For 29 seasons, The Bachelor , like locales as far flung as Iceland, the Maldives and Costa Rica, has proven to be the perfect place to fall in love. Staying that way, however? Well, the record isn't great.

Across the OG love hunt and its collection of spinoffs— The Bachelorette , Bachelor in Paradise , Golden Bachelor , et al.—some six dozen couples have announced that the bloom was off their proverbial rose. And reasons have ranged from the standard ("We ultimately have concluded that we are not compatible as life partners," Katie Thurston and Blake Moynes shared in a joint October 2021 statement ) to the most dramatic ever .

Recently, inaugural Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner filled some 200-plus pages of his November memoir Golden Years with the litany

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