Katie Morton and Chris Bukowskiare on the up and up.
The couple, who got engaged while filmingBachelor in Paradisein Mexico this summer, hasmade no secret of the relationship strugglesthey experienced both on the beach and back home in the weeks that followed.
Speaking toE! Newsat the Lulu’s Pop-Up in Los Angeles over the weekend, Morton, 26, opened up about her and Bukowski’s raw and emotional sit-down during the in-studio portion of the season finale that aired earlier this month.
“It was what it was. It was real, it was honest. I have no regrets,” she said. “It’s different to see yourself in that environment, but we are doing so great now and so I’m happy. That totally was a growing and turning point for our relationship.”
“We’ve always been growing. Not just the taping of it but also the showing of [the episode],” she continued. “We just keep growing through all these things. It’s all very real.”
Morton added that she and Bukowski, 33, are “finally back to normalcy and trying to live a normal life.”
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On the Sep. 17 season finale, Morton appeared in the studio without herengagement ringon her finger and admitted toChris Harrisonand viewers that theirrelationship had been “rocky”since leaving the beach.
“I just put in so much effort every day and I love him so much, but I put in so much that my tank empties and if I’m not getting it filled, I break down,” she said. “I fell in love with potential that may never come to fruition, but I’m just praying it does.”
“It had been really hard for us to communicate our differences and what each other needed, especially being kind of stranded and in hiding while separated,” she said. “Chris Harrison asked me a lot of questions, even prior to what you guys saw, and so the emotions were like, building up.”
Fortunately, theygot back on track.
“Since then, it’s been so great,” she explained. “We’ve been able to be together, and he’s met my family and my friends, and seeing him with them, has been … it’s just been so much better now that we can hang out.”
“I think both of us excel in public settings, you know, with our friends, with our family. And not being able to do that, it was tough,” added Bukowski. “It made it tough, but at the end of the day, I actually think it made us better and stronger. So sometimes it takes things like that to get to a point where we are at today, and I think every day we get better in our relationship.”
source: people.com
