“I will admit, I thought he was attractive,” Alexa toldCosmo.

Alexa did exactly that and, as they say, the rest is history.

I could already tell she was getting butterflies in her tummy."

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Given their close relationship with Sappenfield, they asked her to officiate their wedding.

printed on it, according to NBC.

Chris and Alexa wed in June 2016 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where they train.

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Her illness left her totally debilitated.

“I couldn’t fall asleep because the pain would just wake me up,” she said.

“Initially … we had to relearn everything,” shetoldThe Chicago Tribune.

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“It was very difficult to train because my stomach incision was still healing.

And in pairs skating there’s a lot of hand contact near the abdomen.”

Luckily, the Knierims are in the first camp.

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“We support each other and we kind of know what the other one needs in that moment.”

She’s there to experience it with me."

or ‘Can you not react so negatively?’

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we’ve learned go about it a different way.

It’s like, ‘What can I do to help you?’

Or you just lend a supportive hand," Alexa explained.

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“There are no more issues as far as arguments or things like that,” he said.

Then you find your stride as a couple."

#CoupleGoals, anyone?

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However, once the Olympics are over, they may finally have the chance.

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