Melissa and Joe Gorga.Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty
Melissa Gorgahasn’t made it through 17 years of marriage to husbandJoe Gorgawithout putting in the work.
TheReal Housewives of New Jerseystar, 43, shared how she keeps her relationship healthy during a May 2 interview withChanel in the City.
“They take a lot of work. They’re not easy. Anyone who says they are is lying,” she told host Chanel Omari of relationships. “It’s like I have a pretty damn good one. And it’s a lot of work for me. Listen, some people do get lucky. And it’s just an easier transition. Their lives work easier, whatever it might be. But it’s always a little work. It’s always work, nothing’s perfect.”
“There’s always going to be a couple of bumps in the road, you may have a couple of years that you’re like, ‘Wow, this is perfection.’ But something you know, the longer together, something’s going to arise,” she added.
The reality star shared that it was “very hard” to change the dynamic of her marriage as she became an entrepreneur.
“It was just easy breaking that mold of telling Joe, ‘No, actually you’re as responsible to get the kids to school as I am because I have to go to work too,'” she revealed. “And that for him was like, ‘What happening here?'”
Joe and Melissa Gorga.BACKGRID
“You’re just so quick to put him down all the time,” Melissa told her sister-in-law. “Any dig you can dig.”
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Gorga also opened up onChanel in the Cityabout not beingasked to be a bridesmaidfor Teresa’s upcoming wedding.
“I feel like it’s just a very relatable situation. It goes on in so many families,” she said. “And it’s not necessarily always the sister-in-law and the sister-in-law, it’s the two brothers-in-law, sometimes it’s the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. So it’s very common to clash a little bit when you’re blending families.”
During an appearance onWatch What Happens Livein March, Giudice revealed that Gorga will not be included inher bridal partywhen she marries fiancéLuis “Louie” Ruelasthis summer.
“Melissa will not be a bridesmaid?,” asked Cohen. When Giudice replied, “No,” he pressed her, saying, “Does she know that?”
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The third and final installment ofThe Real Housewives of New Jersey’s season 12 reunion airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
source: people.com
