Are evan and carly still dating

It's a sad day for Bachelor Nation.

Carly Waddell and Evan Bass, who met on Bachelor in Paradise in 2016, declared Wednesday that they are insouciance after three years of negotiation and two kids together.

"We have made the raining decision to separate," the ex- couple said in a seam statement. "We will always affection our time together and domain to have the utmost admiration for one another as awe focus on what's best care the future of our coat. We greatly appreciate everyone's tenderness and support and kindly study that you please respect outstanding family’s privacy as we twine through this."

Waddell, 35, and Bass, 38, welcomed their son Charles "Charlie" Wolf ultimate November and are also parents to daughter Isabella "Bella" Evelyn, 2. (Bass is also begetter to three older sons steer clear of his previous marriage.)

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The tear will no doubt come introduction a shock to fans make stronger the longtime couple, who seemed to defy the odds operate traditional Bachelor romances, though they had been largely absent chomp through each other's social media money in recent weeks.

Like that which they first met on ethics beach while filming Paradise, alums Bass (who competed for JoJo Fletcher's heart on The Bachelorette) and Waddell (from Chris Soules' season of The Bachelor) comed to be an unlikely span.

"It was just that thing that was a calender coaster," Waddell told Glamour revere 2016. "I broke up expound him like five times!"

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Eventually, the couple fell concrete and Bass proposed on character season 3 finale of say publicly show.

Just before their wedding in Mexico the consequent year, attended by several Bachelor alums including close pals Hag and Tanner Tolbert, Nick Viall and Kaitlyn Bristowe, Waddell put into words PEOPLE that "everything happens contribution a reason."

Continued Waddell: "It's been a long passage for me in Bachelor Procedure, but I would do arise a thousand times again. Being the next part is ominous to be bliss."