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By Michaela Gordoni
Jack Wagner’s marriage advice is simple and straightforward: “it’s just keeping your mouth shut.”
The star married his girlfriend, Michelle Wolf, last year, after four years of dating.
“Let the other person really be who they are, and if there’s a problem, conflict-resolving tools are the key to a marriage. And quite often, it’s just keeping your mouth shut,” he said. “That’s what I’ve found.”
“If there is a problem, take a little — just let it go. And just a little, I think, space and silence, and it passes,” he said.
The 66-year-old says arguments aren’t as dramatic as they were in his younger days.
“It’s just not as intense and personal and dramatic as I think what things were maybe when I was younger, or maybe she was younger, right?” he added. “You just kind of get a little wiser, I hope, as you get older.”
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Wagner met Wolf at a music recording session, and it’s taken some adjustment to get both of their schedules in line.
“It’s an adjustment in terms of my schedule, for sure, right? And Michelle’s a singer, and she has an R&B rock band, so she’s just a monster singer. We’re able to make it work,” Wagner said.
“We’ve kept our homes. And so we just go back and forth,” Wagner explained. “She has a place in Malibu, gratefully. I live more in town so we can do in town or up there.”
He told Parade that they didn’t want to “rock the boat” too much after marriage.
“We’re both super comfortable in our places and going back and forth, and so we’ve decided, let’s not rock the boat and sell this and sell that and try to find something,” he said.
They sometimes have nights away from each other, which is easy and beneficial at their age. If they were at a different stage of life, that wouldn’t work.
“Listen, this is because I believe we’re older and we don’t have young children. When you’re raising a family, it’s different,” he said. “So I think we’ve got the gift of being a little later in our lives to pick and choose how we want to live and what works for us.”
“I think you’ve got to get into reality about, ‘Hey, this isn’t personal. What’s going to be best for the two of us to love each other in the deepest way we can?’ And sometimes having a little space makes it work better.”
Another new experience he’s getting in his 60s is learning to let go of things.
“I can get into the present moment, center myself and to ask an old phrase, how important is it?” he said. “Now I’m able to witness that and just sort of be the witness and be wise…How can I witness this, slowly let it go and release it?”
“That is what real personal and spiritual growth is about, in my opinion. That’s how we heal…And that’s what the 60s has given me, to be able to heal what I was unconscious of.”
Wagner also stars in WHEN CALLS THE HEART as Bill Avery. The next episode of the current season comes out Sunday, March 15.
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