For the second time, Robin Thicke has asked for his longtime partner April Love Geary’s hand in marriage.
On Sunday (May 25), Geary, who’s a model, shared an Instagram carousel featuring Thicke’s proposal at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Thicke initially proposed to his future wife on Christmas Day 2018 and the couple have three children together: Mia, 7, Lola, 6, and Luca, 4. The R&B artist has his first child, Julian, 15, with his ex-wife, actress Paula Patton. The former couple divorced in 2015 after ten years of marriage.
In her Instagram caption, Geary gushed about the new engagement ring that Thicke presented her with, writing that she’s “obsessed with it.” “This trip was such a dream. I love you so much @robinthicke,” Geary continued.
Thicke’s initial proposal to Geary in 2018 happened among family and friends during an intimate holiday gathering. The couple started dating shortly after Thicke’s separation from Patton in 2014, and that same year, the actress filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.
Although Thicke released his seventh album Paula in dedication to his then-wife, the musician would later clarify on podcast Drink Champs that he wasn’t trying to win her back.
“I tried to sell the idea of getting her back, but I wasn’t actually working on getting her back at the time. Because we were already done,” Thicke explained around the 1:30-minute mark of the video below. “I wrote the songs in real time. I wrote the whole album in maybe two months.”
He continued, “But I knew we weren’t going to be back together and that was okay. … We grew apart and that’s just something you have to respect instead of take as an L.”
