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‘Bachelorette’ star Jason Tartick and Kat Stickler announce ‘amicable’ split: ‘It just didn’t work’
Jason Tartick and Kat Stickler announced on social media they have “amicably” split after more than six months together.
“I am sad to share that Kat and I are no longer together,” the “Bachelorette” alum, 35, wrote on his Instagram Stories Saturday.
“It’s fair to say that I love hard with all my heart and fall fast. Sometimes in life, that works out and other times it doesn’t. This time it didn’t.”
Tartick said Stickler, 29, “has brought me so much happiness and light, she brought out parts of me I never knew existed” and he will “forever be grateful for her” and her 5-year-old daughter, Mary-Katherine.
“This chapter closes amicably, and another opens. I’ll be rooting for her happiness and I am also rooting for mine. ❤️🩹,” he concluded.
Stickler, for her part, also revealed that she was single in a video message on her respective Instagram account.
“So with two back-to-back hurricanes, I obviously didn’t think it was the right time to talk about my personal life. But a lot of you have already guessed and, yes, Jason and I have broken up,” she said.
The TikTok star also shared that the breakup was “amicable” but “it just didn’t work.”
“I understand that with posting a relationship online you also have to show this side, the aftermath — woo-hoo, so fun. I love this,” she sarcastically explained.
“But I just wanted to tell you guys and it’s not love wasted. I feel like sometimes it’s so easy to think that when a relationship ends that the love is wasted. But love is never wasted. So, that’s all I have to say.”
Tartick and Stickler began dating in April and went Instagram official in June.
Prior to his romance with the mom of one, the corporate banker was engaged to former “Bachelorette” lead Kaitlyn Bristowe.
They called off their engagement in August 2023.
Meanwhile, Kat was married to Mike Stickler, from 2019 to 2021.
The YouTuber shares her daughter, nicknamed “MK,” with her ex-husband.