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Susie EvansandClayton Echardare not afraid to poke fun at how their relationship started out.
Though that may be true, luckily it ended up working out. “Finding out we’re equally as weird,” Susie wrote in the second scene of the video, now with them crazily dancing in the living room.
Though the two have since worked through their problems, their journey getting here was often rocky.
Clayton thensent Susie home, saying that “anything” else she said to him at that point “doesn’t matter anymore.”
The former NFL player later addressed their argument onThe Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast, revealing that he regrets how harsh he had been in the situation.
“I did not handle it well. I didn’t. I mean, it was not handled maturely,” he said. “I raised my voice to her. I was grasping at straws. I was trying to find anything that I could at that point to get her to stay. Like, I just wanted her to give me a chance. I went through this gauntlet of emotions.”
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And while Susie initially turned Clayton down during the finale, theycontinued to exploretheir relationship off screen.
“In a weird, twisted way it did work out because I ended up with Susie. And I’m happier than I’ve ever been,” he told PEOPLE in March.
A few months after the show, Clayton and Susie moved to Susie’s native Virginia.
“We needed to take a step back, and when we restarted our relationship, we set down a new foundation,” said Susie.
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For Clayton, “I never took a step back,” he said. “I was still very much in love with Susie and when the door opened back up, I was fully back in.”
“It’s important for us to live our lives alongside each other, and what’s most important is that we take things at our own pace.”
Said Susie, “We haven’t set a timeline for ourselves. We haven’t talked about an engagement, but we’re having fun getting to know each other and enjoying this time.”
Ultimately, “we’re Team Claysie now,” said Clayton. “We’ve had tough conversations and we’ve grown past a lot. And we’re a team from here on out.”
source: people.com
