What made you want to take the step to go on this show? You gave your partner an ultimatum, but then, what made you interested in taking the next step of going through this experience along with that?
April: One was that I was already hounding and nagging; I’m like, “Let’s get married. When are we gonna do it? We can do it tomorrow. Let’s do it now. Let’s do it today. We finance each other’s vehicles. I lived with you for a year and a half. I do your laundry. I cook. We wake up to each other every morning, go to bed together every night. What gives?”
It’s so funny because I’ve been, as he says, I was pretty hounding him on, “Let’s get married. Let’s do it,” because I hate wasting my time. My relationship before this one was three to four years long, and I was like, “All right. We’re not getting here, and I’m done.” I was like, “I’m not going to go down that road again of wasting four or five years of my life,” and “[The] Ultimatum” [cast] us, and I was like, “God has answered my prayers.” And so, “[The] Ultimatum” it was.
You probably went into the process of knowing it would be potentially pretty difficult, but do you feel like you were able to be prepared for what that would feel like, actually going through it?
April: That is a funny question. [I can’t say] “I knew that it was going to be a little bit difficult going through this experience,” because I didn’t. I was 100% confident that this is going to bring us together. It’s going to bring us closer to realize, ultimately, what we have here and value it.
Jake was the one that was like, “I don’t want to do this. I’m really scared. This is a dumb idea,” and we get on the show. We go on. I’m having the worst time of my life, and he is having a ball. Week one, I [thought], “All right. This is not fun.”
