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Bachelor's Arie Luyendyk Jr. & Wife "Don't Really Care" About Being Success Story
Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham Luyendyk woke up feeling tense connected Mar. 1.
No, not due to the fact that it was coming up connected the five-year day of Arie's infamous switcheroo—the Bachelor breaking up with last roseate victor Becca Kufrin successful favour of runner-up Lauren—but due to the fact that but due to the fact that their app, DUO: Dates Unlike Others, was launching and they had to find a abstraction to bash interviews distant from their 3 kids.
"We woke up with a ton of anxiety," Arie admitted to E! News speaking from a car parked extracurricular their Scottsdale, Ariz. home. "It's been a agelong clip coming."
It's besides apt a time galore members of Bachelor Nation ne'er envisioned coming to fruition, fixed the arguable ending to his season and the franchise's less-than-stellar occurrence rating. (Only 1 antheral lead, Sean Lowe, is joined to his last roseate recipient.)
And yet present they are celebrating 4 years of matrimony with their 3 children—Alessi, 3, and 19-month-old twins Lux and Senna—have defied the likelihood and proven their skeptics wrong, though the franchise is wont to hide that the Luyendyks are 1 of their sole remaining pairings.
While Arie—who archetypal appeared connected Emily Maynard's play of The Bachelorette successful 2012—admitted that they "have a small PTSD" from their experience, the mates doesn't mind their emotion communicative being overlooked by the ABC world hit in favour of much accepted endings.
"We don't truly care," Lauren said. "We're still are grateful and we emotion the producers that we worked with." Harboring nary sick volition towards the show, Lauren added that if they were asked to marque an quality to connection advice, they "would accidental yes."
Following their engagement connected unrecorded TV, Arie and Lauren got joined successful an intimate non-televised ceremonial successful Hawaii successful January 2019. They celebrated their 4th wedding day with another visit to the Aloha state, this clip doing a wellness retreat, which Arie jokingly described arsenic "very hungry."
Their committedness to spending prime clip unneurotic is what the mates points to arsenic 1 of the secrets of their marriage.
"We ever marque clip for each different and we spell connected dates," Lauren shared. "We prioritize each other, implicit work, and adjacent implicit spending clip with the babies, due to the fact that it's important to person a beardown enslaved and communication. It's the biggest happening for us. We're going to speech astir everything."
Not that discussing his feelings came people to Arie astatine first, who admitted he's "gotten amended astatine that," acknowledgment to his wife.
"Lauren was a psych major," Arie explained. "So she's precise bully astatine communicating, and getting maine to bash things. I'm precise agreeable, due to the fact that I emotion her precise much!"
And aft offering glimpses into their connected societal media, Arie and Lauren came up with the thought for DUO. The date-planning app is tailored for couples looking for immoderate experiential inspiration, ranging from hundreds of escaped ideas to the premium enactment of receiving a afloat planned astonishment day enactment together by adept planners based connected the user's budget.
For Arie, he is partial to the "off the wall" excursions Lauren has sprung connected him successful the past, including a goat yoga day successful their backyard. Lauren, meanwhile, pointed to Arie taking her paddleboarding astatine sunrise successful the Salt River arsenic a "magical" representation for the couple. Not that they request every outing to beryllium arsenic extravagant arsenic the ones they experienced during their clip connected The Bachelor.
"It's funny," Lauren said, "but due to the fact that the dates were truthful implicit the top, we were conscionable looking guardant to going to the market store together! But we inactive effort to bash things to astonishment each different and support it caller and exciting."
Given their propensity for originative and explorative dates—including a caller luxury picnic and chopper thrust during their kids' nap time, staged by immoderate of their DUO experts—it's hard to ideate what could perchance beryllium near connected the couple's bucket list.
"We conscionable privation to question much with our kids," Lauren shared. "They're getting to an casual property for question now."
That volition see 1 precise peculiar stamp the small one's passports with plans to sojourn Arie's autochthonal Holland. Said Arie of taking them backmost to wherever his household is from: "It volition beryllium amusive to acquisition that with them."
If there's any mates that knows astir creating memories, it's the Luyendyks.
DUO is disposable for download connected the app store.
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