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Chynna Phillips Baldwin and Billy Baldwin opened up about the marriage issues they face while living in separate homes during the latest episode of their new YouTube series, Holding On
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“When you’re together 30 years, it becomes more challenging,” Billy said
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Chynna and Billy tied the knot in 1995 and share three children together
Chynna Phillips Baldwin and Billy Baldwin are speaking candidly about the marriage issues they are facing while living in separate homes.
In a video posted on the couple’s new YouTube channel on Saturday, Nov. 7, Chynna, 58, and Billy, 63, opened up about their communication problems when it comes to their love languages.
“We went to therapy years ago, and [our therapist] called it ‘the One Thing,’ ” Billy said. “He’s like, ‘How are you not being fed? What are you not getting in a relationship? I want one thing. You give Chynna what she needs, you give Billy what he’s asking for. You don’t even have to be particularly good at it, you just have to try.’ “
“It’s so simple, yet it’s pretty difficult. It’s pretty challenging to do that consistently,” he continued. “When you’re together 30 years, it becomes more challenging.”
But, Billy added, “It’s so important. If you can just do this with your children and do this with your partner, you can make your relationship way more stable, and way better.”
The couple of more than 30 years admitted that their struggle to communicate properly has put a strain on their marriage.
“She’s a California girl, hippie chick, who is very laid back. … I’m not. I’m a New Yorker,” said Billy of Chynna, adding, “So the way I was raised and the way I communicate can be defined by her [as] intense [and] urgent.”
“I’d love to see you let go just a little more in your life. Let go of all the strains and the stresses,” Chynna then told Billy, who stated, “It’s hard.”
Elsewhere, Billy said, “I think God played this cruel language where he wired women to want emotional intimacy … that leads to physical intimacy.”
“I act that way emotionally towards my wife, and I give her exactly everything she wants for, like, 48 hours after we’ve been together physically. So I think I want the physical intimacy that leads to the emotional intimacy that she’s looking for,” he added.
Chynna Phillips (left) and Billy Baldwin (right) in Las Vegas in August 2010.
Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty
Previously teasing their new YouTube channel series, Holding On, Chynna and Billy revealed in a recent joint Instagram post that they are living “in separate houses.”
Billy said in a confessional-style video at the time, “Here’s the problem. Sometimes the way I communicate causes her to have a nervous breakdown.”
He added to his wife, “And you control and manipulate.”
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In another joint Instagram post, shared on Nov. 7, Wilson Phillips member Chynna wrote, “I never imagined Billy and I would be in the situation we’re currently in.”
“We’re living separately, but adjacent. It’s super confusing and yes … complicated,” she continued.
Chynna and Billy tied the knot in 1995 and share three children together.
Daughter Jameson was born in 2000, son Vance followed in 2001 and daughter Brooke completed the family in 2004.
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