Monica and Shannon Brown are so in love. Clearly, the two love birds are still deeply in love after the beautiful wedding ceremony they shared with their family and friends. The R&B diva and her sexy basketball player husband recently chatted with Essence.com to discuss the passion in their relationship, how they make time for each other with their busy schedules, Monica's relationship with her mother in-law, the negative criticism from blogs, and her take on doing reality tv again.
Read a couple of excerpts from the essence.com interview:On how they keep things passionate:
That's so easy for us. I don't know where to start. The best lingerie I have, Vanessa Bryant gave it to me. She is the biggest fan of La Perla and she goes into stores a lot. Every time I would open one of her gifts, Shannon was like "yeah" and he'd start clapping for that gift. Sometimes he likes when I'm just in his t-shirt or his jersey."
On making time for each other:
We're together a lot because I think you make time for the things that are important and our marriage is important to us. So we make time, all the time. At a video shoot Shannon and I go in my dressing room and order the food we want and just spend time talking to each other and getting to know each other even more. Every day is a new day, so it never stops. You never stop learning each other. Sometimes the best moments are just the quiet ones.
On her relationship with Shannon's mother:
"When we really go very, very serious in our dating we took both our families to Cabo. We wanted to take them away from everyone and all the busy places and just really get to know each other. That was everybody's first meeting. I've never gone more than 48 hours without talking to his mother since then. His moves loves her baby, but wha'ts so amazing about my mother-in-law is that she says I wanted someone to love my baby the way I love him, whether he's playing ball or doing something else; I want someone to love my son through and through and she met me and she said, "you're the real deal." We're a lot alike. We like the same things. We go to a lot of the same places. We get lost together."
On negative criticism on blogs:
"Well, you know the way that I am now I have nothing to say, no response. The truth needs no support. I love my husband and he loves me and I think if you sit back and you watch and you pay attention you’ll see it yourself. I think that in the blogosphere the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up. They’re not saying anything about us that they’re not saying about other couples. There aren’t just stories about us up there. There are stories about lots of couples. I thank God for the fact that they’re not true and I have peace of mind.
I think that you are what you speak a lot of times and there’s power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day I don’t tweet about it, I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it and get it off of me and move on. I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power it wins and it can continuously happen so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children. With that, I’m able to dust stuff off. Things do happen to me, I just shake ‘em off."
On doing reality TV again:
"No we;re not looking to do any reality TV. I've done it before and I did it because I wanted people to know that there is life-great life-after children. Children should be your motivation. People in the music industry try to tell you that you're old after 30. With the age comes the experience. For us, I think if we did a show we would love to do something that would really reach people like ourselves who are motivated and striving for success. If we could do something like that yes, but something where you just follow us around, no.
