Tired of looking ’round rooms wondering what you gotta do to have a relationship like Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan?
Well, the One Tree Hill alum—who started dating The Walking Dead actor a decade before they wed in 2019—is sharing her secrets to a successful marriage.
“Obviously communication is a very big deal and also anticipating that your partner is going to go through phases and changes,” Hilarie told E! News in an exclusive interview. “We both have gone through different professional phases where maybe we’re super ambitious in one phase of our life, and then we’re nesting in another phase of our life. And we try to work in tandem so that we’re each compensating for each other.”
And part of where they’re going (sing it with us now) is knowing where they’re coming from.
“I’m certainly not the same person I was at 26,” the 42-year-old continued. “Now I’m like a warmer, more aggressive version and he seems to like that.”