Rita Wilson ignored her mother's old-school marriage advice and it led her to Tom Hanks

Rita Wilson is sharing the marriage advice her mom gave that didn't sit right with her.During a recent appearance on Michelle Obama's podcast, "In My Opinion," the 69-year-old actress spoke about the outdated marriage advice her mom gave her before she met and married Tom Hanks."I was engaged before I got engaged to my husband.If I had married that person, I would have been divorced within a year," she said.

"I thought that was what you were supposed to do at a certain age.I actually thought, because I had never really fallen in love with anyone, that I would be okay."While engaged to that man, Wilson said she asked her mom for advice, telling her: "I don't know though.

Should I marry him? I'm not really in love with him," and getting a surprising response in return.Wilson shared she was engaged prior to meeting Tom Hanks and the marriage advice her mom gave her.(Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)'SHAMELESS' STAR EMMY ROSSUM REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE AT 21 AFTER BOYFRIEND'S ALLEGED SHOCKING ULTIMATUM"She said, 'Don't worry, you grow to love him.' I was like, 'Mom, that's not my generation,'" she said.

"Her generation was like, 'Is he a good man? Will he provide?' There wasn't any of this, 'I have to be madly in love.' My parents were married for 59 years, so whatever they figured out, they figured out.But I still wanted to hold out for that falling in love thing."Ultimately, Wilson did not go through with marrying the first man, knowing "marriage would not have sustained that relationship," and found love with Hanks after they reunited on set of "Volunteers" in 1984, later tying the knot in 1988.The "Now and Then" actress told Obama, and her co-host and brother, Craig Robinson, that when she "finally met Tom and fell in love with" Hanks, she had the feeling that "this is very, very different than what I had before."When it comes to being a mom, Wilson said she wasn't sure she wanted to have children, but knew she "didn't wanna have children with the wrong p...