90 Day Fiance alum Mike Berk has revealed he's engaged to a new woman one year after his rough breakup with Ximena Morales.
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"Lots to celebrate!" he added.
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Due to Mike's work schedule and travel plans, he told the magazine that he had "begun preparations for Valentine's Week" early.
"It's not just one day, it's every day for us. We are planning two separate steps," Mike explained.
"She and I will be cooking via FaceTime where we have planned surf and turf dinner, with some Voli Mojitos, some soft jazz playing while we exchange small gifts by candlelight."
Mike also said he and his new fiancee were going to enjoy "dessert with the family via FaceTime."
"[We] will share little exchanges and the men provide flowers to the women in the family," he said. "We will then play a couple of games online with the kids to ensure everyone is included with a partner or without."
Mike reportedly first went public with his new relationship in September 2022, when he shared photos of a dinner out with his "queen" in Miami, FL, just seven months after his engagement to Ximena ended in February 2022.
"Living our best lives! Thank you, Amor," Mike wrote via Instagram at the time. "Finally relaxing with my queen."
Mike starred on Season 5 of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days with his then-girlfriend Ximena.
In the few weeks after getting engaged, Mike noticed how Ximena had become guarded, distant and somewhat rude to him.
RELATED LINK: '90 DAY FIANCE' COUPLES NOWAnd when Mike visited Ximena in-person for the second time to try to fix their relationship, she admitted that she didn't love him and thought he was "weird" and "filthy."
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"I just want to ask, you don't love me and you need your space. I just can't stop thinking that your feelings changed when I stopped saying 'yes' to buying everything," Mike said, referring to how he wouldn't pay for Ximena to have plastic surgery.
"You have things that I don't like," Ximena responded. "That's what totally changed my feelings. And you still pay my rent, so it's not that."
Ximena said she felt "humiliated" by that accusation and added how Mike was "throwing things" in her face. She said if Mike thought that she was only with him for money, then he didn't know her at all.
Ximena therefore determined she just wanted to be friends with Mike, and she asked him to stop sending her money because she'd pay for things on her own.
"Today, our relationship is over," Ximena noted, brutally dumping Mike during his second trip to Colombia to see her and her family. "And I'm serious. Everything is over."
Mike called Ximena "a mean, evil, cold b-tch," but he ended up apologizing for his language and for treating Ximena that way.
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"Is Mike my boyfriend? Yes. Well, I mean, we started to talk again and, well, we are boyfriend and girlfriend again. Well, we're planning to go to Cartagena and I'm going to see how Mike has changed," Ximena explained. "We will stay together until we get married."
Ximena said she hoped that Mike had changed his ways, such as his messy room and tendency to burp and fart in front of her.
Ximena claimed she was in love with Mike at the beginning of their relationship but then her feelings totally changed.
The cast advised Mike to get out of the relationship because Ximena seemed to be in it for the wrong reasons, especially since Mike had been paying her rent and had furnished her apartment.
Ximena, however, said she wasn't with Mike for the money and would be willing to learn English for Mike.
After the special filmed, Mike FaceTimed with Ximena, who actually said, "I love you so much," before telling Mike that she truly wanted to make things work with him and would try very hard.
Mike thought Ximena's profession of love validated everything he had been thinking about their relationship in his mind, despite the suspicions and criticism from others.
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But in mid-February 2022, Ximena posted a TikTok video featuring an entirely different guy.
Ximena was apparently showing off her new boyfriend, indicating that she and Mike had recently broken up.
Ximena quickly deleted the video of this mystery man, presumably because 90 Day Fiance producers had seen the spoiler material -- which indicated she was no longer engaged to Mike -- and asked her to take it down.
Mike proceeded to comment on all the drama on Instagram when a fan asked him if he's okay.
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A man claiming to be Mike's friend also commented on Ximena's questionable TikTok video featuring the new guy, writing, "Poor friend. He just got back from Columbia yesterday. Treated her and the fam to Cartagena and that dude had a hotel room next door to Mikey's room. She was banging them both and he caught her. What a money hungry b-tch!!!"
And on February 21, Ximena took to Instagram to post a photo of her new tattoo that pays tribute to the 2002 Disney movie, Lilo & Stitch. That tattoo on her wrist appeared to cover up a tattoo she had previously received of Mike's name.
Ximena had previously shown off that Mike tattoo in September 2020 on TikTok, according to the magazine.
In March, Mike was spotted filming at a restaurant in New York with his friend Nelcy, who is in a relationship with Mike's best friend John.
Nelcy was featured on 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days and had a blowout fight with Ximena during the reunion special. Nelcy believed Ximena was using Mike and didn't deserve him.
Photos of Mike and Nelcy out in Pomona were posted on Reddit, and so fans speculated at the time that Mike was filming for a future 90 Day Fiance spinoff such as 90 Day Fiance: The Single Life or 90 Day Diaries, which further drove home the fact Mike was single.
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