90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days has shown Ximena Morales Cuellar breaking up with Mike Berk and crushing his heart in Colombia, so are Mike and Ximena still broken up or did the couple eventually reconcile? Do 90 Day Fiance spoilers reveal that Mike and Ximena are back together?
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[90 Day Fiance Spoiler Warning: This report features spoilers about the current status of Mike and Ximena's relationship and if the 90 Day Fiance couple ever got back together].
On Season 5 of 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days, Mike, a 34-year-old IT support technician and volunteer firefighter from Thiells, NY, revealed how he had met Ximena, a 24-year-old from Pereira, Colombia, on a dating app after being single for 20 years or so.
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Mike hadn't been in a serious relationship since high school and he wanted to find a woman with whom to settle down, get married and welcome children with.
When Mike saw Ximena, he thought she was "the most beautiful woman in the world." The pair went on to communicate for about a year despite the Spanish-language barrier between them.
Mike dreamt of Ximena and her two sons, Harold, 3, and Juan, 9, moving in with him in the United States. (Mike lived with his father and grandfather at the time).
Mike then packed his belongings, as well as an engagement ring, for a two-week trip to Colombia. Mike said if he discovered Ximena had been using him the whole time for money, considering he paid her rent and much more, his heart would be broken.
Prior to Mike's arrival, Ximena shared how she lived in Pereira in Colombia and Juan's dad was a one-night stand. She also said Harold's dad was in jail.
She was struggling financially as a manicurist amid the coronavirus pandemic, and Mike had been filling up with her place with necessary items such as a stove and refrigerator.
"I stay afloat with what Mike contributes to me," Ximena said. "But Mike is not the kind of guy I'm usually attracted to because I like big men. My ex-boyfriends have been policemen, tattoo artists, farmers, even drug dealers."
Ximena admitted that she didn't find Mike physically attractive but she was attracted to his heart.
When Ximena and Mike met at the airport for the first time, Ximena claimed their kissing wasn't passionate. She also watched Mike struggle when trying to talk to her extended family.
But Mike said his first night with Ximena in bed was "the best time" he's ever had with a woman. He said she "knocked it out of the park" and they did it "over and over again," while Ximena just thought the encounter was "normal" and "nothing out of this world."
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Ximena later broke Mike's heart by telling him that she couldn't have any more children.
"I suffered a lot with my two deliveries because to have a child Caesarean is the worst pain a mother could go through," Ximena explained in a confessional. "So I decided to get operated [on] and they cut my tubes and burned them, so that I definitely couldn't have more kids."
Mike wished he had been told this sooner because he didn't like having secrets between them, and he called the news "devastating." However, Mike succumbed to the fact he could raise Ximena's two boys as his own.
As time passed, Ximena found Mike's habits annoying and "super, super gross."
"He throws clothes everywhere like a kid. He'll let out a fart in front of me," Ximena complained. "And he burps on top of you. So it's like, 'Oh no!' It's funny but infuriating at the same time... Can you imagine three or four years from now?! It's crazy."
Mike told Ximena that he would work on his flaws, but Ximena felt disgusted by her "slob" boyfriend and was disappointed in him.
"If we get married, I don't want a messy husband with no manners. That's not the future I want," Ximena complained to the cameras.
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Ximena knew Mike would make her feel financially secure, and she pointed out how her sons would receive a better education in the U.S. and Mike could provide them with a better life.
Ximena therefore agreed to marry Mike and cried tears of joy because he's "sweet, kind and very loving."
"He's won the affection of my family and my kids," Ximena shared. "So why would I say no?"
It then became time for Mike to leave Colombia, but he planned to return in a couple of months. Mike said he had to go back to work but hated the idea of leaving only hours after proposing.
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Mike intended to marry Ximena during his next visit to Colombia, apply for a visa and then move Ximena and her sons to New York.
Mike hoped he and his new fiancee wouldn't grow apart, but that's exactly what happened.
Mike said he and Ximena were scheduled to get married in Colombia the following month, but he noticed Ximena was being a little standoffish -- and so he planned another trip to Colombia so they could reconnect in person before tying the knot.
Mike told his father and grandfather how Ximena had been "off" and more distant for two weeks. During that time, she apparently asked Mike to pay for a liposuction procedure as well as a breast augmentation.
"I know Ximena and I need to work on our relationship, and that's why I have to go back to Colombia. What I hope happens on this trip is we work out the differences, find out why she changed a little bit and why her texts are different," Mike shared.
"But I'm confident when we're back together, I'm going to feel the same love that we had on the first trip."
Once the pair reunited, they went to a club together, but Mike returned home much earlier than his fiancee. He wondered if Ximena had spent time with another man, but she denied the allegation and got angry at Mike for interrogating her.
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"I feel like Ximena is almost giving me an ultimatum, because if I don't pay for the surgery, there is no wedding dress... She should be wanting to use that money for our future together, but that doesn't seem to be on her mind and that really hurts," Mike noted.
Later on, Ximena complained about how Mike was always on top of her. She said Mike followed her everywhere she went, like if she stopped eating, he would stop eating. Ximena called him "weird" and accused him of imitating her.
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Ximena thought Mike could be too affectionate, and she didn't like how he said, "I love you," every few minutes. She called Mike's behavior "stressful" and "exhausting," and she admitted having surgery was more important to her than getting married.
Mike said he wasn't spying on Ximena; he was just looking at her because she looked beautiful all the time. Regardless, he agreed to give her more space.
"I want time. I don't want to get married yet," Ximena said. "I do want us to get married, but not yet."
Mike said Ximena seemed like a different person and didn't appear to be invested in their relationship anymore. The visit left Mike feeling confused, and so he flat out asked his fiancee, "Do you love me?"
"No," Ximena replied. "I am not in love with you."
While playing pool at a pool bar in Ximena's hometown of Pereira, Mike decided to confront his then-fiancee about her change in attitude towards him and their relationship.
"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."
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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.
"So you just want to be friends? That's it, after this whole year-and-a-half?" Mike asked.
"Yes," Ximena replied. "You'll no longer be my boyfriend nor will I be your girlfriend. We'll be friends, if you want."
Given Mike had paid for all the furniture and appliances in Ximena's apartment, he said, "Okay, then anything I paid for, I want to take back with me to New York."
Ximena told Mike that he could take everything out of her house because she didn't need it.
"Today, our relationship is over," Ximena noted. "And I'm serious. Everything is over."
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Mike therefore left the bar and said he was "done," and Ximena started to cry and wondered if she'd regret this decision.
Mike admitted that his mind was going crazy as he ran away from the cameras, and Ximena told a producer how she didn't feel good with Mike and imagined being unhappy living with him for the rest of her life.
Ximena wanted her children to have a bright future and be cared for, but at the same time, Ximena said her happiness matters just as much.
Once a producer caught up with Mike in the street, Mike vented about how he had no idea what he had done wrong. Mike said he had tried to give Ximena space and distance himself and their entire one-year relationship "was probably all over freakin' money."
"I thought it was real," Mike lamented in a confessional.
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The next day, Ximena returned her engagement ring as well as the couple's two wedding rings, and Mike asked, "You do realize that you're losing the best thing you could have ever had?"
"The best thing I could have had are my children," Ximena said in reply. "I don't care about the rest."
Mike said he could've helped Ximena learn English to get a better job in New York, but Ximena said she never wanted to live in New York and would like to stay in Colombia.
"Do you just want me out of your life forever? You don't even care?" Mike asked.
"Things aren't working. If you want we can be friends or enemies," Ximena said.
"Whatever you want. But I simply don't want to be with you anymore. That's all. I don't know how to explain. I've told you this in a thousand ways and you don't understand. The relationship is over, no more."
Mike countered, "This only reinforces the fact you were using me for money, because right now, you are cold and calculated."
Ximena didn't seem to care, and she just told Mike to stop sending her money. She also told him that he'd be sleeping in a hotel that night before traveling home the next day.
Mike replied, "No. I have proof that I pay the rent in this house, so I'm not leaving."
Mike appeared devastated and distraught, and he said Ximena had made him feel like "sh-t" because nothing seemed to matter to her except the money he had been sending her.
"She's a mean, evil, cold, b-tch," Mike determined. "Son of a b-tch."
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Mike felt disrespected and said he had been treated like "a third-class citizen" on this trip.
Ximena called the situation stupid, which prompted Mike to call her "stupid." Mike apparently misunderstood what Ximena had said, thinking she had called him "stupid" first.
Mike started to cry as Ximena sought comfort and support from her family members, and Mike just hoped he could stay at a hotel and return to the house the next day just to say goodbye.
So are Mike and Ximena still over and done with, or did the 90 Day Fiance couple reconcile?
Mike and Ximena appeared to still be together and engaged in early January 2022.
Ximena posted two videos on her TikTok account -- which have since been deleted -- indicating she and Mike were an item at the time.
In the first of two videos Ximena posted that no longer appear on her TikTok account, she showed a picture of Mike holding a ring box as well as her wearing an off-the-shoulder sparkly wedding dress.
"I love you my life. Thank you for so much happiness," Ximena wrote in Spanish, according to Soap Dirt.
In the second video, Ximena shared a picture of another wedding dress hanging up as well as a ring box by itself.
She simply captioned the post, when translated from Spanish to English, "Marry me!"
But on February 17, Ximena posted a new video featuring an entirely different guy!
Ximena was apparently showing off her new boyfriend, indicating that she and Mike have recently broken up.
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The video, however, was captured by @90shotzfired and later reposted by 90 Fiance Instagrammer John Yates.
In the video, Ximena spliced together clips of her FaceTiming with the man, and she also included some solo shots of this bearded man. Ximena set the video to the same romantic song she had once in one of her previous TikTok videos that featured Mike.
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Shortly after Ximena took down her post, she apparently messaged @90shotzfired on Instagram and tried to explain why her recent video of a mystery man was not a spoiler about whether she and Mike are still together.
But John believes Ximena was just trying to cover her tracks and she's clearly not dating Mike anymore.
John wrote on his Instagram account, "I'm sorry but I'm not buying ANY of this -- if I were Judge Judy I'd say BOLOGNA MADAM! First off she messages Shotz with every excuse in the book -- 'someone stole my account', then the 'video is fake', then 'this was before I met Mike' then it was 'someone stole my phone' -- well WHICH EXCUSE IT IT?"
Mike proceeded to comment on all the drama on Instagram when a fan asked him if he's okay.
"I am fine and just shocked [at] what I am seeing," Mike responded.
But John also criticized Mike's reaction to Ximena's alleged new boyfriend.
"Then you have Mike saying 'I'm so shocked' GTFOH," John complained.
"I have been blogging about this show for a looooong time and here's what happened: Ximena posted the new video of her man on her TikTok... production caught wind of it and told her to take it down but it was too late as the floodgate had already been opened. The end. #90DayFiance."
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"Sure Ximena, this video was from the past," John captioned the screengrab, clearly calling her out for lying. "The past being 10 days ago. Maybe the dog ate your homework."
A man claiming to be Mike's friend also commented on Ximena's questionable TikTok video featuring the new guy, which @mommysaysbadwordstoo uploaded to its account on February 18.
The man wrote, "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!!!"
In Touch Weekly then confirmed in late February that Mike and Ximena had split.
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 reportedly 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 has been featured on 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days. Not only did she help pick out toys for Ximena's boys but she also translated Ximena's Spanish for Mike when the pair were discussing their relationship with a language barrier.
Photos of Mike and Nelcy out in Pomona were posted on Reddit, and so fans speculated 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 drives home the fact Mike is currently single.
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