Audrina Patridge Goes Instagram Official with Country Singer Michael Ray in Romantic Post

The couple confirmed their relationship in a new post on Tuesday, July 9, with Patridge quoting Ray's new song 'Hold'

Audrina Patridge and Michael Ray are Instagram official!

The Hills alum, 39, and country singer, 36, confirmed their romance in a cute post on Tuesday, July 9.

“There’s a lot of things in life worth letting go. But the ones that mean the most, you gotta hold 🤍,” Patridge wrote in the caption, quoting a lyric from Ray’s new song “Hold” while sharing a photo of her and Ray cuddling up together at night.

Ray responded in the comment section, “Let’s go babe!!! Grateful for you and Kirra ❤️♾️,” referring to Patridge and her eight-year-old daughter Kirra, whom she shares with her ex-husband Corey Bohan, as Patridge wrote back, “❤️❤️.”

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Both Ray and Patridge reshared the post on their Instagram Stories — with Patridge adding a big white outlined heart in the background behind the photo.

The pair’s relationship confirmation comes after Patridge posted a photo on her Instagram Stories of her and Ray kissing with her legs wrapped around his waist in late June.

“This one…,” she captioned the sweet snapshot at the time, adding a smiley face with hearts emoji.

Representatives for Patridge and Ray at the time did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Fans previously spotted that Patridge and Ray had liked each other’s posts for the past three months on Instagram, including photos from Stagecoach posted by Patridge in April.

The Choices: To the Hills and Back Again author’s new romance with the country singer comes after she dated The Hills costar Justin "Justin Bobby" Brescia and musician Ryan Cabrera. Patridge was also married to Bohan from 2016 to 2018, during which time she alleged she experienced domestic abuse.

Speaking to PEOPLE about her divorce in July 2022, Patridge said, "Now, it's like, I love myself enough to walk away. You have to love yourself enough to say enough is enough. Or I'm not putting up with this.”

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"I've learned a lot of that going through this. And I've learned that when you're in a bad relationship, you put up with a lot of things because you're trying to force it to work ... to make the other person happy. And that's not good. You've got to notice all those signs and stop it before it gets too far."

Ray, meanwhile, divorced from his ex-wife, fellow country singer Carly Pearce, in June 2020 after eight months of marriage.

The “Whiskey and Rain” singer previously told PEOPLE that, despite the difficult split, he was open to getting remarried. "I think maybe down the road, for sure,” he said in June 2023. “I believe that that's what we're put on this world to do, is to find somebody that you connect with that makes you better and create a family and leave a legacy.”

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