Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds makes reconciling romantic: He proposes to wife, again
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds and his wife, singer Aja Volkman, married in 2011 and split almost two years ago. But the couple reconciled this year. By Christmas, he had re-proposed. (Photo: NINA PROMMER, EPA-EFE)
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds proposed to his wife and the mother of his children, singer Aja Volkman, again.
Why’d he get down on one knee, years later, and present a ring?
The couple took to social media to explain, more than a year and a half after they made their break-up public.
“Well, the last two years have been transformative to say the least. I’ve never caused so much hurt or been so hurt by another human in my life. It took us a long time to really see each other,” Volkman, 32, wrote on Instagram Wednesday, in a lengthy caption of a post that ultimately announced her second engagement.
She wore a new ring on her finger and described how her and Reynold’s romance – two very different people who wrote love songs, got married, had children – came at the expense of their identities.
“We didn’t know ourselves well enough to maintain the strength from within,” she wrote.
She opened up about a rough falling out, lots of crying, and ultimately forgiveness and reconciliation. But Volkman said she refused put her first wedding ring back on, because she needed things to be different.
So Reynolds presented her with a new one before 2020, after he got down on one knee and asked her if she’d be with him.
“The answer has always been yes,” she wrote, and showed off the too-big ring (she said it still needed to be sized) on her middle finger, as she posed in front of a Christmas tree.
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Well, the last two years have been transformative to say the least. I’ve never caused so much hurt or been so hurt by another human in my life. It took us a long time to really see each other. We weren’t reckless at all. In fact we were so careful that we didn’t do what we needed to do. We didn’t listen to who we were. We loved each other at the expense of everything. Two different backgrounds, and practically two different generations. It was a wild story that just kept getting more wild as time passed. We wrote love songs, and we got married. Then came children. We were both emotional and driven and also hard on ourselves. We went through a whirlwind of successes and failures and we held each other tight because it was scary. But we also suffocated each other. We didn’t know ourselves well enough to maintain the strength from within. And it all began to crumble. The world was harsh. There was so much love, but also criticism and ugliness. We weren’t prepared to be disliked or misunderstood. It hurt. We were distorted mirrors of each other. I missed the stage and he had too much of it. We fell apart. Our oldest daughter was suffering. Her foundation fell away and all that she knew was destroyed. We hated ourselves. The night was long. 7 months long. Then one evening he came to my door. I looked at him timidly because of all that I had gone through. Endless days of hiding in my closet crying beneath my clothes. Deep soul searching accompanied by the darkest thoughts that would eventually turn to light. He stood there on my porch and all I could see was my most favorite person staring back at me. I understood it all. We didn’t need the words. We were both forgiven..but… I wouldn’t put my ring back on. Even when we decided to stay together. I just couldn’t go back to what we were. I told him that we would have to start again. He agreed. Tonight we put our kids to bed and began to clean up the mess of the day. I could see that he was nervous but I didn’t know why. He got on one knee and before he could open his mouth I began to cry. Loaded tears that held nearly 10 years of growth. The answer has always been yes. Even before we knew what that meant.
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Reynolds, 32, hasn’t posted about the re-proposal, himself, as of Thursday night. But he has talked about love in public in the past. In particular, he’s long been a vocal advocate for the Mormon acceptance of the LGBTQ community and released a documentary on the subject, “Believer,” last year.
In April 2018, he tweeted that his marriage had “come to an end.”
after 7 beautiful years together, Aja and I’s marriage has come to an end. Our children continue to be the most important thing in our lives, & we will continue to co-parent them with all our love.
That was a year after Volkman shared a song with lyrics about how her husband “is always gone” and “it’s gettin’ kind of lonely.”
But in January of this year, Volkman posted that the couple was “rebuilding.” On Oct. 1, they welcomed their fourth child, a son, Valentine. (They also share daughters Arrow, 7, and twins Gia James and Coco Rae, 2.)
On Christmas, the whole family was together and smiling.
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