Chock Chapple Responds to Fans Who Feared He Lacked Commitment Before Joan Proposal

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00:00Can we talk a little bit about engagement versus just deciding to date? Because I know, Joan,

00:04you've said a few times that it wasn't about necessarily getting engaged. It wasn't about,

00:09you weren't opposed to it, but you weren't like, I have to. What made you want to get engaged to

00:14Chalk? Chalk, what made you want to propose? And let's start there. Why engagement versus just

00:20maybe companionship? I've been watching Bachelor for a million years. And sometimes I wonder how

00:27people get to the point of getting engaged in such a short amount of time and thought like to

00:32myself, you know, I'm not sure if that can actually happen. And sometimes, um, I feel like maybe they

00:39rush into it. I don't know if that's really true, but you know, these young people, they have a lot

00:43more freedom to make a decision, maybe make the wrong decision and recover from that. I don't

00:49feel that way about myself. I feel like the decision that I make now is, is like, this is a

00:53very unique opportunity and I will have a hard time finding another person. So I really wanted

00:58to make sure I did it right. And I didn't make the wrong decision. And so I, you know, in the back of

01:04my mind, I had a little bit of skepticism. What happened was completely different. I did find out

01:10that you could, you know, really get to know somebody in that short amount of time. And

01:15especially if you start your connection really early, which we did, our connection was from

01:19night one, honestly. And every time I had interactions with him, which is often, I mean,

01:25you don't see everything. A lot is, you know, they, they, they film a lot of footage and a lot,

01:29you only see a little bit of it on TV. And so, you know, we've had, we had a lot of really

01:34important conversations and you get to know the really important things about the person, about

01:38their values and about, you know, their plans for the future and about their families and about the

01:42friends and things that are important to me seem to be the same things that were important to him.

01:47So when we got towards the end and like that became a possibility, get engagement or not

01:53engagement, I was like open for it. So I surprised myself, to be honest. And, um,

01:59when Chuck actually asked me, he's like, what, what do you want out of this? This was in,

02:03um, fantasy suites. He said, what do you want out of this? Um, do you want an engagement? And I said,

02:08you know, I want that to be up to you. I said, I have picked you every single week. I've given

02:12you a rose. And now it's your turn to figure out what you want. And you you're in the driver's seat.

02:17Ooh. And Chuck, you were like, let's go Neil Lane.

02:21There's a little bit of backstory on this too. And I want to explain this because I did catch

02:25some heat on social media for being a guy with no commitments. I had a great marriage for 12 years,

02:31as it happens to more than 50% of the people. It ended great woman raised our kids together.

02:36And then I was involved with someone for nine years. We were engaged for a long period of time

02:40and Kathy great person died of brain cancer. It was just horrible, but we both had kids in

02:46elementary and high school. And she was very adamant about let's get the kids out of school

02:51before we get married. So that was a decision that I supported. And the reason why I bring

02:56that up is I wanted to get married and like, would you want to get married? I really do.

03:01And the engagement was very easy because I'm looking at it. Wasn't that I was going to lose

03:06Joan, but I wanted to show her how committed I was to her and how much I loved her. So it was

03:10very natural, very natural. And we're going to figure it out when we get married. And,

03:15you know, it's just, it's one of those things. We've got the commitment. It's great. It's

03:18fantastic to feel that we're going to travel. We're just going to enjoy the next year. We're

03:22going to work, have fun, see grandkids and see my kids. And it's going to be crazy. This next

03:28year is going to be a lot of fun. It looks so good.