Brooks Laich is celebrating his wife Julianne Hough’s journey of self-discovery.

Hough revealed she was “not straight” in the Sept. 2019 cover issue of Women’s Health. “I [told him], ‘You know I’m not straight, right?’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry, what?’” she said. “I was like, ‘I’m not. But I choose to be with you.’”

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Laich touched on Hough’s comments when speaking to US Weekly on the set of Hallmark’s “Home & Family”. The Canadian NHL player was promoting his “How Men Think” podcast.

“My wife, to her credit, is constantly evolving, challenging, growing,” Laich said on Thursday. “[It’s] not out of desperation, but out of curiosity, out of exploring who she is, exploring what’s meaningful to her.”

“She’s grown and shifted in so many ways since we’ve met, which is absolutely beautiful,” he continued. “My wife is literally everything I’m not. I love her because of her heart. She has a stronger heart than I do. She has a level of compassion that I envy.”

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Laich continued to heap praise upon his wife. “Her level of compassion for people is not natural to me. When I see how her heart beats with every single person, I just admire it,” he shared. “She’s challenged me to grow in ways that I resist against and push against.”

His relationship with Hough was made public in Feb. 2014. They announced their engagement in August 2015 and tied the knot on July 8, 2017.