Then, as the coronavirus pandemic ramped up, they opted to social distance separately in different states, further spurring speculation over an impending split.
“[Brooks] likes to be outdoors and in nature doing his thing and that is fine with both of them,” a source said in late April while Laich was in Idaho and Hough in Los Angeles. “She wants him to be happy and he wants her to be happy. If this is what it looks like, so be it.”
Following their official announcement, the final chapter in their story as husband and wife is coming to a close—a love story that began years ago in 2014, featured a fairytale wedding in 2017 and is now ending with, as they said, “love and respect.”
Keep scrolling to revisit it all with E!’s romance rewind: