On the first edition of her SiriusXM podcast Let\u2019s Chat Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, Ripa noted, \u201cIt\u2019s very hard being married to someone who is envious.\u201d
\nThe 26-year marriage of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos has had its ups and downs, including some difficulties that the couple has had to overcome.<\/p>\n
On the first episode of Kelly Ripa\u2019s new Sirius XM podcast Let\u2019s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, which debuted on Wednesday, the couple talked about their love and how they overcame some challenging moments by talking things out.<\/p>\n
Consuelos, 51, said, \u201cIt always gets better.\u201d If you speak things through and communicate, nothing is impossible.
\nRipa, 52, recalled how they used to quarrel over Consuelos\u2019 jealousy and insisted that this did not imply that they were unaware of the difficult times.
\nMy biggest beef with you during our marriage \u2014 and this isn\u2019t new, \u2019cause it changed, and I\u2019m not sure whether I changed, if you changed, or if it was some combination of change \u2014 is that you used to be envious. It was challenging to swallow that tablet. It\u2019s challenging to be married to an envious person. It lacks attractiveness.
\nShe continued by saying that Consuelos regularly harbored \u201can inaccurate sense of a scenario\u201d that made him envious. She recalled how a Boston restaurant waitress warmly referred to her as a \u201cprincess\u201d in Italian shortly after the All My Children couple secretly wed in 1996.
\nThe older waiter was a wonderful character. Ripa remembered that he was at least in his 70s, if not his 80s. The fact that this elderly man referred to me as a princess made me smile. As I gave him my order, I grinned as I stared at him. When you decided to engage in a severe battle with me, he left.
\nNext month, Consuelos, who will take over for Ryan Seacrest as co-host on Live, confirmed the claim by admitting to Ripa, \u201cI was upset.\u201d
\nHey, I was 25 years old and utterly insane. Nonetheless, I did carry that resentment around for a time, he said. \u201cI no longer feel envy\u2026 It\u2019s a flaw in who I am. It\u2019s disgusting. Furthermore, it is far worse on the inside than it appears to the person on the receiving end. If it helps, you are aware of your insane state. Even though the jealous person knows it\u2019s bad and evil, they still can\u2019t help it.
\nConsuelos responded that it was about personal development when asked \u201cwhat changed.\u201d He said, \u201cI wanted to work on myself. That was important for me to handle since it was getting in the way of my growth.
\nRipa needed to improve on a few other areas as well, most notably her bad habit of hanging up the phone during arguments.
\nConsuelos said, \u201cSometimes if the person\u2019s like, say, in Vancouver, and you don\u2019t pick up the phone in a day, it\u2019s incredibly scary. You haven\u2019t done that in such a long time, but when you\u2019re pissed on the phone, you hang up.\u201d
\n\u201cThat\u2019s awful. Ripa earlier asserted that she and Consuelos were \u201cbad arguers\u201d and occasionally needed to communicate more efficiently. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d she stated on her podcast. That came from my upbringing, I guess. I come from a well-known family of hangers-on.
\nEveryone experiences ups and downs, as Ripa acknowledged. It never just happens to be even or flat. I compared it to a heartbeat, saying that if it flatlines, the person is definitely dead.
\nThe couple, who have three children\u2014son Michael, 25, Joaquin, 20, and daughter Lola, 21\u2014also visits a marriage therapist, particularly now that they are empty-nesters.
\nConsuelos declared, \u201cI\u2019m a lifer; I want to be married for the rest of my life.\u201d Yet after the distraction is over, I think you\u2019ll be stuck in a house with only me. And I desired to attend counseling in order to resolve some of the problems we had been battling for 26 years.
\nConsuelos claims that talking to a counselor has assisted them in getting rid of their bad habits.
\nOne of the greatest advantages of marriage counseling, he said, \u201cespecially when things are good and you want them to get better,\u201d is that it makes you think twice about your old habits and behaviors. \u201cI knew that within a week or five days, I would be accountable to somebody and that person would look at me like, \u2018You want to explain that?\u2019\u201d he said.
\nConsuelos & Ripa\u2019s Milojo Productions collaborates with SiriusXM to present Let\u2019s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa. The initial guests on the show include Matthew McConaughey, Andy Cohen, Carol Burnett, and Anderson Cooper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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