Prior to the breakup, Cindy and Mel had a candid discussion about the end game, with her point blank asking if he was ready to be engaged at the end of his run on the ABC dating series. This led him to admit, “No. It has to develop over time. I don’t have to propose when in my own head I go, ‘In two years, I probably would marry her.'”
For Cindy, that admission solidified that he was ultimately not the forever teammate the 60-year-old was looking for.
“I gave him every opportunity to say, ‘Just be patient with me. I’m falling for you.’ And he still couldn’t even go there,” she said in a confessional prior to her exit. “He’s like, ‘Just wait for two years. Let me see where I am in two years.’ I’m sorry, but if you find a person that makes a good partner, that’s your time to commit.”
Pointing to Mel, 66, noting that he didn’t see himself getting engaged for a year or two, she later emphasized, “I’m in my golden years. I’m 60 years old. And I’m not interested in being put on hold. He is just not my person.”
Peg, however, was on the same page as Mel when it came to walking away engaged, with the duo not leaving Antigua as fiancés. However, she didn’t leave empty handed, as Mel did place a Neil Lane diamond ring on that finger.