Vicki Gunvalson is loving life with her new boyfriend, Steve Lodge.

Following a controversial romance with Brooks Ayers years ago, the Real Housewives of Orange County star began dating Lodge and according to a new interview, their relationship is going great.

"He is treating me right!" Gunvalson announced to E! News on Monday. "There's times where I go, 'Is this real?' because he's not very excitable. That's one of the things I was worried about. 'So you like me? Are we good?' He's like, 'Yes Vicki, I like you a lot, I love you actually.' And I'm like, 'But you're not acting like you love me. I'm not getting all those words of affirmation and all the things I need.' He's so calm. We have the five love languages… what I need, what he needs."

"He needs quality time and that's something I don't really give enough of with him, so I'm trying better," she continued. "I need words of affirmation. I like to whoop it up. He's like, 'What exactly does that mean?' So that's a challenge. The bad boy with all that chemistry and all that passion, or is it like a strong, stable man that I know I can count on at all times? And that's what you want."

To see more of Vicki Gunvalson, Steve Lodge, and their co-stars, including Peggy Sulahian, Lydia McLaughlin, Kelly Dodd, Meghan King Edmonds, Shannon Beador and Tamra Judge, tune into new episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange County on Monday nights at 9 p.m. on Bravo TV.

To hear more about Gunvalson and Lodge's relationship, check out the clip below of Gunvalson's recent appearance on the E! Network's Daily Pop.