The Bachelorette finalist Nayte Olukoya has admitted he was totally sold on being with Michelle Young forever after their overnight Fantasy Suite date in Mexico.
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"I was just, like, 'I've never felt this before. This is what I want. I love this girl. I'm in love with this girl. I'm still falling in love with this girl.'"
Nayte woke up next to Michelle after their Fantasy Suite certain he was "in love" with her, but he left a little bit to be desired when trying to explain his feelings to Michelle at dinner the previous night.
Michelle had asked Nayte to share exactly where he was at in the process, and Nayte said that after a lot of self-reflection following his hometown date, he didn't have all the answers but "that's life" -- and life should never be boring.
Michelle, clearly unsatisfied with that ambiguous statement, wanted to know if Nayte's heart was on the same page as hers. (Michelle, however, later got the answers she needed after asking more direct questions about falling in love and getting engaged).
"When I was talking about, you know, 'I don't have all the answers in life,' it's because that sounds like a boring life to me. Realistically, life is all about the unknown. I probably didn't say that as well as I [could have]," Nayte explained on the podcast.
Nayte said he simply takes chances in life and trusts himself.
"When Michelle's asking me, 'There's one thing between falling in love, being in love with somebody and an engagement,' what I was trying to say in that moment was, like, 'I don't have all the answers. I don't know what life's going to look like. If you and I were to leave this bubble, I have no idea what life's going to look like,'" Nayte recalled.
"Same thing with [my stepdad] Charles when he was asking me a lot of those questions. All I knew is that I trust myself."
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Nayte elaborated, "And [I told Michelle], 'I trust that I'm falling in love with you and I'm trusting that I seriously want to be with you. I don't have all the answers and I'm not the perfect answer guy who is going to tell you everything that you want to hear. I'm going to tell you that this is new, I don't have all the answers, but that is life... but I trust myself and I want to do this with you.'"
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWOnce the date ended, after both Michelle and Nayte had professed how they were "in love" with each other, Nayte said it was difficult to return to the hotel room he was sharing with her other bachelors, Brandon Jones and Joe Coleman.
"I was on a high and then you come in [to this] Rose Ceremony and I'm still on this weird TV show after just spending the best night of my life," Nayte said on the podcast.
The 27-year-old Canadian sales executive currently living in Austin, TX, admitted it was "hard" to reunite with Brandon and Joe the very next day after his Fantasy Suite date with Michelle.
"I know in the moment, it was hard for me to adjust... I was like, 'This kind of sucks,'" Nayte noted.
But "you can only control the controllables," he said.
"And no matter what I do, I will never know what's going on between Michelle and [another guy]... I will never know, so why think about it? All I can do is control my moments with Michelle... And I think that rubbed a lot of guys the wrong way sometimes with me."
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Nayte said since he didn't know what was going on between Michelle and her other bachelors, he couldn't compare himself to them or compare his connection with Michelle to another connection.
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When looking back on his experience as a whole, Nayte shared on the podcast, "I'm happy with how everything turned out. I'm really happy."
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