A lot of people will ask me, “How do you know when it’s the right person?” The main piece of advice my mom gave me before going on this journey was to follow my gut, and from the beginning, my gut told me that Bryan and I were a perfect balance. We handle things differently: When I’m weak, he’s strong, and vice versa. I remember once, after a breakup, somebody said to me, “If you thought that relationship was good, just wait until you find the one that you’re supposed to be with.” Never did I think I would meet my person this way, and that it would be this good. But it did, and it is. He makes me better. He softens me. Seeing the person that Bryan is, watching him with his family, seeing how he treats me—I know I made the right choice.

Bryan always says that timing is everything, and I truly feel that in our relationship. Coming from Texas and going to Christian and Baptist schools my entire life, I always believed I had to fit into this box, and as much as I didn’t want to admit it, that often held me back from pursuing what I really wanted. It wasn’t until I let that idea go that things really started happening for me. Years ago I would never have gone on television, but if I’d never gone to that first audition for The Bachelor, I’d be sitting in my office right now working on some legal motion, staring out my window, and singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” If I’ve learned anything from this journey, it’s that you have to take risks in the pursuit of what you want. You never know what can happen when you do.

—as told to Jennifer Lance

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Allison Holker on Being Married to Stephen "tWitch" Boss.‎ They met on So You Think You Can Dance: All Stars.

My first impression of Stephen—everyone else calls him "tWitch," but I call him Stephen—was: He has amazing abs! He still does! We were both all stars on So You Think You Can Dance season seven, but we were both very, very shy. We had crushes on each other, but we didn’t speak the whole season. You would have never even known we were into each other at all. There were little signals we gave each other, though. I would try to touch his arm every once in a while, or he would smile at me. We looked like high school students, maybe even junior high students. Let’s be real. But I had just moved to Los Angeles, and it felt weird to try to be with someone I was on set with. It just seemed like such a cliché. So when I realized I had a crush on him, I told myself, “OK, I’m at a job. Let’s not be crazy.”

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Then, during the season, we both went to the premiere for one of the Step Up movies—not together, but we were both there. We went to the after-party, and we both ended up in a cabana. We were dancing, and at one point he just started taking off his jacket and T-shirt and flexing. I didn’t realize he was trying to flirt. I was just so embarrassed, like, Oh my God, this guy is so cute. Later, my friends were like, “Duh, he was trying to dance with you.” But I had no idea. Now, knowing him and his personality, he would never just start taking his clothes off. I don’t know what moved him to do that. I wish I knew at the time he was trying to flirt with me.