The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner has provided more insight into why his marriage to Theresa Nist failed after only three months.
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Three months later, Gerry filed for divorce from Theresa, and then the pair's divorce was finalized in June 2024.
"I'm not sure if anything went wrong. We had conversations, and I think our mutual, deep devotion to our families kind of reared its head in conversations," Gerry, 73, revealed on the Tuesday, April 15 episode of the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.
"We started to find that common ground or that commonality of where we could share a life and where we could share a home and so forth."
Gerry said it didn't help that Theresa was "a brand new grandmother" at the time and he still needed the "support" of his daughters after losing his wife Toni in 2017.
"It almost created a situation where we recognized fairly quickly that we weren't going to find that spot where we could be together," Gerry explained.
"And I think, more than anything, that was it. And I really feel like there was a mutual admiration and respect and empathy in both ways that we kind of understood the other person's situation."
The podcast's co-host Serena Pitt asked Gerry if he thought he'd still be married to Theresa today had they lived in the same place.
"Okay, so that's a difficult hypothetical question," Gerry admitted.
"Based on what I know, and based on the experiences that we had back then, if you eliminate that huge obstacle, I can see no red flags. I still don't see any reason of why it wouldn't have worked out."
But Gerry acknowledged that he and Theresa were "also still new to the relationship" and so they didn't really know one another very well.
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"We may not have uncovered that layer of the onion that could've been a problem yet," Gerry explained. "So it's hard to answer that, really."
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But Gerry has apparently moved on. He revealed that he's now dating someone new who is adventurous and well-traveled.
Gerry's new girlfriend, whom Gerry chose not to identify, has already met his daughters.
The Golden Bachelor star also said he had "a nice conversation" with Theresa when informing her about his new girlfriend following the taping of Grant Ellis' The Bachelor: After the Final Rose segment in late March.
"I don't think we were ever on bad terms," Gerry said of his relationship with Theresa.
"I think from my side of it, my perspective, I withdrew from her. I felt like maybe I was a source of bad feelings and the negativity that came out of the show and so forth."
Gerry added, "So I kind of avoided talking to her, and not out of, you know, ill will or being combative at all. I just thought it was better if we gave each other space."
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"And now I intend to go a different direction with it," Gerry concluded. "She's on my list to call in the next couple of days. I want to get her update on Bachelor in Paradise."
Gerry shared that he's "living like you're dying" and is "more open to emotions and experiences" after being diagnosed with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, an incurable bone marrow cancer, last year.
Gerry apparently learned he has cancer while he was still married to Theresa in early 2024.
Theresa told People in December 2024, however, that cancer had nothing to do with her divorce from Gerry.
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Theresa is still holding down a job in finance in her native New Jersey, while Gerry -- who was born in Iowa -- is a retired restaurateur who lives on a lake in Indiana.
Long distance and not wanting to move away from their loved ones was the main reason why Theresa and Gerry's marriage didn't work out, according to the couple.
But Theresa clarified to People, "Part of it was the distance, but that wasn't the only part. That's really all I will say."
As of late last year, Theresa said her DMs were full of messages from men, mostly younger men, but she wasn't dating again.
Theresa revealed that she'd love to meet a man and settle down with a partner in the near future.
"I have been asked [on dates], and I've said no," Theresa admitted.
"I don't know. I'm more clear on what I want, so I don't want to waste anyone's time. I definitely do want to be with someone. I do."
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"[I hope he has] something that makes you wake up and want to get out of bed in the morning," Theresa shared of what she's looking for in her next partner.
"It's intelligence. It's to be able to speak on the same level. And that's really unique when you start talking to someone, whether or not you, you're understanding each other at your core."
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