Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas shared 44 years of marriage together before his death this week, crediting communication and attraction, among other things, for their marital bliss.
Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas had a legendary marriage that lasted over four decades until his death on Sunday at age 88. Thomas shared a sweet post on Instagram dedicated to her late husband of 44 years, in a caption accompanying one of her favorite photos of the couple.
In a 2023 interview with People, Thomas recalled the wedding day, saying she was at her parents' house where the ceremony was being held, and she was running late getting ready, admitting to her father, ''I'm kind of scared because I didn't ever want to get married,'' and told her not to do it if she didn’t want to. Eventually, she left the room to walk down the aisle with her father and came to a realization.
The way we saw it, we were very lucky that our paths crossed when they did and that we’d made the decision to spend the rest of our days together. That was — and remains — sacred ground to us, and we wanted to protect it,' Donahue and Thomas told Fox News Digital in 2020. That same year, they released their book, 'What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life,' coinciding with the 40th anniversary of their own marriage.
Together, they noted, 'the secret to any successful marriage is that there is no single secret. There are a million of them.' 'As for our secret, you’ll get pretty good glimpses of it in the book — but one thing for sure is that, once we decided to commit to each other, we also decided that no matter how tough things might get, we would never look for an escape route,' they added.
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