January 24, 2024 • pillow talk
Susie Evans & Justin Glaze Are Officially Dating: ‘Justin Is My Boyfriend’
Finally!
Bachelor Nation stars Susie Evans and Justin Glaze have had a long-standing “are they/aren’t they?” dynamic going on social media.
And for the past couple of years, they’ve stood their ground that they aren’t an item — until now!
The couple chatted with E! News about their relationship and how their friendship turned to romance.
Susie told the outlet, “Justin is my boyfriend. We’re dating.”
But she added that they really were just friends for a while, saying, “Justin dated people, I dated people. So the narrative of us being truly just friends was true.”
Then in October of last year, the two realized they might be more than just friends.
They told E! about a night out with friends in L.A. where they were the only two left at the end of the night and they stopped for snacks at 7-Eleven on the way home.
Justin shared that they were “messing around with each other a little flirtatiously per usual,” but then something shifted.
He said, “I was like, ‘Oh, this tone seems a little bit different.’ In the back of my head, I was like, ‘If you’re serious, I’m serious.’ That was kind of my mindset. I had always been testing the lines, and I wasn’t sure if she would go for it. So, I didn’t want to cross those boundaries.”
At the end of the night, the two shared how they truly felt about each other, with Justin adding, “We had a really nice conversation, and I kinda just went for it. I was like, ‘Hey, listen, I don’t know where you stand on our friendship or relationship. Obviously, I respect you so much, and I appreciate our friendship. But I’d be lying if I [said I] haven’t thought about if there is potential for more than a friendship just given the natural chemistry that we had as friends.’”
The two had their first kiss that night and finally left their friendship behind for a romantic relationship.
And if you think they’ve been coy with Bachelor Nation, they didn’t even tell their friends at first.
Justin said, “We’ve always wanted to just kind of protect our privacy, which sounds funny to say because we went on the show where our romantic connections are far from private. But we wanted to just protect our peace and control our narrative and not put any pressure on our relationship.”
Now, a few months later, they couldn’t be happier and even had Hometown dates where they met each other’s families in Virginia and Maryland during the holidays.
Susie gushed over her boyfriend, saying, “If I’m dealing with something, I just deal with it myself, and I don’t know if I’ve ever felt like I could rely on someone to be there the way I can rely on Justin.”
She got choked up, saying, “It actually makes me kind of emotional talking about it because I feel like there have been so many things where he’s just shown such good character when I’ve really needed somebody... He’s really shown up and been so supportive, and I’ve never had someone be there for me like that. I have a great family, but like a partner, I’ve never had somebody show up the way he has.”
We couldn’t be happier for Susie and Justin and are so glad these two are finally a couple! We can’t wait for all that the future holds for these Bachelor Nation stars.