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Jamie Laing explained why he and his wife Sophie Habbo have been having couples therapy ever since they got married.
Sophie and Jamie married for the second time in a lavish ceremony in Spain in May after tying the knot in front of their loved ones at Chelsea Registry Office in London a month earlier. The couple met on Made In Chelsea and began dating in 2019.
The reality TV personality opened up on his own personal journey with therapy on Good Morning Britain as he told hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley that he suggested to his new wife Sophie they try couples therapy as soon as they tied the knot. Jamie admitted he was worried about the alarming statistics of marriages that result in divorces and wanted to give his relationship the best possible chance.
Jamie and Sophie tied the knot in May, 2023 (ITV)Richard asked Jamie if there anything he's discovered in couples therapy about himself that surprised him. Jamie replied: "I think I'm amazing, I was like, 'I don't have any faults' and then I found out that I tend to not listen a lot. I do things that can be slightly jarring or irritating, but when you start to have those conversations, I really do think relationships are all about honesty."
Elsewhere in the interview, Jamie opened up on his struggle with tinnitus and how it has caused him anxiety for eight years. Discussing the ringing in his ears to Susanna, who also suffers with the condition, he said: “One in seven people in the world have tinnitus, or some form of tinnitus, so they’re hearing some sort of ringing. Mine started eight years ago and you have to learn to accept it, which is a really hard thing to do. When you first get tinnitus they say that, ‘This is forever, there is no cure and you’re going to have to live with it.’”
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Explaining how he discovered he had the condition, Jamie continued: “I woke up one morning and thought, ‘What’s that ringing noise?’ and I was looking around the flat for the ringing noise before suddenly realising it was coming from inside my head and I was like ‘oh my god’. But, you have to treat it like an air-con in your bedroom, or a fan, or if you go on a summer holiday and you can hear the crickets and suddenly when they stop at night you go, ‘Ahh there were the crickets’. You just have to tune out of it and realise it is not harmful.
“You have to try and sort of forget about it. But it is incredibly debilitating and it causes anxiety. Anxiety then makes it worse so it’s a vicious cycle which makes it very hard to sleep and people have to deal with it around the world and no one talks about it. “
Revealing how anxious it makes him feel, he added: “Oh my god. I mean when it first started and you realise it’s never going to go I was so anxious. I thought I was never going to sleep again. I thought I was never going to hear again. It was so loud, I couldn’t hear people talking to me [at one point] it was that bad.”