Matthew McConaughey is sharing the key to making his marriage work.During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 56-year-old actor spoke about his new film, "The Rivals Of Amziah King," which arrives in theaters on Aug.14, and the biggest lesson he learned that has contributed to his decades-long marriage."You got times where one seems to be affirming and sprinting ahead," he said.
"And you got times when somebody else may be a little more insecure or a little more unstable on their feet about their choices and what they're doing."He explained that when in a relationship, it is important to "try not to get too much of a gap between those two" stages.Matthew McConaughey shared the biggest lesson he has learned that has helped his marriage.(David Parry/PA Images via Getty Images)THOMAS RHETT REVEALS WHY HE AND WIFE LAUREN REJECT CELEBRITY PERKS FOR COUNTRY LIFE"Is there a way to go, 'I'll slow down so you can catch up, or 'You slow down so I can catch up a little bit?'" he added.
"Not asking you to not be in the lead because I want you to be in the lead because when the fire's hot, keep it burning.Go, go, go, go, go.
But just keep me in arm's length over here.Keep me in arms length."WATCH: Matthew McConaughey's piece of relationship advice that keeps his marriage to Camila Alves strongMcConaughey and Camila Alves got married in June 2012, six years after they first met in a nightclub in West Hollywood in 2006.Over the course of their relationship, the couple has welcomed three kids together; sons Levi, 18, and Livingston, 13, and daughter Vida, 16.In his new film, also starring Kurt Russell and Cole Sprouse, the "Dallas Buyers Club" star plays Amziah King, a musician, beekeeper and pillar in his community in Oklahoma, whose life is turned upside down when his former foster daughter returns as he is also dealing with threats to his honey business.Alves and McConaughey share three children together.
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