2 Babies, Marriage and a Divorce — See JWoww and Roger Mathews’ Relationship Timeline

Summer 2009

JWoww and Roger started dating after they met in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, where JWoww was filming the first season of Jersey Shore. However, nothing happened between them because she was still seeing her then-boyfriend, Tom Lippolis.

Summer 2010

During season 3 of the reality show, the former flames started to fall for each other. In an interview from 2013, the MTV personality admitted that Roger didn’t quite make an impression on her at first. “He was just one of the faces in the crowd, like, ‘What’s up, hi, goodbye,'” she said.

May 2011

In April 2018, JWoww admitted she suffered a miscarriage right before she started filming season 4 of Jersey Shore overseas. “Three to four weeks before Italy, my grandmother passed and me and Roger actually lost a baby … not a lot of people know,” she admitted on Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. “They put me on medication because of it because I couldn’t handle life. The medication — it was like Xanax, it would take me down. The downers would make me so groggy, then I would start taking uppers. I segued right into Italy. I was a f–king mess.”

October 2011

Back in season 1, JWoww was very drunk, and Roger carried her home after a night at the club. She knew he was a keeper because she admitted, “It takes a lot of a person to put up with me.”

September 2012

Roger sure fooled JWoww! The couple went skydiving and right after, he proposed to her after two years of dating. At the time, she was filming her spin-off show, Snooki & JWoww.

October 2012

The mom of two showed off her new bling at a red carpet with Roger. After the engagement, she explained that she was not in a rush to walk down the aisle. “[Roger’s] dad is dying for us to get married,” the reality star told People. “He wants grandchildren. He texts me almost every day for that.”

April 2013

The 33-year-old took her then-hubby as her date to the MTV Movie Awards.

August 2013

JWoww gushed about how grateful she was for the way she met her man. “We thank Jersey Shore for helping us find them because I wouldn’t have been with Roger,” she told Us Weekly. “We hold our relationships close to us and that’s why they’re so successful.”

May 2014

JWoww showed off her bump on the red carpet. They later welcomed a baby girl named Meilani on July 13, 2014. “She is here! 7 lbs., 13 oz. Words can’t describe what looking into your child’s eyes can do to you. I’m humbled,” Roger wrote on Twitter.

October 2015

Happier times. The couple got married on October 18, 2015, in New Jersey in front of family and friends. “This has been one of the greatest days of my life! I’m so happy to share this with our family and friends,” JWoww told Us Weekly at the time.

December 2015

The book author and Roger celebrated their first holiday together as a married couple in December 2015.

May 2016

Shortly after their wedding, JWoww gave birth to their second child — a baby boy named Greyson. “They are the future, they are my legacy, they are my children, I will not fail them,” Roger wrote on Instagram.

September 2016

The former couple had a YouTube series, Jenni & Roger: Domesticated, where they let their fans in on their day-to-day routines.

October 2016

Just two years ago, the couple seemed to be doing well. “We have much more respect for each other now. Roger is so hands on with both of them it made me fall in love with him all over again,” she spilled to E! News in 2016. “We also learned to talk through disagreements rather than be stubborn or argue. We don’t want our children to see us fighting. We want them to learn how to talk through things and grow from the experience.”

September 2017

The mom of two captioned this photo, “Date night.”

October 2017

She captioned this cute Halloween photo of them, “goals.”

September 2018

Before the stars filed for divorce, JWoww hinted that their relationship was not doing well. “You are either going to grow together as a couple and do everything together, or it can like, [splits apart her hands.] I always say never have kids unless you want to have kids. I know a lot of people that are trying to have kids to fix their relationship or do all these crazy things. No, no, do not do that. Have them to have them,” she told Us Weekly.

October 2018

The couple filed for divorce in September 2018 after eight years together. Fans thought that the pair might get back together, since they posted this picture a month after their separation announcement. Roger captioned the photo, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

November 2018

JWoww and Roger took their kids to the DreamWorks Trolls: The Experience, where he told Us Weekly that the pair were “working on things.”

November 2018

The family faced more challenges in 2018 since the TV star revealed that her son was diagnosed with autism. “He has co-therapies [every] week, but we’re going to step it up a notch soon and get him ABA treatments, speech therapy,” she told Hollywood Life. However, she noted, “he’s made leaps and bounds when it comes to speech.”

December 2018

In December 2018, Roger posted a series of videos on Instagram and revealed that his ex filed a temporary restraining order against him. “My wife was screaming in my daughter’s face, ‘Your father’s a piece of s—t. He’s out of here. He’s out of here. I’m sorry I ever had children with him,’” he claimed.

January 2019

JWoww later claimed her ex mistreated her and their two children. “You are an abuser to the core, Roger Mathews. You have spit at me. You have pushed me. You have shoved me. You have aggressively thrown me to the ground,” she claimed in a length blog post at the time. “You have prevented me from closing doors to escape having you coming at me. You have belittled and disparaged me. You have threatened me.”

January 2019

In response, Roger shared his side of the story in an Instagram video. “Things were said about me in a long, rambling rant that was put out about me that was highly erroneous and many lies in it,” he said. “I know that we have the proponents of truth on our side. I know that there is a deep-rooted history of this … playing the victim.”

February 2019

In a second statement, the truck driver addressed JWoww with an emotional plea. “I am extremely saddened. Saddened, as I lay here next to both of our children that we could not have found a better way to handle our differences,” the statement read, which was posted on his website. “You and your post have made me a monster. I took down my posts, which was recommended by both of our councils, yet you leave yours up and bask in your glory of tearing down the father of your children. I am not a monster. We’ve both embarrassed ourselves out of anger. Let’s stop the madness. Let’s stop the anger. Let’s stop the lies. Let’s work together for our children.”

April 2019

The duo was able to put the drama behind them as they celebrated Easter as a family in April. “Beautiful Easter day,” the dad of two wrote on Instagram.

April 2019

Meanwhile, Jenni appeared to be seeing someone new since she shared photos from her date via her Instagram Stories in April. The Snooki & JWoww alum confirmed she was seeing a 24-year-old mystery man. “We’re filming Jersey Shore right now, and we nicknamed him ’24,’” she said during an appearance on Snooki’s podcast, “It’s Happening With Snooki & Joey.”

April 2019

At the end of the month, JWoww went Instagram official with Zach during a trip to Universal Studios in Florida. The athlete and JWoww looked so in love while they documented their time in the car together.

April 2019

However, Roger seemed like he was on board with Jenni’s new relationship. “He seems like a terrific guy, and they seem to be really happy, and I’m very happy for them,” he told Us Weekly on April 25.

April 2019

Roger and JWoww hit a road bump when JWoww saw her ex having fun with his friends on the ‘gram when he was supposed to be with their kids. “When you find out on Wednesday your kids will be with someone other than their father over the weekend because he wants to rage during HIS time because it’s been planned ‘for months,’” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “Yeahhhh, OK.”

April 2019

Roger and Jenni seemed like they were on the same page again in May. “I was sad for her going through it, but I am happy now that it’s over. They seem to be great now,” Jenni’s costar Paul “DJ Pauly D” DelVecchio told Us Weekly at the time. “Like totally coparent. I watched videos of them with the kids and when it’s the sad part about it, it’s the kids that suffer the most, but they’re not letting their kids suffer or see any of it, it’s just great.”

July 2019

During the season 3 premiere of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, Jenni revealed how she has different parenting tactics than Roger when it comes to her son’s autism diagnosis. “Roger believed that Greyson was a slow learner, and he was going to learn on his own,” she told Deena, 32. “That caused a lot of tension in our household because we have one parent like, ‘I need to get ahead of this and fix it,’ which is me, and then you got another parent like, ‘What are you doing? It’s not a big deal.’”

July 2019

JWoww and her new beau celebrated her daughter’s 5th birthday with Roger at their house in New Jersey.

September 2019

Meanwhile, Roger admitted to Us Weekly what he was looking for in a woman. He’s hoping to find an “established woman with her career and personal life in order, who has similar likes and interests,” he said. “Communication is critical to me at this point in my life. If you’re a bad communicator, we probably won’t make it far. I want peace and stability in my life for myself and my children.”

October 2019

Trouble in paradise! During an episode of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, JWoww was passed out a club when her boyfriend got a little handsy with her costar Angelina Pivarnick. Zach later apologized for his actions, and the pair were spotted together in New Jersey and Florida.

October 2019

But Roger hopes JWoww and Zach can get over the drama. “I want peace with my ex-wife for my kids, and if there is turmoil in her life and in her household, it’s just not a good thing for our children, so I wish nothing but the best for her,” he told Us Weekly in October. “I wish them all well, and I hope Jenni and Zack can work through their issues if they deem it worth saving.”

October 2019

However, during the Thursday, October 31, episode, JWoww spoke with her bestie Snooki about her marriage and admitted her biggest “regret” was marrying Roger. “When you get divorced, you’re supposed to be celebrating and start a new chapter, but it’s really heartbreaking,” she said. “And it’s stressful, the up and down battle of figuring out custody issues. I just don’t know when it gets better.”

November 2019

Roger responded to JWoww’s hurtful comments. “You don’t spend a decade of your life with only one person then just never care about them again,” he told Us Weekly. “You can act like you do, but you’re probably lying. Hatred spawns love.”

We hope these two can remain cordial for now.

January 2020

Five months after finalizing his divorce from Jenni, a source confirmed to In Touch Roger has been dating Danielle Miele. The pair had been seen out “a lot over the past year,” the insider added.