Valerie Bertinelli’s Boyfriend Mike Goodnough Seemingly Hints at Split With Cryptic Quotes

Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend, Mike Goodnough, seemingly hinted that they might no longer be together after unfollowing the cookbook author on Instagram and sharing cryptic quotes that do not bode well.

“If you can go a whole day without talking to me, then go another,” one of the quotes Mike, 53, shared to his Instagram Stories on November 2 read.

Another one read, “If someone is fine without you, then let them be fine without you.”

The following day, Mike shared another message on Instagram.

“Y’all, for real, the things I post aren’t real-time coded subtweets of my own life. I post things for all kinds of reasons. Sending some coded message about my life at that very second is close to never it. I post things that resonate with me as wise or thoughtful or lessons learned. I post things that I think will strike a chord with other people,” Mike wrote. “Sometimes the things I post strike a chord with me because they have some recent relevance or relate to things that have been on mind. Even when that is the case, my reason for posting them is because I see some value in them beyond my own experience – not because I’m trying to send super secret messages about what is going on with me or in my life that people need to use a decoder ring to figure out.”

He concluded, “When it comes to stories in particular, what I post is largely influenced by what Instagram serves up to me.
The algorithm is very stubborn and resists even active efforts to get it to serve a wider diversity of material. So any narrowness in what I post about is a result of the algorithm, not me looking for that specific kind of thing. For real, folks don’t have to try to super sleuth the hidden meaning behind content.”

Mike Goodnough did not immediately respond to Closer’s request for comment.

The posts from Mike came just a week-and-a-half after he gushed about accompanying the Hot in Cleveland alum to the 2024 Daytime Emmys on his personal blog, Hoarse Whisperings.

“I wanted her to have a week where she could be proud of herself and could just bask in something that was hers and about her knowing that her having that moment was what I wanted too. And it was,” Mike wrote on October 23. “I wanted that both for her and because her having it would make me happy. I wanted her to know that; but more than that, I wanted her to have a week where she felt it… truly felt it… and knew it was true.”

The writer also touched on a sweet TikTok video the two had made that essentially embodied the happiness he felt being Valerie’s partner.

“Valerie has an entire spectrum of smiles that ranges from the ‘competition smile’ – the one required in the pageant of an industry sitting in constant judgment – to the ones that come from deep within: the at-peace smile, the contented smile, the ‘in love’ or ‘loving you’ smile…” Mike continued. “When I watch that silly little jump-cut video what I see are smiles at the very peak of that range: pure happiness. Pure unadulterated happiness. Just happiness down to the soul allowed out without restraint or because it couldn’t be contained.”

Earlier this year, Valerie, 64, revealed that she had a new man in her life to People on April 1, but she left his identity a secret. However, a few weeks later, Mike took the plunge and made his identity known via his blog.

“Valerie and I are together and have been for a while now,” Mike penned on April 17. “I am Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend … and that may well be among the most surreal sentences I’ve ever pecked out. But it’s true … and nothing about our actual relationship seems surreal. It just seems … good … lucky … a gift.”

In June, the former One Day at a Time star shared a rare photo of Mike via Instagram.

“I have heard that being in a relationship after healing from a toxic one will bring out some triggers you didn’t know were still buried. And ain’t that the truth?” Valerie wrote alongside the picture on June 25. “Learning to trust again after having that trust destroyed is not an easy thing. Those demons want to protect you from being vulnerable and emotionally exposed ever again.”

She continued, “This man is worth fighting the rest of my demons for. He is the most thoughtful, kind, gentle, intelligent, funny, and grateful man I’ve ever met.”