Could it be that all is not what it seems with Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton?
During last night’s Bachelor in Paradise finale, we watched the solid Season 3 couple get engaged and be madly in love (and entirely sweaty).
They carried that happy sentiment onto the live After Paradise show, where the single mom gushed about how they were totally in sync with their life goals outside of the show.
“We just both were on the same page about what we wanted in life, and I feel like our lives just seemed very compatible outside of the show in real life,” she said of their engagement after the show wrapped filming in June.
But a new report says things have been far from as smooth as the pair would like fans to think.
“Josh and Amanda are still engaged, but it's been a tough road,” a source tells ETOnline.com.
“They have broken up a couple times since getting home and have had a rough start to their relationship.”
Interestingly enough, the insider claims the negative publicity about the 32-year-old hunk and his past relationship with Andi Dorfman has had nothing to do with their relationship troubles.
“Part of it in the beginning was the distance, and the other part was added pressures like dating in the 'real world,’” the source continues. “Amanda has two little girls and of course that is going to add a different kind of pressure to a new relationship.”
Perhaps the former Bachelorette star’s move from Atlanta to Amanda’s apartment in Irvine, California has helped the future Mr. and Mrs. Murray move forward. After all, the 26-year-old gal still certainly has her man’s back about those emotional abuse rumors.
“I didn’t think it was fair — Josh’s ex wrote a book about him and they went through a bad breakup,” she said on last night’s After Paradise.
“If all the guys and girls on this show were judging each other off of books that our exes wrote about us, I think we’d all be concerned about each other.”