In this day and age, there are loads of “reality” shows that people can watch if they want to see drama. For example, each season of Love is Blind features loveable and annoying cast members getting into all manners of drama. On the other end of the spectrum, for people who want to watch “reality” shows that will put them at ease, there is one network that is the perfect destination, HGTV.

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Thanks to the fact that HGTV is such a popular network, there are loads of people who want to know everything they can about shows like House Hunters. Similarly, there is a lot of interest in HGTV’s top stars. For example, people want to know things like are Bryan And Sarah Baeumler the richest HGTV stars? Of course, no matter how relaxing watching HGTV can be, that doesn’t mean that the network’s stars have always had easy lives. For example, it is known that Good Bones star Mina Starsiak Hawk had a rocky start to her relationship with her husband Stephen Hawk.

Mina Starsiak Hawk And Stephen Hawk’s Marriage Had A Rocky Start

Since the popular HGTV show Good Bones stars a mother and daughter, it makes perfect sense that there has been a lot of interest in the pair’s family life. As a result, when Mina Starsiak Hawk and her mom Karen E. Laine have been interviewed, the subject of their personal lives quickly comes up. For example, in 2018, the mother and daughter were interviewed by Country Living and the topic of Hawk’s marriage to her husband Stephen quickly came up.

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During the aforementioned interview, Karen E. Laine spoke about how things went when her daughter Mina and her son-in-law Stephen first became a couple. According to Laine, things seemed great when she first met her son-in-law Stephen but despite her first impression, things quickly soured. "But then there was a second impression that was not so good."

When talking about the early stages of Mina Starsiak Hawk and Stephen Hawk’s relationship, her mother Karen E. Laine won’t elaborate on what exactly went wrong. That said, based on how Laine described things in the aforementioned interview with her daughter in the room, it seems clear that Stephen betrayed Mina in some extremely serious way.

"They broke up for a while because he behaved really badly—in a phenomenally bad way." After hinting at how bad things once were, Karen E. Laine began to describe what she told her future son-in-law once Mina took Stephen back. "When they decided to get back together, the only thing I said to him was 'Don't ever hurt her again because you'll have me.'" In the middle of Laine speaking, Mina interrupted to finish her mom’s thought. “and me. And he believes both of us.” Finally, Laine spoke on the subject one last time to jokingly state that if Stephen steps out of line again, the consequences would be dire for him. "We know how to hide a body. It's just that simple."

Are Mina Starsiak Hawk And Stephen Hawk Happy Together Now?

On top of the fact that Mina Starsiak Hawk And Stephen Hawk’s relationship went through a very rocky patch, it is known that their first meeting didn’t go well either. After all, Mina has revealed that after Mina found Stephen’s profile on Facebook and found him “stunningly handsome”. The duo met in person. Instead of charming her in person, Mina says that Stephen “ignored” her “all night” when they first met, and one of his friends even hit on her.

Still interested in Stephen Hawk, Mina Starsiak Hawk got his number at the end of their first meeting and texted him offering to give him another chance. "We're going to try this again tomorrow—you get one more shot." During their second meeting, things went much better and the pair became a couple.

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Once Mina Starsiak Hawk And Stephen Hawk were together for a while, he set up a scavenger hunt which took her to the 50-yard line of the Indianapolis Colts' training field where he proposed. After getting engaged in 2015, the couple married in 2016 and have been together ever since.

Unfortunately for Mina Starsiak Hawk And Stephen Hawk, once the pair decided to have a child they discovered that things weren’t going to be simple for them. Up until relatively recently, most people haven’t been willing to talk about their fertility issues in public. To Mina’s credit, however, she clearly knew that many couples go through the same thing so she decided to let cameras film her so she could share her journey with fans going through the same thing.

Ultimately, Mina Starsiak Hawk And Stephen Hawk welcomed their two children into the world, their son Jack and their daughter Charlotte. Throughout the couple’s struggles to have children and all of the other ups and downs of their relationship, Mina and Stephen have appeared to remain an extremely tight unit. With that in mind, it seems like Mina and Stephen couldn’t be happier together today from the outside looking in.

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