Lindsay Hubbard feels she dodged a “massive bullet” when her ex-fiancé, Carl Radke, broke off their engagement last August — two and a half months before their wedding. “I really truly feel thankful that the universe, or God, or whatever higher being you believe in, stepped in and saved me from a really long, hard, rough life ahead,” Hubbard, 37, told Glamour in a profile published Thursday. “And because of that, I learned a lot from a very traumatic experience, and I feel like I learned a lot about what I’m not going to do in my future, especially in my romantic life.
” Radke, 39, dumped his best friend-turned-lover in their shared New York City apartment as cameras rolled for the “Summer House” Season 8 finale. The scene in question aired on Bravo Thursday night, but Hubbard watched it ahead of time. “I kept reminding myself when I would watch each episode that it was the past,” the former PR executive told the magazine.
“But what I did differently this season was I stacked the episodes so I wasn’t watching every week like the viewers do. I would wait a couple of weeks, and then watch a few at a time, then take a month off, and then watch a few more. That way I wasn’t creating consistent anxiety for myself.
” Not only did Hubbard maintain that she was blindsided by the split , but she also admitted that she didn’t see any red flags in the Loverboy salesman — with whom she had been constantly arguing — until he called it quits. “I was .