There are moments when even the best of us struggle to maintain a healthy loving relationship. But when you also happen to be an A-list celebrity in Hollywood — the difficulty increases tenfold.
Yet somehow, in spite of surmounting odds, Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso remain as in love and dedicated to one another as ever before. Now, as the couple prepares to celebrate their 17th wedding anniversary, Matt is opening up on he found his soul mate.
As the story goes, Matt was in town to shoot the ill-fated comedy Stuck On You, when one night he and the crew wandered unbeknownst into the bar Lucy was working at.
"Matt’s story is that he saw me across the room and there was a light on me," Lucy told 'Vogue Australia'.
"And I’m like: ‘yeah it was a nightclub - there were lights everywhere!’” she said with a laugh.
"So I put him to work with me!" Lucy explained. "I said: ‘You know, if you’re going to be back here, you can’t just be standing there!’"
But as Lucy explained, she had a four-year-old daughter waiting for her at home.
And honestly, I would have felt the same way. What a great first impression, in my opinion.
As Matt explained during a press run for his film Elysium, the media had gotten wind that they were planning their nuptials.
The couple decided to forego the inevitable publicity of a big wedding and got married on their terms at city hall.
When Matt was probed to name the reason as to why he and Lucy have been able to maintain such a happy and healthy marriage, he boils it down to one thing — luck.
"I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that."
Not that I can relate, but I can imagine that doing so can sometimes make things complicated.
Matt believes that the fact that Lucy wasn't among the Hollywood elite that it makes it far easier for the two of them to live a quiet "boring" life together.
In order to keep their romance alive, Matt explained during an interview with YourTango that he and Lucy abide by a very specific set of rules.
"I think you need to be with the person you love as much as possible. My wife is my soul mate. I don't like being apart from her."
While making an appearance on the TODAY show, the Oscar-winning actor said "I’m learning so much, not the least of which is how much smarter girls are."
Through the trials and tribulations of love and parenthood, Matt and Lucy continue to lean on and learn from one another. We should all be so lucky to find a love like theirs.
