“Farmer Wants a Wife”: Why John and Claire Won’t 'Put Pressure' on an Engagement After She Was 'Surprised' to Be His Pick (Exclusive)

Farmer John Sansone doesn’t want a wife... conscionable yet.

In nan season 3 finale of Farmer Wants a Wife, fans saw Claire judge John’s connection — to proceed their relationship. As they get to cognize each different disconnected camera (which they opportunity has consisted of "a batch of nights in" and "a batch of movies"), nan brace tells PEOPLE that they person nary plans of rushing into an engagement.

“That's a monolithic point of unit that we were dealing pinch passim nan full show, and we wanted to conscionable return this clip aft nan show to spell done this without immoderate unit whatsoever,” John, 25, explains. “That's conscionable what we're doing. We're conscionable going time by day, seeing really it goes. I deliberation that's nan champion measurement to do it because if we commencement putting each this unit and timelines and worldly connected our relationship, it's conscionable bound for trouble.”

Acknowledging that she and John person their differences, Claire, a 24-year-old pharmaceutical income typical from Chicago, says it hasn’t posed a threat to their move successful nan existent world.

“I deliberation we did a bully occupation of being really existent to ourselves connected nan show, and we person done our champion not to alteration that,” she shares. “I don't deliberation we've changed drastically astatine all. So we conscionable observe our differences and study from each other. It really hasn't been an rumor for us.”

John agrees, saying, “One of nan strongest things that we person together is our expertise to communicate.”

“I deliberation that's what's kept america going truthful beardown and besides helped america to navigate our differences truthful good because we're capable to conscionable person normal, cool-headed conversations and study from each other,” he continues.

Looking back, Claire admits it took her a while to break retired of her ammunition pinch John, but everything shifted erstwhile she sat him down and asked if he was going to return her connected a one-on-one date.

“I deliberation that location were a batch of points successful nan show wherever we had to put ourselves retired location that we weren't utilized to aliases inquire uncomfortable questions,” she recalls. “But I really liked John successful those moments because he was really light-hearted and kept things nosy erstwhile he knew I was anxious. So I deliberation those times really conscionable helped america enslaved successful general.”

“I conjecture I wish I would've been a small little tense and awkward successful nan opening because I benignant of wasn't myself then,” she adds. “But it's difficult to look backmost and opportunity that you would do thing otherwise because I'm happy pinch nan outcome.”

Still, connected nan past day, Claire says she wasn’t judge that she would beryllium John’s eventual pick, truthful she prepared herself for immoderate outcome.

“I was going to put connected my champion grin because I emotion Lily truthful much,” she notes of nan runner-up, who she still considers a adjacent friend. “I knew if he picked Lily it would beryllium a awesome choice. But no, I had nary idea. [I was] pleasantly surprised.”

When it came down to his last two, John says he made his determination based connected his gut feeling.

“I don't deliberation location was a circumstantial infinitesimal successful general, but towards nan end, Claire and Lily and I were capable to walk a batch much clip together offscreen,” he reveals. “Because we each had this benignant of knowing pinch nan wranglers astatine nan clip that we weren't going to talk astir thing important and captious for nan show, truthful we were very conscionable casual successful really we would bent out. We'd spell connected sunset drives successful nan Polaris and stuff, and spell down to nan creek. I ended up uncovering myself much conscionable drawn to Claire and conscionable being capable to get on pinch her successful a very casual sense.”

“So I consciousness for illustration it built immoderate benignant of a friendship, which I deliberation is simply a awesome instauration for a relationship,” he concludes.

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