With The Golden Bachelorette‘s finale on the horizon, Bachelor Nation has one burning question on the brain: Does Joan Vassos end up with anyone at the end of her journey?

When speaking to Decider ahead of her premiere, Vassos said she considers herself happier now than before her Golden Bachelorette experience and teased her conclusion as follows: “I can say I have an original ending and it ended exactly like it should. I’m in the right place.”

One would assume the positive tease means she ends up living happily ever after with one of her two remaining men, Chock Chapple or Guy Gansert. After seeing her Fantasy Suite Week heartbreak and lots more tears seen during the “Men Tell All” finale preview, however, we’re not exactly sure what to expect from the emotional conclusion.

Before Joan and her Top Two Golden Guys head to Bora Bora for The Golden Bachelorette‘s final one-on-one dates (and a potential proposal), we’re taking a look at four potential outcomes of her journey.

Who does Joan end up with on The Golden Bachelorette? Does she leave the finale engaged? Is she still in dating Chock or Guy? Is she currently single? And what do Reality Steve’s Golden Bachelorette spoilers say?

Here are Bachelor Nation’s most popular Golden Bachelorette finale theories.

1. As always, it’s time to check in with Bachelor Nation’s favorite spoiler, Steve Carbone, aka Reality Steve. As we know from Joey Graziadei’s season of The Bachelor and Jenn Tran’s unexpected Bachelorette ending, even Reality Steve gets it wrong sometimes — and he did again with his initial predication for Joan’s finale!

   Reality Steve deleted his original Golden Bachelorette finale spoilers (more on that later!) and posted a definitive update. So whose his predicted winner this season? Per a September 18 Instagram post, “Joan is with Chock Chapple. I do not know if they got engaged or not.”

   Up until the finale, Chock and Joan were on Cloud 9 whenever they were together, but during the “Men Tell All” finale preview it seemed like Chock was saying, “I’m not gonna feel comfortable proposing to someone if they haven’t said that they love me,” suggesting drama lies ahead. In the same teaser, however, Joan confirmed that she fell in love with “more than one person now,” meaning her husband and someone new. So perhaps Chock will get the assurance he needs before he pops the question.

   Since Golden Bachelorette finale details are sparse, if Joan and Chock do end the season together it’s unclear if they’ll get engaged or if they’re still together today. But for those doubting the amended finale predictions, Reality Steve says, “I think if you even took away the spoilers, you could pretty much know where Joan is leaning… Isn’t it kind of obvious all season it’s been Chock and nobody else?”

   Those who’ve watched The Golden Bachelorette‘s Fantasy Suite Week and “Men Tell All” episodes know that one of Joan’s Top Three contestants, Pascal Ibgui, self-eliminated, leaving Chock Chapple and Guy Gansert as Joan’s Top Two. So while the top theory currently has Joan and Chock as endgame, there is another player left in the game.

2. Back in August, before Reality Steve named Chock as The Golden Bachelorette winner, he incorrectly predicted that Chock would be eliminated after Hometown Week and that Guy Gansert was on track to become Joan’s eventual winner. Here’s what Reality Steve initially had to say about Joan’s final pick:

   “Your final three are Chock, Guy, and Pascal. I can now tell you that Chock was eliminated at final three. Your final two guys are Guy Gansert and Pascal Ibgui. What I have heard is that when they got to the final two, Pascal self eliminated, I guess, basically wasn’t there in terms of was not in love with Joan…So she just went with Guy… I just know that Guy Gansert is the final guy.”

   As noted above, Chock wasn’t eliminated during the final three and Pascal didn’t make Joan’s Top Two, so this entire prediction was likely incorrect. Historically — like when Reality Steve switched his winner from Daisy to Kelsey on Joey’s Bachelor season — the update has been correct. But even though Reality Steve now predicts Joan and Chock together at the end of The Golden Bachelorette, we still have to consider Guy’s a possibility. Judging from the pre-finale edits, however, all signs point to Joan and Chock. (I mean, we didn’t even see a one-on-one Fantasy Suite Week chat between Guy and Jesse Palmer!)

3. If Joan ends up with Chock or Guy at the end of The Golden Bachelorette, there’s also a very real possibility that they stray from franchise tradition and leave the show without an engagement. Going into her season, Joan was very clear that an engagement wasn’t a must — especially because she had no intention of leaving her family behind to move for a man.

   “I said all along I didn’t need to leave engaged,” the Golden Bachelorette lead told People. “My goal was to leave in a committed relationship. I wanted to have somebody I saw a future with and that we wanted to see how it works in the real world outside of the Bachelor bubble. I didn’t want to go through all of this and be at the same place I was when I came to the mansion.”

   “I would never want to leave my family,” Joan continued. “My kids and my grandkids all live really close to me and not being close to them all the time would not work for me. They’re the most important people in my life. I felt that anybody that I would be a good match for, they would have the same family values as I have and would not want to leave their family.”

   Joan and Bachelor Nation knows that location can be a determining factor in a relationship — especially after watching The Golden Bachelor’s Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist get divorced mere months after their televised wedding event. Turner, who lives in Indiana, said he and Nist, who lives in New Jersey, couldn’t agree on a place to live and felt it was best to separate.

   As for what a Golden Bachelorette relationship could look like without an engagement or a big relocation? Joan told People she’s down to do long-distance as well as a hybrid situation.

   “My thought was that, depending on your working status, you could go and spend two weeks at their house and two weeks at your house, or have another location where you would all gather and maybe each other’s families would come,” Joan said. “You figure it out for a while until you figure out a permanent arrangement, and that could be, feasibly, years.”

4. While Reality Steve is confident that Joan ends the season at least dating a contestant, there’s always the possibility that Joan and her winning man called off the relationship since production wrapped, like Jenn Tran and her winner did. Though Joan seemed eager to find a lasting late-in-life love story throughout the season, she also frequently missed her late husband John and admittedly had a lot of guilt over moving on with someone new.

   On top of that, after Pascal self-eliminated during Fantasy Suite Week, Joan ended the episode by saying, “It’s hard to be vulnerable again once you’ve been hurt, so the walls are up again, and I feel like a failure. I had, gradually along this journey, started feeling more and more hopeful. Now my hope is down to nothing. I had 24 people here in the beginning. I’m down to the last three, and I might end up with nobody…Will anybody love me feel now? It just makes me feel like I’m unlovable.”

   That said, the Golden Gal still has two remaining men who seem all-in ahead of the finale, so we feel incredibly hopeful that she ends her journey with someone. During the “Men Tell All” Joan also teased her finale by saying, “It was emotional, and there are lot of tears, but I will tell you that some of them are happy tears.” And that sounds pretty positive to us!

   As Jenn Tran’s Bachelorette finale proved, we don’t know how the live finale event is going to play out until we witness it firsthand. So grab the tissues and prep for both sad and happy tears.

The Golden Bachelorette‘s live finale event airs on ABC Wednesday, November 13 at 8:00 p.m. ET.