After hometown visits with four men, Dallas lawyer Rachel Lindsay, who is seeking a husband while starring on the reality TV show “The Bachelorette,” sent home a suitor whose strained relationship with his father put a damper on Lindsay's visit.

Lindsay, a civil trial associate, gave roses at the conclusion of Monday night's Episode 8 to bachelors Eric, Bryan and Peter, but Dean went home empty-handed and was left with no chance for a future relationship with Lindsay.

Lindsay told 26-year-old Dean that she sent him home because she wasn't sure he was ready for the relationship to progress. “I wondered if you are ready for the same things as I am, ready for the next step,” an emotional Lindsay said before Dean left in a limousine. He had told her earlier in the week when she visited him in his hometown of Aspen that he was falling in love with her, and she responded in kind.