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In a season of fresh starts and big changes, Brooks Laich<\/strong> seems to have adopted a new raison d’\u00eatre. <\/p>\n

Some three weeks after others shared their resolutions for 2020, the retired hockey professional revealed<\/a> to his 478,000 Instagram followers last week that he’d been “re-assessing many things in my life, and one of the most important things I’ve been looking at is how I spend my time every day.”<\/p>\n

Having taken stock of his activities, from his new podcast, How Men Think<\/em>, to his workout sessions to hanging out with husky pup Koda, the 36-year-old shared, “I’m redefining my priorities, and putting happiness at the forefront. I’m making changes to my daily routine, and prioritizing the things that bring me the most joy. Everything else lines up behind those.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Where exactly that leaves wife of two-and-a-half years, Julianne Hough<\/a><\/strong>, remains to be seen. <\/p>\n

Because while the couple have yet to even acknowledge rumors about the widening rifts in their union, they’re absolutely there, one source told E! News. The former Dancing With the Stars<\/em> judge, 31, “isn’t sure” married life is for her, one insider told E! News. “Brooks still has hope and thinks they can get through it. They just want to work on this privately before making any final decisions.” <\/p>\n

With even the couple unsure of what their relationship might look like in the coming months, anything is possible. Still, it’s hard to imagine the pair who once declared their intentions to have “the best f–king relationship ever<\/a>” are ready to abandon that particular mission.<\/p>\n

Not when so much of their six-year relationship felt so meant to be…<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Hough was some eight months removed from her romance with Ryan Seacrest<\/a><\/strong> in November 2013 when she had what she calls an epiphany. Her family\u2014she’s the youngest of Marianne and Bruce Hough’s five children with older brother Derek Hough<\/a><\/strong> being the only boy\u2014had dragged her to a six-day seminar “about creating your own destiny,” she shared with Redbook<\/em><\/a> in November 2013. “I was not into it at first,” she admitted, “but I learned so much about myself and why my relationships didn’t work that by the end I was on a high.” <\/p>\n

Cell phone in hand, she reached out to the people she’d recently been on dates with, she continued, writing, “You are nice, but this is going nowhere.” So she was ready when Teddy Sears<\/strong>, her costar on the 2015 thriller Curve<\/em>, approached her on set the next day. <\/p>\n

“Apparently, he was talking with Julianne…and asked her if she’d been seeing anyone, and she said no or whatever, and I guess he was watching our hockey game at the time,” Laich shared in a 2014 interview<\/a> on radio station 106.7 FM The Fan. “He always watches the game on Game Center on his iPad. I guess he just showed her the iPad and said, ‘Well, I’ve got a guy for you,’ or something.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Hough was, well, game: “It couldn’t have been a better time,” she told Redbook<\/em>. “We’ve been open and honest from day one.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps it helped that their initial face-to-face meeting was delayed, what with the left-handed center based in Washington, D.C. with the Capitals and Hough in L.A., allowing them to build up a rapport over the phone. <\/p>\n

“We talked on the phone and FaceTime for two months before we physically met each other,” Laich recalled to E! News<\/a> last July. “The first time we physically met was at the airport and so we had built a strong connection and friendship before even meeting and then when we physically met, it just exploded from there.”<\/p>\n

Being in the same place simply confirmed what they’d each been suspecting: this very well could be it. “When I met him it was kind of like, Yeah, I knew and I think he knew too,” she told E! News<\/a> in September 2015. “We kind of knew it was going to happen.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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It<\/em> was the proposal<\/a> that had taken place earlier that summer at her grandparents’ place in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho\u2014a moment that had reduced Hough to a mess of emotions, eagerly flashing her new oval stunner to pals. “I never thought I’d be the girl sticking her hand out to her friends and screaming in unison,” she wrote on her blog, “but here I am, shrieking all over Los Angeles.”<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just the 7-carat diamond, as spectacular as it was, but the man who came with it, one she’d confidently declared as her great love to Redbook<\/em>. “Every relationship, there was nothing wrong or bad, but there was nothing right,” she explained. “I had one foot out because I didn’t want to get hurt. And I didn’t say what was on my mind because I didn’t want to ruffle any feathers. I needed to be perfect. Now I’m not holding anything back because I’d rather get my heart broken than never know what it is to be completely, madly in love.”<\/p>\n

Which is perhaps what the native of Saskatchewan, Canada meant when he described those heady early months to E! News, explaining, “I thought I had my life figured out and then Julianne walked into my life and completely changed it and I’m so grateful for that.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Because suddenly he was reconsidering everything, determining if his dream of playing hockey really trumped the opportunity to live with his bride full-time. Though they successfully navigated long distance\u2014”We always wanted to celebrate and support that the other person was living their dream, so I never told my wife, ‘You have to move here and support me while I play hockey’ and she said, ‘You never have to give up hockey to come here,'” he explained to E! News\u2014he was thrilled to land in California with the L.A. Kings in 2017. <\/p>\n

But when the team assigned him to their AHL affiliate in Ontario, he wavered. “I had a decision to make: Do I want to go somewhere else again and be away from home and continue to play hockey or do I want to stay at home,” he shared on the second episode of his iHeartRadio podcast. “I made the decision that I do not want to be away from my wife. As much as I wanted to play hockey, which was at an all-time high, my desire to be with my wife was\u2014on a daily basis\u2014greater than my desire to play hockey.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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But just as he was completely overhauling his career and life, Hough found herself yearning for her own transformation. She’d spent months building up to her storybook July 2017 wedding<\/a> at the edge of Lake Coeur d’Alene where Laich had proposed two years prior. So once they returned from a honeymoon that saw them traveling from a resort on the Seychelles to a safari in Kenya, she realized she was in need of a new project. And it turned out to be more than building her own personal dance method Kingry. As she made moves with her project, setting plans for both a brick-and-mortar studio in L.A. and global events, she began tapping into her emotional growth.<\/p>\n

“I was connecting to the woman inside that doesn’t need anything, versus the little girl that looked to him to protect me,” she explained to Women’s Health<\/em><\/a>. “I was like, ‘Is he going to love this version of me?’ But the more I dropped into my most authentic self, the more attracted he was to me. Now we have a more intimate relationship.” <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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That has meant sharing some truths that hadn’t yet come up in their years together. “I [told him], ‘You know I’m not straight, right?’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?'” she shared. “I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you.'” <\/p>\n

It’s also led to many very<\/em> open conversations about their sex life, some of which have spilled over to Laich’s podcast. <\/p>\n

“My curiosity has saved my life and honestly saved our relationship many times because we’ve been curious about like, ‘Hey, something doesn’t feel right. Instead of just accepting it for how it is, let’s look into something,'” she revealed on How Men Think<\/em><\/a> last summer. And it was that thinking that led her to the website for sexologist Jaiya. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Two separate quizzes later they had their wants and needs laid bare: “By almost learning each other’s language…it was almost like a menu of how we could please each other sexually, but also intimately,” she noted. Agreed Laich, “It allows me to understand my wife more and what’s important to her. Otherwise, I’m going to try and keep giving the way I think that I’m supposed to.” <\/p>\n

They’ve also felt free to share any grievances they have. For instance, the athlete takes umbrage with Hough’s violation of their no cell phones in the bedroom policy. “Sometimes if you come to bed and then I’m waiting in bed and you’re like ‘Ok, one second’ and you’re like sending an email or you’re checking an Instagram or something and then sometimes you’ve said, ‘Ok, I’m done,’ and you plug in your phone and then you roll over to me. I’m like, ‘Ok, well I just waited for my wife. I’m second in line to her phone or what she’s sending?” he explained.<\/p>\n

Calling it a “deep cut” for him, he noted, “We’ve worked on that and I’ve voiced that. Nobody’s perfect.” <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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And yet he feels the triple threat may just be perfect for him. “I could never in my life experience true love prior to meeting my wife but now knowing what love feels like, being in love and having a partner that loves and fully accepts you as you do for them is an absolute gift every single day,” he shared with E! News<\/a> in July. <\/p>\n

The promise of continuing to receive that bounty is why the couple aren’t ready to give up on their romance or even really define the growing pains that they’re experiencing.<\/p>\n

“They have been spending time apart but are not ready to share what’s going on between them,” a source explained to E! News. “They don’t even really know what to call it. But things have definitely changed in their relationship.”<\/p>\n

For now, another insider told E! News<\/a>, “They are navigating through the ups and downs of this relationship together.” Here’s hoping they land in the same spot. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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