Peter Facinelli Opens Up About What Went Wrong In His Marriage To Ex Jennie Garth
15.04.2022 - 20:37
/ etcanada.com
Peter Facinelli opened up about his split from ex-wife Jennie Garth, how he’s protecting his relationship with fiancée Lily Anne Harrison and more in a new interview.
The “Twilight” star chatted to Allison Kugel for the Allison Interviews podcast, sharing of what went wrong in his marriage to Garth and what he’s learned: “Every relationship is different. When you’re with this [new] person, you are going to respond differently than I would have with my ex-wife.
“I think in relationships, in the beginning they are wonderful. You have this honeymoon period and it’s fantastic. Slowly, over time, somebody might say something that is kind of hurtful. The other person might permit it and then they get into a habit,” Facinelli, who was married to Garth from 2001-2013, said.
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“So, bad things can become habitual, the way you start to treat each other, giving the other person permission or an allowance to talk to you in a certain way. Everyone has a bad day, but if that person talks to you in a certain way or does something, then all of a sudden they feel they have permission to do that because you didn’t say, ‘That hurt my feelings.’ You didn’t speak up.
“All of a sudden it gets habitual and it grows, and then you get resentful. When you try to change those habits…. I was actually telling a friend about this. A relationship is like a tree. In the beginning, if it starts to bend you can correct it, but if you allow it to continue on that path there is nothing you can do to bend it back, because it has already grown in that way and solidified.”
He went on to say of his relationship with fiancée Harrison: “I think when Lily and I got together it was so