- Getting together is easy, staying together is the hard part of any relationship.
- Celebrity couples share their experience with love, marriage, and making it last.
We've all heard it: relationships take work. But imagine adding fame, notoriety, and possible drama to the mix. Here is some advice from eight celebrity couples on how they have made their love and marriage last:
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
They don't call him The Fresh Prince for nothing. Will and Jada have a love story that withstands 20 years.
In his Instagram post from December, Will compared lasting love to a garden.
"Love is like gardening. I have learned to focus on helping you to blossom into what you want to be (into what you were born to be), rather than demanding that you become what my fragile ego needs you to be. I've learned to take pleasure in nourishing your dreams, rather than wrestling with you to fulfill my selfish needs and satiate my insecurities. I have learned that love is listening. Love is giving. Love is freedom."
Jada Pinkett Smith told Page Six that love is all about learning each other.
"You think you know the person you're with after 15 years. But that's not true. I'm learning more … I'm just learning more about myself and so is he ... That's what this is all about. Learning and growing together."
Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker
One of Parker's brothers introduced them, and the rest is history … well 21 years, at least.
In 2014, on the "Meredith Vieira Show," Matthew suggested that friendship is a major key to his lasting relationship.
"We really are friends beyond everything else and we talk a lot. Keep talking I guess, I know how cliché that is. Too much silence is definitely not a good idea."
Last year, SJP told People magazine that it's important to like who you're with.
"You and your partner are going to change," she said. "It seems so silly, but I think you're very lucky if you like the person. I still just really like him. I'm sure I annoy him and he annoys me, but I literally learn about him every day. I'm like, ‘You're doing what? You're reading what?'"
David and Victoria Beckham
The soccer stud and former Spice Girl have been an iconic married couple for 18 years. It's all about working through the difficulties, David told People magazine in an interview last year.
"Of course you make mistakes over the years, and we all know marriage is difficult at times. It's about working through it," he said.
Victoria suggests to keep yourself in check, according to People magazine.
"In marriage: have patience. Bite your tongue. Be supportive. And preserve a bit of mystique. Never let yourself go completely (at least brush your hair, clean your teeth, have a bit of a brow going on because you will always want him to look at you and feel attracted)."
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