Steven McBee Jr. had an ominous feeling about his relationship with now-ex Allie Eklund on the latest episode of The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys ahead of their April split.
“For me, in my mind, long distance is the kiss of death for relationships,” Steven, 33, said in a confessional on the Monday, August 10, episode of the Bravo series after revealing that Allie, 29, was leaving Missouri to live with her sister in Texas.
Allie, meanwhile, admitted that the “whole situation is really tough for me.”
She said, “I love Steven and I care about him deeply. We’ve just had a whirlwind of a few months and I need a second really to digest it all.”
Allie got emotional in the car as Steven drove her to the airport after the then-couple had spent the last two months together.
“I told my family I’m coming back home. I told my sister I was going to live with her. I had all these prior commitments,” she said in a confessional. “Then obviously I meet my dream guy and I don’t want him to be upset.”
Allie took a beat before confessing, “I feel like we are moving quickly, almost in survival mode and it’s worrying me a bit. I’m hoping this move back to Texas and this space will allow us to slow down a little bit.”
She added, “If it’s meant to be, this move shouldn’t affect our relationship.”
Steven admitted in his own confessional that he didn’t know “how we ended up on separate pages like this,” noting their relationship hit a bump in the road after he met her family around Thanksgiving 2025 — and then they got in their first real fight the next month.
“I thought we were on the same track,” he mused. “Looking back on it now, I think the smarter move would have been to not come on so strong or not start out so hot and heavy.”
While driving Allie to the airport, he called their romance “a whirlwind,” saying it was “bittersweet” to see her go now that they’d grown so close.
Brayden, Cole, Jesse and Steven McBee. Bryan Steffy/Bravo
Despite feeling out of sync with Allie when she left Missouri, Steven told his brothers later in the episode that he wanted to move to Texas to give her all of his attention.
He also teased that he needed to start saving up for a ring, asking a jeweler if they had a “yellow gold” diamond in stock. (Steven exclusively told Us last month that he “did not buy the ring,” saying it was partly because of the “financial component.”)
Four months after the episode filmed in December 2025, Steven and Allie made headlines when he accused the influencer of cheating on him at Stagecoach Music Festival in April.
Allie publicly denied the allegations and shared controversial messages that Steven allegedly sent her in the heat of the moment with her followers — once again raising eyebrows among fans.
Steven later apologized for his texts, exclusively telling Us in May that he felt the messages were “cruel and degrading” in hindsight.
In July, Allie exclusively told Us that she didn’t need closure after the way Steven handled the end of their relationship.
“When I realized that it was a pattern [on his part] and it wasn’t circumstantial, this was really just the icing on the cake for me. And it was it. There’s no conversation to be had, no closure left,” she explained. “Like, that’s closure enough for me. And when he asked me to have a conversation, a closure conversation, I denied it because there’s when your actions and your words don’t line up. There’s nothing that I can do with that. So, you know, I wish him the best from afar.”
Since their messy breakup, both Allie and Steven have told Us that they are not focused on dating anyone new.
“I would love to find someone in Texas, and a lot of Texas boys are cowboys. So they are not off the table for me. We’ll see,” Allie cheekily told Us of her dream man.
Steven, for his part, quipped last month that while he’s now “open to any hair color” on a woman, his desire for a future partner has remained somewhat unchanged.
“As far as what I want to do with my wife and build a life together, not only on the personal side, but professionally, I want to work day in and day out with my wife,” he said. “I think that is such a cool experience to say that hey, we built something from the ground up together. I still really want to do that.”
The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET.
