Candace and Valeri went on their first date the day after they met, and sparks flew.

He said he did, and for Candace, that was enough at the time.

“You’re actually making me take two steps back,” he told her.

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure smiling together

Candace admitted this conversation broke her heart, but the two eventually worked through it.

“My husband is a natural-born leader.

“The definition I’m using with the word ‘submissive’ is the biblical definition of that.

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure posing for a picture

So, it is meekness, it is not weakness.

It is strength under control, it is bridled strength,” she explained.

“I mean, you have one president, you know what I’m saying?”

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure posing for a picture

“We rode them out.

We loved each other through them.

We kept the focus; God’s glory.”

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure smiling together

Bure added that honoring each other is the foundation of her marriage with Valeri Bure.

“Because I travel a lot, that’s the secret!

Because, you know, being away from each other makes the heart grow fonder,” she quipped.

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure waving at a crowd

She also admitted, however, that it has its downsides.

Being used to regularly spending time apart made the Covid-19 lockdown much harder on Candace’s marriage.

Suddenly, she and Valeri were spending all of their time together with no breaks in between.

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure posing for a photograph

This is either going to make us or break us,'” she told Us Weekly in 2020.

“And you know what?

It’s made us.”

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure sharing a kiss

24 years and counting."

“I, like, get cringed out by it when I’m in person with them.

I’m like, ‘This is too much.’

Candace Cameron Bure and Valeri Bure hugging each other

…I’m like, ‘OK, guys, it’s family time.

“[We have] sex any time of the day, even if the kids are home.

We just double-check our kids can’t pick the lock on our bedroom door!”

she toldUs Weeklyin 2014.

“The playfulness doesn’t stop just because you’re married,” she said.

“This is just how my husband and I are.

You know, we adore each other and we still have fun and we’re spicy together.”

I think I have to give this up,'” Candace recalled.

As a couple, they’d agreed that she’d never accept roles that require more than kissing.

“He is so proud and supportive,” she told the outlet.