November 21, 2024

Your 15 Favorite Celebrity Couples Reveal the Secrets to Their Long-lasting Marriages

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For as fickle as Hollywood can seem about love (sorry, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson) there are some epic love stories that almost seem as if they were dreamt up in a writer’s room. 

We’re not just talking about the Chrissy TeigenJohn Legend and Blake LivelyRyan Reynolds pairings of the world, though we appreciate their ability to poke fun at their #couplesgoals status without taking away from the genuine connection that earned them that distinction in the first place. But sitting just one rung above them on the celebrity marriage hierarchy are the duos that have sailed past silver anniversaries with purported ease, almost shocked that others see it as an achievement. 

Asked the secret to her 31-year marriage with Tom HanksRita Wilsontold E! News, “I like what my friend said: ‘Not getting divorced.’ That’s how you stay together for a long time. Agreed her husband, “You wake up in the morning and say, ‘How can we stay together today? Oh, I know, I’ll make you coffee and we’ll talk a little bit and we’ll get on with it and when we come back to each other at the end of the day, we’re happy to see each other.'” 

Because sometimes with the right person in the right partnership at the right time, it really is that straightforward.

“They say it must be hard work. No it’s not,” he told People in 2015. “Every now and again you know, you gotta get over some stuff but life is one damn thing after another and its actually more pleasant to be able to go home with someone you like to spend time with in order to get with it.”

So choosing someone you actually want to be around seems like a solid start, but surely there’s more to it than that. 

Enter actress Marlo Thomas and talk show host Phil Donahue. Celebrating their 40th anniversary in a matter of days, the power couple were curious about how other duos tick, chatting up everyone from Judges Judy Sheindlin and Jerry Sheindlin to Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka to fill the pages of their new book, What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life

We vowed to read through their anecdotes and advice from a combined 1,240-plus years of marriage and offer up the choicest bits for you to have and to hold from this day forward. Will you do us the honor of reading what they said?  

Mariska Hargitay, Peter Hermann
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Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon

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Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, 2018

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Jamie Lee Curtis, Christopher Guest, 2016

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Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, 2015 Academy Awards, Candids

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Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone, Instagram
2019 Emmy Awards, Couples, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen

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Elton John, David Furnish, 2017 Oscars Party Pics, Elton John Party

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Lisa Oz, Dr. Mehmet Oz

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Al Roker, Deborah Roberts

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Glambot: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Oscars 2018

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2019 Emmy Awards, Couples, Viola Davis, Julius Tennon

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Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin

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Judge Judy Sheindlin, Judge Jerry Sheindlin

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