Kristen Bell says the key to her marriage is being 'vulnerable when you don't want to be'
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard tied the knot in 2013, and since then it seems neither of them has looked back. But of course, every relationship takes work, and in a Nov. 16 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Bell opened up about the most important element of his marriage.
"Stay vulnerable," the actor said. "At least [it's] my secret. You have to be vulnerable - we have to be vulnerable when we don't want to be. That's what works for us."
Bell and Shepard have previously been open to going to therapy to keep their relationship healthy. "We met, we fell in love, we're both very stubborn people, and first and second years were turbulent, and we thought we needed outside opinions," Bell said in an April interview on ITV's "This Morning," per Insider. "We need a bigger toolbox - everyone is born with a small toolbox - so we went to therapy, figured out how to disagree while still loving each other."
Shepard agreed, opening up about couples therapy in a 2018 episode of his "Armchair Expert" podcast that featured Bell. "That's where an objective outside therapist helps," Shepard said. "Because he can say, 'I know exactly what's going on. He hears this and you hear that.'"
Bell and Shepard have two children, Delta and Lincoln, and the couple is also transparent...
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard tied the knot in 2013, and since then it seems neither of them has looked back. But of course, every relationship takes work, and in a Nov. 16 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Bell opened up about the most important element of his marriage.
"Stay vulnerable," the actor said. "At least [it's] my secret. You have to be vulnerable - we have to be vulnerable when we don't want to be. That's what works for us."
Bell and Shepard have previously been open to going to therapy to keep their relationship healthy. "We met, we fell in love, we're both very stubborn people, and first and second years were turbulent, and we thought we needed outside opinions," Bell said in an April interview on ITV's "This Morning," per Insider. "We need a bigger toolbox - everyone is born with a small toolbox - so we went to therapy, figured out how to disagree while still loving each other."
Shepard agreed, opening up about couples therapy in a 2018 episode of his "Armchair Expert" podcast that featured Bell. "That's where an objective outside therapist helps," Shepard said. "Because he can say, 'I know exactly what's going on. He hears this and you hear that.'"
Bell and Shepard have two children, Delta and Lincoln, and the couple is also transparent...
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