Ariel Frenkel Says Zach Shallcross Treated Sex on ‘The Bachelor’ as ‘A Monologue, Not a Dialogue’: He ‘Set the Precedent for the Whole Week’

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After confronting Zach Shallcross during the Monday, March 27, finale of The Bachelor, Ariel Frenkel is sharing more insight about her overnight date with the season 27 star.“He spoke first, he kind of set the precedent for the whole week and the whole evening, which is also what I had a problem with,” the 28-year-old New Yorker said on the “Viall Files” podcast about Zach, 26, making a rule about not having sex with his finalists. “Because throughout the entirety of our relationship, he’s making me feel like an individual.

So the difficulty of dating someone that’s dating 30 other people is to feel like an individual. And he made such a point of making me feel that way on our one-on-one [and] in different moments.

I never felt like there was anything but us, obviously, knowing there are other people in the mix. .. In saying, for this week, ‘I’m not going to sleep with anyone, I’m not going to do those types of things,’ and starting the full conversation at dinner off that way, I just didn’t appreciate that we’re now more in a collective situation in how we approach our own relationship.”Ariel added: “And also, we’re not having a conversation.

It’s a monologue, not a dialogue. … I feel like it’s very frustrating when someone takes away your ability to even have a fluid conversation.