“I’m here to tell you it’s worth the wait to hold out for the one who is EVERYTHING to You,” the ‘Golden Bachelor’ alum wrote alongside several photos with her new boyfriend
NEED TO KNOW
- Golden Bachelor’s Faith Martin hard launched her new boyfriend on Instagram on Dec. 22
- “To all the women who think they can’t bear the loneliness of being by themselves and end up settling with a partner that’s not quite their RIGHT person, I’m here to tell you it’s worth the wait,” she wrote alongside several photos of the pair
- After the reality star was eliminated from the first season of The Golden Bachelor, she went on to leave season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise alongside Kim Buike
Faith Martin is hard launching her new love on Instagram.
On Wednesday, Dec. 22, the Golden Bachelor alum, 63, shared a series of pics of her and her new boyfriend cozying up together in front of a Christmas tree, including one in which he plants a sweet kiss on her cheek.
“To all the women who think they can’t bear the loneliness of being by themselves and end up settling with a partner that’s not quite their RIGHT person,” Faith wrote on Instagram, “I’m here to tell you it’s worth the wait to hold out for the one who is EVERYTHING to You! ❤️”
In the caption, members of Bachelor Nation, including Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist from season one of The Golden Bachelor, were quick to offer their congratulations.
“So happy for you,” Gerry, 74, wrote. “Enjoy every minute like it’s your last.”
For her part, Theresa, 72, who split from Gerry three months after they tied the knot, expressed how overjoyed she was for Faith’s new chapter.
“I cannot even begin to tell you how incredibly happy I am for you, Faith!!!” she wrote in the comments. “You look so happy and so beautiful together!! How absolutely wonderful! 💕💕💕💕”
After Gerry decided to move forward with Theresa and Leslie Fhima during season 1 of the Golden Bachelor in 2023, Faith admitted at the time that she had “lingering feelings” for him.
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“From Day 1, I saw something in Gerry that I wanted to explore,” she recalled to PEOPLE after her elimination from the show. “It was a very interesting connection for me, different than what I had experienced before. It was less full of sexual chemistry and a more heart-to-heart, soulful and kind of a spiritual connection. There was something real special about him I wanted to explore. It was an instantaneous thing.”
“There’s lingering feelings,” she continued. “I truly love the guy. It felt so good to just be in his arms. I would love to have him in my life somehow, but I also think that’s a big bite to ask for. I seriously could be friends with whoever he ends up with, and feel like I could love him appropriately in a non-romantic sense.”
By the end of the season, Gerry proposed to Theresa and they tied the knot just two months later during a live, televised special in January 2024. But after three months of marriage, the couple announced that they would be calling it quits.
Despite their history on the show, Faith told PEOPLE in April 2024 that she wanted nothing but “happiness” for Gerry and Theresa amid their divorce.
“It’s a very difficult situation, and I think it is important to realize that on a show like this, it’s so important to be so transparent and so much yourself filled with honesty and truth and ask those right questions,” she said at the time. “That’s why it’s such a serious thing. You got to ask the right questions to see if things could really, really work, and perhaps they just did not have enough time for that.”
More recently, Faith was romantically linked to fellow Golden Bachelor alum Kim Buike after their stint on season 10 of Bachelor in Paradise. But in September, she shared in a social media update that they were no longer a couple.
“We are not an in-love couple,” she explained on Instagram. “Nope, we’re not. We never fell in love. We had a great connection on the show.”
