Donnie Wahlberg has some advice for any men who might be struggling with how to behave when their spouse isn’t around.
“When someone walks in that room and I’m sitting with you, they’re not going to be more beautiful than [you],” Wahlberg told wife Jenny McCarthy on an episode of her podcast.
The BLUE BLOODS actor then said he “can only speak for” himself, adding, “I think [it’s] just mindfulness…it’s not that I go ‘oh, don’t look,’ you know?”
“Practice the habit of thinking ‘if [your spouse] were in the room at all times,’” Wahlberg counseled listeners.
The pair have been together since 2013, marrying in 2014.
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“I didn’t know if [love] was going to be out there for me,” McCarthy told E! News in 2018, citing her fears about dating as “a single mom.”
Everything changed when she and Wahlberg met on the set of WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE.
“My favorite thing is that I found my soul mate,” she shared.
Speaking to PEOPLE in 2014, McCarthy said, “Every night when we go to bed…and I see him laying there, I go, ‘The feeling I get crawling in bed with you every night is like when I was little, and my mom used to say your best friend can sleep over tonight.’ He definitely brings out the best in me, and I think I do the same for him.”
One of the main pillars of the marriage is the couple’s shared Christian faith. Earlier this year, Wahlberg told Fox News, “Date night for us though typically looks like…we make a big plan, we’re about to get ready, and then we say, ‘Ah, let’s stay in and watch THE CHOSEN.’”
This year, the couple got baptized together, with Wahlberg captioning a video of the event, “Looking back over the past year of my life, the Lord has been renewing my mind, rebuilding my spirit, rearranging my priorities, recentering my focus, recharging my energy, reshaping my heart, refining my faith, restoring my joy and redeeming my life! I don’t know where I would be without Jesus, but I know where I will be with Him! All the glory is His!”
McCarthy has also declared her faith, sharing that she was raised Catholic.
“Some people have to work really hard to hear [God],” she said in a 2025 interview. “I’ve got a direct line. I mean, Jesus is my homie.”
Wahlberg and McCarthy’s marriage is strengthened every day by their shared faith and commitment to each other.
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