’ve got feelings for Lana and Snez,’ and this was on
my date so I was trying to take that on board but at the same time I was trying to put a wall back up,” Sarah admitted.
The event manager from Victoria hoped it wasn’t too late to lay her cards on the table with Sam, but feared he had already made his choice.
“I went into this date with the intention of just letting everything go, just being myself, being honest and open with him so he could really see who I am because I knew it was the last time I was going to see him until the next rose ceremony.
“And our whole conversation was basically about his frame of mind, and that he had feelings for the two other girls.”
The blonde beauty admitted there was never a point where she thought she had won Sam’s heart, but never gave up hope, despite his obvious connections with the other ladies.
“I was always just taking the dates as they came, from getting the first rose and then getting the first date card and going on that first date. In between that and him dating all of these other girls, it was hard.
“The biggest struggle was trying to block out the other girls while on my dates with Sam and really just focus on the time we had together.”
While no one could describe Sam’s behaviour on
The Bachelor as anything other than gentlemanly and considerate (
Give me a break, Sam is completely inconsiderate and has shown no traits of being a gentleman), Sarah said the pair had some “emotional rollercoaster moments” where he left her hanging. Namely, the rose ceremony where Sam handed intruder Rachel Moore, Nina Rolleston and herself a rose, rather than sending anyone home. “That set me back a lot!”
But Sarah doesn’t regret raising the issue of kids with Sam during the hometown dates, where she told him she would like to travel the world with her partner for a few years before settling down and starting a family.
“I wasn’t
not going to be completely and honest with him about kids, even if it was a deal-breaker. I had to be completely black and white because otherwise there’s just no point in the end.
“If he wants kids with someone else now and she can give them to him then he may as well be with that person and the bottom line is, he didn’t give me a rose but he made the right decision for both of us. I don’t want another Blake situation, so I’m just glad he went with his gut.”