December 01, 2022 • bachelor insider
Jill Chin & Jacob Rapini Break Up and Jill Reveals the Reason for Their Split
It’s over.
Bachelor Nation fans saw Jill Chin and Jacob Rapini find love on Season 8 of “Bachelor in Paradise” this summer.
While they didn’t leave the beach together, the two reignited their romance at the reunion, which aired last week.
After going public with their rekindled relationship, Jill just stopped by the “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation” podcast and revealed the two have split up.
Jill discussed Jacob’s post “hard launching” their relationship shortly after the finale.
She said, “Unfortunately, we did make it to the hard launch on Instagram phase, but then swiftly after that, it ended. I had to do what was best for myself. There is just a line with standards for yourself that you just can’t allow people to cross. I don’t have any ill will and I don’t wish anything bad for Jacob, it just didn’t work out.”
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In the post, Jacob wrote about his relationship with Jill, saying, “It turns out your beautiful personality truly is right for me. I’m honored that I can call you mine after going through all the chaos that we had to endure. After rekindling what was a 3 day relationship on the beach we both realized we’re right for each other. You have really impressed me and made me extremely happy these past few weeks. I’m so looking forward to spending some quality time with you on the east coast and you here in the west. Glad you stayed open to us.”
But Jill told co-hosts Joe Amabile and Natasha Parker that there was more that happened behind the scenes when it came to their split.
She said, “Everyone will say that it’s only been a week, but we had been talking again since around three weeks before the reunion aired. After our one-on-one aired, we started catching feelings again and we started talking more and more. Then around three weeks before the reunion, we decided we wanted to give it another shot, so we decided to talk and try it out. Then he made that grand gesture at the reunion, which solidified things.”
Jill went on, adding, “ It felt like my fairy-tale moment even though I didn’t want to make it public. I just wanted to keep everything private, but he made that gesture at the reunion and we decided to move forward. We had planned a trip to Rhode Island. It was going to be really cute. But then everything fell through immediately after he hard launched it.”
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Joe asked Jill what happened and whether there was a specific reason for their breakup, and she said, “I will leave it at this — the trust had been broken and in a long-distance relationship, you need communication and trust and we had neither of those things.”
But despite the trust being broken, Jill said she wishes Jacob nothing but the best.
The Bachelor Nation star said, “I don’t want to say I’m embarrassed, but unfortunately the hard launch happened and it is what it is. Now I just have to speak about it. I never wanted the whole Notes app request for privacy. It’s so lame. I don’t want to do that. It is what it is. We’re going to move on. I don’t wish any ill will towards Jacob. I think in the future he can be a good partner to somebody if he puts in the work.”
To hear more of Jill’s conversation on the “Click Bait with Bachelor Nation” podcast, check out the full episode below.