{"id":16922,"date":"2024-03-15T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:42:16","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-and-camila-alves-are-drama-free-since-leaving-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/03\/matthew-mcconaughey-and-camila-alves-are-drama-free-since-leaving-california.html","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves Are Drama-Free Since Leaving California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves say they’ve lived a drama-free life since leaving California for Texas 10 years ago. In an interview with Southern Living <\/em>magazine, the couple shared that their pace of life has slowed down, and their overall happiness has picked up. McConaughey told the outlet, “Time slowed down. The clock was right, the body clock. And part of that is ritual; part of that is just the distance between places and the way people move. But it’s also the hospitality, the courtesy, the common sense, the lack of drama.”<\/p>\n

Alves believes that “the gravity” in Texas has made all the difference. She explained, “The gravity is right.” The Pantalones Tequila partners, who tied the knot in 2012, moved to Austin in 2014. They share\u00a0sons, Levi and Livingston\u00a0and daughter Vida. Alves, who is a Brazil native, explained to the outlet that she was happy, planting roots with her young family in California, when McConaughey sprang the idea of a move to her. She explained, “We were living a happy life in Malibu. We had a beautiful house that we’d built together and put a lot of love and care into. We were raising our kids there. I was growing everything in the yard. I had bees making honey.”<\/p>\n

A family crisis required that they fly to Austin to be with the actor’s mother, Kay McConaughey. One night after visiting Kay, Alves recalled being stopped at a traffic light in the passenger seat next to her husband. She told the outlet that McConaughey had “a peaceful but confident, energetic look” on his face in the idling car. Alves recalled randomly asking her husband, “You want to move here, don’t you?”<\/p>\n

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