Bethenny Frankel and Paul Bernon split and end their engagement

Bethenny Frankel And Paul Bernon broke up after six years of relationship, Us every week can exclusively confirm.

A mutual friend of the couple confirmed to We that “it just wasn’t going to work” between the two men, who split about two months ago. “They’re so different – ​​he’s a guy who goes under the radar,” the source said.

Frankel has caused confusion about her relationship status by selectively wearing her giant engagement ring in social media videos in recent weeks. “She still has the ring,” the source noted. We has contacted Frankel and Bernon’s teams for comment.

Frankel started dating Bernon in October 2018 after meeting him on a dating app.

“I was very lucky when I walked in and saw him,” Frankel recalled. People in April 2021. “It had a flicker. It came as advertised – better than advertised. He’s over the hump. »

Nearly a year later, a source exclusively told Us every week that Frankel and Bernon moved in together and were looking for a new home.

“They live together in the Back Bay area (of Boston) now,” the source explained in September 2019. “She spent a lot more time there. They are looking for housing in the New England area.

In October 2020, Frankel and Bernon briefly split but reunited in January 2021 after being spotted together in Miami. “It was a spontaneous meeting,” said an eyewitness. We at the time.

Following their reconciliation, the couple announced their engagement in March 2021.

“I’m very excited and it’s really wonderful,” Frankel said in an interview with Additional at the time.

A year after their engagement, she couldn’t help but gush about why Bernon is such a “good partner.”

“I am grateful for the balance in my professional and personal life and the choices I make, the successes I experience, the daughter I am raising,” Frankel shared in a November 2022 episode of People “Every day” podcast. “Paul is incredible. He’s a good partner. He’s a good friend. He’s a good father. So, it’s all right. Everything is really good.

After speculation that they had split again, Frankel revealed in July 2023 that she and Bernon were still together — but that they weren’t looking to get married anytime soon.

“I don’t want to have a wedding,” she said during an appearance on E! News in July 2023. “I love my life. I love my fiancé. He’s a great life partner and I don’t want to sign a contract with someone I love. I don’t want to plan a massive wedding for everyone and not (do) what we want. I like to do what you want, not what society wants you to do.

Frankel was previously married to Jason Hoppy from 2010 to 2012, however, they only finalized their divorce in March 2021, after a ten-year legal battle. (The couple shares daughter Bryn, 13, together.)

“It was literally the most traumatic thing I hope to experience in my life,” Frankel shared in an April 2024 episode of her “Just B” podcast regarding her divorce. “I lived through a terrible war. I questioned myself as a human, as a parent, because I was told over and over how horrible and disgusting and old and irrelevant and mistreated I was, because I didn’t I had no power to get out of it.