Joy Behar is speaking out this week to reveal her top piece of marriage advice for younger women that likely nobody was asking for.
Behar’s Marriage Advice
Behar, 83, has been married to her husband Steve Janowitz for fifteen years. They had been together for 29 years by the time they tied the knot. Prior to that, Behar was married to Joseph Behar from 1965 until they divorced in 1981.
During a recent appearance on The View: Behind the Table podcast, Behar opened up about her current marriage while speaking to The View producer Brian Teta. She also offered a few “wise words” about partnership.
“My husband is a very, very high-quality person. He has integrity, he has a great sense of humor. He’s very funny. He can take a joke,” Behar said. “He loves me, he supports me. I mean, I have, actually, a very good marriage.”
“It’s nice to have a good marriage and to go through life like that,” she continued. “You don’t want to go through life with somebody you don’t like.”
Behar went on to offer some advice to young single women. Indeed, she warned them to be selective about who they marry, and to not let lust be the main guide behind their decision.
“I’m going to give a little tip to these young girls. Lust fades, it does,” Behar stated. “Ask Helen Fisher, that great anthropologist. Two years into it, you’re going to be like, ‘I got a headache,’ or whatever. Or, ‘Tonight, I don’t know. I’m hungry. Let’s get a pizza.’ So remember who you’re with.”
“The person has to be a friend and has to be a companion, somebody to go through life with. So be careful of that,” she warned.
Behar’s History With Janowitz
Behar previously revealed that she met Janowitz, who is a middle school math teacher, at a semi-nudist colony. Indeed, she’s said that he was naked when she first laid eyes on him.
“I don’t know if you know this about me, but I met my husband at a semi-nudist colony. It’s true,” she said on The View in 2020. “He was naked, I was not. Because for a man to see me naked, I have to be in his will.”
Behar later clarified that she didn’t actually first speak to Janowitz until that night. By then, he was fully clothed. She added that she always gets shocked reactions when she tells that story, saying, “People say, ‘Joy, really? That twitching, crazy woman on The View?’”
Behar and Janowitz were together for 29 years before they married in a small ceremony in 2011. One reason that they avoided getting married for so long was that they didn’t want in-laws, according to Behar.
“I waited until all the parents were dead,” Behar said in 2011. “So I have no in-laws at all. He has none and I have none. ’Cause marriage is mostly about in-laws, I find. They always want you to visit them and come for lasagna.”
We have to say that being married to Behar can’t be an easy job. In the end, young women everywhere should probably think twice before taking marriage advice from someone like Joy Behar.