Latest / I Do, Part 2 / LOVE STORIES: RHONJ Star Dolores Catania and Paulie Connell
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- 0:04Speaker 1: This is Amy and TJ Love Stories.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to this episode of Amy
- 0:17Speaker 2: and TJ, where we are bringing our love stories to
- 0:21Speaker 2: you all as we count down to Valentine's Day and
- 0:23Speaker 2: today we are very excited to have Dolores Catanya and
- 0:27Speaker 2: Paul Paully Connell with us. I think most of you
- 0:31Speaker 2: know who. Dolores is a longtime fan favorite on the
- 0:34Speaker 2: Real Housewives of New Jersey and Paul is originally from Dublin, Ireland.
- 0:39Speaker 2: They met in twenty twenty one after a chance encounter
- 0:43Speaker 2: at an Apple store. Here is their love story.
- 0:46Speaker 1: All right, Dolores and Paul join us now in person.
- 0:49Speaker 1: We used to have We usually have to do these
- 0:51Speaker 1: interviews with people on zoom. It's good to be sitting
- 0:53Speaker 1: in a room with you all. We can see them.
- 0:55Speaker 1: They can't fake it now, robes. If they don't like
- 0:58Speaker 1: each other.
- 0:58Speaker 2: We see the relationship. Yes, we see the interaction.
- 1:01Speaker 3: It is help.
- 1:03Speaker 1: But thank you all for being here again. You know
- 1:05Speaker 1: the game. We are asking all the couples of the
- 1:07Speaker 1: same questions. The first one. We're gonna set this up
- 1:09Speaker 1: this way. It's usually the one that trips everybody up the.
- 1:12Speaker 3: Most, right I'm really here.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Here is the first question. Five words or less describe
- 1:18Speaker 1: your relationship today. Five words or less describe your relationship today.
- 1:24Speaker 3: From me and him, or we could say together individually individually,
- 1:31Speaker 3: I am happy, I'm content, I am grateful, and what else? Mm,
- 1:42Speaker 3: that's big words for me, So I'm gonna I'm going
- 1:45Speaker 3: to say I'm good with three. Yeah, how's that good?
- 1:50Speaker 1: Good?
- 1:50Speaker 4: So I would say all them three words for sure.
- 1:54Speaker 4: Content is a big word, so content me.
- 1:57Speaker 3: I'm attracted to him, like described in the relationship. I
- 2:01Speaker 3: think he's good, like a guy, sorry, very masculine, super
- 2:11Speaker 3: I like that.
- 2:13Speaker 1: I do like them pretty boys.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Is complete. I feel complete. That's a that's a big deal.
- 2:18Speaker 1: This is so interesting. I think you've noticed the are couples,
- 2:21Speaker 1: and that's not insult, but the older couples, some of
- 2:23Speaker 1: the words come out, growth and content. That's kind of
- 2:26Speaker 1: been a theme. I was surprised to hear those specific
- 2:29Speaker 1: words like safe.
- 2:32Speaker 2: A lot of the words that when you're young you
- 2:33Speaker 2: don't think matter. Peace, safety, like just having a companion,
- 2:38Speaker 2: someone you can trust. Those are that's what you want. Ultimately,
- 2:41Speaker 2: when all of the hot sex of romance, not that
- 2:45Speaker 2: it goes away. But when that part that crazy and
- 2:48Speaker 2: love fades, those are the values that keep people together.
- 2:51Speaker 2: And that's what we've seen.
- 2:53Speaker 3: That is and you know, I see so many couples now,
- 2:56Speaker 3: right because that's what you need the most in your
- 2:58Speaker 3: later years, because that's when things hit hard. Sometimes it's
- 3:02Speaker 3: financial struggle can happen at that time, retirement and then
- 3:05Speaker 3: there's just you. But there's also health issues, which I
- 3:08Speaker 3: see my parents aren't together, and my mom has health
- 3:12Speaker 3: issues and my dad has health issues. And as children
- 3:16Speaker 3: looking at them, were like, we're jumping in to take
- 3:19Speaker 3: care of them, which is an honor to be able
- 3:20Speaker 3: to do. But we say, this was the time they
- 3:22Speaker 3: were supposed to be there for each other. Wow.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that is something to think about in terms
- 3:30Speaker 2: of the two of you coming together because you all
- 3:32Speaker 2: had previous marriages. Yes, how did you all first meet?
- 3:37Speaker 2: And when I asked that, I'm leading up to asking
- 3:40Speaker 2: you the question who said I love you first? How
- 3:42Speaker 2: quickly did that come? So we met through a friend?
- 3:48Speaker 3: Okay, and I you know now you have Instagram, right,
- 3:52Speaker 3: So this friend of ours was a friend of his
- 3:55Speaker 3: and I knew her. She's a decorator. He's in like construction.
- 3:59Speaker 3: He's an electoral contractors. So they knew each other from
- 4:01Speaker 3: this world. And she said to me, you know, I
- 4:05Speaker 3: have a friend. He's really cool. You should date. Andm like, go, well,
- 4:08Speaker 3: I'm not cool. So she's like, he'll bring it out
- 4:10Speaker 3: in you. So I went on his Instagram because now
- 4:14Speaker 3: we can do this right, and I thought it was
- 4:18Speaker 3: gay because he had all pictures of his mom and
- 4:21Speaker 3: his dog and his heart and he was very well dressed.
- 4:26Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh, no, this guy is not going
- 4:29Speaker 3: to like not from looking at him, but by what
- 4:31Speaker 3: he was posting. From looking at him too. Yes, he
- 4:34Speaker 3: was very like his hair was perfect, he was dressed beautifully,
- 4:39Speaker 3: that kind of thing was put together together.
- 4:41Speaker 4: Straight, care of yourself and just go out there.
- 4:44Speaker 3: But he was just everything was just the way he was.
- 4:46Speaker 3: And you know a lot of his mom and I
- 4:50Speaker 3: have a I love a mommy's boy. That's that's the guy,
- 4:54Speaker 3: I think, right, Yeah, So I'm like, oh, this is good.
- 4:57Speaker 3: So I did tell him. I said, I'm so glad
- 4:59Speaker 3: you're not gay. Really thought anyway. So we met. We
- 5:03Speaker 3: were supposed to go on a date and both our
- 5:06Speaker 3: phones broke at the same time, and we met at
- 5:09Speaker 3: the Apple Store before our date.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Yeah, wait, you didn't know you were both going to
- 5:16Speaker 1: the Apple Store. No, okay, that's a good story.
- 5:18Speaker 3: That's fate.
- 5:19Speaker 2: Yes, that's amazing all right. So from the Apple Store
- 5:23Speaker 2: it blossomed from there.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Yeah, that day we spoke for three hours. We went
- 5:28Speaker 3: to the store and next store we had something to drink.
- 5:30Speaker 4: We spoke for got a chocolate chip cookie, so this
- 5:34Speaker 4: is easy. Spoke for three hours. Yeah, Yeah, it was fun.
- 5:38Speaker 4: I felt like we got a lot of stuff out
- 5:39Speaker 4: of way real fast.
- 5:42Speaker 3: So it was like it wasn't a formal date.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Yeah, even driving away from that first time I met you,
- 5:47Speaker 4: it was like we talked about all of that stuff,
- 5:51Speaker 4: like were just getting the note, like I don't even
- 5:53Speaker 4: know you, and then we were going out a day
- 5:55Speaker 4: later on, so it felt like even more connected when
- 5:57Speaker 4: we met to go on the official date, which was cool.
- 6:00Speaker 2: It sounds like you did the hot take dating, which
- 6:02Speaker 2: is the new trend now where people just put it
- 6:04Speaker 2: all out first day.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Do you want kids?
- 6:07Speaker 2: What do you believe in God? You know, like like
- 6:09Speaker 2: all of these who did you vote for?
- 6:11Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with that?
- 6:12Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like you all went right. Who said I
- 6:16Speaker 2: love you first.
- 6:20Speaker 3: You know, I'm old school. I'm not going to do that.
- 6:22Speaker 3: I have too much pride number one, and I am
- 6:26Speaker 3: not going to do that.
- 6:27Speaker 1: Sounds like you felt it, but you didn't say it,
- 6:29Speaker 1: like you made.
- 6:29Speaker 4: A choice, because I would have never said it. I
- 6:33Speaker 4: didn't feel it. Okay, you knew.
- 6:36Speaker 1: It was going to be reciprocated.
- 6:38Speaker 3: Okay, all right?
- 6:39Speaker 2: How long before you guys dated? How long until you
- 6:42Speaker 2: got engaged and then eventually got married.
- 6:44Speaker 3: We just got engaged in November twos, thank you, four
- 6:49Speaker 3: years at the Apple store. Where we got engaged At
- 6:52Speaker 3: the Apple Store, I thought I was getting an iPhone.
- 6:56Speaker 2: You your ring is gorgeous, by the.
- 6:57Speaker 3: Way, I waited a long time for it. He said,
- 7:00Speaker 3: what kind of ring would you like? Because we really
- 7:01Speaker 3: didn't talk about because again, too much pride. I'm not
- 7:04Speaker 3: going to ask you to do the right thing, because
- 7:05Speaker 3: if I do, it's already too late.
- 7:07Speaker 4: Those a couple of things in the way, and divorce
- 7:11Speaker 4: was one of them.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Separated fourteen years and he never got to.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Separated fourteen years.
- 7:16Speaker 4: I had no reason to get divorced because things were
- 7:19Speaker 4: they were fine. We just moved in different life. It
- 7:22Speaker 4: was no urgency I didn't find that person where I
- 7:24Speaker 4: was like, and then obviously the doors came around.
- 7:28Speaker 3: But in all fairness, Paul, because I feel like he's married.
- 7:31Speaker 3: He's married, and he is old in an old way
- 7:34Speaker 3: of thinking, and he thought about his kids a lot.
- 7:37Speaker 3: He never was public with his in with his relationships.
- 7:41Speaker 3: So then when I came around, not only was I public,
- 7:43Speaker 3: I'm not on TV.
- 7:45Speaker 2: It hit hard, he did.
- 7:46Speaker 3: It was almost like I was the first one coming
- 7:49Speaker 3: around and they were like still together when they hadn't
- 7:53Speaker 3: been together for many years.
- 7:54Speaker 4: And you're a lot like as like a person. She probably,
- 7:58Speaker 4: but you're also on TV.
- 7:59Speaker 3: It's she was a fan.
- 8:01Speaker 4: She was a fan, and it didn't help.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Oh, it's complicated.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Remember when I wasn't with the man for like a
- 8:10Speaker 3: lot long time or even a little bit of time.
- 8:13Speaker 3: When I'm not done. When I'm done, I'm done. I
- 8:15Speaker 3: don't care. If you were dating Christy Brinkley, which I
- 8:17Speaker 3: am not, it would be okay.
- 8:22Speaker 2: So when is the wedding? Have you guys made wedding plans? Wow?
- 8:26Speaker 3: When's the wedding? Pol So?
- 8:31Speaker 4: I was hoping for November tenth, right, that was what
- 8:33Speaker 4: I would hope for.
- 8:34Speaker 3: That's when we got engaged, and that's that's when I moved.
- 8:37Speaker 4: She moved into the house, so which she forgot, which
- 8:39Speaker 4: I reminded her of that day when she got engaged.
- 8:42Speaker 4: The date is important, Yeah, the significance of right, it's
- 8:45Speaker 4: like dow chapter, new chapter in new chapter. So we
- 8:48Speaker 4: were driving away after get engaged, and I'm like, okay,
- 8:51Speaker 4: so now a little bit of time got to think
- 8:53Speaker 4: this process. Literally two eggs is on the highway when
- 8:56Speaker 4: we get married, like when's when? When are we doing this?
- 8:59Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm divorced seven years.
- 9:04Speaker 4: Had a stroke when I was getting engaged.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Her what I thought he was having a stroke. He
- 9:08Speaker 3: was saying nice things to me. He was like, You've
- 9:14Speaker 3: changed my life, and so I go, are you okay?
- 9:17Speaker 3: And I touched his shirt soken wet. I almost was
- 9:22Speaker 3: gonna call an ambulance because I thought he was having
- 9:24Speaker 3: a stroke.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Were you in the store around side of the store
- 9:27Speaker 1: in the store.
- 9:27Speaker 4: We settled up. There's a whole story to us.
- 9:30Speaker 3: I had no idea I used you know, I used
- 9:32Speaker 3: to work in a jail, and I grew up around
- 9:33Speaker 3: cops and I've been around Everything's a conspiracy in my
- 9:37Speaker 3: house growing up and so nobody gets anything by me.
- 9:41Speaker 3: Like I could bug your car, I could bug your
- 9:43Speaker 3: off No, man, I could break the code on your phone.
- 9:45Speaker 3: I don't care if you went to Harvard, Well I can.
- 9:49Speaker 3: But so I'm always ten steps ahead. I had no clue,
- 9:54Speaker 3: not a clue. I I not this time, not with you.
- 10:00Speaker 3: I took a break with you because I trust you.
- 10:07Speaker 3: That's a big thing. I trust Paul very much. When
- 10:11Speaker 3: I met Paul, he said, if I'm going to be
- 10:13Speaker 3: in your life, because I've always been very guarded, and
- 10:16Speaker 3: he said, if I'm going to be in your life,
- 10:18Speaker 3: and I'm a man, you have to let me help you,
- 10:21Speaker 3: and you have to let me be there for you.
- 10:24Speaker 3: And that was a hard probably the hardest thing for
- 10:27Speaker 3: me to do. And then like giving up and moving
- 10:30Speaker 3: in with him, like I was used to just doing
- 10:33Speaker 3: everything by myself because it was easier. And when you
- 10:35Speaker 3: do that, you're not disappointed. When you don't depend on anybody,
- 10:38Speaker 3: you will never be disappointed.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's but so it's a beautiful thing. You
- 10:45Speaker 2: have to take that leap of faith. And I did
- 10:46Speaker 2: ask someone that's amazing, she touched sheep.
- 10:49Speaker 1: I live by that that mindset. I will never be disappointed.
- 10:52Speaker 1: I'll just do it on my own. I'll take care
- 10:54Speaker 1: of it. That's not a healthy way.
- 10:56Speaker 3: It's okay, I think, I think if you do it.
- 10:59Speaker 3: It's not easy to do it first, but it comes
- 11:01Speaker 3: in time. If you don't get disappointed, then you let
- 11:03Speaker 3: it look down a little more, and then if it
- 11:05Speaker 3: goes a little further, you let it down a little more.
- 11:07Speaker 2: If what happens when you do get a little disappointed.
- 11:09Speaker 4: Back up, Yeah, well it's not it's not bad to
- 11:11Speaker 4: live like that as long as well you kind of
- 11:14Speaker 4: let your guard down every now and again you can
- 11:16Speaker 4: because that's a comfortable place for you to be.
- 11:18Speaker 3: That's comfortable. That's comfortable for me, and I never want
- 11:21Speaker 3: to give up that. I want to say, independence from
- 11:25Speaker 3: something like this is never going to call if God forbids,
- 11:29Speaker 3: something happened tomorrow, whether it be tomorrow's not promised to
- 11:32Speaker 3: anyone for anything. I wanted to make sure I'm okay
- 11:35Speaker 3: with that. Yeah.
- 11:36Speaker 4: Yeah, don't spend time worrying about the stuff you can't control. Yeah,
- 11:39Speaker 4: and definitely worry about what you can.
- 11:40Speaker 3: I've been through enough to know that that's not going
- 11:43Speaker 3: to kill.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Me At this stage, yeah, or is anyway all right?
- 11:46Speaker 2: I y'all's dynamic is amazing, by the way.
- 11:49Speaker 3: I love it.
- 11:49Speaker 2: I want to know, do you have a daily disagreement
- 11:52Speaker 2: or a fight that you keep coming back?
- 11:53Speaker 3: Yeah? Like where do you start?
- 11:55Speaker 2: Like?
- 11:55Speaker 1: Okay, like it's not a recurring thing. We think, what
- 11:59Speaker 1: anything in particular that keeps coming up the youler?
- 12:01Speaker 3: Yeah? What is our biggest thing? Is the temperature of
- 12:05Speaker 3: the house. I'm going through menopause. I will kill I'm
- 12:09Speaker 3: going to.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Same I know the same thing.
- 12:13Speaker 3: We don't even fight about it, like.
- 12:14Speaker 2: I'll just see he puts the temperature at eighty and
- 12:18Speaker 2: then I'm like, putting it down and then then goodbye.
- 12:20Speaker 2: He puts it back off, back down.
- 12:23Speaker 3: So well, thank god, your normal couple. You're nice. He
- 12:29Speaker 3: took the firmist thermostat off the wall. He ripped it
- 12:31Speaker 3: off the wall, and right, I just took it off.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Let's hid it ripped to make it sound so yeah.
- 12:38Speaker 3: You pulled it. I didn't care. I was like, I
- 12:43Speaker 3: was like, and what are you going to do now?
- 12:45Speaker 3: Because there's other thermostats, and there's I can open a
- 12:48Speaker 3: window you can't close.
- 12:49Speaker 4: The best is when Dolorus is leaving the house. It's
- 12:52Speaker 4: twenty two degrees out. She turns on the air conditioning
- 12:55Speaker 4: before she leaves. I have no clue what she does this.
- 12:58Speaker 4: And actually I got a I got a letter from
- 13:00Speaker 4: when I can see send me a letter to thank
- 13:03Speaker 4: me for an amount of use that I've been having
- 13:05Speaker 4: with the electricity.
- 13:07Speaker 3: Over a thousand dollars.
- 13:08Speaker 4: I'm on extra, we're paying. I'm like, this is fucking amazing.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Anything beyond temperature, Like is there are there?
- 13:17Speaker 3: The phone? He blames me for being on the phone.
- 13:19Speaker 3: I blame him for being on the phone.
- 13:21Speaker 4: I like her to be more present because she spends
- 13:24Speaker 4: a lot of time talking. There's a lot of different housewives.
- 13:27Speaker 4: They're always on the phone. Each are always talking all
- 13:29Speaker 4: day long.
- 13:29Speaker 3: So sometimes like talking.
- 13:31Speaker 4: Sometimes I'm like, like it this morning, I said there,
- 13:33Speaker 4: Hi'm like, and you can just sit down and just
- 13:35Speaker 4: have some like one on one time here for a second,
- 13:37Speaker 4: just connect again? Who will you?
- 13:40Speaker 2: No?
- 13:41Speaker 3: Because you want to know why he was on the phone.
- 13:44Speaker 3: He was on his computer and he was on the phone.
- 13:51Speaker 4: I was doing. I'm like, come on.
- 13:54Speaker 3: About the hour before that, I wasn't.
- 13:57Speaker 4: That's the sign what happened. That's that's as bad as.
- 13:59Speaker 1: It Isn't that so bad temperature? Couples are fighting over worst?
- 14:03Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, on that same thing. Have you ever, in
- 14:15Speaker 2: any of your fights, gotten to a place where you wanted,
- 14:18Speaker 2: or thought about, or even threatened to call it quits?
- 14:21Speaker 1: Oh of course I never.
- 14:23Speaker 4: I've never done that.
- 14:24Speaker 3: No, he's never done that, because.
- 14:26Speaker 4: I say that it's done.
- 14:27Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. So I've never said that. I don't
- 14:31Speaker 3: throw that.
- 14:31Speaker 4: Out six times like corpact dogs unders on the floor.
- 14:38Speaker 4: I'm like, where are you going? By the way, that's Mike,
- 14:39Speaker 4: how you're taking.
- 14:42Speaker 5: No.
- 14:43Speaker 3: But here's the thing. I I moved in with Paul I.
- 14:50Speaker 3: I don't love the area we live in.
- 14:52Speaker 4: Don't say that it's not a bad area. It's just
- 14:53Speaker 4: not what you want.
- 14:55Speaker 3: It's not what I want. And people would kill for it,
- 14:57Speaker 3: like love it, like they pay a lot of money
- 15:00Speaker 3: to live there. It's it's right by. I could walk
- 15:02Speaker 3: to the GW from there, right. I want the suburbs.
- 15:06Speaker 3: I want a cul de sac. I want trees. I
- 15:09Speaker 3: don't want to look for somebody's roofs when I look
- 15:11Speaker 3: out the window. And so we're looking for a compromise
- 15:17Speaker 3: for both of us. And that's not an easy thing
- 15:19Speaker 3: to find.
- 15:20Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Did you would
- 15:24Speaker 2: you say you had a honeymoon period? And if so,
- 15:26Speaker 2: how long did it last?
- 15:27Speaker 4: It's still going on?
- 15:28Speaker 3: Yeah, I think is now is our best time? Yeah,
- 15:31Speaker 3: all the hardest parts we went through in the beginning.
- 15:33Speaker 4: At rid of it, you know, dating somebody that's on TV,
- 15:36Speaker 4: is on a reality show. It's like, it's hard to
- 15:38Speaker 4: insert yourself that I'm from Ireland. We I did not
- 15:41Speaker 4: know anything about this life from over here. I work
- 15:44Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I'm in this very different life, right,
- 15:47Speaker 4: So you've got to deal deal with a lot of
- 15:49Speaker 4: moving parts. You know, there's relationships, all relationships, new relationships,
- 15:53Speaker 4: and you're just going to get used to the whole thing.
- 15:55Speaker 4: So I think there's a lot of stress learning about
- 15:58Speaker 4: each other and trying to learn what her world exists.
- 16:02Speaker 4: I used to be kind of like private guy, and
- 16:04Speaker 4: then my whole world was like I'd come home and
- 16:05Speaker 4: there's people at my house. I'm like, who are these people?
- 16:09Speaker 4: What's going on?
- 16:10Speaker 3: But for a single guy, it looks like James there
- 16:15Speaker 3: I was singing, yeah, as you would love it. So
- 16:19Speaker 3: now there's like I bring him my dogs and my
- 16:22Speaker 3: glam squad and cameras and all of that.
- 16:27Speaker 4: So all they like, stress part has gone out. That
- 16:30Speaker 4: was all at the start, right, So we loaded it
- 16:32Speaker 4: really heavy and all they're like, if it was ever
- 16:34Speaker 4: going to break, it would have broke.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good way.
- 16:37Speaker 1: How long was that periods? How long was that that
- 16:39Speaker 1: adjustment period to while a year two?
- 16:43Speaker 4: Because then I got like caught off guard with this
- 16:46Speaker 4: whole reality world of social media, I'd say, and people would.
- 16:50Speaker 3: Say, there was very very second year.
- 16:53Speaker 4: I'd be having dinner. Any windows in your head? Is
- 16:56Speaker 4: this going on? Has that happened? So it's like and
- 17:00Speaker 4: then you just have to say, guys are trying to
- 17:02Speaker 4: make me feel bad about me wanting to feel good.
- 17:04Speaker 4: So you learn to mature through it and then you
- 17:07Speaker 4: just you block it out and now you enjoy anize
- 17:10Speaker 4: because you're like, he.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Had to realize that certain things, not everything.
- 17:16Speaker 4: Whatever. No clue, You've got no clue what's going on.
- 17:19Speaker 3: But he thought it was going to affect his life
- 17:21Speaker 3: more than it did.
- 17:22Speaker 4: It's been very good.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's awesome.
- 17:26Speaker 3: In business, like he'll me he has very you know,
- 17:29Speaker 3: big clients, and he'll think that they had no idea
- 17:32Speaker 3: about this, and they're they're.
- 17:33Speaker 4: Like yeahs, like so uh LRUs like my wife's a
- 17:42Speaker 4: huge fan. I'm like, oh my god, doesn't.
- 17:49Speaker 3: You know what I love?
- 17:50Speaker 2: I love the authenticity. I mean, it's just awesome. You
- 17:53Speaker 2: say what you think, you mean what you say, that's awesome.
- 17:56Speaker 2: Who does the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry. How do
- 18:00Speaker 2: you all work that out?
- 18:01Speaker 3: I think we take turns on that, right. He doesn't
- 18:04Speaker 3: like Italian food. He does not. I definitely want you.
- 18:07Speaker 4: Took over the cleaning a lot.
- 18:09Speaker 3: I love to tinker around my house. That's therapy. I
- 18:13Speaker 3: like to fix things nice. I'm sorry to make his
- 18:16Speaker 3: house a little bit more like mine. I didn't do
- 18:19Speaker 3: that for the first three years because I didn't feel
- 18:21Speaker 3: like mine.
- 18:22Speaker 4: Your tea moving out.
- 18:25Speaker 1: The ship was about the door most of that to go.
- 18:31Speaker 3: Like I said, it was hard for me to know,
- 18:35Speaker 3: but I know. But I have been cleaning a lot lately.
- 18:40Speaker 3: Doesn't like the cooking. Pole does not like Italian food,
- 18:42Speaker 3: and that's all I actually good cook It's very strapped.
- 18:46Speaker 3: It's Irish. Yeah, it's like no spici mashed potatoes.
- 18:52Speaker 4: It's you want scrambled eggs. I'm like, yeah, like there's
- 18:54Speaker 4: like sauces and oiles.
- 18:56Speaker 3: He doesn't like any kind of He likes it very dry,
- 19:01Speaker 3: you know, clean clean, and that's fine, but I have
- 19:05Speaker 3: to I can't do it.
- 19:08Speaker 2: Do you have any rules about fighting? Like, we don't curse,
- 19:12Speaker 2: We don't threaten to leave.
- 19:14Speaker 4: We curse so bad Irish people? What was this terrible
- 19:19Speaker 4: my house?
- 19:20Speaker 1: Some couple was it? We don't threaten to leave.
- 19:23Speaker 3: We don't call each other names.
- 19:24Speaker 4: No, no, like I'll use to see you in excuseday
- 19:27Speaker 4: word all the time.
- 19:28Speaker 3: You call me that you've never falled me.
- 19:31Speaker 4: I will put it in a conversation. But that's Irish people.
- 19:33Speaker 4: We use that word like it's we do.
- 19:37Speaker 2: What about do you go to bed angry?
- 19:39Speaker 4: No?
- 19:39Speaker 3: Because no, don't talk like that. That's say I don't
- 19:44Speaker 3: talk like that.
- 19:45Speaker 4: Okay, but I do.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Face. I wish we couldn't like people.
- 19:54Speaker 4: About her life, which I understand.
- 19:55Speaker 3: I was a Catholic Italian girl. Do not talk boy, Okay.
- 20:01Speaker 2: I get it. I was raised Catholic as well.
- 20:03Speaker 4: One thing I will say that the Lowris taught me.
- 20:05Speaker 4: That's a big lesson that I learned. Whatever would happen
- 20:10Speaker 4: that day? What was the stupid argument or somewhere. She
- 20:13Speaker 4: would always try to go to bed on a good note,
- 20:15Speaker 4: but you would always wake up the next day on
- 20:17Speaker 4: a better note. Regardless it's gone. It doesn't matter what
- 20:21Speaker 4: it is, it's done well.
- 20:25Speaker 1: That's a good tip.
- 20:25Speaker 4: I like that.
- 20:26Speaker 3: Start clean every day because it then you know, straighten
- 20:30Speaker 3: it out. But if if it's if it lingers on,
- 20:33Speaker 3: Like I kind of internalize things. To be honest with you,
- 20:36Speaker 3: I handle it and then I address it because I
- 20:39Speaker 3: have a hot temper and I want to make sure
- 20:42Speaker 3: I say it right. I articulate it right, and I
- 20:44Speaker 3: don't want to be like, you know, an animal, but she.
- 20:48Speaker 4: Will come back to it. You just think you're driving
- 20:54Speaker 4: somewhere you forgot all about and then.
- 20:57Speaker 3: What I want to say, You're like, fucking.
- 21:01Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 21:02Speaker 1: What do you think about the idea of couples, because
- 21:04Speaker 1: some made headlines very famous couples. They say they don't fight,
- 21:07Speaker 1: don't have disagreements at all. What do you think about
- 21:09Speaker 1: the idea?
- 21:10Speaker 3: I'm so happy for them, that's amazing.
- 21:12Speaker 4: I they do fight one day, that's going to be
- 21:14Speaker 4: over that one time.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Damn the same thing you said.
- 21:17Speaker 4: I mean, like, it's not about fighting. It's like you
- 21:20Speaker 4: have to have a disagreement, right you.
- 21:22Speaker 3: Don't you know? You know somebody is somebody, but it's
- 21:26Speaker 3: somebody holding things in.
- 21:27Speaker 2: That's what it says.
- 21:29Speaker 3: Is somebody not talking about how they really appealed.
- 21:31Speaker 4: Huh, people that perfectly.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I hope they are. I'm happy for them.
- 21:36Speaker 1: You all don't endorse it. It sounds like you don't.
- 21:38Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like a good I think.
- 21:40Speaker 3: It's honestly piece. There's no price for peace. And if
- 21:43Speaker 3: you live a peaceful life and you guys find nothing
- 21:45Speaker 3: to argue about, God bless you. I am so happy
- 21:48Speaker 3: for you.
- 21:48Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think the part about it is I
- 21:50Speaker 4: try to express myself sometimes to the lowest and cousin
- 21:52Speaker 4: from art and she just thinks it's really funny because
- 21:54Speaker 4: it sounds like it's bakwards.
- 21:56Speaker 3: Yeah, trying to staff work does it? It's the wrong
- 22:02Speaker 3: and she's the wrong place I have to.
- 22:05Speaker 4: She's like, back to school.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Isn't humor sometimes the best weapon and all of that.
- 22:14Speaker 2: Have you ever gone to couple's therapy?
- 22:16Speaker 4: No, we've given it, but we haven't gone.
- 22:20Speaker 5: And we do listen my phone ring to counsel on
- 22:31Speaker 5: the phone.
- 22:32Speaker 3: You counsel people.
- 22:34Speaker 2: Yes, and.
- 22:36Speaker 3: Guys call him for tips all the time. He listened
- 22:39Speaker 3: to them. Guys called him all the time he listens.
- 22:42Speaker 3: I don't have patience for number one hysterical women. I
- 22:46Speaker 3: don't have patience for petty people drunk. Don't call me
- 22:48Speaker 3: drunk ever, because I don't drink. And if they if
- 22:54Speaker 3: they're not rational, if somebody's not rational, I don't have
- 22:58Speaker 3: a lot of patience for them.
- 23:00Speaker 4: And it's kind of they don't have to.
- 23:02Speaker 3: Listen to me or agree with me. But if I
- 23:03Speaker 3: see like this person that looks for the bad comments
- 23:07Speaker 3: to get upset about, they're not going to find you.
- 23:10Speaker 3: So I just got off the phone with you for
- 23:11Speaker 3: two hours, and you got off the phone with me,
- 23:13Speaker 3: and we're back at square one because you found one
- 23:15Speaker 3: comment that you went and looked for. I don't want
- 23:17Speaker 3: to see it because I don't read social media and
- 23:19Speaker 3: I don't read comments, and I don't go looking for trouble.
- 23:23Speaker 3: You do, so you read them.
- 23:25Speaker 4: Oh, I mean I have phone with it now, ionize,
- 23:28Speaker 4: because then I go further, I'm like, oh my god,
- 23:31Speaker 4: look at this person.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Oh really, So you all aren't against therapy necessary, it's
- 23:37Speaker 1: just not something you all felt, you all wanted or needed.
- 23:40Speaker 3: I'm not against it, not at all.
- 23:42Speaker 1: You will tell emotionally healthy and stable, like you will
- 23:45Speaker 1: have given each other about things and laughing at it,
- 23:48Speaker 1: that most things might break a couple down. Like that's
- 23:51Speaker 1: why I say, will you sit here? Most people don't
- 23:53Speaker 1: agree to do these segments with us unless they're a
- 23:56Speaker 1: solid couple, because you can't sit there necessarily fake questions
- 24:00Speaker 1: we're asking And.
- 24:03Speaker 3: Can really anybody fool you sitting afterward?
- 24:06Speaker 5: You've been.
- 24:09Speaker 3: No one's fooling you. I don't know about you, but
- 24:13Speaker 3: she'll tell you if you think that. If you're believe
- 24:15Speaker 3: in someone, he's got his guard and she could see
- 24:21Speaker 3: right through.
- 24:22Speaker 2: That's funny.
- 24:23Speaker 1: We're in therapy.
- 24:26Speaker 2: What else should we do? Do you? What's the role
- 24:28Speaker 2: of friendship in your relationship?
- 24:31Speaker 5: Like?
- 24:31Speaker 2: Are you all each other's best friends? Do you have
- 24:33Speaker 2: your other best friends and you just you have the romance?
- 24:36Speaker 2: How important is being each other's friend? Does that play
- 24:40Speaker 2: a role in your relationship? I think that's everything. He
- 24:43Speaker 2: is to come to me with things and I have
- 24:45Speaker 2: to go to him with things.
- 24:47Speaker 4: I would say we're we're best friends as well, but
- 24:51Speaker 4: we respect our relationship so much that we don't let
- 24:54Speaker 4: it just become friends, right, so we we have that
- 24:57Speaker 4: boundary set like because they're still in a relationship, right.
- 25:00Speaker 4: So you know, it's a I've I've felt less needingful having,
- 25:06Speaker 4: Like when you're a different age, you have more people
- 25:08Speaker 4: around you. And he's always run my dad saying you
- 25:10Speaker 4: get older, all these clones won't be around that. I'm like, yeah,
- 25:14Speaker 4: that right, whatever, But he was right. So as you
- 25:16Speaker 4: go up and you see there's less people in your circle,
- 25:19Speaker 4: and then you kind of allow these people to come
- 25:21Speaker 4: into your circle. When you've got you've got people you
- 25:24Speaker 4: want to protect. You don't just have anybody come in, right,
- 25:27Speaker 4: so it can be around put they're not in.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Protect is a good word.
- 25:32Speaker 2: I love that word. And you're protecting your relationship. Your
- 25:34Speaker 2: relationship comes first, the costs you have to that's your peace,
- 25:38Speaker 2: that's your safe space.
- 25:39Speaker 3: You know. I like I like my space from a
- 25:43Speaker 3: lot of things. I like my time alone. I went
- 25:45Speaker 3: to Trader, you know, I was on Traders, and the
- 25:48Speaker 3: best part about Traders was the time I spent in
- 25:51Speaker 3: a room by myself for over a month with no
- 25:53Speaker 3: phone and only three stations on the TV, like, Wow,
- 25:56Speaker 3: that was the prob such so peaceful. I got to
- 25:59Speaker 3: call once a week for thirty minutes supervised phone call,
- 26:03Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah, I had their condition off.
- 26:10Speaker 4: A dog was walking around in a bikinis, but sometimes.
- 26:17Speaker 3: Him and Mike chihuahua love it. I have rescue dogs.
- 26:21Speaker 3: So they've taken over the house, the one I know.
- 26:24Speaker 3: They're best friends. It was rough after us, you know,
- 26:26Speaker 3: like I said, Paul has this house that he loves
- 26:29Speaker 3: so much. In the floors just because now we wee
- 26:32Speaker 3: pine and that's too bad. But Paul loves the dog.
- 26:34Speaker 3: The dogs do anything.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Him and the dog are best friends we have. You know,
- 26:38Speaker 1: I always say.
- 26:39Speaker 3: Be careful with couples and friends that lead into your relationship.
- 26:44Speaker 3: I've always protected our relationship from those things, and I've
- 26:47Speaker 3: warned him about that, and sometimes he'd be like, why
- 26:50Speaker 3: are we doing this with this and this one? I said,
- 26:52Speaker 3: I love them, Paul, but I need them where they.
- 26:54Speaker 4: Are very true.
- 26:57Speaker 1: Now that's interesting. It sounds like, yeah, if you allowed
- 27:01Speaker 1: friendships might have come in between or affected your relationship,
- 27:05Speaker 1: but you all have. You've kept the friendships but kept
- 27:07Speaker 1: them out of your relationship. Is that am I hearing?
- 27:09Speaker 3: That right.
- 27:10Speaker 4: Yes, Okay, if I was to say what I was
- 27:12Speaker 4: told throughout my relationship with Dolors from people that are
- 27:16Speaker 4: supposed to be friends, they would have a lotless teeth
- 27:21Speaker 4: damn wow from me.
- 27:23Speaker 3: Yeah, there's jealousy.
- 27:25Speaker 4: It's just jealousy and it's toxic, and it's just happiness.
- 27:28Speaker 4: They're not happy.
- 27:30Speaker 3: So I felt like they I would know when I
- 27:33Speaker 3: walked in the house just by his attitude sometimes or
- 27:37Speaker 3: the way his energy was. Who he spoke to.
- 27:40Speaker 2: Wow.
- 27:42Speaker 3: I never confronted those people. I let him get through
- 27:45Speaker 3: it and see it for himself. I kind of let
- 27:48Speaker 3: him banch or say things, but I never.
- 27:50Speaker 4: You always asked the question, right, So, so many plants,
- 27:52Speaker 4: a seed in your head doesn't come out the first
- 27:54Speaker 4: day about three four days later. That's what people are
- 27:57Speaker 4: great at. They're great a planting these little seeds. So
- 28:00Speaker 4: as a person, I like to put it out. I
- 28:02Speaker 4: don't keep it in, and I keep it in, then
- 28:03Speaker 4: the relationships fucked, so I will bring it up.
- 28:06Speaker 3: So that was our biggest challenge in the beginning.
- 28:10Speaker 4: But that was instigation of trying to break what she
- 28:13Speaker 4: had and what I had.
- 28:14Speaker 3: So I had to understand that he had to go
- 28:16Speaker 3: through that and not get mad at him for that.
- 28:18Speaker 4: It's so good. Now when I sit talk to these people.
- 28:20Speaker 2: We see them, We're like, I know you, I got
- 28:23Speaker 2: your card.
- 28:25Speaker 3: So I think a lot of people let a lot
- 28:28Speaker 3: of couples when they first get together. Let older couples
- 28:32Speaker 3: because now they've had these people in their lives for
- 28:34Speaker 3: so long and they were such a big part of
- 28:35Speaker 3: their lives before this relationship came that now they feel
- 28:40Speaker 3: mad about this relationship and they're like, well I'm out now.
- 28:44Speaker 3: They just it's human nature. They try to hurt.
- 28:46Speaker 4: It instead of them saying, let's work with them because
- 28:49Speaker 4: that's a good that's that's good energy. Let's be around.
- 28:52Speaker 3: Them all me your friends, on the on the road
- 28:56Speaker 3: you've been on and the road.
- 28:57Speaker 1: And I asked, then, how could you all remember a time?
- 29:00Speaker 1: I know you joked about our putting stuff at the
- 29:01Speaker 1: front door and it's threatening to leave six thousand times,
- 29:03Speaker 1: But can you all point to a moment. I don't
- 29:06Speaker 1: know if it was a particular fight, I mean, particular
- 29:08Speaker 1: time or segment of your relationship that you actually got
- 29:11Speaker 1: close to ending.
- 29:12Speaker 3: It never's and every time that incident happened, it was
- 29:19Speaker 3: over him somebody.
- 29:22Speaker 4: There was something outside, wasn't It was always brought in.
- 29:26Speaker 3: And that's why I didn't take the next step out
- 29:28Speaker 3: because I knew that that would eventually heat sea froms.
- 29:30Speaker 4: And that's why I never said no. Because even though
- 29:34Speaker 4: you were.
- 29:34Speaker 3: You feel bad about those times a little bit, like
- 29:37Speaker 3: do you look back and.
- 29:37Speaker 4: Be like people were telling me?
- 29:41Speaker 3: What could they say about me? Anyway? Like what they absolutely.
- 29:46Speaker 4: Shot themselves in the floor, because there's still the same
- 29:49Speaker 4: people to me, but just to have a different read on.
- 29:52Speaker 1: Them, damn to say that. How many couples have that
- 29:58Speaker 1: we're talking about people, but how many couples would be
- 30:01Speaker 1: just fine if some outside force didn't they didn't allow him.
- 30:04Speaker 1: I mean, it takes a while to get there.
- 30:06Speaker 3: It takes the other person to understand what's going on.
- 30:08Speaker 4: I protecting all.
- 30:11Speaker 1: Right, last few things here. We asked all couples this,
- 30:14Speaker 1: give other couples some advice if you were able to
- 30:17Speaker 1: talk to all of them. People see successful couples, they
- 30:19Speaker 1: want to be like you, what do you see other
- 30:22Speaker 1: couples doing wrong?
- 30:24Speaker 4: Right?
- 30:25Speaker 1: Not that you call them out on, but just generally
- 30:26Speaker 1: as you out there, what mistake do you see people
- 30:29Speaker 1: in these times these days, making mistakes about when it
- 30:34Speaker 1: comes to relationships.
- 30:35Speaker 4: Simple the image they're trying to portray that they have
- 30:38Speaker 4: that they don't. That's it what they supposedly say. They
- 30:42Speaker 4: look like, it's not what they do. Meaning these happy photographs,
- 30:47Speaker 4: all these images, they're most not really And.
- 30:51Speaker 1: We spend a lot of time trying to keep up
- 30:53Speaker 1: with that and catch up and yeah.
- 30:54Speaker 4: We listen. We nobody wants supposed to picture you angry,
- 30:58Speaker 4: sat like that's true, ruful ball. If it's all staged,
- 31:02Speaker 4: then what's really real? Right?
- 31:05Speaker 3: My big yes, and you're right, But my biggest thing
- 31:08Speaker 3: is that I would say with a couple is to
- 31:10Speaker 3: let things go. Do not drag out fights. You don't
- 31:13Speaker 3: always have to have the last word. Not every fight
- 31:15Speaker 3: is that important. Pick and choose your battles and just
- 31:19Speaker 3: most things are not something you're fighting about today, you
- 31:22Speaker 3: will never care about a year from now.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Is it worth?
- 31:25Speaker 3: It's so agree with you saying those horrible things. Holding
- 31:28Speaker 3: grudges in a relationship. You can't hold grudges in a relationship.
- 31:31Speaker 3: You have to let things go.
- 31:33Speaker 4: I would say do Your thing is if you're in
- 31:35Speaker 4: the wrong place, get out.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Like what with in a relationship with the wrong person.
- 31:40Speaker 4: Yes, when you know where you are if it's wrong
- 31:42Speaker 4: or right, you because you end up going I should
- 31:46Speaker 4: have left this time.
- 31:47Speaker 3: Time waits for no one. We could waste that. Life
- 31:50Speaker 3: is too short to be with the wrong person. It's hard,
- 31:54Speaker 3: but that's hard.
- 31:55Speaker 4: That's guys. Did this? You did this? And I'm like, well,
- 31:58Speaker 4: what are you doing there?
- 32:00Speaker 3: But did she really do it? Or was it? Because
- 32:01Speaker 3: maybe they like somebody else.
- 32:02Speaker 4: Well, so if they're still there, maybe she didn't or
- 32:05Speaker 4: maybe they don't know.
- 32:06Speaker 3: Right.
- 32:07Speaker 2: Final question? A lot of folks, did you have one
- 32:13Speaker 2: final question? I know this is kind of broad, but
- 32:16Speaker 2: this is everyone wants to know. What would you say?
- 32:20Speaker 2: The key to your relationship success is why do you
- 32:24Speaker 2: all work? How have you made it work?
- 32:27Speaker 3: Compromise?
- 32:29Speaker 4: That's it. I would agree with that.
- 32:34Speaker 1: I love it.
- 32:36Speaker 4: I cut the line on Italian food.
- 32:40Speaker 3: I took on my own. I go to my mother's
- 32:43Speaker 3: first spaghetti. I don't mean.
- 32:47Speaker 2: I do think like it's been fun to Laurence, but
- 32:50Speaker 2: seeing couples who can give each other ship is the
- 32:53Speaker 2: biggest sign of a healthy relationship because that means you
- 32:56Speaker 2: trust each other, you have confidence, you can take a jab.
- 32:59Speaker 2: We we jabbed each other all the time as friends.
- 33:02Speaker 2: We were constantly at each other's like just in a
- 33:05Speaker 2: silly fun way.
- 33:06Speaker 3: Okay, it kind of like it's that, you know, if
- 33:09Speaker 3: you don't do that, if you can't make a joke
- 33:12Speaker 3: out of it, or if you can't like let the
- 33:13Speaker 3: vent a little, it just fills up and then you
- 33:16Speaker 3: don't really like that person. You really don't like. If
- 33:19Speaker 3: you can't job at each other, then you really don't
- 33:21Speaker 3: you know.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Yeah, we feel the same about y'all.
- 33:27Speaker 3: Just so comfortable to sit and be able to talk
- 33:30Speaker 3: to you. And I'm so happy to see.
- 33:32Speaker 2: You all happy.
- 33:34Speaker 3: You've been. I know you've been through it. I watched it.
- 33:37Speaker 3: I felt for you guys when you went through and
- 33:39Speaker 3: I love to see you smile and happy.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Now here we are looking at you all smiling and happy,
- 33:43Speaker 1: and we've been through it too. You know you'll have
- 33:45Speaker 1: so thank you all for being here. We thank you.
- 33:48Speaker 1: This is the most f bombs we've ever had.
- 33:52Speaker 4: So good to have.
- 33:54Speaker 1: You're gonna get the trophy on the way folks will talk.
- 34:00Speaker 4: Thank