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After an 18-month engagement filled with fighting over everything from their wedding date to their weekend plans, former Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky reveals exclusively to PEOPLE magazine in this week's issue why she and fiance Roberto Martinez have finally called it quits. "I wouldn't be being truthful if I said this came out of nowhere," Ali, 27, tells PEOPLE through (many) tears in her first interview since the split, just days after moving out of their San Diego apartment. "We definitely had been having problems. But I had always believed that we could work it out." For his part, Roberto, 28, "kept believing and hoping that they'd find a way," says a source. "He's still in shock that it's really over." To fans of the show, the bubbly, athletic blonde and her tall, dark and handsome beau seemed poised to beat the odds that stand in the way of reality-TV romance. (For the record: Two of seven Bachelorette couples are still together, and exactly zero of 15 original Bachelor pairs.) Off-camera, the duo got off to a rocky start, with Ali admitting she wasn't thrilled with their tight quarters in an 'industrial' area of San Diego, their chosen new hometown. Roberto, who had relocated from Charleston, SC, worked to set up a new State Farm insurance office, while Ali, who left her job at Facebook to take part in The Bachelorette, struggled to define her career path, working as a local news correspondent and signing a deal for a Style Network hosting gig that eventually fell through. "We were trying to establish ourselves individually," Ali concedes, "but a relationship should be solid regardless of circumstances." 'Read Full; 'Bachelorette' Break-up: Why Ali Fedotowsky Left Roberto Martinez - Starpulse.com
