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Brooks Laich Taking a ‘Journey’ to Explore His Sexuality Amid Marriage Trouble with Julianne Hough

Amid troubles in Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich‘s marriage, the NHL star is focused on learning more about each other — including their sexuality — in the year ahead.

Opening up on his podcast How Men Think with Gavin DeGraw on Monday, Laich confessed that he doesn’t feel “100 percent fully expressed” in his true sexuality and that he is now taking a “pleasure first” approach to his life.

“One of my goals this year is to really explore like, learning about sexuality,” said Laich.

“People think that sexuality is just the act of sex, of just having sex and there’s so much more to it. Here’s a question. This is an honest question for everybody in this room, and every single person listening: Are you fully 100 percent fully expressed in your true sexuality? With your partner? With everything? You could not imagine having a better sex life? Are you truly there?” he asked. “I’m not either. So that’s what one of my goals this year is to really dive into. So then we’re all essentially, that’s a state of suffering.”

He continued: “We’re not 10s of 10s. It doesn’t mean you’re the best performer. It just means, ‘Are you fully expressed?’ Do you even know who you are sexually? And I truly, to my core, do not. But I’m super excited about that journey to really learn about sexuality and also get better at the performance of it, but also just the understanding of who I am, who my wife is, that sort of dance.”

Earlier this month, multiple sources confirmed to PEOPLE that the couple has hit a rough patch in their marriage, with one source saying that Hough, 31, and Laich, 36, — who have been married for two years — “have been having problems for months.”

“She’s very independent and a free spirit, and that’s been tough for Brooks and their marriage,” said the source.

Meanwhile, a second insider said that the two “are not giving up, but also not talking about [their issues publicly].”

“They want to do this their way,” the second insider added. “They don’t want to discuss their marriage. They have been having problems, but many people do.”

Neither of their reps have commented.

On New Year’s Eve, fans noticed that Hough did not wear her ring while co-hosting NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly. Before then, Hough posted a video of herself ringless on Christmas Eve. On Jan. 2, Laich posted a workout clip wearing his wedding band.

“Maybe it’s just a phase, maybe not,” an insider said then. “But either way they are not going to address it publicly right now.”

Soon after reports of split rumors, the two reunited at the airport. There, Laich wore his ring, while Hough was seen without it. A TMZ video showed Hough excitedly hopping out of her Tesla to greet Laich.

As for his new “pleasure first” approach in life, the former hockey star pondered on his Monday podcast about how his new perspective would impact his day-to-day life.

“What would the quality of my life be if I woke up prioritizing pleasure as the absolute most important thing in my day?” he asked.

“You are more loving, more kind, more patient, [there’s] more gratitude for everything,” Laich continued. “Pleasure first is a new concept that I’m trying to explore in my life because it has not been. It’s been almost last in the course of my life.”

Like Laich on the podcast, Hough has also been open about her sexuality in the past. Speaking with Women’s Health last year, the dancer said she worried Laich wouldn’t understand her fluidity.

“I was connecting to the woman inside that doesn’t need anything, versus the little girl that looked to him to protect me,” she said. “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.”

She recalled telling Laich, “You know I’m not straight, right?”

“And he was like, ‘I’m sorry what?’ ” she continued. “I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you.’”

After that conversation, Hough said the two forged “a more intimate relationship.”

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On the podcast Monday, Laich also spoke candidly about having kids and wanting to be “an actively involved dad” — though he could never see himself as a stay-at-home dad.

“I couldn’t do that,” he said. “I want to be an actively involved dad but to just stay at home … I would love my kids but I think my soul would somewhat die doing that. I will go crazy if I don’t do something.”

Also speaking about having children, Laich added that he would want his children to know him and his wife as “a unit” and never hear about their past relationships.

“My mom and dad don’t tell stories of exes,” he said. “I love just the notion of looking at my mom and dad as a partnership. I hope when I have kids that they know me and my wife as their mom and dad, as a partnership, as a togetherness and not know other stuff about our past.”

When asked to rate his happiness from one to 10, Laich picked an eight, citing his excitement about retiring from hockey and heading “into a new stage of my life.”

“In my life, there’s a lot of things I’m really working towards. I want to step into a new stage of my life,” he said. “There’s things in my life I really want to improve and work on but, like, I f—ing love my life. There’s good days and there’s bad but I love my life.”

Hough and Laich married in July 2017 and got engaged two years prior. They had been dating for a year and a half. Both have been open about trying to get pregnant via in vitro fertilization.

The former Dancing with the Stars judge, who lives with endometriosis, froze some of her eggs in 2018.

“The commitment that she made to us having a family is something I’ll never forget,” Laich said on his podcast in July 2019.

by Anonymousreply 1January 21, 2020 7:35 PM

Damn, so is he bisexual?

Or is he slowly coming out as gay?

He's HOT.

by Anonymousreply 2January 21, 2020 7:38 PM

Boring straight people looking for attention.

by Anonymousreply 3January 21, 2020 7:38 PM

Call me when he starts sucking dick.

by Anonymousreply 4January 21, 2020 7:40 PM

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by Anonymousreply 5January 21, 2020 7:41 PM

I'll volunteer as tribute

by Anonymousreply 6January 21, 2020 7:41 PM

He's kind of a butterface, but that BODY!

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by Anonymousreply 7January 21, 2020 7:44 PM

He's probably checking out a guy in this photo...

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by Anonymousreply 8January 21, 2020 7:44 PM

There's a long thread about this already...

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by Anonymousreply 9January 21, 2020 7:53 PM

I would love to be snuggled up next to him in bed.

Get lost, Julianne!

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by Anonymousreply 10January 21, 2020 7:54 PM

This is code for "I want a dude balls deep inside of me". And I support him 100%!!! You Go, Laich!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 11January 21, 2020 7:55 PM

I bet his journey will take him through some twink bussy!

by Anonymousreply 12January 21, 2020 8:00 PM

Brooks actually looks like a bottom, R12.

But who knows?

Either way, just thinking about it makes me tingle.

by Anonymousreply 13January 21, 2020 8:09 PM

I would like to explore his anus

by Anonymousreply 14January 21, 2020 8:58 PM

News at 10: Boring vanilla straight couple are pretending to not be straight to 'spice up' their boring, failing marriage.

"Brooks Laich Taking a ‘Journey’ to Explore His Sexuality" likely means he wants to dump his aging wife (who is 5 years older than him and pushing 40) and wants to try out gang-bangs and Bukake on a bunch of barely-legal 18-y.o. school-girls.

It's the same as Ansel Elgort recently publicly declaring that he's essentially bored with having just one girlfriend (ballerina Violetta Komyshan) and wants to have more 'freedom' and more 'platonic' relationships with other females (translation from fuckboy-vernacular: he wants an open relationship with full carte blanche to have a harem of broads).

by Anonymousreply 15January 22, 2020 11:56 AM

[quote] Laich: "So that’s what one of my goals this year is to really dive into. So then we’re all essentially, that’s a state of suffering.”

I don't understand the jumbled-up grammar of his 2nd sentence.

[quote] "When asked to rate his happiness from one to 10, Laich picked an 8... [he said:] "I f—ing love my life. There’s good days and there’s bad but I love my life". "

His brain is like scrambled eggs. First he says something unintelligible about "a state of suffering" but then he follows that up by saying he "fucking loves his life". Wait, what?

by Anonymousreply 16January 22, 2020 12:07 PM

[quote] Hough, aged 31: “I was CONNECTING to the woman inside that doesn’t need anything, versus the LITTLE GIRL that looked to him to protect me,” she said. “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.”

Hough sounds exhausting. No wonder Laich wants to leave her ass and go experiment with some twinks or Victoria Secret escorts on yachts instead - who will just suck his cock and spare his ears from such 'yoga-philosophy monologues'.

by Anonymousreply 17January 22, 2020 12:17 PM

Apologies, he's 5 years older than her, not the other way round.

I was confused because she looks older in makeup.

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by Anonymousreply 18January 22, 2020 12:21 PM

[quote] Laich: "I hope when I have kids that they know me and my wife as their mom and dad, as a partnership, as a togetherness and NOT know OTHER stuff about our past.”

So his 'master-plan' is to go have a fuck-fest with some girls / guys - get his cock sucked and maybe use some twinks as a temporary cumdump - then discard them and go back to his wife and continue leading a 'wholesome, heterosexual' life, and monitor his future kids so they'll never find out daddy liked getting fisted?

He's not very bright. It's the age of the internet - any kids which he'll spawn with his "togetherness" wife will definitely find out that just 2 years into the marriage daddy got bored and went looking for a tighter pussy or bigger cock. Especially now that he's declared it to the whole world, lol.

by Anonymousreply 19January 22, 2020 12:36 PM

[Quote] He's not very bright.

That much was obvious lol. I wonder if they're stoners??

by Anonymousreply 20January 23, 2020 10:14 AM

She was just filmed having an exorcism in Davos.

This bitch is crazy.

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by Anonymousreply 21January 24, 2020 5:52 PM

^Run, Brooks, run! Escape while you can! Your old "ball and chain" is crazier than Mia Farrow!

by Anonymousreply 22January 24, 2020 6:17 PM

They're both fucking crazy.

Julianne is an attention whore, and Brooks is a closet case.

What a pair!

by Anonymousreply 23January 24, 2020 6:21 PM

Hot

by Anonymousreply 24February 4, 2020 7:16 PM

Has he gotten naked or sucked a dick this week?

by Anonymousreply 25February 4, 2020 7:22 PM

I guess he's saying that his brother-in-law's hole isn't tight enough to satisfy his "sexual exploration"

by Anonymousreply 26February 4, 2020 7:51 PM
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