Let's talk about love: celebrities' secrets to long-lasting relationships

Celebrate each other selflessly - John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have proven time and time again that they are the ideal couple, and the singer tweeted, "I love seeing her succeed at the things she loves to do and she loves seeing me succeed at things that I love to do. That's the way you should be with your partner."

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A willingness to bend - Meryl Streep and Don Gummer have been happily married for 40 years, and Streep revealed the secret is “goodwill and a willingness to bend – and to shut up every once in a while."

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Take time apart and allow individual interests - Bell also advocates for individualism in a relationship, but to always remember it’s a privilege to go through life with a partner. Check out her best tweets about love, life, and marriage.

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It takes a lot of work -

"If I had to sum it up in one word, it’s work...And it's often uncomfortable work, but it needs doing or we won’t stay together," Shepard told TODAY.

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Remain vulnerable, and get counselling - Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have been very open about their use of therapy in their relationship, and Bell shared a hot tip in a tweet: “Vulnerability always begets connection and intimacy. Stay vulnerable with each other.”

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The hard times will bring you closer - Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been married for nearly 30 years, through obstacles like Wilson’s brush with cancer. "You never know how your spouse is going to react in a situation like this," Wilson said. "I was so amazed, so blown away by the care my husband gave me… who knew it would make you even closer?"

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Be honest about your feelings - When John Krasinski first met Emily Blunt, he couldn’t help but blurt out “I like you.” Luckily, the feeling was mutual, and Blunt told InStyle, "Meeting John really changed my life. When I feel the support that I have from him, I feel invincible.”

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Schedule your relationship into your routine - Jessica Alba and Cash Warren have extremely busy lives with full careers and three children, but Alba revealed the key is making time for their relationship, “even though it's surprisingly predictable and may not seem as spicy as our spontaneous pre-kiddo days."

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Don’t stop feeling giddy about each other - Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have been married for nearly three decades, and Sedgwick told Redbook, "When he walks into a room, I'm still―I mean, my heart gets a little fluttery and I think, 'Oh! He's so cute. He's so hot.′"

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Celebrate your partner’s success - Stedman Graham revealed the secret to his relationship with his longtime love, Oprah Winfrey: "I want her to succeed and be as successful as she possibly can, so I encourage that. That's not always an easy thing to do when you're a man in a relationship with a very powerful woman."

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Be spontaneous - After a few months of dating, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos had fallen deeply in love and he suggested they get married in Vegas, so they did!

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Put family first - From their hilarious Twitter banter to their gorgeous red carpet appearances, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are truly relationship goals, and Lively has said their secret is putting family first. Learn more about their relationship here.

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Get help from a friend - Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudekis both mistakenly thought the other wasn’t interested when they first met, and Wilde revealed that after running into each other for months, one of her guy friends walked up to Sudekis at a party and gave him her number.

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Learn and love together - Jada Pinkett Smith revealed the secret to her 20-year marriage with Will Smith on ‘Watch What Happens Live!’ when she said, "We love to learn together and we just love each other. We just have a good time together."

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Pick the person you can’t stop thinking about - Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi met when the host was dating someone else, but DeGeneres ended up with de Rossi and explained, “I really never stopped thinking about her.”

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Don’t fight your feelings - Despite their fairly recent breakup, the couple was together for nine years. On the set of ‘Step Up,’ Jenna Dewan tried hard not to fall for costar Channing Tatum. The moment she let go was when he showed up at her hotel door, drunk and in a sombrero, saying, "I couldn't stop thinking about you. Let's do this. I just want to be with you.”

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Ask the universe for your ideal partner - It worked for Viola Davis! Someone told her to pray, so she asked for “a big black man from the South who looked like a football player, who already had children, who maybe had been married before. Three and a half weeks later, I met my husband,” she told Us Weekly.

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You know when you know - Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall actually met in college when she was auditioning for a play he was producing, and she told Craig Ferguson, “I would say that I knew almost immediately. It’s really the truth.”

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Compatibility and communication - Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have been happily unmarried for over 30 years, emphasizing compatibility and communication over a signed marriage certificate.

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And a few other things - Hawn’s other secrets to long-lasting partnership? "Love, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy. Family. Fun. Laughs. Sex,” she told PEOPLE.

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Be supportive no matter what - Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have had their fair share of ups and downs, but the model told CBS, "I think no matter how challenging it was, we were always being supportive of one another."

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Be open to possibilities - Elizabeth Banks didn’t expect to marry Max Handelman when they met as freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania. She told PEOPLE about when they first met, "I was like, He's cute. I'll f*** him, because I'm 18 and in college."

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Really get to know each other first - Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. had known each other for years before they started dating, and they credit their friendship for their relationship. "She knew what kind of guy I was. She knew what my morals were, what my priorities were and visa versa,” Prinze told E! News.

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Collaborate and work it out - Beyoncé and Jay-Z have one of the most difficult public relationships, but they've worked through huge obstacles—like alleged infidelity—together and out loud, instead of hiding from their problems.

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Relish the magic in sharing your life with someone -

Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld have been married for almost 20 years, and the actor told Oprah Magazine, “I love these two puzzle pieces that don't quite fit, you know? Somehow you make them fit."

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