The most beautiful advice Jeff Bridges has ever given…

We know Jeff Bridges for his incredible acting talents… We know him for his action packed films but how much do we actually know about him? Well, not enough it seems as we found out that he has been married to his wife for almost 40 years… Something has become quite an achievement when you’re surrounded by the Hollywood life.

And, it seems he knows just how to make a relationship work. He was conducting a Reddit “ask me anything” on the popular website last week and one user asked for his advice on what makes a marriage last. His answer was beautiful, truthful and honest…

He broke his answer down into three key things.

Firstly, when you love someone, you support them as best as you can.

“This industry is tough on relationships. I’ve always thought that my wife should have a credit up alongside mine, because I couldn’t do what I do without her support. And like the questioner asked, or said, we’ve been married since 1977, we knew each other for 2 years before that, so she’s been able to do all these films with me and we’ve managed to get through them all together.” Bridges replied. 

Secondly, it’s the small stuff that makes the biggest difference.

“The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day, to keep up to speed with what’s going on in her life. And tell her what’s going on with mine. Often when you’re apart from your loved one like that for so long, your connection kind of atrophies unless you keep engaged, even if it’s small everyday kind of stuff.” He wrote. 

And thirdly, it all comes down to love.

“But another aspect of keeping a marriage together, I think it’s important to – you’ll think I’m silly – but to love each other, which begs the question: “what is love?” Words that come to mind are openness, understanding, gentleness, kindness, and kind of working on those things, because everyone has a light and a dark side, I think, selfish aspects, and to kind of recognise those in each other and realise that we are going to have our own particular story at any given time, and those stories, they might not be the ultimate truth but they are certainly true for each of us, so to understand that we are each going through our particular version of reality, to respect that, and to nurture being in love, you know? To nurture that.” 

So this afternoon, we want to know what do you think? Do you agree with his advice? Can you add your own in the comments below?