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The last time Emily Maynard was in sunny Southern California, she was a contestant on the ABC reality dating show The Bachelor. That's where the Charlotte, N.C., single mom began a whirlwind TV romance with an eager-to-wed Brad Womack a catch on that culminated in the Austin, Texas, bar owner popping the question on the show's season finale. In this week's publish of PEOPLE, Maynard opens up about the rumors that have pertinacious the couple for weeks: that she and Womack had broken up. "We're no longer busy," she tells PEOPLE. "This was my worst incubus. I thought there was no access Brad and I wouldn't work out."
For his chapter, Womack, 38, is likewise reeling from the breakup. "The demise of our relationship was entirely my mistake," says the former Bachelor. "I gave Em each cause below the sun to get out much sooner than she did. She hung in there with me much, many longer than she should have." Both say they tried hard to make their relationship work yet that it had begun to explain no long afterward their Bachelor season began winding last January. "Going through it, anything was quite real for me," Maynard,Dwyane Wade Shoes, 25, told PEOPLE in March. "Even when there were 30 girls,MBT Koshi, he still made me feel special. But then, watching it behind, he had a proclivity to say the same thing to a couple of girls. So I felt less and less special."
After the finale, photographers and camera troops followed Womack nigh in Austin and Maynard and her 6-year-old daughter Ricki in Charlotte. "I had photographers appearance of my house waiting for me to go elsewhere,MBT Kimondo," says Maynard, who felt deeply conflicted about uprooting her daughter and relocating to Texas. "I thought, 'Oh, it will dead down.' But it didn't."
The paparazzi "became a mammoth game-changer," says Womack, who capable similar perusal during his 1st go-round as the Bachelor in 2007, while he famously didn't prefer both of his last two potential suitors. "I failed [Emily] in the adore namely I should have protected her." Angered by the tabloids, he periodically directed his frustration by Maynard. In an preferential expression apt PEOPLE, Womack takes the blame as the breakup, saying he made "irreparable faults that spend me what I thought was a hereafter with a woman that I love from the base of my center." Womack says his temper got the better of him when rumors approximately the couple swirled ashore blogs and tabloids. "I would obtain so vexed and would feel about violated. I would reserve those sensibilities bottled up, and at a time I had the contingency to speak to Em…I would let that negate sensation come overrunning out, and it was almost as if she was being bombarded."
Also, the couple was coping with other important stumbling blocks, including Womack's inability to entirely embrace the notion of being a 24-7 parent to Ricki. "He didn't know why I couldn't go on a random recess the next daytime," says Maynard. "It's hard for me to say, 'I am so exhausted, I want to go to mattress at 8,' and for him to know."
One thing Maynard won't be act is signing on to the afterward Bachelorette. "Right now my main focus is being a mom," she says of the gossip that she'll star in the catena. "I'm just favor any girl dealing with a heartbreak. The last thing on my idea is to do this bring an end to ...again…I'm done with all the medium presumption. I want to migrate on and get back to customary."
And while she and Womack have cried it quits, Maynard maneuvers to keep in touch with her ex-fiancé. The two are still texting and vocation every additional. Could they ever reconcile? "I don't know," she says. "Right immediately I need a wreck from everything. I don't know what's going to occur in the future. I know thatI love him, and extra than anything he's been a friend to me…I think he's all going to be a part of my life." The feeling is reciprocal. "She was the one," says Womack. "She's the only woman I ever wanted to wed. I ambition always be in love with Em."
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