Theresa Nist Says Suitors ‘Younger Than My Son’ Are DMing Her

Theresa Nist isn’t missing in consideration—particularly from admirers who’re a lot youthful than her!

The “Golden Bachelor” alum and Gerry Turner, whose love story culminated in a televised wedding ceremony in January 2024, shocked followers once they introduced their divorce simply three months later, on April 12, 2024.

Now, again on the relationship scene, Theresa Nist is attracting loads of curiosity.

The couple’s cut up got here weeks after the emotional and heartfelt ceremony that captivated Bachelor Nation. Turner and Nist had gotten engaged throughout the finale of the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor,” which aired in November 2023. Their journey continued with a stay wedding ceremony occasion in January, solidifying their place in “Bachelor” historical past.

Nevertheless, the fairytale didn’t final lengthy. The couple revealed throughout a joint interview on “Good Morning America,” aired the identical day as Turner’s divorce submitting, that irreconcilable differences over the place they need to stay finally led to their separation.

In an interview with PEOPLE Magazine, she shared how she’s navigating single life post-divorce. Whereas she’s steering away from relationship apps for now, that hasn’t stopped admirers from flooding her DMs—together with suitors who’re a lot youthful than her son.

“I do get approached by means of Instagram direct messages, however you would not consider how younger these guys are,” she instructed the outlet. “They’re so younger that they are youthful than my son!” After letting out a chuckle, she continued, “However these younger guys, I am simply baffled by it and so they’ll persist and persist and persist. And I am speaking 33-year-olds!”

Although Nist admits she’d want to “date somebody youthful,” she clarifies that her very best accomplice could be “perhaps 10 years youthful” at most. “To me, age, it does not matter up to a degree,” she defined. “[But] too younger, we’re simply not culturally the identical, we did not expertise the identical issues rising up, the identical music, the identical motion pictures. It is arduous to have a dialog. And I do not assume that something is simply too previous.”

“It is simply your power. It is who you’re principally,” she added.

Though Nist is hopeful about discovering her subsequent nice love, she admits she hasn’t ventured again into the relationship scene simply but and hasn’t been on any dates since her divorce.

“I’ve been requested, and I’ve mentioned no,” she mentioned. “I do not know. I am extra clear on what I would like, so I do not need to waste anybody’s time. I positively do need to be with somebody. I do,” she continues. “I feel life is so a lot better if you’re with somebody, however I do know that it is even arduous for younger folks to search out folks. Think about how a lot tougher it will get … I am 71. That quantity scares folks.”

The fact star admitted she’s “unsure” if marriage is in her future, however she’s open to discovering a accomplice who shares a robust sense of “ardour.”

“Like ardour for one thing you like to do, one thing that makes you get up and need to get off the bed within the morning,” she defined of her relationship necessities. “It is intelligence. It is to have the ability to communicate on the identical degree. And that is actually distinctive if you begin speaking to somebody, whether or not or not you, you are understanding one another at your core.”

In November 2024, Nist shared new particulars about her surprising divorce from Turner, hinting that there was extra to their cut up than what was initially disclosed.

Whereas the couple’s unique assertion cited their unwavering commitments to their respective families and the ensuing challenges in deciding the place to stay, Nist now means that deeper, unstated points additionally contributed to their choice to go their separate methods.

“You actually cannot know anyone in 4 weeks. I am going to simply say that,” the NJ native shared throughout the November 5 episode of Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti’s podcast, “Virtually Well-known.”

Whereas acknowledging that their divorce was “not simply the placement factor,” she added, “I do not wanna say any greater than that.” Her remarks come months after she addressed the cut up in a social media assertion, writing, “Generally issues don’t go the way in which you deliberate, and that’s okay.”

Throughout her dialog with Ashley and Ben, Nist shared particulars a few disagreement she had with Turner throughout one in every of her visits to Indiana.

“So we’re driving from the airport, and it was like three hours, and we’re getting nearer to Gerry’s home,” she recalled. “So I see this open land — I do not see crops, I simply assume it is flat land — and I am going, ‘Oh wow, you may construct townhomes there!’ That is all I mentioned. And Gerry mentioned, ‘Oh, so that you wanna take the farmer’s land away from him?’ I am going, ‘Word to self, do not say that once more.'”

Nist recalled that her comment unintentionally led to a deeper dialogue about their differing views on land, with Turner allegedly turning into defensive in regards to the significance of defending farmland within the Midwest.

Nist and Turner finalized their divorce earlier this yr.