Julianne Hough's Husband Wants To 'Learn More' About His Sexuality In 2020

By Paris Close

December 31, 2019

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Julianne Hough is inspiring her husband Brooks Laich to explore his sexuality.

Ever since the Dancing with the Stars performer came out as “not straight” to her husband, the Canadian pro hockey player has been looking forward to becoming just as open-minded about his feelings on intimacy.

Laich expressed this on Monday (December 30) when he revealed a few of his resolutions for 2020 in his Instagram Stories. Among his goals included wanting to travel abroad (“Croatia/Turkey”), taking up playing piano again, making more room for space throughout the day and being “open to all things and present in my relationships,” which involves learning “more about intimacy and my sexuality.”

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“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you are not” As the new year inches closer, I’m doing some reflecting, and some looking ahead. I’m always working on becoming a better man, a better version of me, and it always starts with a vision of who that person is. Knowing where I am, and where I want to go, are equally important. So I share these words for anyone else out there on a similar journey ahead of the new year. It’s a new decade coming, a new sense of hope and opportunity - and a chance to step into an improved version of you. You must believe you are, before you can become. Once the belief is set, the path reveals itself. So, much love to all of you taking the time to pour love into yourself, and striving for betterment - I’m with you all the way, and wish you all the best!! 🙌🤟💯

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“As the new year inches closer, I'm doing some reflecting, and some looking ahead,” Laich wrote on Instagram. “I'm always working on becoming a better man, a better version of me, and it always starts with a vision of who that person is. Knowing where I am, and where I want to go, are equally important.”

"It's a new decade coming, a new sense of hope and opportunity—and a chance to step into an improved version of you,” he continued. “You must believe you are, before you can become. Once the belief is set, the path reveals itself.”

It’s fair to assume Laich’s new nonpartisan outlook on life was inspired by Hough, who recalled her own revelation for the September issue of Women’s Health.

“I [told him], 'You know I’m not straight, right?' And he was like, 'I'm sorry, what?' I was like, 'I'm not. But I choose to be with you,’” she told the pub at the time. “I think there’s a safety with my husband now that I’m unpacking all of this, and there’s no fear of voicing things that I’ve been afraid to admit or that I’ve had shame or guilt about because of what I’ve been told or how I was raised."

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