Entertainment Music From Wild Tours to Taking Out the Trash: Inside Jon Bon Jovi's Surreal Life The Bon Jovi frontman shares details of life on the road and at home with wife Dorothea and their brood By Janine Rubenstein Janine Rubenstein Instagram Twitter Janine Rubenstein is Editor-at-Large at PEOPLE and host of PEOPLE Every Day podcast, a daily dose of breaking news, pop culture and heartwarming human interest stories. Formerly Senior Editor of music content, she's also covered crime, human interest and television news throughout her many years with the brand. Prior to PEOPLE she's written for Essence, The Cape Times newspaper and Los Angeles Magazine among others. On-screen Rubenstein can be found featured on shows like Good Morning America and Entertainment Tonight and she routinely hosts PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly's star-studded Red Carpet Live specials. Follow the San Francisco native, Black Barbie collector and proud mom of two on Instagram and Twitter @janinerube People Editorial Guidelines Published on November 2, 2016 08:00 AM Share Tweet Pin Email After three wild decades of fame, Jon Bon Jovi opens up about life on the road – and how he and wife Dorothea keep their love strong. Subscribe now for his untold story, only in PEOPLE! Not too many rock stars are as adept at domestic life as Jon Bon Jovi. Sure he has legions of fans, many since the ’80s, when his band Bon Jovi catapulted to stardom with their hit album Slippery When Wet. But that doesn’t mean the perennial sex symbol is a rolling stone. “I’m not a journeyman,” Bon Jovi, 54, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. Sitting down at his mansion in Red Bank, New Jersey, the singer opens up about the struggles of balancing life on the road and at home. “I know some people who are applause junkies. I’m not.” Jim Wright For more on how Jon Bon Jovi and his high school sweetheart wife Dorothea balance fame and family, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. Watch the full episode featuring Jon Bon Jovi at home, available now on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). Go to PEOPLE.com/PEN, or download the PEN app on Apple TV, Roku Players, Amazon Fire TV, Xumo, Chromecast, iOS and Android devices. Jim Wright Though he has deep love for his fans, no one means more to the star than his high school sweetheart wife of 27 years, Dorothea, and their brood, daughter Stephanie, 23, and sons Jesse, 21, Jacob 14, and Romeo 12. “I go kicking and screaming,” he says of leaving his family to head out on the road as he’s done so many times over the last three decades. “You see my fingernails in the driveway.” WATCH: Inside Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea’s Struggle to Shield Their Kids from Fame It’s something the rocker will have to deal with soon, as he and Bon Jovi set out to promote their new album This House Is Not For Sale, available Nov. 4. It marks the band’s big return after the singer’s friend and longtime lead guitarist Richie Sambora suddenly left the group in 2013. Luckily, the star’s homesickness never lasts long. He says, “Once I get to the first hotel I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m here.'” As for coming back into the fold at home with Dorothea and the kids, that too can be a challenge. “You go from that life of vampires … then suddenly you’re taking the garbage out and the kids to school, going to bed at 10:30,” he describes. “It’s a dramatic change! In a perfect world you’d go to a place like astronauts and decompress for a few days before they let you out into the real world.”