Cheryl Burke Opens Up About Her Relationship Standing and Why She Is Celibate

Cheryl Burke does not thoughts being single and celibate.

On the Wednesday, Feb. 12, version of iHeart Radio’s I Do, Half 2 podcast, the skilled dancer, 40 opened up about why she determined to undertake the brand new life-style following her divorce from Matthew Lawrence in February 2022.

“I am not courting and I am selecting to not date,” Burke declared on the podcast. When requested if her final date was “over 300 and sixty-five” days, she mentioned, “Oh, for certain.”

“I nonetheless suppose guys are scorching. That does not imply although, that they deserve me,” she added.

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The Dancing with the Stars alum can be not into one-night stands, describing herself as a “sober lady” into “respecting and loving myself.”

The previous TV character beforehand shared in an August 2024 Instagram Reel that it had been three years since she had began her celibacy journey.

“The factor is, you could have intercourse with me, I fall in love quick. So like, this isn’t a great factor, proper? So we’re working via this. We’re like, ‘Okay, effectively, possibly it does not must be so intense,’ ” Burke on the podcast. “I’m such an intense lady … it’s what it’s, it is who I’m.”

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Burke mentioned that whereas she used to have a special mindset about intercourse, she’s now realized “none of it’s actual.”

“The one factor that was actual with no matter occurred bodily [is] that you simply allowed for it to occur,” she mentioned. “And I believe a whole lot of that possibly again within the day after I would have informal possibly relationships or intimacy, it actually simply continued to chip away at my soul as a result of on the finish of the day, that claims lots about me.”

Burke additionally admitted that because of her sexual abuse as a toddler, she hasn’t been “susceptible sufficient” to be “actually intimate,” one thing she has addressed in remedy.