Haylie Duff and fiancé Matt Rosenberg have split.

A representative for Duff tells PEOPLE that Duff, 41, and Rosenberg “ended their relationship around the first of the year.”

“She asks for privacy at this time in protection of her young daughters,” the representative continued.

The former couple got engaged on April Fools’ Day 2014, after they had been together for a year and a half. They are parents to two daughters, Ryan Ava Erhard, 10, and Lulu Gray, 7.

Matt Rosenberg and actress Haylie Duff

Matt Rosenberg and Haylie Duff on December 6, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.Tiffany Rose/WireImage

Prior to Lulu’s birth, Duff spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about their decision to pause the wedding planning as they awaited the birth of their second child.

“We talk about it and think, ‘Maybe now we’re ready to do it’ and then life happens and toddler happens,” Duff told PEOPLE in 2018. “We feel married already and it hasn’t become something that both of us are gung-ho about,” she said. “Maybe after the craziness of a new baby dies down we’ll be ready to talk about it again.”

Haylie, who is the older sister of actress Hilary Duff, told PEOPLE that she was ecstatic to have two daughters.

“Truthfully, we really wanted another girl,” she said in 2018. “Ryan could have that bond of sisters.”

She previously told PEOPLE that she and Rosenberg are “very different in a lot of ways.”