Rio opened up about the differences between he and his wife when they share their problems (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for FENDI)

Rio Ferdinand has admitted he gets into ‘full-blast rows’ with his wife Kate Ferdinand when he tries to ‘solve’ her problems for her, rather than letting her ‘vent’.

The former England footballer, who shares 23-month-old son Cree with the 31-year-old reality TV star, said that he regularly tries to find a solution instead of just listening.

‘My missus will tell me a problem that she’s got going on, and I talk about it from my point of view. Most men are like this, we try to help them solve the problem. And she’s going, “Look, I don’t want you to try and solve it,”’ he said.

The TV pundit then revealed that this is the ‘only’ thing that causes disagreements between them.

‘I end up having arguments with her. We only argue about stuff like this. We get into a full-blast row because you’re trying to solve it.

‘She says, “I don’t want you to solve my problem for me. I just want to be able to vent, and you listen, and just help me that way.”’

The footballer admitted he was always trying to ‘solve’ Kate’s problems, even when she didn’t want him too (Picture: Karwai Tang/WireImage)

The 44-year-old then said he would sit there ‘as a man’ and wonder why she was telling him about something that ‘can’t be solved’ as he added that most men feel like it’s not worth discussing ‘if you’re not trying to make a solution’.

He then acknowledged that that is ‘probably the wrong way to look at it’.

Rio also confessed that meeting Kate, who is also step-mum to his three older kids, Lorenz, 16, Tate, 14, and Tia, 11, from his marriage to late wife Rebecca Ellison, has helped him to become a ‘good communicator’.

The couple together on Tuesday as Rio was made OBE (Picture: Andrew Matthews – Pool/Getty Images)

He added to The Football Ramble podcast: ‘It’s since I met my missus. I was never really a good communicator before that. Then I met Kate. She’s really good and has got really open lines of communication, and she’s pushed me into that way of thinking.’

The ex-Manchester United defender’s first wife Rebecca died in 2015 from breast cancer aged 34.

Kate previously admitted she felt ‘alone and isolated’ on Mother’s Day last year, her first as a mum.

Kate has previously spoken about the struggles she’s had as a first-time mum to son Cree (Picture: Instagram/xkateferdinand)

‘I’m fortunate to have three amazing step-children and my biological son Cree, but sadly my step-children lost their mum at a young age and also my husband has lost his mum,’ she shared.

The former Towie star continued: ‘It’s a strange feeling the world is celebrating this day and there is a real big loss in my house but also it was my first Mother’s Day – a day in another life that I would really look forward to, but here I am surrounded by my family.

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‘How can I have the audacity to celebrate myself when all my family have had such a deep loss? I felt really alone and quite isolated, I didn’t know anyone in a similar situation or going through the same sort of thing as me.’

Kate had subsequently opened up on the difficulty she had felt grieving the devastating miscarriage her and Rio faced in July, on the day of her 12-week scan.

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‘I end up having arguments with her. We only argue about stuff like this.’