Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley devised a strategy to keep their engagement a secret for as long as possible so they could enjoy this wonderful time in private.

During his MVP winning speech in February, the NFL quarterback disclosed that he was engaged. On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon two weeks later, the Big Little Lies actress confirmed the news.

The happy couple wants control over the information about their relationship that is made public.

“When we announced that we were engaged, we wanted to do that only because we didn’t want someone else to do it before we did,” she said to The Hollywood Reporter.

“And we didn’t do it for months and months after we had become engaged, but the reaction to it was really a lot, and so we were like, ‘Let’s just politely decline [to talk about the relationship] for a little while and live in our little bubble.'”

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According to the magazine, the two met via mutual acquaintances, both artists, and became closer throughout the epidemic, moving in together and going back and forth between California and Wisconsin within a few months.

“You could travel, but you had masks on,” Woodley recalled. “There was a sense of anonymity that otherwise I don’t think we would have had. We were really able to get to know one another the way we wanted to get to know one another and not have any noise or chaos around us.”

Fans of the pair were taken aback earlier this year when Aaron announced his engagement to Shailene to the world.

“It’s an honor to win this award for the third time,” he said while making a virtual appearance to accept the 2020 MVP.

“2020 was definitely a crazy year filled with lots of change and growth, some amazing memorable moments.

“180 straight days of having my nose hair scraped, playing for very little fans or no stands the entire season.”

Woodley said last month that she and Rodgers moved in together as soon as they began dating. “Starting a relationship where you immediately move in with someone—because it’s a pandemic and you can’t just get on a plane and go back and forth on weekends—taught us a lot about each other very quickly. We jumped in headfirst and got some of the sticky bits out of the way early,” the actress said.

Love triumphs above everything for these two. “I have the perspective that I would have met Aaron in any context, any space in time because I feel we were meant to be together,” Woodley said.