Kyle Richards is thinking like a mother when it comes to knowing what she deserves.
On Wednesday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the Bravo mainstay, 55, revealed that she and her husband Mauricio Umansky had been going to couple’s therapy to work through their issues amid a difficult year.
While updating Sutton Stracke on what was going on between the couple, Kyle shared that the duo had learned that their busy schedules had “created so much time apart” from each other. Despite the rift that’s formed between them, Kyle claimed that Mauricio, 53, would never say no to his work.
Sutton, 52, suggested that the two compromise and respectively “turn down” opportunities that would keep them away from each other, to which Kyle replied, “I don’t have to.”
“I’ve made sacrifices and compromises,” the Halloween actress explained in a confessional. “I’ve been a really good wife and a great mom and I’ve supported him through everything, I want to feel that Mo is prior itizing me as much as I have him all of these years.”
She continued by noting how she’s been responsible for taking their children to their doctor’s appointments, soccer practices and piano lessons while Mauricio could focus on expanding his real estate business, The Agency.
“So now I have the freedom to be able to do some things for me, and I like it,” Kyle told Sutton, adding how she’s now been able to focus on her passions. “I don’t want to not do them because one day, my kids will be all gone from the house and then what am I going to have? I don’t want to be where my husband is up here and I’m down here.”
“I want to have my life too. It just feels good to be independent,” she added.
Elsewhere in the episode, Kyle told Mauricio that attending couple’s counseling has been a “great comfort” before telling cameras, “I thought it was important to go to couple’s therapy because the more difficult things get between us, the more difficult it has been to communicate.”
Mauricio agreed and even called therapy “fun,” which rubbed Kyle the wrong way and prompted her to offer up a different adjective. “I wasn’t laughing in those sessions,” she quipped.
The real estate mogul confessed that their sessions have allowed him to be “more in tune with myself” while Kyle added that she hoped the therapy has given him the space to “reflect.”
“All I’m saying is that this is helping us. I think we’re in a way better place,” Mauricio continued. “We’ve been married for 27 years. We’ve never had so much going on in our lives. I think it’s become hard. Right? It’s become really hard.”
Kyle confessed that she didn’t want to be a housewife who stayed at home or went shopping while Mauricio was breaking new ground at work.
While acknowledging her concerns, Mauricio noted that he wouldn’t want his wife to feel unfulfilled.
“You know, we’re both growing. We’re both changing. We’re about to be empty nesters. We’ve hit our 50s,” he added, to which Kyle interrupted, “But we’re not empty nesters yet. You keep saying that.”
When Mauricio shared it was important to look towards their future, Kyle said she was thinking about their problems “today.”
“I sometimes just get frustrated that I don’t feel like I’m being heard,” she told cameras. “I’m not going to stay in a situation that I’m not happy in. Things I wouldn’t want my daughters to accept, I’m not going to accept myself.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.