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Shannen Doherty Calls Married Life ‘Phenomenal’

Shannen Doherty’s new reality show Shannen Says chronicles one of the most stressful and

anxiety-ridden times in a couple’s life – the wedding-planning process.

Kurt Iswarienko and Shannen Doherty Angela Weiss/Getty

But now, nearly six months after marrying photographer Kurt Iswarienko, the actress says

newlywed life is all that it’s cracked up to be.

“Things couldn’t be better. Married life is amazing, and I can only

say that because of my partner, because of Kurt,” Doherty, 40, told PEOPLE Thursday on a conference call with reporters to

promote her new show.

“He woke up this morning and went surfing and it’s the little things – it’s when he comes

home, and the first thing he does is comes in my office and wraps his arms around me and says, ‘I love you, I missed you,’

even though he was only gone for two hours.”

“It’s a relationship I’ve dreamed about my entire life, and it’s the

closest thing that I’ve ever had to what my parents had, which was so unbelievably beautiful and special,” said Doherty.

“So, married life is phenomenal.”

Of course, it also takes place in the real world, fights and all. “It’s not all

roses and rainbows and butterflies,” she says of their relationship as it’s depicted on the new series. “It is a real,

honest relationship.”

Doherty has been married twice before, to Ashley Hamilton and Rick Salomon, and both were

short-lived unions. But as the actress told PEOPLE in

2010, she has great faith in the institution.

“I believe in marriage as a whole because my parents were married for 43

years, so I have the best example in the world of what marriage can be,” she said.

“Marriage to me is such a gigantic

commitment that it’s not something I’d ever go into lightly anymore,” she added. “I’ve learned my

lesson.”

Shannen Says premieres Tuesday, April 10, at 10 p.m. ET on WEtv.