Savannah Chrisley has high hopes for her upcoming time with boyfriend Robert Shiver.
But the Chrisley Knows Best alum, 26, admitted she also doesn’t like having to maintain a long-distance relationship with the former Auburn University football player while updating her fans on Tuesday’s episode. unlocked podcast.
He called the geographic separation agreement “harsh” and complained that long-distance relationships “suck.”
In the same episode, Savannah gave her fans an update on her incarcerated parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, and admitted that she feels “guilty” for visiting them only twice a month.
While talking about the ups and downs of her relationship with Robert, Savannah said that long-distance relationships seem easy to handle at first.
Savannah Chrisley, 26, said Tuesday on her Unlocked podcast (pictured) that she hopes to “spend a lot of time” with her boyfriend Robert Shiver, but finds their long-distance relationship “difficult” to manage.
“I’m just saying, at first they’re really easy, but then when you have big life moments and vacations that you can’t spend together, it’s really hard,” Savannah said; Pictured with Robert in February in Nashville, Tennessee.
“I’m just saying that at first they’re really easy, but then when you have big life moments and vacations that you can’t spend together, it’s really hard,” she admitted.
DailyMail.com confirmed their relationship in September 2023 and Savannah said she and Robert had been dating for nine months.
Now, Savannah is “trying to navigate this next chapter of my personal relationship.”
“Long distance is just hard,” he continued. “But also, now that summer is here, we will spend a lot of time together.”
He added cryptically that things would be “interesting” once he got to know Robert’s friends and family better.
Although the distance between them was her biggest complaint, Savannah added that it was also “difficult because he has kids.”
Since her parents went to prison, Savannah has taken care of her younger siblings, Grayson Chloe, so she also has children who must be her first priority.
Chloe is the daughter of Todd and Julie Chrisley’s son Kyle, but they adopted her in 2017 while Kyle was in the middle of a battle with addiction.
“There’s rarely time just for him and me, so we have to be better about finding time like that,” Savannah shared.
Savannah was looking forward to spending more time with Robert over the summer and said it would be “interesting” to get to know his family and friends better.
But she noted that he had children, while she cares for two of her incarcerated parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley’s children, making it doubly difficult to find time for themselves.
Savannah takes care of her younger brother Grayson and niece Chloe, whom her parents adopted in 2017, after Todd and Julie went to prison.
Prior to her relationship with Robert, Savannah was engaged for two years to former NHL player Nic Kerdiles, before ending their engagement in 2020.
Kerdiles, who allegedly threatened to kill himself with a gun during an incident in which Savannah and her father Todd had to call 911, died on September 23 of last year after crashing his motorcycle into the side of a car while drunk.
Robert had his own shocking story. In the summer of 2023, his wife Lindsay Shiver was arrested for allegedly conspiring with her boyfriend to have a hitman murder him.
Lindsay, her alleged boyfriend and the hitman were arrested, but Robert has had little to say about the shocking turn of events.