'WE WORK AT KEEPING IT The Real Relationship Issue-HOT

This is what #couplegoals looks like! Frisky, fun Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy — each in their second marriage — show Us the depth of their commitment

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“Before, I’d be scared to show anyone that I’m not as tough as I think I am,” McCarthy (with Wahlberg) tells Us. “It’s so important to make sure you tell your secrets to your partner.”

Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg have really committed to PDA, and their version leans heavily on private displays of affection, too. “We like to sneak off at parties,” admits McCarthy, 52. “If someone has a Christmas party, we’re going to find the basement bathroom, take advantage of the moment.” Which is not to say they’re neglecting the public aspect. One of their more memorable makeout sessions took place in a hallway during the 2014 Creative Arts Emmys. “We hear this voice say, ‘Get a room,’” Blue Bloods alum Wahlberg, 55, recalls. “I was like, ‘That sounded like the voice of God.’ It was Morgan Freeman. He walked by and winked at us.”

Getting called out by a legendary actor is a small price to pay for maintaining their obvious chemistry after a decade of marriage. “We work at keeping it hot,” Wahlberg says. The New Kids on the Block member and the Masked Singer judge met in 2012 and wed in 2014; he shares sons Xavier, 31, and Elijah, 23, with first wife Kimberly Fey, and McCarthy is mom to 22-year-old Evan with ex-husband John Asher. She and Wahlberg live with Evan and their five dogs outside Chicago in St. Charles, Ill., close to McCarthy’s hometown. “Of course we love each other and we’re attracted to each other, but we also give it care,” says Wahlberg. “That’s how you keep [the spark] alive. We don’t take for granted that it’s been 10 years and we don’t have to do that stuff anymore. Keep doing it.”

Having found each other later in life, Wahlberg and McCarthy — now teaming up on the ID true-crime special