- One 12 months after his divorce from last rose recipient Theresa Nist, Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner revealed he’s in a brand new relationship
- Turner tells PEOPLE he and new girlfriend Lana each “desire a long-term dedicated everlasting relationship”
- The fact star says The Golden Bachelor has influenced his method to courting: “I realized to ask higher questions and be affected person and see if the actions line up with the solutions to the questions”
Gerry Turner had a whirlwind romance on The Golden Bachelor, getting engaged to Theresa Nist within the present’s finale, tying the knot on TV six weeks later and divorcing three months after that.
Now, in his new relationship with fellow Indiana native Lana — who’s additionally been married twice like him — Turner, 73, tells PEOPLE he doesn’t know “that both of us essentially could be trying to get married, however we have additionally mentioned that is not off the desk.”
Turner and the retired educator simply began courting in March after she messaged him on Fb, so he acknowledges {that a} “critical dialogue” about marriage “is down the street a bit.”
“However I do suppose we have each come to the snug settlement that we each desire a long-term dedicated everlasting relationship, and I believe we’re each feeling like we’re there that we’re in that now,” he says. “It is type of two various things, however they’re carefully associated.”
The couple has already taken some critical steps, although. Turner shares that Lana met his two children “most likely two or three weekends” into courting.
“With my youngest daughter and her husband, Angie and Rob, we went to dinner and had a very nice time,” Turner says. “After which per week later, there was a volleyball event the place my granddaughter Charlie was enjoying and Lana acquired to satisfy my different daughter and son-in-law, Jenny and John. After which it was most likely one week after that I used to be within the Indianapolis space and went to dinner along with her daughter Rachel and her son-in-law, Noah, her youngest daughter Jordan.”
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The TV character seems like his new girlfriend “simply associated to my household and I actually simply associated to hers.” However when it got here to assembly her dad and mom in late April, “I used to be somewhat nervous,” Turner admits. “However her dad and mom have been so accommodating, and I may see a lot of Lana in her mother — a number of vitality, a really attentive hostess. And he or she was simply so, so candy. We went out and had an gratifying dinner. It was good proper off the bat.”
He and Lana have additionally gone “fantasy home procuring” and been touring almost each weekend; this summer time they’ll take their romance worldwide with a visit to London and Paris.
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“We have been collectively each weekend,” Turner says. “She’s retired, so she’s not tied down. On a second’s discover, she may come right here or if I’m going there. There is no encumbrances with work, so there’s simply an terrible lot of pluses which are serving to us alongside.”
Turner, whose first spouse Toni died all of the sudden in 2017 after being recognized with a bacterial an infection, says he realized “so many classes” from his time on The Golden Bachelor that he’s been making use of to courting right this moment.
“I realized to ask higher questions and be affected person and see if the actions line up with the solutions to the questions,” he says. “And there was simply an terrible lot that I believe could be very related that I’ve pulled ahead from being on The Golden Bachelor.”
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Turner has already been impressed by Lana’s actions, particularly with how she dealt with him sharing his most cancers prognosis. (The retired restaurateur revealed final 12 months that he was recognized with a slow-growing bone marrow most cancers that has no remedy.)
“I began to speak about it and he or she goes, ‘Gerry, I do know what the most cancers is you’ve gotten. I’ve researched it and I am positive with that, so don’t fret about that one bit,’” Turner says. “And it is like, ‘Oh my God, it is a person who’s actually, earlier than even assembly me, is invested.’ “
The fact star additionally discloses the candy gestures — not too dissimilar from those some contestants try whereas pulling as much as Bachelor Mansion — that Lana made on their first date.
“She introduced a small, framed saying as a present, and that saying was merely, ‘You miss a 100% of the photographs you do not take.’ And he or she was merely saying, ‘Hey, I’ll take a shot right here. There is no manner I may have made it if I did not make this effort,’” Turner says. “She introduced a condolence card for the passing of my dad who had handed away the final week of February, so she’s clearly very considerate, very beneficiant.”
Turner acknowledges that “lots can occur in a 12 months — and lots has” since his divorce. “A few of it isn’t been so nice, and a few of it has been spectacularly nice,” he continues. “However all in all, I will gladly take the combo that is come to me within the final 12 months. I’m actually completely satisfied to let individuals know the way good issues are going.”
