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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Manny Jacinto has advised all couples to get therapy

    The Freakier Friday actor tied the knot with Grey's Anatomy actress Dianne Doan and revealed the best piece of advice he was given prior to marriage, was to go to couples therapy "before you need it"


    Manny, 37, told Cosmopolitan: "A good piece of advice that was given to me was to go to couples therapy before you need it.

    "It goes for therapy in general. You don't want to be going to couples therapy when you're in a really bad spot because sometimes it might be too late. It helps with communication and figuring each other out, having that extra person."

    Manny also admitted marriage can be hard work but insisted it is worth it.

    He said: "You have this idea, especially in all these movies that we watch, that it's gonna be a happy ending forever, but there's a reason why it ends on the happy ending. Because there's other chapters that unfold. It takes work, time and communication, but it's worth it. If it was easy, everybody would stay married. But it's not easy."

    And Manny does his best not to let a bad day affect his relationship with his wife.

    He explained: "The biggest thing that helped me was asking myself, 'Am I responding to how I'm feeling or am I actually responding to what they're saying?' So it can be as simple as, 'Am I hungry and is this why I'm acting like this? Or did I not get enough sleep?' Am I actually responding to what they're saying properly and giving it the full attention?

    "Because I noticed that if I don't get a good amount of sleep or if I'm hungry, if I'm having a bad day, that gets passed on to our relationship.

    "But love is work. You gotta work at it. But it's the most beautiful thing and you get the most special moments. And life is just so much more happy when you can share it with somebody."

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