{"id":4949,"date":"2023-09-26T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:41:11","slug":"melissa-joan-hart-shares-her-secrets-to-marital-success-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/strongermarriages\/2023\/09\/melissa-joan-hart-shares-her-secrets-to-marital-success-after-20-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Joan Hart Shares Her Secrets to Marital Success After 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Melissa Joan Hart recently shared a few of her secrets to keeping a successful marriage intact for 20 years. In July, the \u201cSabrina the Teenage Witch\u201d star celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary with her husband, Mark Wilkerson.<\/p>\n

While speaking with Fox News Digital at \u201890sCon, Hart joked that keeping up with the years she\u2019s been married in Tinseltown was much like counting in \u201cdog years.\u201d She said, \u201cTwenty years married in Hollywood years, that\u2019s like, you know, you count it like dog years. I guess we\u2019ve had, like, 140 years of\u00a0marriage in Hollywood years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilkerson, the former lead singer of Course of Nature, and Hart met at the Kentucky Derby in 2002 and married in Italy in 2003. She said while 20 years of love and life isn\u2019t always an easy journey, they both committed to staying with each other for the ride. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s all just riding through the lows to get to the highs,\u201d Hart said. \u201cYou have to go through the valleys to enjoy the peaks. It\u2019s just making that commitment and sticking to it and trusting each other and giving each other grace, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hart shared a snippet of their love story for Valentine\u2019s Day on Instagram in 2018. She wrote, \u201cIn 2002, a girl from New York told her mother she met a boy from Alabama at the Kentucky Derby that she was going to marry.\u201d She continued, \u201c14 months later, they were married in Italy, and within 5 years, they had 2 bouncing beautiful baby boys while living a blessed life in Los Angeles. Ready for some seasons and a change of pace, they moved their brood to the East Coast, where they added a third boy to their loving family in 2012 and lived happily ever after!\u201d The couple has three boys: Mason, 17, Braydon, 15, and Tucker, 10.<\/p>\n

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