In 2006, two years after he was wounded, Ty wed his hometown sweetheart, Renee Kline, to whom he had proposed between his two deployments to Iraq.

2006年，受伤两年后，泰与家乡的心上人- - -芮妮。克莱恩缔结连理，在被派往伊拉克期间他曾两度向她求婚。