The couple has been together for 39 years and Valentine's Day also marks their anniversary!
Valentine's Day is a special day for many, but it means even more for Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. It was on this day in 1983 is when the two of them got together, meaning they've now been by each other's side for 39 years!
They first saw sparks flying during their time on the set of Swing Shift and have been together since.
Recently, Hawn took to Instagram to share a cute picture of her and the love of her life, and captioned it: "Love is a Many- Splendored thing 🎶 Happy Anniversary Loverboy."
Hawn, 76, and Russell, 70, spoke to PEOPLE in 2020 about their relationship, emphasizing that there's no big secret to their lasting love. "You've just got to want to be together," she said at the time. "I don't think there's any way other than doing it."
The two of them have been together for so long and they don't feel the need to legalize their love. Russell added, "For people like us, the marriage certificate wasn't going to create anything that otherwise we wouldn't have. I don't know. 40 years isn't enough to finally say, 'Well I guess...' "
"Our children got married," said Hawn. "I mean, they didn't not get married. Oliver's very happily married and Wyatt's very happily married. Katie got married once and that didn't work, and she's with this most amazing human and I don't know if she'll marry again. The point is that we all tried marriage and sometimes marriage doesn't work."
"It's okay. It's not about the marriage," she continued. "It's about the people and the relationship, and the will to stay together. And that's a big one because if you want it, you can have it. You've got to give things up, but the joy and the excitement of being together and touching the toes of somebody at night is really a nice feeling."
As for Hawn's first impression of the love of her life, she told PEOPLE, “He was so good-looking, but he had no pretense about him. I could tell right away he wasn’t a womanizer.”
When Hawn and Russel first met, she was already a mom to two—Kate and Oliver Hudson, her children with her second husband Bill Hudson—but she says the way he interacted with her kids is what made her fall for him.
“What really got me was when I watched my kids when they’d come to the set and how he was with them. He was amazing with them. He was such a natural,” says Hawn.
Over the years, Hawn says she has learned the secrets to a long-lasting relationship. “Love, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy. Family. Fun. Laughs. Sex,” Hawn says. “If you don’t nurture that, and remember, you’re done.”
While she was at it, she also doled out some advice about monogamy.
“Monogamy is a very tough order,” she says. “You’re in the prime of your life, you are attracted to other people, potentially, you have fantasies about that. It really runs the risk, if you will if you’re not aware that you could maybe screw up a really good thing by doing that.”
References:
https://people.com/movies/kurt-russell-goldie-hawn-never-felt-the-need-to-wed/
https://people.com/movies/goldie-hawn-reveals-secrets-of-love-with-kurt-russell/
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