'The Bachelorette': Aven Reveals How Rachel Made Him Feel Like She Was 'Giving Up' on Their Relationship

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Rachel Recchia. Following part one of 's two-part season finale, the sales executive appeared on the  podcast and shared how the pilot made him feel like she was giving up on their relationship.In the episode, the pair called it quits when Aven revealed that he wouldn't be ready to propose at the end of the season, though he told her «wanted to continue our relationship and move forward.»«I definitely had a moment there when we were conversating that, because of the engagement aspect, she was kind of just quitting on us, she was giving up on us a little bit,» he said. [She was] not really giving us a chance to [say], 'Let's take a day and think about it.

Can we move forward from this? Can we grow from this? Is this something that we could do together?'«Despite his feelings on the subject, Aven said he does „understand where she was coming from“ in her want to get engaged.»It's not like she wasn't saying it from the beginning.

It's not like she had just said it. She was saying it from day one, that [an engagement] was something that she wanted from this," he said. «I should've taken more accountability, more focus on that when it came to communicating where I was at.»While Aven may not have been ready to pop the question at the time, he was «fully confident that if we had continued on the trajectory that we were on away from the show, in the real world… that we would've gotten to that point.»«I had no doubt in my mind.

We were on such a good path. Everything that we were doing together we kept growing and growing, learning more about each other.