Long-lasting celebrity marriages

With three kids and two careers to juggle, SJP is the first to admit her relationship has been through its share of ups and downs, telling the <em>Telegraph </em>that &quot;kids can really distract you from your relationship.&quot; Their secret? To keep secrets. SJP told Parade.com:&nbsp;&quot;I like having some mystery in our relationship. I like not knowing everything about my husband. I think people should have things that are theirs, things that are the unknown to someone else. I think it’s good to have some privacy and some secrets in our lives.&quot;</div>
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The rock god and model goddess pairing is a common one, but what’s unusual about these two is that they’ve stuck it out for so long. One reason it works? Only one of them’s a fighter. Iman told <em>Harper’s Bazaar </em>US that: &quot;David doesn’t fight. He is English, so he just stays quiet. I’m the screamer. Then he always makes me laugh. It’s like cabaret. I keep him entertained too. I still fancy him – totally! – after all these years.&quot;</p>
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Elton and David further cemented their relationship in 2005, when they became fathers via surrogate to baby Zachary. How do they make it work after all of these years? John told <em>Parade&nbsp;</em>magazine in 2010 that they say it in writing.&nbsp;&quot;Every Saturday for 16 years, we’ve sent each other a card, no matter where we are in the world, to say how much we love each other.&quot;</p>

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The two actors have been through thick and thin together (including Griffith’s multiple stints in rehab for prescription pill and alcohol abuse), but look cosier and happier than ever. In fact, as Banderas told <em>Hello</em>! magazine back in 2010, it was their obstacles that strengthened their union: &quot;…&nbsp;there were people who literally didn&rsquo;t give us more than six months! But we love each other and above all we love our family. We&rsquo;ve figured out how to get past obstacles – and some of them have been really tough ones – in our relationship; and if you get past those you only get stronger…&nbsp;We keep moving forward, and each day we become even more united.&quot;</p>

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Goldie and Kurt still look as happy as they did when they started dating in 1983. Perhaps it’s because they never tied the knot. On US chat show <em>The View</em> in September 2011, Hawn said:&nbsp;&quot;We’re not gonna get married. I mean, we’re happy. I still like the idea that I’m his girlfriend.&quot;</p>

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After over a decade together, four children, three countries and multiple career changes for Victoria, these two seem inseparable. Victoria says they are &quot;soul mates&quot; and David has admitted that what he loves most about his wife is that she’s &quot;an amazing mother.&quot; The soccer star told <em>Hello</em>! magazine that they always make time for each other and have a ‘date night’ once a week, while Victoria explained they focus on the kids and the relationship to keep things strong: &quot;You go into a marriage knowing there are going to be ups and downs. We&rsquo;re in the public eye so we have more to deal with than most.&nbsp;We accepted that years ago. It&rsquo;s just about us and the family.&quot;</p>

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The Hollywood power couple is also one of Tinseltown’s longest-standing relationships, with 23 years and two kids under their belt. Wilson has said that the secret to their wedded bliss is that &quot;we want to be married to each other&quot; and told <em>Success </em>magazine that: &quot;We have a great time together; we have shared values and a desire to be committed to each other.&quot;</p>
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The man who famously said the secret to a happy marriage is to &quot;keep the fights clean and the sex dirty&quot; opened up to Piers Morgan on CNN about his devotion to his wife and why he wouldn’t stray: &quot;I feel like I made a commitment to this person and we enjoy spending time together, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to threaten that.&quot;</p>

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Once Hollywood’s most notorious bad-boy, Beatty has been happily married to Bening for two decades and the duo have four children together. The secret to their success? Making time for themselves. &quot;I’ll tell you one secret to keeping the spark there: I think you’ve got to get away, just the two of you, with no kids. And you’ve got to spend time alone; you need to cultivate your own sense of self and nurture that as well,&quot; Bening said in the past.</p>

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Sting and Trudie have famously kept the flame of love burning with tantric sex sessions, and even though their all-night long lovemaking may have been exaggerated, the two certainly keep their bedroom antics exciting.&nbsp;&quot;I don’t think pedestrian sex is very interesting,&quot;&nbsp;Sting told US&nbsp;<em>Harper’s Bazaar</em>&nbsp;in 2011. &quot;There’s a playfulness we have; I like the theater of sex. I like to look good. I like her to dress up.&quot; As for romance, Trudie doesn’t expect flowers or chocolates on special occasions. &quot;Romantic? We like tawdry,&quot; he told the mag.</p>
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