Prepared to maneuver on! Meghan King has been relationship once more after lately splitting from her boyfriend of six months, Christian Schauf.
Us Weekly confirmed in Might that the previous Real Housewives of Orange County star, 36, was seeing Schauf, 40, amid her messy divorce from estranged husband Jim Edmonds. The spouses cut up in October 2019 after 5 years of marriage and share daughter Aspen, 3, and twin sons Hayes and Hart, 2. Now, King is seeing somebody new after settling into a home in St. Louis.
“I used to be sort of relationship, however then the [coronavirus] pandemic hit after I was beginning to date. … Then I’m relationship in St. Louis, and that could be a little bit extra awkward,” King tells Us completely. “When the man involves the entrance door, I’m like, ‘OK, do you come to the entrance door? Or do I can help you be a gentleman, or do I conceal my youngsters? Do I wait till they’re already asleep? How does this work?’”
Meghan King and Christian Schauf. MOVI Inc./MEGA; Courtesy Meghan King/Instagram
The “Intimate Information” podcast host admitted that she doesn’t have a “balance” perfectly figured out but however is “going to attempt to protect” her youngsters from her relationship life.
“But additionally, part of me says, ‘Look, that is Mommy’s life.’ … I’m not going to have just a revolving door and make {that a} precedence, my primary precedence in my life,” she provides. “I really feel like to cover it from my kids is hiding part of what they’re experiencing, even peripherally, as a part of their actuality. I don’t need to do this both.”
Whereas her kids are nonetheless younger, King is attempting “a little bit little bit of sheltering and a little bit little bit of introducing” in relation to potential future companions.
“I’ve began telling my daughter I’m occurring dates after I exit with my girlfriends too, in order that she doesn’t consider occurring a date is simply I’m leaving her for a boy,” the Bravo alum says. “I would like her to assume I’m simply going out at evening with a buddy.”
Earlier than they referred to as it quits in November, King connected with Schauf on a relationship app. Since her cut up, she’s been arrange on dates by her mates and has been browsing the apps as soon as once more. In comparison with the relationship pool in Los Angeles, King says the choices in St. Louis are few and much between.
“It’s a little bit bleaker,” she jokes. “The lads general will not be fairly as attention-grabbing, for my part, however there’s positively upsides. They’re extra, I’d say, true to themselves, extra family-oriented. There’s positively professionals and cons, which is all the reasons I love St. Louis and all the explanations I hate St. Louis, and vice-versa with L.A. I want to seek out that man who’s the proper mixture of the St. Louis values with the L.A. perspective.”
Edmonds, for his half, moved on with girlfriend Kortnie O’Conner in April 2020. Six months later, the previous skilled baseball participant gushed over his new flame on her birthday.
“Pleased birthday @kortnieoc. To essentially the most superb, sturdy, brave, loving, selfless, caring, daring particular person I’ve ever met,” he wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “I may by no means put into phrases what you imply to me and my household. … It’s such as you got here alongside and turned the sunshine on in my coronary heart once more. One thing that I didn’t assume was going to be potential once more. simply wished to take this chance to let you know how a lot I like you and thanks for being you! YOU ARE MY FAVORITE!”
With reporting by Diana Cooper
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