Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich explain why they're quarantining separately
Julianne Hough and her husband, former professional hockey player Brooks Laich, aren't quarantining together, but according to them, the arrangement works.
In a new episode of his podcast "How Men Think", Laich said that he's "doing OK," and that he's at his home in Idaho with only his dog, Koda, to keep him company.
Hough, meanwhile, told Oprah Magazine that she's at home in Southern California, and although her heart "is with the frontline workers," she's also enjoying "a magical time" reconnecting with herself.
"I always wanted to spend more time here. I bought this place in 2014, and I’ve never spent enough time here. I come here like, a week a year and it’s my dream property," Laich explained. "So one, I wanted to spend more time here. Two, the place needed an overhaul, it really needed a cleaning ... so I've really been able to manicure it and landscape it. Three, just my dog, with my dog, we have a yard and stuff in L.A., and we go for trail runs and stuff, but here he's outside all day long."
"I'm on the water. I can fish any day. I have a buddy that I can go hunting with," Laich continued, "And I just love being up here. I’ve never spent enough time here, so I’m doing OK with it. But I’ve always been that way, even when I was younger. When I was a young kid, I didn’t need to be around friends all the time. I liked it, I had great friends, I still have great friends to this day, but there’s a part of me that enjoys isolation and there’s a part of me that actually gets drained when I’m around too many people.”
Hough, 31, and Laich, 36, married in 2017 in Idaho after more than three years of dating. Amid reports of marital trouble, a source told People magazine last week that "their relationship has always been like this, though -- they like to do their own thing."
For the professional dancer, who just launched her own fitness method, Kinergy, the time alone has allowed her to "stop and pause and look inward."
"I think in my 30s, I've always been around people, and I'm always trying to create and do a lot of things ... but this is new, it's a little different," she told Oprah Magazine Wednesday. "I don't feel lonely, but I definitely feel alone. I think there's a big difference. I feel alone. ... I miss people a lot, I wanna hug them and talk to them, but I'm really enjoying this time where I can really connect to what's really important in my life and look forward to when we get out of this, who do I want to step into? Who do I want to arrive in this new world as?"
