Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick End Their Engagement

Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick’s relationship standing has modified.

The two Bachelor Nation stars have ended their engagement. They made the announcement on Instagram Sunday.

“After sharing the news with family and close friends first, and taking the time to properly process it ourselves, we are saddened with heavy hearts to share that we have decided to end our engagement,” they wrote in a put up shared on each of their pages which featured a photograph of the pair cuddled up collectively.

“We are thankful for all of you who gave us the time and space to process this life-altering decision as there are many emotions and changes to navigate.”

They went on to notice their plans for his or her shared pets.

“Our dogs Ramen & Pinot will continue to be cared for together as brothers,” they mentioned. “While their humans are no longer romantically involved, we will love and take care of them together.”

The former couple went on, “Continuing our friendship is incredibly important to both of us. We feel grateful to be ending our engagement with love and respect for each other. It’s heartbreaking and sad to say goodbye, but our care and admiration for one another will never die.”

They concluded the message by reflecting on the time they spent collectively. “We are beyond thankful for the memories made together, and for your support of us and the boys throughout the years. Moving forward we will always have that level of support for each other. We don’t know what the future holds so please try to hold space for us in your hearts,” they completed, signing the put up, “Kaitlyn and Jason.”

Shortly after saying the tip of her engagement, Bristowe revealed that she is taking a social media break. She first shared a makeup-free selfie on her Instagram Story, writing, “See you soon ❤️bye for now.”

She then wrote over one other Instagram Story put up in white textual content, “If everyone can say some sort of prayer for both of our hearts we would love that. I just know social media can be awful so taking a little break.” She additionally up to date her Instagram bio to say, “BRB. Healing.”

Bristowe first appeared on The Bachelor in 2015 as a contestant vying for Chris Soules and, upon being eradicated, she grew to become the Bachelorette for the present’s eleventh season. She obtained engaged to frontrunner Shawn Booth however the pair break up in 2018 after three years of courting.

Tartick, in the meantime, appeared as a contestant on season 14 of The Bachelorette in 2018, competing for main girl Becca Kufrin. 

Bristowe and Tartick first met in 2018 throughout a taping of her Off the Vine podcast and started courting in early 2019. In an interview with PEOPLE, she mentioned that the pair shaped an everlasting bond.

“[It] was definitely not something I expected,” Bristowe said of Tartic in 2019. “When I met him, courting anybody wasn’t even on my radar, particularly courting anybody in Bachelor world, however one thing in my thoughts was rooting for him. And I believed, ‘Whoever dates him is a fortunate woman.'”

Bristowe and Tartick introduced in May 2019 that they had been transferring in collectively, and later obtained engaged in May 2021 after two years of courting.

“I was trying to be present but I was so overwhelmed,” Bristowe advised Entertainment Tonight shortly after. “And I was so embarrassed because I was wearing a T-shirt that said, ‘Tequila for Breakfast. I was like, ‘This feels very on brand, but also very inappropriate!'”

“It was everything I could have asked for. The words that came out of his mouth were insanely beautiful,” she continued. “We’ve never locked eyes like that in our lives. We were holding hands, so intense, and I was listening to his every word, but still blacked out.”

Opening up about her dream marriage ceremony, Bristowe mentioned in June 2021 on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast that she wished their marriage ceremony to be Twenties-styled.

“I just know basically as soon as we can get the ball rolling,” she defined. “I want it to be like a Great Gatsby-like black-tie event, very glam, which is so opposite of what I thought I’d want. Four years ago I would have been like, I want bohemian. I want farm-style. I just keep changing my mind.”

Tartick advised PEOPLE in October that marriage ceremony planning was “going awesome,” including, “We have an idea of where we want to do it, we know when we want to do [it], and now details and lists are home together and the foundation is being built for the wedding.”

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In addition to talking at size about marriage ceremony planning, Bristowe and Tartick’s plans for a household had additionally been a subject of debate.

“We cannot wait to start a family,” Bristowe revealed on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast in 2021. “To be honest, I turn 36 next month, and I do have my eggs frozen so the biological clock is not exactly ticking, but I do really want to think about that, just because I have met my person, we are getting married, and so I do feel like that next step, quickly after, is going to be having a family.”