Teresa Giudice Admits She’s ‘Known For A Long Time’ About Decision To Separate From Husband Joe Giudice! Plus She Says She’s ‘Happy’ For Joe After He Was Spotted Partying With Several Women In Mexico!

Teresa Giudice is opening up about her relationship with estranged husband Joe Giudice. The Real Housewives of New Jersey star reveals that separation was in the works for “a long time,” Teresa Giudice confesses — long before he was relocated to Italy.

“I’ve known for like a long time. Just because we’ve been apart for so long,” she told PEOPLE Now. “We’ve been apart for a really long time. After my mom passed away, like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.”

“I mean, I can’t predict the future, but as of now, it was two and a half days. It was too short to decide,” she said at the time. “But our daughters are the most important thing. We’ll see what happens. I mean, he lives in Italy, I live in America. I don’t know if that’s going to work.”

“I will always have a special place for him in my heart. And I think where he was, he was really angry, just because of the situation and everything. And I think he just took out a lot on me,” she said. “He texts me all the time that I love you. I adore you. You’re the best wife, best mother.”

“We’re separated [by] the Atlantic Ocean and from the federal government. How can I be with someone like that?” she continued. “He lives in Italy and I live here. We want the best for each other. I want him to be happy. He wants me to be happy. And that’s it. We’re going to be the best parents we could to our four daughters.”

Teresa revealed there were many moments when she knew that separation was inevitable, but confesses that it was “hurtful to hear” that Joe “felt nothing” for her and asked her to find somebody else.

“It’s just been a build up,” she says. “But I do wish him well and I just want him to be happy. I even told the girls and him this … when you’re with someone, I’ll even come and hang out with you with her and with our daughters because I want to make it good.”

“I want to make it good for my daughters because if I’m good with it, then they’ll be good with it,” she says.

Now that they’ve been separated for three months, Teresa reveals what she's looking for in a relationship. “That he tells me I’m beautiful,” she told PEOPLE Now. “Joe would never tell me I was beautiful. I would ask, ‘How do I look?’ And he’d say, ‘You look good, you look good.’ We were together for a long time. He was a great husband. I obviously loved his way then, but then afterward you see what you really left.”

In a separate interview, Teresa reveals how she felt when photos of her estranged husband surfaced several weeks ago of him parting with several women during a trip to Mexico.

“Obviously, if I'm fine with it, they'll be fine with it," Teresa told E!'s Pop of the Morning. “I made it good for [the kids],” she reiterates. “And they were fine with it.”

Teresa revealed that she didn't harbor any ill feelings toward her estranged husband upon seeing the pictures. “That's what he's supposed to be doing,” she says. “We're not together…I want him to be happy.”

In a separate interview, Teresa revealed that despite not being affected by the images, she said Joe was “upset” — because one of his daughters saw the photos.

“He was upset that his daughter saw it,” said Teresa told PEOPLE TV’s Reality Check. “He was upset about that. And it wasn’t even paparazzi taking his picture. It was random people at the hotel, which I think people should just mind their business because we’re just normal people like everyone else. It’s like, why do you want to take our photo? Leave us alone.”

She added, “Let Joe live his life, I want to live my life. We all need our privacy. But I made it good, I made it good.”

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