get down on one knee

"I was so emotional already seeing him running towards me. It was mile 25, he had literally almost finished the race. I could see he was struggling so for him to get down on one knee, I have no words."

After an especially fun and rowdy women-tell-all special last week, it is finally time for Joey Graziadei to hand out his final rose and potentially get down on one knee.

Where they diverge significantly from the typical Bachelor Nation — aside from the question of whether Gerry can actually get down on one knee and back up again — is in their shared experiences and their intimate understanding that the future looks very different when you have of much more of the past behind you.

To me, the most bewildering part of the show is that moment when contestants get down on one knee and proposes to a person they've never before seen in real life.

Why get down on one knee when you can propose while skydiving more than 5,000 feet over Mount Everest?