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How Christie improved Kings’ chemistry with unconventional method
How Christie improved Kings’ chemistry with unconventional method originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Doug Christie has been pushing all the right buttons since taking over as the Kings’ interim coach, including some outside-the-box team-bonding activities.
During a recent road trip, Christie had Sacramento’s players participate in an escape room, sparking collaborative efforts in the hopes that chemistry carries over onto the hardwood.
“I always wanted to do one and check it out and I never had. I just had the thought like, we were supposed to practice, and then I was just like, ‘This is a mental practice.’ And we grouped them up together,” Christie told reporters on Saturday. “It was about communication, about team building, about being there together and trying to figure something out. We’re going into a gym on the road, it’s an escape room. We have to figure out how to get out of here with a W. And that was kind of the messaging, and they really had a good time.
“It was a lot of cheers, my team came in last — but we were in the hardest room from my understanding. But it was a lot of fun, lot of fun.”
Kings big man Trey Lyles described how Christie’s methods have helped the team bond in ways they hadn’t previously.
“I just think guys are in a good space mentally, physically. Doug had us do an escape room on the road and kind of just doing stuff like that we normally wouldn’t do as a team helps out a lot,” Lyles said. “Guys are just vibing a little bit more and team dinners and stuff like that. I just think everybody is in a good spot mentally right now and I think it’s showing, it’s translating to on the court and how we’re reacting on the bench and stuff like that.”
Sacramento entered Sunday’s game against the Washington Wizards with an 8-2 record under Christie, a testament to the energy he has injected into the Kings team.
After the escape room outing, Sacramento now will look to continue its spirited escape from the bottom half of the Western Conference standings as the Kings make a strong push for a playoff spot.
Christie, the team’s captain, knew that the Kings were lacking chemistry on the court. So, she took matters into her own hands and implemented an unconventional method to improve teamwork and camaraderie among her teammates.Instead of the usual team-building exercises or bonding activities, Christie decided to organize a cooking competition among the players. Each player was paired up with a teammate, and they were tasked with creating a dish together within a limited time frame.
The result of this cooking competition was not only delicious food but also a newfound sense of unity and collaboration among the Kings. Players who may have had conflicts or disagreements on the court were now working together seamlessly in the kitchen, laughing and communicating effectively.
Through this unconventional method, Christie was able to break down barriers and improve the team’s chemistry in a way that no traditional team-building exercise could. The Kings were now more connected and in sync than ever before, thanks to Christie’s innovative approach to fostering teamwork.
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Luna’s unconventional route has led him to USMNT opportunity
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Diego Luna hasn’t always gotten what he wanted. Professional athletes — especially those who are only 21 years of age, rarely do. But much like the Rolling Stones song, the Real Salt Lake midfielder has shown an uncanny ability to get what he needs.
This month, Luna is in training camp with the U.S. men’s national team under the watchful eye of manager Mauricio Pochettino. On Saturday, Luna earned his second cap in the 3-1 friendly win against Venezuela, and in 25 minutes of work, showed his ability to keep possession in tight spaces.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. native has made it this far by trusting his instincts, whether it was leaving the San Jose Earthquakes academy at age 15 to head to the Barcelona Residency Academy in Casa Grande, Ariz., heading to the USL Championship with El Paso Locomotive three years later, or finally landing with Real Salt Lake in 2022 and last year recording eight goals and 12 assists on his way to earning MLS‘ Young Player of the Year. The USMNT’s January camp is the next step.
“It’s all about timing and when something’s going to happen for you, right?” Luna told reporters prior to Saturday’s game. “So for me, I think performing and getting the opportunities like that is what we work for, and the level’s been great. I think that this week has been unreal.”
Talk to anyone who has watched Luna for an extended period of time, and the same phrase keeps coming up. Luna, they say, is “a little bit different.” This is basically U.S. soccer speak, used to describe a creative player who is a rarity in the American system, one who — beyond his ability to find passes and goals — plays different, and maybe even looks different.
Back when Luna was making his way through the Quakes academy, the feedback from U.S. Soccer types was that Luna was unfit and even overweight. It took the Quakes showing the USSF player evaluators the fitness program Luna was on, insisting that he was “barrel chested” and not overweight. The message finally got through, with a call-up to the U15 national team soon following.
“We try not to work on opinions. It’s true, though: Luna had a different body type,” said Tony Lepore, the current head of talent identification for the USSF. “But for us, it’s part of what we train our scouts and coaches that we have to be patient with all that. And it’s never linear. Players develop in all areas.”
Luna’s physique wasn’t the only thing that was different. He thought differently, too.
Throughout his life, Luna has shown an innate ability to look inward and sense what he needed to do and where he needed to go, no matter how unconventional it might appear. When Luna arrived at Real Salt Lake, he decided to become a barista in a bid to improve his social skills. Later, a period of struggle led him to engage in therapy so he could try and understand himself better.
“I would say, for me, Diego has an old soul,” said RSL manager Pablo Mastroeni, a philosopher coach if there ever was one. “He’s a learner and he’s honest with himself, and he takes responsibility when he’s not doing things the right way.”
To hear Luna tell it, his old soul is an outgrowth of leaving home at a young ago. But even before he departed, there were feelings of isolation.
Luna was raised in a soccer-mad family full of coaches, including father Alberto, himself a former pro with the old San Jose Earthquakes and indoors with the San Diego Sockers and the Milwaukee Wave. Diego Luna’s three siblings are much older. Armando is 44, Giovanni is 32 and Kristal — an assistant coach at Sonoma State — is 29. It’s an experience that has never left him, no matter where he has gone.
“Always being young and living on my own, it was always just kind of, I had to make the right decisions,” Luna told ESPN. “I had to think farther than just at the moment. I think it was having to grow up with lessons rather than growing up with age. You had to learn as you went. At 14, you’re not doing grown-up things, so it’s different. And I think that’s kind of how I grew up. It was only me, my gut feeling, and that’s kind of where it led me to be.”
Listening to that inner voice resulted in an unorthodox path to the professional ranks. In San Jose, Luna appeared to have everything. These days, the academy route is the standard road to a professional career, but Luna felt some internal rumblings. Something wasn’t right.
He didn’t blame the Quakes’ setup, nor did he blame the staff. Luna said he felt “stuck” and “wasn’t improving.” He didn’t like the person he was becoming, either.
“I would say I was a bad kid,” Luna said. “A kid that had trouble in school, was not behaving the best, and I think it was just because that’s kind of just what it was at that time. And I needed to grow up. I needed to wake up if I knew that that’s not how my life wanted to be and where I wanted to end up.”
Luna’s brother Armando, currently a youth coach with the Palo Alto-based Stanford Strikers, chalks it up as typical teenage angst, but the decision was made for young Diego to head to Arizona. Not that the early days were easy there, either. As much as Diego listened to his inner voice, sometimes he needed a push. Armando recalls plenty of phone calls where Diego was “almost crying and asking that he wanted to come home.”
“But my dad and I, we said, ‘No, you’re not coming back. You’re staying. You made a commitment and you’re going to fulfill that commitment,’” Armando said. “So we knew that it was really difficult for him to be away from the family because he was always with us. Since he was a little kid, he was always at the soccer field with us, and we knew that was going to be probably the biggest hurdle for him is how to deal with the being homesick.”
From there, Luna resumed his growth as a player, but after three years, he felt the itch to take the next step. Again, he went the unconventional route: rather than go to MLS, he landed in the USL Championship with El Paso Locomotive. In El Paso, Luna had the freedom to play and show off his creativity. He credits coaches Mark Lowry and John Hutchinson with pushing him when he needed it.
After scoring 13 goals in 41 matches with El Paso, Luna headed to RSL. While the increase in level and competition was welcomed, he found himself facing the same feelings of isolation. With lots of idle time, he took a side job as a barista at a local Dutch Bros. coffee shop.
“I was like, well, I could make some extra money on the side, but also work on things that I’m horrible at; communication skills, eye contact, things like that,” Luna said. “I was always getting nervous. I was always kind of awkward in situations like that. So I just thought why not try this out? Learn things that if I wasn’t a soccer player, I could be doing.”
That wasn’t the end of Luna looking inward. At the start of the 2024 season, Luna wasn’t playing with the consistency he needed. He had recently become a father as well, with the added responsibility that brings.
“You’re not just playing for fun anymore,” Luna said. “You’re playing to take care of people. You’re playing as a job and to make money and to perform well to make sure that your family has a great life.”
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In April, Mastroeni — who was constantly imploring Luna to be more of a two-way player — felt compelled to pull him from the lineup. The mental strain of being a professional was taking a toll, while some family issues rose to the surface as well. More than once during the interview, Luna spoke of “not being close to [his] family,” this, despite soccer being so present in his family life. Luna noted that those are two different things.
“Soccer was the thing that connected the family, but outside of soccer, I wasn’t close,” he explained. “I wasn’t really that close to them. … I was never really that comfortable speaking to my family about certain topics, about deeper things.”
Armando, in many ways, is a second father to Diego given their age difference. He was constantly checking on his younger sibling and sensed something was off. Based on the positive experience another family member had with therapy, Armando recommended that Diego try it.
“We have to be in the modern world,” Armando said. “The modern athlete does not just take care of their body and work on the field and train their skill sets. They also have to improve their mind. They have to be mentally able to cope with social media, the criticism that you’re going to receive, and also being lonely, just being away from your family.”
It proved to be an awakening.
“The stereotypical man thinks about it, ‘I don’t need therapy. I’m too strong for that. I’m a man,’” Luna said. “And then there was just some hard times going on in life that I was struggling mentally. I was having some hard times being alone and stuff like that. And I just kind of pulled the trigger, I’m going to go to therapy and I’m going to just try it out. So I went to my first therapy class and I left feeling like a whole different person. It was being able to release things, express things, understand things that I didn’t know. I left refreshed.”
A goal in his next game against the Chicago Fire on April 20 catapulted Luna forward, all the way to the aforementioned Young Player of the Year award.
Mastroeni now lauds Luna’s presence on both sides of the ball, calling the player, “Our best defender on the front line.” The RSL manager recognizes improvement in other areas as well, and the challenges Luna faced in getting there.
“If you are the best player on your team in the academy, there’s almost a sense of entitlement oftentimes with younger players that do really well with youth national teams, and they do lack a little bit of humility to continue to get better,” Mastroeni said. “And so Diego is a rare case where he is so technically gifted, he’s got an ability to find passes and score goals, but yet he’s hungry, and he’s humble enough to know that he’s not the finished product yet, and he continued to work towards it each day.”
Engaging in therapy hasn’t been just about pushing Luna toward better times. A professional snub hit Luna last summer when he was left off the Olympic team roster, but the work he has done for himself allowed him to better handle the setback.
Now the hope is that Luna’s rise will pay even more dividends at the international level. He has options given his Mexican-American heritage, but for now, he’s moving forward with the USMNT — and he’s prepared to be patient.
“For me, it’s just kind of been continuing to work,” he said, “and it will come when it’s ready for you.”
Luna’s unconventional route has led him to USMNT opportunityMany soccer players dream of representing their country on the international stage, but for 19-year-old midfielder Ricardo Pepi Luna, the path to the US Men’s National Team (USMNT) has been anything but traditional. Luna, who was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Mexico, has taken a unique journey to reach this point in his career.
Luna began his professional career with FC Juarez in Liga MX, where he quickly caught the attention of scouts with his impressive playmaking abilities and technical skills. After a successful stint with Juarez, Luna made the bold decision to move to Europe and signed with German club Borussia Monchengladbach. Despite facing challenges adjusting to a new country and league, Luna’s determination and work ethic helped him break into the first team and make a name for himself in the Bundesliga.
Now, Luna’s hard work and perseverance have paid off as he has received his first call-up to the USMNT for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. His unique background and unconventional route to the national team showcase the diversity and talent within American soccer, and Luna’s story serves as an inspiration to aspiring young players who may not have followed the traditional path to success.
As Luna prepares to represent his country on the international stage, fans are eager to see how his skills and creativity will impact the USMNT’s performance. With his passion for the game and determination to succeed, Luna is poised to make a significant impact and prove that unconventional routes can lead to incredible opportunities.
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Browns Make Unconventional Decision With Former Patriots QB
The Browns don’t have anything to play for Saturday, which might be why they’re throwing anything against the wall.
Cleveland will head into M&T Bank Stadium to face a Baltimore Ravens team that needs a win to clinch the AFC North. Dorian Thompson-Robinson started for an injured Jameis Winston last week, but the second-year quarterback did not impress.
That might be why Bailey Zappe will be in consideration to start. However, head coach Kevin Stefanski told reporters that not only would the former New England Patriots quarterback play but Thompson-Robinson also would feature with him.
“… You got to always be ready at that position,” Stefanski told reporters, per a team-provided video. “That’s just part of that, just dealing with uncertainty. I thought both guys handled that really well. I know you’d love to know what the exact plan is, but that’s life in the big city.”
Stefanski said he would tell the signal-callers who would get the start Thursday afternoon. Regardless, this Saturday would mark Zappe’s first game action of the season. The Patriots released the third-year QB before the season, and he signed onto the Chiefs practice squad. Kansas released him, and the 2022 fourth-round pick signed with the Browns.
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Zappe and Thompson-Robinson face a daunting task as double-digit underdogs, but Saturday will be Zappe’s chance to show teams he’s worthy of being on a roster next season.
In a shocking move, the Cleveland Browns have made an unconventional decision with former New England Patriots quarterback, Cam Newton. After being released by the Patriots earlier this week, Newton was quickly picked up by the Browns, but not as a quarterback.Instead, the Browns have announced that they will be utilizing Newton’s versatile skillset in a new position – tight end. This unexpected move has raised eyebrows across the NFL, as Newton has never played tight end before in his career.
However, the Browns are confident that Newton’s athleticism, size, and football IQ will make him a valuable asset at the tight end position. Head coach Kevin Stefanski stated, “Cam is a phenomenal athlete and we believe he has the potential to excel at tight end. We’re excited to see how he can contribute to our team in this new role.”
It remains to be seen how Newton will adjust to his new position and how he will fit into the Browns’ offensive scheme. But one thing is for sure – this unconventional decision has certainly caught the attention of football fans everywhere. Stay tuned for updates on Cam Newton’s transition to tight end with the Cleveland Browns.
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Nicole Kidman, Rachel Ray, Ted Danson keep marriages hot with unconventional rules
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have been married for 18 years, and have shared how they’ve made their long-lasting relationship work along the way.
The powerhouse couple have a few rules to ensure their communication is aligned, but they refuse to talk over text messages and opt for phone calls and in-person discussions.
Kidman and Urban aren’t the only pair with unconventional marriage rules in Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Brad Falchuk didn’t live together after they were hitched, while Rachael Ray and her husband, John Cusimano, get into “screaming matches” as a healthy means of conflict resolution, and Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen make sure to reconnect with each other at an unusual hour.
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Nicole Kidman, Ted Danson and Rachel Ray keep their marriages hot with unconventional rules. (Getty Images)
The “Babygirl” actress and her country star husband decided from the beginning of their relationship that they would only communicate by voice, Kidman told Parade magazine.
“We don’t text,” Kidman said. “We call. We’ve done this since the very beginning. The reason it started at the beginning was because I didn’t know how to text, and it just kind of worked for us. So, now we don’t.
“We just do voice to voice or skin to skin, as we always say. We talk all the time, and we FaceTime, but we just don’t text because I feel like texting can be misrepresentative at times.
Kidman and Urban rely on “skin to skin” and voice calls in their relationship. (Angela Weiss)
“And I’ve had the thing where I reread texts, and I’m like, “What does that mean?” and then read it to somebody and go ‘Can you interpret that?’ I don’t want that between my lover and I.”
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“We don’t text. We call. We’ve done this since the very beginning. The reason it started at the beginning was because I didn’t know how to text, and it just kind of worked for us. So now we don’t.”
Besides their no-texting rule, their secret to a lasting marriage is easy: “Not having secrets,” Kidman said.
“We never tell anybody any advice about their relationship or think that we have a secret. We just approach it with humility and hope, and just really love hanging out. I mean it’s that simple. We love spending time together. We have a lot of fun together and we just choose each other. If there is one person I can hang out with, it’s him and the girls, and that’s it.”
Keith and Nicole have been married for 18 years and have two daughters together. (Dimitrios Kambouris)
Rachael Ray and her husband, musician and entertainment lawyer John Cusimano, have their own ways of keeping the love going strong after 19 years of marriage.
“I am very wildly, wildly, wildly lucky that I have my husband,” the former Food Network star said on the first episode of her new podcast, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.” “But he understands I need my space. He needs his space.”
Space and time apart are both non-negotiable for the celebrity chef and her husband.
Rachael Ray and husband John Cusimano have a few unconventional marriage rules. (Jamie McCarthy)
The couple met through a mutual friend in 2001. (Stephen Lovekin)
“It’s very hard, especially for hot-tempered or creative or vociferous, loud people to be able to just calm it down,” Ray told her guest, Jenny Mollen. “John and I don’t calm it down ever. We have huge screaming matches all the time, but I think that’s healthy. I really do. And I don’t trust people that are too quiet.
“Too quiet freaks me out. I prefer that you tell me what you think when you think it, and let’s just get it all out there.”
Ray and Cusimano have a unique way of making up after an argument, too.
“John and I don’t calm it down ever. We have huge screaming matches all the time, but I think that’s healthy. I really do. And I don’t trust people that are too quiet.”
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“I don’t know that we ever apologize to each other,” the “30 Minute Meals” star said. “Eventually, I pat him on his a–, or he kisses me on the head, and that’s just sort of it. That’s the apology. It’s just sort of understood. ‘I still like your a–. I still like your head.’ It’s kind of in that zone.”
Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen know how to make their almost 30-year marriage last: morning dates.
The couple make the most of their time together in the early hours instead of spending late nights out.
Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen have early morning dates. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
“Date nights are kind of, at my age, date early bird specials,” Danson, 76, told People magazine. “The most fun is the early mornings, 4:30 in the morning, coffee in bed, playing Wordle, Connections, and Spelling Bee, talking and laughing and sharing.”
He added, “To both of us, it’s like heaven on Earth.”
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Danson refuses to let their busy work schedules interrupt their special time together, even if they’re in different locations.
“Even if she’s working in a different time zone, we will wake up in time to be able to play our games and have coffee over the phone,” he said.
When Gwyneth Paltrow married producer Brad Falchuk in September 2018, the couple retreated to their own separate homes after the wedding.
Gwyneth Paltrow met Brad Falchuk while working on an episode of “Glee” in 2010. (Gregg DeGuire)
One year later, they decided it was finally time to make their union official under one roof and move in together.
At the beginning of their marriage, the Academy Award-winning actress and her “intimacy teacher” approved an arrangement where the couple would spend three nights per week at their own homes before living together at Paltrow’s home the remaining four nights.
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“Oh, all my married friends say that the way we live sounds ideal, and we shouldn’t change a thing,” she told The Sunday Times.
In 2020, she told Harper’s Bazaar, “I thought it was really interesting how resonant that was for people. One of my best friends was like, ‘That is my dream. Don’t ever move in.’
Brad Falchuk and Gwyneth Paltrow relied on an intimacy teacher in the beginning of their marriage. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
“Oh, all my married friends say that the way we live sounds ideal, and we shouldn’t change a thing.”
“I think it certainly helps with preserving mystery and also preserving the idea that this person has their own life. So, this is something I’m trying to remain aware of now as we merge together.”
Judith Light and her husband of 39 years, Robert Desiderio, know the secret to a long-lasting marriage: distance.
The star of the new Apple TV+ supernatural drama “Before” explained why living at opposite ends of the country from her partner makes their bond stronger.
While Judith Light primarily resides in New York, her husband of 40 years, Robert Desiderio, lives in California. (Gregg DeGuire)
“We talk every day. We FaceTime every day,” she told People magazine. “He loves to be alone, and I love to be alone. We both love our alone time. We have that. It’s also very creative for us.”
She added, “We also make sure that, when we’re having something that’s upsetting for either one of us, that we both make sure that we stay in the room, and we keep talking. Sometimes we have to take a break. We say, ‘Wait, we have to stop now. Now, we have to stop, and then we’re going to come back to this.’”
“We talk every day. We FaceTime every day. He loves to be alone, and I love to be alone. We both love our alone time. We have that. It’s also very creative for us.”
Judith Light and husband Robert Desiderio have been married since 1985. (Gregg DeGuire)
The duo first met while starring in “One Life to Live” in the ’80s before tying the knot in 1985. Desiderio, who has appeared in various television and film projects throughout the years, published his first novel, “The Occurrence,” in February 2020.
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“He calls himself a recovering actor,” Light said of Desiderio’s retirement from acting. “Now he’s so much happier than he was.”
“[It] makes our marriage and our relationship much happier.” she added.
Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.
- Nicole Kidman, Rachel Ray, and Ted Danson are three celebrities who have been able to keep their marriages hot by following unconventional rules.
- While many couples may struggle to keep the spark alive in their relationships, these three stars have found unique ways to keep their love strong.
- Nicole Kidman, for example, reportedly has a rule with her husband Keith Urban that they cannot be apart for more than two weeks at a time. This helps them stay connected and maintain their bond.
- Rachel Ray and her husband John Cusimano have a rule that they must have a date night at least once a week, no matter how busy their schedules may be. This allows them to prioritize their relationship and keep the romance alive.
- Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen have a rule that they must always say "I love you" before going to bed each night. This simple gesture helps them show their love and appreciation for each other on a daily basis.
- By following these unconventional rules, these three couples have been able to keep their marriages hot and strong, proving that sometimes thinking outside the box can lead to a lasting and happy relationship.
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Nicole Kidman, Rachel Ray, Ted Danson keep marriages hot with unconventional rules
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have been married for 18 years, and have shared how they’ve made their long-lasting relationship work along the way.
The powerhouse couple have a few rules to ensure their communication is aligned, but they refuse to talk over text messages and opt for phone calls and in-person discussions.
Kidman and Urban aren’t the only pair with unconventional marriage rules in Hollywood. Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Brad Falchuk didn’t live together after they were hitched, while Rachael Ray and her husband, John Cusimano, get into “screaming matches” as a healthy means of conflict resolution, and Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen make sure to reconnect with each other at an unusual hour.
Rachel Ray Says Marital Bliss Comes From ‘Screaming Matches,’ No-apology Rule With Husband
Nicole Kidman, Ted Danson and Rachel Ray keep their marriages hot with unconventional rules. The “Babygirl” actress and her country star husband decided from the beginning of their relationship that they would only communicate by voice, Kidman told Parade magazine.
“We don’t text,” Kidman said. “We call. We’ve done this since the very beginning. The reason it started at the beginning was because I didn’t know how to text, and it just kind of worked for us. So, now we don’t.
“We just do voice to voice or skin to skin, as we always say. We talk all the time, and we FaceTime, but we just don’t text because I feel like texting can be misrepresentative at times.
Kidman and Urban rely on “skin to skin” and voice calls in their relationship. “And I’ve had the thing where I reread texts, and I’m like, “What does that mean?” and then read it to somebody and go ‘Can you interpret that?’ I don’t want that between my lover and I.”
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Besides their no-texting rule, their secret to a lasting marriage is easy: “Not having secrets,” Kidman said.
“We never tell anybody any advice about their relationship or think that we have a secret. We just approach it with humility and hope, and just really love hanging out. I mean it’s that simple. We love spending time together. We have a lot of fun together and we just choose each other. If there is one person I can hang out with, it’s him and the girls, and that’s it.”
Keith and Nicole have been married for 18 years and have two daughters together. Rachael Ray and her husband, musician and entertainment lawyer John Cusimano, have their own ways of keeping the love going strong after 19 years of marriage.
“I am very wildly, wildly, wildly lucky that I have my husband,” the former Food Network star said on the first episode of her new podcast, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.” “But he understands I need my space. He needs his space.”
Space and time apart are both non-negotiable for the celebrity chef and her husband.
Rachael Ray and husband John Cusimano have a few unconventional marriage rules. The couple met through a mutual friend in 2001. “It’s very hard, especially for hot-tempered or creative or vociferous, loud people to be able to just calm it down,” Ray told her guest, Jenny Mollen. “John and I don’t calm it down ever. We have huge screaming matches all the time, but I think that’s healthy. I really do. And I don’t trust people that are too quiet.
“Too quiet freaks me out. I prefer that you tell me what you think when you think it, and let’s just get it all out there.”
Ray and Cusimano have a unique way of making up after an argument, too.
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“I don’t know that we ever apologize to each other,” the “30 Minute Meals” star said. “Eventually, I pat him on his a–, or he kisses me on the head, and that’s just sort of it. That’s the apology. It’s just sort of understood. ‘I still like your a–. I still like your head.’ It’s kind of in that zone.”
Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen know how to make their almost 30-year marriage last: morning dates.
The couple make the most of their time together in the early hours instead of spending late nights out.
Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen have early morning dates. “Date nights are kind of, at my age, date early bird specials,” Danson, 76, told People magazine. “The most fun is the early mornings, 4:30 in the morning, coffee in bed, playing Wordle, Connections, and Spelling Bee, talking and laughing and sharing.”
He added, “To both of us, it’s like heaven on Earth.”
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Danson refuses to let their busy work schedules interrupt their special time together, even if they’re in different locations.
“Even if she’s working in a different time zone, we will wake up in time to be able to play our games and have coffee over the phone,” he said.
When Gwyneth Paltrow married producer Brad Falchuk in September 2018, the couple retreated to their own separate homes after the wedding.
Gwyneth Paltrow met Brad Falchuk while working on an episode of “Glee” in 2010. One year later, they decided it was finally time to make their union official under one roof and move in together.
At the beginning of their marriage, the Academy Award-winning actress and her “intimacy teacher” approved an arrangement where the couple would spend three nights per week at their own homes before living together at Paltrow’s home the remaining four nights.
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“Oh, all my married friends say that the way we live sounds ideal, and we shouldn’t change a thing,” she told The Sunday Times.
In 2020, she told Harper’s Bazaar, “I thought it was really interesting how resonant that was for people. One of my best friends was like, ‘That is my dream. Don’t ever move in.’
Brad Falchuk and Gwyneth Paltrow relied on an intimacy teacher in the beginning of their marriage. “I think it certainly helps with preserving mystery and also preserving the idea that this person has their own life. So, this is something I’m trying to remain aware of now as we merge together.”
Judith Light and her husband of 39 years, Robert Desiderio, know the secret to a long-lasting marriage: distance.
The star of the new Apple TV+ supernatural drama “Before” explained why living at opposite ends of the country from her partner makes their bond stronger.
While Judith Light primarily resides in New York, her husband of 40 years, Robert Desiderio, lives in California. “We talk every day. We FaceTime every day,” she told People magazine. “He loves to be alone, and I love to be alone. We both love our alone time. We have that. It’s also very creative for us.”
She added, “We also make sure that, when we’re having something that’s upsetting for either one of us, that we both make sure that we stay in the room, and we keep talking. Sometimes we have to take a break. We say, ‘Wait, we have to stop now. Now, we have to stop, and then we’re going to come back to this.’”
Judith Light and husband Robert Desiderio have been married since 1985. The duo first met while starring in “One Life to Live” in the ’80s before tying the knot in 1985. Desiderio, who has appeared in various television and film projects throughout the years, published his first novel, “The Occurrence,” in February 2020.
“He calls himself a recovering actor,” Light said of Desiderio’s retirement from acting. “Now he’s so much happier than he was.”
“[It] makes our marriage and our relationship much happier.” she added.
Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.
Original article source: Nicole Kidman, Rachel Ray, Ted Danson keep marriages hot with unconventional rules
In the world of Hollywood, where relationships often come and go like the changing of the seasons, it can be refreshing to see a few celebrity couples who have managed to keep the spark alive in their marriages. Nicole Kidman, Rachel Ray, and Ted Danson are just a few examples of celebrities who have found success in their relationships by following some unconventional rules.Nicole Kidman, who has been married to country singer Keith Urban since 2006, has been open about the fact that the couple prioritizes their marriage above all else. They make sure to spend quality time together, even if it means scheduling it in advance. Kidman has also mentioned that they have a rule of never spending more than a few weeks apart, no matter how busy their schedules may be.
Rachel Ray, the celebrity chef and TV personality, has been married to her husband John Cusimano since 2005. One of the unconventional rules that the couple follows is to never go to bed angry. They believe in resolving conflicts as soon as they arise and making sure to communicate openly and honestly with each other.
Ted Danson, known for his roles in shows like Cheers and The Good Place, has been married to actress Mary Steenburgen since 1995. One of the rules that the couple follows is to always make time for each other, even if it means turning down work opportunities or social engagements. They prioritize their relationship above all else and make sure to nurture it consistently.
While these rules may seem unconventional to some, they have clearly worked for these celebrity couples. By prioritizing communication, quality time together, and resolving conflicts quickly, Kidman, Ray, and Danson have found ways to keep their marriages hot and thriving in the often tumultuous world of Hollywood.
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The Cybersecurity Career Roadmap: An Unconventional Approach to Starting Your Career in Tech
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