Teresa Giudice and Luis “Louie” Ruelas walk down memory lane as they mark a special occasion.
During the August 6 episode of Giudice’s Turning the tables podcast, the couple celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary and opened up about the early days of their romance.
Especially, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star (52) and businessman (49) revealed that they decided to wait a few months before getting intimate in the bedroom.
Expressing how they chose to focus on the “journey” instead of the “destination,” Ruelas said, “When you and I first met and we spent a lot of time getting close, we didn’t immediately jump into sex.”
“It was none of our business,” he explained. “We waited a long time, which is so good and healthy for us. And I don’t know if people even know this, but we waited probably four or five months before we even rounded second base.”
Teresa Giudice and Luis “Louie” Ruelas.
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Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas on vacation in Ibiza ahead of their second wedding anniversary
Although the two “wanted to be intimate with each other,” they had a good time prioritizing getting to know each other without sex.
“We also had fun not being intimate, knowing that we could be intimate and reserved and allowing ourselves to stay in that space where we could talk more, understand more, vibrate together better and more, learn more about each other,” he continued.
Ruelas also noted that they both came with children and that going sexless allowed them to “get a lot of things out of the way first.”
“I really need to understand the relationship,” he explained. “And I really need to understand who you really were, where your values really came from, what you learned from your parents, what you carried over into our new life together.”
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(L) Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas. Teresa Giudice Instagram Teresa Giudice’s husband Luis Ruelas calls her his ‘Forever Valentine’ who ‘lights up every corner of my heart’
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Giudice and Ruelas revealed that they are also refraining from sleeping in the same bed until they buy a house together.
“We moved in probably 11 months after or 10 months after we bought the house, and we started our life here,” Giudice said, to which Ruelas added, “That’s when we started sleeping [in the same bed].”
“That was something I was really looking forward to because we were dating, right? But I was really looking forward to being with you tonight and it wasn’t just the sexual part, [it was] just to be close to you,” he continued.
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The couple met in 2020 while vacationing separately on the Jersey shore. They confirmed their relationship in November of the same year, and got engaged in October 2021.
On August 6, 2022, the couple tied the knot during a lavish affair that was filmed for a Bravo special. To celebrate their second anniversary this year, Giudice and Ruelas enjoyed a getaway to Ibiza.
Their anniversary comes before the long-awaited one RHONJ reunion episode that will air on Sunday, August 11. The special was filmed at Rails Steakhouse in Towac, NJ on July 15th – and aptly titled “Off The Rails”.
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Teresa Giudice.
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As a result of the drama between the broken actors, RHONJ the ladies gathered in two separate rooms to discuss all the drama and fallout from season 14. The format is a departure from their typical format featuring Andy Cohen moderating. The reunion will feature the cast reflecting on the dramatic final season and individual confessions that were reportedly recorded.
“You’re going to see the truth,” Giudice told PEOPLE exclusively in July about what fans can take away from it. “Everything I said the whole time was the truth. I don’t lie, I’m not fake. I don’t tell false stories. I don’t hurt other people’s families.”
“If you’re a viewer, you’ve been with me a long time and you’ll see that,” Giudice continued. “But other people do it, and they do it for the stories. So I’m ready for the truth to be out there.”
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