“RHOM ”Star Marysol Patton Reveals Why She Finally Legally Married Her Husband Steve McNamara

"We both agreed to be able to take care of each other when we get older," the reality star said at a live podcast recording of 'Two Ts in a Pod'

For Marysol Patton, mortality and marriage go hand-in-hand.

During a live taping of Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge's Two Ts in a Pod podcast on Friday, Nov. 1, the Real Housewives of Miami star, 57, revealed why she finally legally married her husband Steve McNamara in Florida after multiple international weddings. It was not just for love, but practical reasons as well.

"Listen, we all are going to get older. We're all going to have to face mortality," Patton said at the event, held at iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, Calif. "I've lost a lot of friends in the last year. I've lost my parents. I'm living with an amazing man, and we've been married everywhere in the world except for Florida where it's legal."

She continued, "So I said to him, and we both agreed, to be able to take care of each other when we get older: 'I need you to make decisions, to be my health surrogate. I need you to access my funds and vice versa so we can take care of each other in the long run.' "

"I don't have children so who's going to do that for me?" Patton added.

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Patton and McNamara — who initially wed in Tulum, Mexico, in April 2021 — renewed their vows in a rustic ceremony held at historic Ardgowan Castle in Glasgow, Scotland, in July 2023.

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"My mom predicted I would get married again and again and again. So I am — to Steve!" Patton said at the time. "We are already planning the next one, and it's going to be fabulous."

Patton and McNamara first met via a “meet cute” in 2019 when Patton went to a pool party at the home of a high school friend, per the Miami Herald, and the two and immediately hit it off. They dated for two years before tying the knot in Mexico in a traditional Mayan ceremony that was presided over by a shaman.

An official release date for season 7 of The Real Housewives of Miami has yet to be announced.