Sarah Michelle Gellar, 48, says a small however sensible element at residence has helped her keep away from widespread couple conflicts.
In a People interview printed on Wednesday, the actor mentioned that having “one bed room, two loos” has been the important thing to her long-lasting marriage.
“You do not have to be so fancy that there is two loos in your bed room! There simply needs to be one other rest room accessible,” Gellar advised Folks, including that the setup “stops numerous petty preventing.”
Gellar has been married to Freddie Prinze Jr. since 2002. The pair first met on the set of “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” and share two children.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star mentioned holding a transparent boundary between her private and non-private personas has helped her relationship final in Hollywood.
“I at all times say I am two folks: I am Sarah Michelle Gellar and I am Sarah Prinze,” she mentioned. “They’re completely different folks.”
The model of her along with her husband has “a quieter life and a non-public life,” she mentioned.
Gellar additionally pressured that robust relationships do not final with out effort.
“It’s important to be keen to work. And that goes for relationships, friendships, something. It’s important to put the work in,” she mentioned.
“I do really feel like we stay on this very disposable society. After I was a child, when your TV broke, my mother and I’d carry it like eight blocks in New York Metropolis to the TV restore store,” she mentioned.
However now, she mentioned, persons are extra more likely to substitute issues than restore them.
“I feel due to that, we do not work as laborious at issues as a result of it is simpler simply to ‘get a brand new one,'” Gellar added. “It’s important to put the work in. It’s important to carve out the time.”
It isn’t the primary time Gellar has credited separate loos with serving to her marriage final.
In 2017, she mentioned that the setup works as a result of not all the pieces must be shared.
“I really feel like there are particular issues that ought to simply be saved your individual they usually by no means have to know. Additionally, possibly probably a separate purchasing bank card, or for those who’re a man, possibly a separate gaming card, , so I haven’t got to see how a lot video video games value,” she advised Harry Connick Jr. on his talk show.
She reiterated the concept throughout an April look on “Today with Jenna & Friends,” including, “It is that straightforward.”
Gellar is not alone. Different celebrities have additionally embraced having extra space at residence, together with separate bedrooms.
Carson Daly has referred to as sleep divorce “one of the best factor” to ever occur to his marriage, whereas Barbara Corcoran mentioned getting a second bed room prompted her to like her husband “twice as a lot.”
