Candace Cameron Bure admitted she was “really depressed” about her marriage to Valerie Bure ahead of their 30th wedding anniversary.
The “Full House” star made the candid confession Tuesday on his eponymous podcast, which featured “Bachelor” alum Madison Prewitt as a guest.
“I know that during a downturn like that, you can feel like you’re sitting in the shallows of a valley, if not in a downturn,” Bure explained.
“It’s like, ‘This isn’t the best, but that’s life. Let’s try.'”
“(There have been) a lot of highs and some really low lows,” she added.
The 49-year-old actress went on to say that she and her husband have felt “stuck” at times, but that they “never had the confidence or straight courage to be honest with each other enough to say the really difficult things.”
“Because I know they’re going to hurt your feelings, and I know you’re going to hurt mine by hearing it or saying it.”
“I think sometimes we feel stuck, and we want to get out of the deadlock,” she added.
Candice and Valeri, 51, married in June 1996 and have three children: daughter Natasha (26) and sons Lev (25) and Maxim (23).
The former “View” co-host has been very transparent about the “tough seasons” their nearly 30-year marriage has endured and how she and Valerie have gotten through it.
Back in July, Candiace admitted that things between her and Valerie had “deteriorated” in 2020, and credited her son Lev with helping her recover from a dark place she doubted they could “get over.”
“[Lev]said, ‘I know I’m not married. I’m still young, so it’s probably hard to accept marriage advice from someone so young and inexperienced. But you don’t have to be married to know what God’s Word is saying,'” she said on the podcast.
“(He) had his Bible open on the couch and just talked about it. . . . I’ll never forget it.”
Candiace praised her son for intervening to save her marriage, but also admitted that her children put her marriage to a “test.”
Candiace pointed out on Prewitt’s “Stay True” podcast in November that when a couple has children, the little ones “come in and demand everything about you.”
“Then they get a little bigger and put you and your husband at odds.”
“You don’t realize it,” she said with a laugh. “They’re such cute, manipulative little creatures.”
A devout Christian, she also revealed earlier in the month that the couple had gone through “a period of deep setbacks” throughout their marriage.
The “Fuller House” alum told Us Weekly that her relationship with the former hockey star wasn’t necessarily “incredible” or “great.”
“There were times when I was deeply devastated,” she said, but there was nothing she and Valerie could do to “bounce back.”
She believed that faith in God was the reason behind her and Valerie’s repaired relationship, stating, “But God is in the business of repair…(God) loves to repair and make all things new, and God certainly does.”
