Mel Owens and Peg Munson are still in the honeymoon phase since finding love on The Golden Bachelor.
“We’re 62 years old, there’s nothing to fight about,” Peg, 62, said on the Thursday, December 11, episode of the “Dear Shandy” podcast. “Like, old people should not fight because you know what? There’s nothing to fight about.”
She continued, “If you’re fighting, then you’re one bubble off a plum, come on. All the heavy lifting is done, there’s nothing to fight about.”
Mel, 66, and Peg found love on season 2 of The Golden Bachelor, which aired its finale last month. In the end, Mel and Peg left in a committed relationship without getting engaged. Instead, Mel offered his now-girlfriend a diamond promise ring and the coveted final rose.
Mel concurred that he and Peg had few things to argue about because of their “similar interests.”
“I have my playlist, and I go, ‘I know she’s gonna love the playlist,’ and she loved it,” the former NFL star explained on Thursday. “We’re from similar backgrounds and stuff, and she’s always dancing. I’m like, ‘This is my girl right here.’ It’s a lot of fun, it really is.”
Mel and Peg further revealed that they haven’t overcome any other major issues in their relationship, either.
“She lives in [Las] Vegas, and I live in Orange County, but today I flew in the morning,” Mel said of their long-distance relationship. “I was up and down so quick, I go, ‘Man, the time I woke up and the time I landed was like three hours, which would be quicker than driving.’ That would be a little hurdle, but other than that, [there’s] not really [any].”
Peg, for her part, noted it’s “easy for” her to make plans with Mel since her retirement.
“I retired 13 years ago,” Peg, who used to work as a bomb technician, explained. “I’m back doing my interior design and my flipping houses in real estate. I take jobs that I want to take, so it’s easy for me. It’s easy to do what I want to do when I want to do it. I’m blessed that way, and we both have our health to be able to do that.”
Peg and Mel, who both have children from previous marriages, found an unexpected bond inside the Bachelor Mansion.
“Mel and I had a connection early on. I knew it, and he knew it,” Peg exclusively told Us Weekly in November of falling in love on the Golden Bachelor. “We spoke in [the] fantasy suite and had great conversations. We got to know each other, and that connection was there.”
Mel had been vocal on the show about his hesitancy to get engaged again after his divorce, which fellow divorcée Peg understood wholeheartedly.
“You have to get to know somebody first before you jump into engagement or marriage,” she said. “Mel and I are both realists and we wanted a real foundation and we want a real connection. We don’t want fantasy land, [which] never works out. We’re both old enough to know — and wise enough to know — that’s just, that’s not reality.”
In the meantime, Peg told Us that the pair “made a lot of plans” together throughout the holiday season.
“We’re gonna travel to Toronto and then up to Montreal, where I’ve never been,” Mel teased last month. “So, we’re gonna go there and spend some time in those cities.”
