15 of the Longest Celebrity Marriages

Duration: 29 years

Notes: Cover the kids' ears. During a Q&A, Bacon once said he owed his relationship's success to sex, especially during difficult times (like when they became victims in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, for real). "I don't think there was a moment where it was like, that thing happened and then we got pissed at each other. It was sort of the opposite," Bacon said. "We kind of went, 'Holy shit. Let's...I don't know. Let's have sex or something. It's free!'"

Duration: 30 years

Notes: They met when she auditioned for his college theater production, she said during a 2013 talk-show appearance. To celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary, she posted an Instagram captioned "A good choice. #remain"

Duration: 33 years

Notes: She's famously stayed mum on the topic, only offering this marriage advice on the Today Show in 2015: "Don't get divorced. It's a fascinating thing. I could write a book on marriage called Don't Leave."

Duration: 34 years

Notes: Through thick and thin—including two bouts with cancer and a life-threatening blood clot—and these two are still together. Hansen has even said they saved each other from the dangers of the '70s rock 'n' roll lifestyle. 

Duration: 37 years, motherf*cker

Notes: How strong is their marriage? It's what pushed Jackson to seek help for drug and alcohol addiction, he told People. "You look into people's eyes at a certain point, and you realize that they're not punishing you, they're actually telling you the truth," he said of Richardson and his daughter giving him the courage to enter rehab. "The most important thing to do is to save yourself first so that you can be of service to those people that you love, and they made me understand that. It was great."

Duration: 39 years (goodness)

Notes: There isn't tons of info out there—which some other celebrity couples could learn from—but a 2016 biography reveals that she met Gummer through her brother shortly after her boyfriend John Cazale died of cancer in 1978. Six months later, she and Gummer married, much to her mother's chagrin. But look at them now.

Duration: 50 years

Notes: Get you someone who makes meat metaphors (not that kind) like Paul Newman, who famously said "I have steak at home, so why should I go out for a hamburger?"