What does it take to keep a marriage together? With 800,000 couples divorcing in the States every year, maintaining a relationship seems harder than ever. Even the celebrities we look at as relationship goals can’t make their marriages work. In the last year alone, monumental stars like Channing Tatum and Chris Pratt have announced they’re divorcing their partners. We don’t know how to cope. We still haven’t recovered from the breakdown of Brangelina back in 2016. Is no relationship safe?
While Hollywood couples might be splitting up left, right and center, there are still some partnerships that are lasting the test of time. Few of them come close to the longevity of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, who celebrated 30 years together in April 2018.
Despite being one of the greatest actors in the industry, Hanks’ fame hasn’t gotten in the way of his marriage to Wilson, and they say they’re stronger now than ever before. What is the secret to their success? Well, we think we might have found it. Tom and Rita have never shied away from discussing their relationship and what makes it work. They’ve recently revealed a detail that we weren’t expecting, and we reckon it’s the key to a long and happy marriage. Other celebrity couples better take note because the last thing we want is any more high profile divorces.
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson first met each other in 1981 on the set of ‘Bosom Buddies,’ a sitcom that the former was a leading cast member of. Although their time together was brief, their meeting set off a spark that neither could deny. However, Hanks was not free to court this new woman in his life. He was already married to his college sweetheart Samantha Lewes, and the two were reportedly in a happy enough relationship to make a go of things. That didn’t mean he was able to keep Rita from his thoughts. Although they didn’t see each other again for another four years, he has said he always remembered her in the back of his mind.
