Sean gives the newly engaged couple some advice...
Millions of fans watched as Andi Dorfman accepted a proposal from Josh Murray on Monday night's finale episode of The Bachelorette. One of those fans, former Bachelor Sean Lowe, took to his blog on Tuesday to give the newly engaged couple some advice on how to have a successful off-camera relationship. Sean is certainly qualified to give the couple advice—he married Catherine Giudici, the girl he met on The Bachelor, in January.
"What Andi and Josh don't know is that they are just now embarking on the hard part," Sean wrote. "Nobody told Catherine and me that our toughest challenge would come after we rode those elephants off into the sunset."
Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray announced their engagement on the Bachelorette finale on Monday. (Twitter)
Andi and Josh, who traveled to places like Venice and Marseille, France, over the course of their relationship, may have trouble adjusting to normal life together, says Sean.
"Falling in love while globetrotting the world was the easy part," he wrote. "Learning how to love someone you've spent a collective 20 hours with is the really hard part."
Sean, who proposed to Catherine on-camera in 2013, revealed part of the struggle he and Catherine went through in the beginning of their relationship.
Sean Lowe gave Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray some advice. (WENN)
"I think I'd tell them that the post-show/pre-marriage time frame will be one of the most challenging…It's definitely taken work for Catherine and me."
On Tuesday morning, Andi and Josh appeared on Good Morning America, where they announced that they hoped to get married in the spring of next year. Since revealing their engagement, the couple frequently mentioned that they feel that they are each other's soul mates, a term Sean recommended they stop using.
"I'd tell them not to elevate the other to the level of 'soul mate,'" Sean wrote, before wishing the couple the best of luck. "It sets everyone up for unrealistic expectations and emphasizes the romance over the hard work of building a relationship.
