Eva Longoria had some issues revealing too much to the press early in her relationship with now-husband Tony Parker. In early 2006, she said “I’m the teacher [in our relationship], especially about love,” and claimed that Tony was “always telling me he’s never met anyone who loves the way I do – wholly and freely and unconditionally.” She later tried to take it back, reversing it to say that Tony was really the teacher or something, but the damage was done. Parker has since learned her lesson and has been keeping relatively quiet about what goes on behind closed doors in her marriage, although she does hint at problems in a recent interview.

In a talk with Glamour Magazine, Longoria says that she works at her marriage every day and takes it just one day at a time. If you’re happy in your marriage and things are going well, would you say you take it one day at a time? That’s something you use to deal with the prospect of long stretches of time in which you feel deprived of something. Many people would agree with her that marriage is work and say she’s just being realistic about it, but it sounds like more than that to me.

This is the second marriage for the 33 year-old and the first for her husband Tony, 26. Eva was previously married to actor Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004.

GLAMOUR: I read once, “Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, but just an episode in a man’s.” Do you think that’s true?

ELP: I don’t know. I believe that men, when they fall, fall harder than women. Women gauge emotions a lot better because we’re more in touch with them, so we’ll give and take as much as we want.

GLAMOUR: How long have you been married?

ELP: A year and a half. But we dated for two and a half years first. We didn’t rush.

GLAMOUR: What was the courtship like?

ELP: Tony is very romantic, full of surprises—he’s the surprise king. But whether it’s a surprise party or a sweet note he leaves in my bag, for me it weighs the same.

GLAMOUR: What’s one thing about marriage that’s harder than you thought it’d be?

ELP: Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it. For us, just juggling schedules is the biggest obstacle we have, and we don’t even really have a problem with that either…

I’m really a very fifties housewife… I love having dinner ready and making sure his clothes are ironed and that he’s packed and ready when he goes on road trips.

[From Glamour.com]

In just the last month, Longoria was photographed with her hand on Russell Crowe’s knee and was seen sitting on Marc Anthony’s lap. Maybe she wouldn’t have to work so hard on her marriage if she would stick closer to her own husband instead of other women’s. Ironically, Longoria also talked to Glamour about breaking the news to girlfriends that their men are cheating on them:

ELP: [talking about friends dating their friends’ exes on “Desperate Housewives”] Oh, you never date someone’s ex-boyfriend. Period. That’s not even the unspoken rule—that’s the spoken rule.

GLAMOUR: Is there a statute of limitations on that?

ELP: I don’t know. Luckily, I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve wanted to date one of my friends’ exes.

GLAMOUR: OK, what if you find out your girlfriend’s boyfriend is cheating on her?

ELP: I would tell her. If it were one of my best friends? I would probably take a picture with my camera phone first.

GLAMOUR: What if it’s her husband?

ELP: That’s a trickier one…. It’s tough, because sometimes people kill the messenger. But I think the truth always comes out, regardless of who tells.

[From Glamour.com]

I wonder if Eva did that interview before or after the photos were taken of her with her hand on Russell Crowe’s knee. This woman seems like she’s full of crap to me and I don’t see her marriage lasting that long, no matter how much she tries to play the domestic.

Eva Longoria is shown out shopping with a friend on 12/17/08. Credit: Fame