The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania is engaged to boyfriend Paulie Connell after nearly five years together.

“I’m ecstatic!” Catania, 54, gushed to People in an interview published Wednesday, November 12. “You know when you feel that happiness down in your gut? That’s where this excitement stems from for me. I feel so blessed, I almost feel guilty! Like I don’t deserve to be loved this way.”

Connell, for his part, said Catania deserves “so much more” than she thinks. “She’s an incredible woman,” he added. “And when I was proposing to her, I was able to articulate to her everything I see that she is, and everything I see that she does, and the impact she has on everybody around her. She’s one in a million.”

The 51-year-old got down on one knee on Monday, November 10, a

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