For Tarek El Moussa andChristina Hall(who just remarried for the second time!
), drama was par for the course when it came to making their fast and lucrative house flips.
How did it wind up like this?
El Moussa and Hall’s highly publicized split back in December 2016 is no secret.
Over time, the professional flippers have shown they’re pretty comfortable talking about their divorce.
But the end of a seven-year marriage doesn’t come about overnight.
So, what were the telltale signs that this power couple was rushing headlong for divorce?
Read on to learn more.
Hall plows forward with her own preferred plan: a pinwheel tile that horrifies El Moussa.
Not a particularly shining example of loving compromise, now is it?
Allegedly, both El Moussa and Hall had questionable relationships outside their marriage.
Hall’s choice to date the family’s contractor Gary Anderson also caught the media’s attention.
Though Hall and Anderson publicly confirmed their relationship, the exact timeline of their coupling has remained under scrutiny.
The father of two admitted that he was overmedicated: “I was on Vicodin every day.
It was a really rough three, four years.
It was a horrifying experience” (perPage Six).
But exactly what kind of toll did El Moussa’s health have on his marriage?
Unfortunately, both El Moussa and his ex-wife, Christina Hall, could not undo the damage.
Their fertility challenges added more stress
Marriage is hard enough without health scaresandfertility obstacles.
Less than two years after their son’s birth, the HGTV stars secretly split.
We didn’t fight, we just grew apart" (viaUs Weekly).
Sure sounds like a long and lonely ending for the two real estate investors.
So we just ended up clearing everything out and starting fresh."
The reality stars suffered another misstep: They hired the wrong contractor.
That mistake not only cost them money, but also precious time.
“We ended up having to move out to a tiny hotel for three months.
Ultimately, as Tarek explained toDr.
The couple had no space for themselves ever!
But what about breathing room?
In a 2018 interview withPeople, Christina Hall reflected on her very public split.
It was so stressful, and everyone was worried that it was going to explode,” she said.
“I felt like I was drowning.”
Could El Moussa and Hall have done a better job showing up for themselves vis-a-vis solitude?
But without a healthy sense of independence, resentments can fester.
“Prisoner of Love” just doesn’t have the same ring to it in hindsight, does it?
The Achilles heel for this particular duo seemed to be reconciling their reality show with real life.
The tension between me and Tarek was high.
We weren’t able to properly communicate anymore.
It got to the point where we weren’t even driving to set together," Christina Hall toldPeople.
Any one of these life events could put a real wedge between a husband and wife.
As Tarek El Moussa tells it, busyness put a significant strain on their partnership.
In a 2017 appearance on “The Doctors,” Tarek explained, “All these things happened overnight.
It kind of started pushing us apart from one another.”
The reality star couple just could not manage to salvage their marriage amid the demands of personal hardship.
The same is true for this former couple.
His ex, Christina Hall, also knows more than ever the value of honesty in a relationship.
She toldGood Housekeeping, “If something is on my mind, you’re gonna know.
Though the “Flip or Flop” hosts have since both remarried (Christina twice!
“In a lot of ways they just seemed wildly incompatible,” the anonymous source remarked.
“[Christina] has champagne tastes and he’s a beer-from-a-can kind of guy.
Could such a fundamentally different set of values have driven the two stars further apart?
