'The Golden Bachelorette' Joan Vassos Shares When She Knew Chock Chapple Was the One

US Weekly

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00:00When did you make your decision that you knew Chalk was the one and why did you decide to

00:16tell Guy before he met your family that you weren't going to do that and how to do it

00:21this way?

00:22I mean, I want to be honest.

00:23I went into the Guy date kind of knowing that it was Chalk, but once again, I felt like

00:30I needed to be really true to this process, that this often works in Bachelor Nation and

00:36I wanted to make sure I did it completely right.

00:38So I wanted to have one more date with them just to see if my feelings were any different

00:43and I came out of that date getting to know a really, really great Guy and actually my

00:50feelings were stronger, but they had moved into friendship, honestly, because my heart

00:56was already with somebody else.

00:58So I wanted him to be able to leave this whole thing with dignity and I didn't want to cause

01:05him any further fame because I knew that he had strong feelings for me.

01:08So I didn't want him to have to go meet my family and become more invested because I

01:13know when I went on Hometowns and I met people's families, you do become more invested.

01:17You fall in love with them.

01:19I loved Guy's family.

01:20It was one of the reasons Guy made it as far as he did, the wonderful things he told me

01:25about him and I saw how he interacted with his kids and with his brothers and sisters.

01:31So I didn't want him to become more invested in this when I knew that my heart was someplace

01:37else.

01:38So that's why I chose to go and have a conversation with them before they ever met my family and

01:42just, you know, I had to be honest with them.

01:44I didn't want him to have any more pain.

01:46Ed, if I may, he is a classic.

01:49He is a friend of mine.

01:50We talk every week.

01:51He's a great guy.

01:52He really is and he handled this with a lot of respect and I just have great things to

01:58say about it.

01:59He's a friend of mine.

02:00He's a true friend.

02:01What does Happily Ever After look like to you guys?

02:06So I think that living life in your golden years is kind of special.

02:13You're finally, you know, not responsible for, you know, kind of raising a family anymore

02:18or for a business, hopefully, and you get to like really enjoy life.

02:21So the travel part of it is important to us, you know, maybe one day buying a home together,

02:26but like what fits our lifestyle now at this age, not what we had to do when we had a million

02:30kids.

02:32And I think, I don't know, I think like the thought after John passed away, I felt like

02:36my future was like this black hole and now it just looks so bright, like the possibilities

02:41are kind of endless for us.

02:43Which is a weird thing to say at this age, but I do feel that way.

02:45And this is my future.

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