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Craig Conover isn’t buckling beneath the stress to get engaged to his girlfriend of three years, Paige DeSorbo.
As he continues to be confronted with questions on their subsequent steps, the 36-year-old Southern Attraction star is wanting again on an unaired dialog he had with Kyle Cooke, 42, Jesse Solomon, 31, and Carl Radke, 39, insisting he and Paige, 31, are in settlement about their future, explaining what followers don’t find out about their long-distance dynamic, and extra.
“I’ve discovered to place one foot in entrance of the opposite. I’m attempting to not let the unknown of the long run wreck the happiness of as we speak,” Craig defined to OK! Journal of the pressures on his relationship on September 25. “I believe discovering the correct particular person is the powerful half, and I may have discovered the mistaken particular person in Charleston and have a structured life — or be with a woman that I like. To have the ability to have a social life in New York is a dream come true.”
In the course of the eighth season of Summer time Home, Craig opened as much as Paige’s castmates about his hesitancy to get engaged. However, sadly, the scene by no means aired.
“I used to be bummed as a result of I don’t suppose it aired on Summer time Home final 12 months, however at one level, Kyle [Cooke] was urgent me. It was me, Jesse [Solomon] and Carl [Radke] standing there, and he was like, ‘Why aren’t you engaged but?’ I used to be like, ‘I don’t wish to find yourself like all of y’all!’” he admitted. “Carl was like, ‘I get it, dude. We received engaged as a result of everybody was telling us we might determine issues out, however we’re figuring issues out now whereas we’re engaged.’”
“So, Paige and I are on the identical web page about getting married. We’re figuring issues out all of the stuff you’re supposed to determine beforehand,” he added.
In keeping with Craig, he is aware of there are going to be ups and downs between him and Paige and would fairly determine them out now, fairly than wait till they’re engaged or married.
“I used to be lucky to have nice mother and father rising up, however outdoors of that, I simply had Hallmark to base relationship speeds on. You meet, you fall in love, you get engaged, you get married, however Paige has finished a superb job of being like, ‘In the actual world, it’s good to date and discuss funds and the place we’re going to dwell and children,’” he famous.
Paige has additionally made a degree to deal with her profession as a person.
“It was actually necessary to her to turn out to be a profitable profession girl earlier than she turns into Craig’s fiancé — whether or not that’s one thing that occurs or not if you get engaged, she wished that independence, and I respect all of that,” he said. “Typically that was exhausting to determine. I needed to decide — do I keep in a relationship the place I’m comfortable and do not know what the long run seems like or do I transfer on? For me, I’m happier with Paige and never realizing what tomorrow seems like. There’s a variety of stress, and we’ve each realized in the future we’ll determine the place we’ll dwell, however proper now, we love being in each locations.”
As for his or her long-distance relationship, with Craig in Charleston and Paige in New York Metropolis, Craig reminded followers that they don’t see every thing on tv and social media.
“We’re with one another each day, so what folks don’t notice is we break up time collectively in these two [Charleston and NYC] completely different locations. Paige and I spent the spring in Charleston as a result of we have been filming Southern Attraction, however we by no means go greater than three or 4 days with out seeing one another, which is sweet,” he revealed. “We mainly dwell collectively — simply in two completely different locations! It’s good that we’re beginning to see an increasing number of long-distance {couples} reaching out and saying they really feel represented by seeing us on TV now.”
Throughout one other interview, on the 2024 Individuals’s Alternative Nation Awards on the Grand Ole Opry Home in Nashville on Thursday night time, Craig spoke extra of his future with Paige, particularly addressing once they’ll transfer in collectively.
“When we’ve youngsters we’re gonna must,” he shared with E! Information. “Or if we’ve youngsters. Charleston and New York Metropolis are nice locations to dwell. I like the stability. If we’ve youngsters and so they get grade faculty age, then we’re gonna must determine it out. She’s from a really shut Italian household, so it is likely to be me going up north.”
For now, Craig stated his focus is on rising his companies.
“However that simply comes from wanting to construct stuff for our future household,” Craig shared. “I believe I’m very family-oriented as in I wanna have a superb basis in order that, when the youngsters come, I might be with them as a lot as attainable. Your priorities shift a little bit bit.”
As for why Paige wasn’t with him on the occasion, Craig added, “Paige is along with her mother and father up in New York. She had one thing with Amazon as we speak.”
