Shawntel Newton Still Has Plenty of Roses Ahead
Summary
Season 15 Bachelor Brad Womack didn’t give Shawntel Newton a rose last night. While many are dying to spend time with the 24-year-old Chico, CA funeral director, Brad Womack decided love wasn’t enough to make Shawntel Newton his bride.
“I don’t hold back a single bit from Shawntel. In a lot of ways, I want Shawntel to be my wife.”
~Brad Womack
The Bachelor
by Carson Abrir
People are dying to spend time with Shawntel Newton.
That didn’t get her a rose from Season 15 Bachelor Brad Womack last night.
Actually, it may be exactly the reason the lovely 24-year-old Chico, California woman whose beauty, brains and charm almost helped her outlast 30 other aspiring brides in her quest to be “the one” for Brad Womack is now off the show.
“I don’t hold back a single bit from Shawntel. In a lot of ways, I want Shawntel to be my wife,” Womack said not long before saying his final goodbye.
“She’s not timid, she’s not shy, and I have so much fun with this woman,” Womack said.
With her Bachelor season over, Shawntel Newton is back to school and the family business, where she works as funeral director and embalmer at the Newton-Bracewell Chico Funeral Home that her dad started with a friend almost 20 years ago.
Viewers are speculating Shawntel’s dad wasn’t thrilled with the idea of his daughter leaving Chico to live in Austin, Texas if she and Brad married.
During dinner with Shawntel and Brad, her father talked about retiring soon and plans to leave the family business to his daughter.
Shawntel quickly shot back that she was falling in love with Brad and went into the show knowing she could end up moving to Texas.
The episode brought up many issues couples are smart to address early in a relationship.
Shawntel Newton and Brad Womack aren’t the first to realize feelings of love are a good foundation for considering a life together, but that shared dreams, values, and interests are the building blocks.
“Falling in love is the easy part,” I’ve heard more than once in marriage education classes along with reminders that the work of a lasting relationship is about my dreams for the future and a partner who will stand for and with me as we build a life together.
With just three women left, Brad Womack will have to decide if Ashley, Emily or Chantal gives him the best chance of creating a life in which he’ll find all the good things he ever wanted, get to keep the good things he has and most values (such as living in Austin), and with whom he’ll never have to again go through the things that have been painful and upsetting from his own past.
Hopefully, Ashley, Emily, Chantal and the people who love them are also thinking about the very real dreams that are important to them too.
I really hope that ABC lets Shawntel come back on as “The Bachelorette” next season…that girl really deserves a shot at true love. I was really dissapointed at how her father approached the situation at dinner (with his impending retirement, etc.). Unfortunately, that’s typically how the Funeral Home business operates: they pass the business down to their son’s and daughter’s…generation after generation…and sometimes with little regard for their children’s feelings or other career ambitions they may have. I can personally speak first hand about this too: I know people in the industry and their families lay on a pretty big guilt trip if they try to avoid the business or try to leave. It’s sad but true.
ABC: PUT SHAWNTEL ON AS THE NEXT “BACHELORETTE”…SHE DESERVES IT 🙂
Yep. I would like to see Shawntel become the next Bachelorette. I felt her pain when Brad eliminated her and she is SO deserving of happiness. I only hope that she sees the positive messages that people are posting and knows that she is loved.
I loved Shawntel…I too would like to see her be the next Bachelorette. I think her dad really loves her but also that he doesn’t hesitate to use guilt as a manipulation tool. She shouldn’t allow that.
One big advantage to her being the next Bachelorette is that the men who go on the show would know ahead of time what she does for a living and she could weed out the ones who can’t handle it early.
Hey ABC…Shawntel as the next Bachelorette!!