Love Is Blind’s Nancy Rodriguez Reveals She Is No Longer Friends With Ex-Fiance Bartise Bowden

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A clean break. After their Love Is Blind season 3 split, Nancy Rodriguez and Bartise Bowden attempted to remain platonic pals — to no avail.“We made it very clear that we were romantically done,” Nancy, 32, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the release of Netflix’s Love Is Blind: After The Altar, which dropped on Friday, February 10. “And I think that’s something that, like, there’s like a blurry line there because it’s like, ‘OK, so what does that mean?’ Like, we’re friends or we’re trying to be friends, so do we check in on each other?

Sure. Like, ‘Hey, hope you have a good week. I’ll see you Friday,’ ’cause there’s like a group event happening.”The speech pathologist — who noted that she “really did try to be friends” with her ex — even asked Bartise, 27, if he would be comfortable seeing her bring a date to a mutual pal’s party and vice versa.“So … we were communicating in the point of like, ‘Hey, we are each other’s ex-fiancé,’ and ‘Yes, we had a wedding day,’ but like, we are moving on and we’re trying to do it without blurring the lines of what’s disrespectful [and] what’s not,” Nancy recalled to Us. “So I think that’s the maturity level that — at that time [and] in that phase — that we were trying to be friends.

We were trying to really be considerate of each other.”However, the real estate investor was quick to realize that Bartise was “not being the best” friend to her.“I think me realizing that, as the year went by, there were just too many attempts of him trying to be a good friend that don’t align with what a good friend is,” Nancy claimed, revealing that the analyst barely spoke to her at a Halloween party that she hosted. “Once he came [inside] with [his new girlfriend], it was just him acting very odd.