In the inaugural episode of her SiriusXM podcast Let’s Chat Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, Ripa said, “It’s very hard being married to someone who is envious.”

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ 26-year marriage has had its ups and downs, including a few challenges that the couple overcame.

The pair discussed their love and how they overcome some difficult times by talking things out in the first edition of Kelly Ripa’s new Sirius XM podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, which debuted on Wednesday.

51-year-old Consuelos asserted, “It always gets better.” Nothing is impossible if you speak things through and communicate.

Consuelos’ jealousy was the source of their arguments in the past, according to 52-year-old Ripa, who stressed that this did not suggest that they were unconscious of the challenging times.

My biggest problem with you during our marriage — and this isn’t new, ’cause it changed, and I’m not sure whether I changed, you changed, or if it was some mix of change — is that you used to be competitive. It was hard to get that tablet down. Being married to an envious person is difficult. It is not attractive.

Consuelos, she added, frequently had “an inaccurate sense of a scenario” that caused him to feel envy. She remembered how, soon after the couple from All My Children secretly wed in 1996, a server at a Boston restaurant fondly addressed her as a “princess” in Italian.

The older waiter had a great personality. He was at least in his 70s, if not his 80s, according to Ripa. I smiled at the idea that this old man called me a princess. I smiled and handed him my order while looking at him. He departed after you made the decision to fight me severely.

Consuelos, who will succeed Ryan Seacrest as co-host on Live next month, verified the assertion by telling Ripa, “I was upset.”

Hey, I was 25 years old and utterly insane. Nonetheless, I did carry that resentment around for a time, he said. “I no longer feel envy… It’s a flaw in who I am. It’s disgusting. Furthermore, it is far worse on the inside than it appears to the person on the receiving end. If it helps, you are aware of your insane state. Even though the jealous person knows it’s bad and evil, they still can’t help it.

Consuelos responded that it was about personal development when asked “what changed.” He said, “I wanted to work on myself. That was important for me to handle since it was getting in the way of my growth.

Ripa needed to improve on a few other areas as well, most notably her bad habit of hanging up the phone during arguments.

Consuelos said, “Sometimes if the person’s like, say, in Vancouver, and you don’t pick up the phone in a day, it’s incredibly scary. You haven’t done that in such a long time, but when you’re pissed on the phone, you hang up.”

“That’s awful. Ripa earlier asserted that she and Consuelos were “bad arguers” and occasionally needed to communicate more efficiently. “It’s terrible,” she stated on her podcast. That came from my upbringing, I guess. I come from a well-known family of hangers-on.

Everyone experiences ups and downs, as Ripa acknowledged. It never just happens to be even or flat. I compared it to a heartbeat, saying that if it flatlines, the person is definitely dead.

The couple, who have three children—son Michael, 25, Joaquin, 20, and daughter Lola, 21—also visits a marriage therapist, particularly now that they are empty-nesters.

Consuelos declared, “I’m a lifer; I want to be married for the rest of my life.” Yet after the distraction is over, I think you’ll be stuck in a house with only me. And I desired to attend counseling in order to resolve some of the problems we had been battling for 26 years.

Consuelos asserts that seeking counseling has helped them overcome their harmful habits.

He asserted that one of the best benefits of marriage counseling is that it forces you to reevaluate your previous routines and behaviors, “especially when things are good and you want them to get better,” he said. I would be held accountable to someone in a week or five days, and that person would ask me, “You want to explain that?,” he said.

Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa is produced by Consuelos and Ripa’s Milojo Productions in association with SiriusXM. Matthew McConaughey, Andy Cohen, Carol Burnett, and Anderson Cooper are a few of the first guests on the program.