T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach have different ways of dealing with conflict.
Holmes, 46, admitted on the latest episode of the couple’s “Amy & T.J.” podcast that he needs to remove himself and think about things for a while following their arguments, which the ousted “GMA3” co-anchors referred to as “hiccups.”
“I am really, really bad about this. I don’t scream, I don’t yell, I don’t do anything. I don’t name-call, I don’t get aggressive, nothing — but I will check out,” he explained.
“I don’t need you to say, ‘I’m sorry.’ I don’t need you to help me. I have to work through it, and I’m trying to get better at doing it quicker.”
But according to Holmes, Robach, 50, doesn’t apologize fast enough.
“It drives me crazy. Why? Because ‘I’m sorry’ comes 24 hours late,” he said. “It’s how you react in the moment that makes all the difference in the world because, in that moment, we have a chance to go this way or this way. And if you go that way, I’m out. I’m done. … I’m checked out for the day.”
Robach, for her part, isn’t a fan of how long it takes Holmes to come around post-disagreement.
“It’s two days, at least,” she shared. “I would rather have him yell at me than freeze me out for two days. … I’m like, I don’t know what to say, what to do, what he thinks.”
The colleagues-turned-lovers debuted their eponymous podcast earlier this month, a little over one year after their alleged affair was exposed.
The duo began their first episode by denying that they cheated on their then-spouses with each other.
“To be clear, we were outed as being in a relationship, but everyone else thought we were being outed as adulterers — being outed as cheating on our spouses — and it wasn’t the case,” Holmes insisted at the time.
When their dalliance made headlines, he was still married to Marilee Fiebig, while Robach was still married to Andrew Shue.
Robach and Shue settled their split in March, and Holmes’ divorce from Fiebig was finalized in October.
The same day “Amy & T.J.” premiered, Pvnew broke the news that Shue and Fiebig had been dating for six months.
As for Holmes and Robach, they spent the Christmas holiday separate to be with their respective children.
The pair recently acknowledged that they have “difficult” but “evolving” relationships with each other’s kids.
Holmes co-parents daughter Sabine with Fiebig and shares two children with his first wife, Amy Ferson.
Meanwhile, Robach is mom to daughters Ava and Annalise, whom she welcomed with her first husband, Tim McIntosh.
