The Bachelor's Susie Evans Explains Why She'd Say 'No' if Clayton Echard Proposes Anytime Soon

Susie Evans ended up with Clayton Echard after all during the season finale of The Bachelor, but don’t expect them to get engaged anytime soon.

During the dramatic finale, Susie actually rejected Clayton during the final rose ceremony and he left Iceland a single man, but in the weeks following that moment, she reached out to him and rekindled their relationship.

While reuniting on TV for the live finale, host Jesse Palmer kept hinting that they might engaged on live TV, but if Clayton proposed, Susie would’ve said no.

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“We have talked about this, and I’ve told Clayton, if you surprise me [with an engagement], I will say no. This is not a fun surprise,” Susie said on the Wednesday episode of Nick Viall‘s podcast The Viall Files.

Susie said that she and Clayton will be reevaluating their relationship in three months for a “post-show check-in” and then again in September for a “pulse check.”

“I don’t plan to get engaged in September and Clayton knows that,” she added.

Susie also explained why they decided not to get engaged during the finale.

“We have realized that if we would have gotten engaged, we wouldn’t be doing it for us, so we’re, like, ‘Let’s not do it,.’ It’s not for us,” she said. “We’ve got some time frames to have these candid conversations with each other, but we want to give this a shot outside of this overwhelming environment.”