If you have yet to see tonight’s 3rd episode, spoilers are ahead! We start off tonight’s episode with the rose ceremony which was a cliffhanger from last week of The Bachelor. We catch up with the ladies at Nemacolin, who learn who will continue to advance. Although we’re bummed, Marylynn is eliminated and Victoria is given the rose. Interestingly enough, she explains that she has Sarah as her next target. Matt also eliminates Sydney, Kristen, Lauren and Alana.

The first group date includes the women writing their love letters to him. Much like what happened in The Bachelorette last season, the other portion of the women in the house were also invited to the date to hear it. On this date is Anna,Bri, Katie, Rachael, Sarah, Kit, Khaylah, Victoria, MJ and Serena C. They see Ashley Iaconetti introducing them to the next date. She reads portions of Chris Harrison’s book. The girls work on what they will share and Matt James also shares his as well. Everyone enjoys the stories and the women who were not on the participating portion of the date are sent back home. The other girls are able to go to the cocktail portion of the date.

The next date will be with Serena P. as a 1-on-1 date. We’ve noticed that Sarah has definitely struggled with the fact that she is dating Matt with multiple people. We saw her faint even though she already had a rose, when the next date card came, she didn’t even hang out with everyone else. And while Katie is chatting with Matt, she interrupts them! Although she allows them to finish Katie lets her know later that she needs to figure out her situation because it wasn’t appropriate for it to happen. Rachael gets the group rose.

Serena P’s up next with her date. Sarah has yet to make her presence her known to the group, but Matt James swings by and wants to talk to her. It seems like they’re talking about the same things that they talked about the night before and he encourages her to stay the course.

FINALLY Matt is ready to hang out with Serena P. They have a horse back riding date and then a charcuterie date outside. In addition to donkeys hanging out with them, they talk about their families and how they came to being on this journey. It really was a great way for them to get to know one another on a deeper level. They have a nice dinner and she gets the rose. They end her night with champagne in the hot tub by the fire.

Sarah has yet to see the women and an entire day and night has gone by. The women want her to face the mess that she has made. The final date card arrives and Sarah just materializes before its read. MJ tells her that she was “worried” about her as she had not been down to see them all day and that it was rude to not come down. Sarah explains that she is having a hard time grapsing everything and that she considered leaving. They all ask why she is having such an issue when she has had a 1-on-1 date. The girls hold her feet to the fire and let her know that she is selfish, calculating and manipulative. We also know that Victoria is definitely not a fan and Kit lets her know that she hopes that her relationship is strong with Matt because her time in the house will be uncomfortable due to her antics. Sarah tries to connect with MJ; however that doesn’t work. Once again, we see her in her room.

The next morning, Sarah is still staying away from the group. Katie swings by and says that she didn’t like what happened last night. Sarah claims that she is going to leave and it’s because of a combination of a few things. Katie tells her that if she feels she has a connection, then she needs to stay because she doesn’t want to be his backup plan. Sarah admits that she is not in a good headspace because of her own insecurities, but also because of her father only having weeks to live. Katie says that her father passed in 2012 and that if she had the ability to see him, she would and she understands her decision in knowing the full story. She tells the camera that he deserves the best and that she isn’t operating at her best right now.

She packs her bags and makes her way to talk to Matt. Now, earlier in this episode, he said he would come to her every day if he had to if she needed reassurance. We’ll see how it goes. Katie lets the group know that Sarah is going home and she tells the group that they need to keep it classy as they don’t know all of one another’s stories. Sarah arrives at Matt’s door and tells him that she feels alone there, has been attacked by the women in the house and missing her family. Matt says that he understands that that environment must be tough and that he wants her to stay. She explains that she has prayed about this and she feels called that she needs to go home to her family and that she is not ready for this. He lets her know that he won’t stop thinking about her, praying for her family and her dad. He lets her know that when she is ready, there will be a great guy for her even though it’s not him.

Each night, we’ll tweet about The Bachelor and you can chat along with us (@AthleisureMag + with our Co-Founder/Creative + Style Director, Kimmie Smith @ShesKimmie) to see what’s taking place!

Each week we will let you know who our faves were last episode and if we’ve changed up since then as it pertains to who we think should go to Hometowns if we were choosing right now! We will also say who we think should take it all.

We also suggest a podcast that we’re newly obsessed with, Wondery’s Bachelor Happy Hour which is hosted by Rachel Lindsay (contestant on The Bachelor Season 21; The Bachelorette Season 13) and co-hosted by Becca Kufrin (contestant on The Bachelor Season 22; The Bachelorette Season 14) to get their feedback!

LAST WEEK

We learned a lot more about Matt James and the women that would be competing on the show. We thought that Hometowns would be given to Abigail, Bri, Jessenia and Khaylah.

WEEK 2

We didn’t get to see the second group date yet and of course, there isn’t a rose ceremony either. We’re going to stick with - Abigail, Bri, Jessenia and Khaylah.