Bachelorette Decides Honesty Is the Best Policy, Fucks and Tells
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“It’s hard for me to admit it but we had sex,” Kaitlyn told Shawn during Monday night’s episode of The Bachelorette, as we have known for weeks she would have to. The conversation did not go down the way it was presented in promos—Kaitlyn didn’t tell contestant Joe (and he didn’t storm off in a huff because of it), and she didn’t tell all the men together. She just told Shawn, and his reaction was first surprisingly calm, and later very frustrated.
“Do you regret it?” Shawn asked her. “I felt guilt,” she replied. “I didn’t expect that to happen,” explaining that she wasn’t able to “stop thinking about what that might do to our relationship.” In many ways, her response to him was a greatly toned down version of what she’s said in interviews both on the show and post-show, probably because it’s scary and sorta rude to be like, “I loved having sex with that other dude I’m also dating!” to one of your several boyfriends.
Shawn took some deep breaths and went to the bathroom where he was mysteriously not filmed or miced. When he came out, he looked very calm. “Thank you for telling me that, I appreciate it,” he told her, adding things like “I’m just gonna man up” and “I can’t be mad or upset.” (Well, he could be mad or upset, as Kaitlyn pointed out, and he was, as he admitted.) “What am I gonna do storm out of here? No, because I want you.”
This episode explored the age-old question of whether honesty is actually the best policy. Kaitlyn said that she told Shawn about sleeping with Nick because she didn’t want Shawn “to leave later because I didn’t tell him the truth.” Which is really only something that’s a threat on this show, where it’s a sure thing he would have found out the truth. Were they truly dating the way Kaitlyn’s trying to make it seem like they’d be dating in the wild/real world/what have you, the likelihood Shawn could remain blissfully unaware Kaitlyn was seeing other guys is much higher.