Matt James Talks Plans to Marry Rachael Kirkconnell: ‘Everything’s on the Table’

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Ready to get down on one knee? Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell may be a Bachelor Nation couple, but he isn’t in a rush to put a (Neil Lane?) ring on it.“Did Rachael tell you to ask that?” the 30-year-old First Impressions author joked on an upcoming episode of Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast about proposing in the future. “I wouldn’t be with someone that I wasn’t considering marrying, especially at this point in my life.

We’ve talked about living in the same city and what those next steps look like. Everything’s on the table.”James, who met Kirkconnell, 25, on season 25 of The Bachelor, which aired in 2021, recently relocated to Miami after living in New York City.“It’s nice being down in Florida now.

I think Rachael was [hesitant about] Miami before I moved down there because it’s, like, the party connotation, but after spending a lot of time down there, [she’s] warming up to the fact — no pun intended — of being down there,” he told Us of the Georgia native. “It’s been a nice transition out of New York.”The former football player opens up about the couple’s journey, which included Kirkconnell coming under fire for allegations of being racially insensitive in the past, for the first time in his memoir, out Tuesday, May 3.“When you’re in that Bachelor bubble, like, it’s such an intense experience that you don’t know what is and isn’t real because you’ve got all these girls saying they love you,” James told Us about how they moved past the show. “You’ve got the pressure to propose to someone.

And all this, like, ancillary, ‘Just like do this, do this, do this.’ And then for everything to happen how it [did] it’s, like, ‘I know how I feel.