Sarah Michelle Gellar Says Her Home Setup Helps Avoid Marital Conflict

Sarah Michelle Gellar, 48, says a small however sensible element at house has helped her keep away from widespread couple conflicts.

In a People interview revealed on Wednesday, the actor stated that having “one bed room, two bogs” has been the important thing to her long-lasting marriage.

“You do not have to be so fancy that there is two bogs in your bed room! There simply must be one other toilet obtainable,” Gellar informed Folks, including that the setup “stops a variety of petty combating.”

Gellar has been married to Freddie Prinze Jr. since 2002. The pair first met on the set of “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” and share two youngsters.

The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star stated preserving a transparent boundary between her private and non-private personas has helped her relationship final in Hollywood.

“I all the time say I am two individuals: I am Sarah Michelle Gellar and I am Sarah Prinze,” she stated. “They’re totally different individuals.”

The model of her together with her husband has “a quieter life and a personal life,” she stated.

Gellar additionally confused that sturdy relationships do not final with out effort.

“It’s important to be prepared to work. And that goes for relationships, friendships, something. It’s important to put the work in,” she stated.

“I do really feel like we stay on this very disposable society. Once I was a child, when your TV broke, my mother and I might carry it like eight blocks in New York Metropolis to the TV restore store,” she stated.

However now, she stated, individuals are extra prone to substitute issues than restore them.

“I believe due to that, we do not work as laborious at issues as a result of it is simpler simply to ‘get a brand new one,'” Gellar added. “It’s important to put the work in. It’s important to carve out the time.”

It isn’t the primary time Gellar has credited separate bogs with serving to her marriage final.

In 2017, she stated that the setup works as a result of not every part must be shared.

“I really feel like there are particular issues that ought to simply be saved your individual they usually by no means have to know. Additionally, possibly probably a separate purchasing bank card, or for those who’re a man, possibly a separate gaming card, you recognize, so I haven’t got to see how a lot video video games value,” she informed Harry Connick Jr. on his talk show.

She reiterated the concept throughout an April look on “Today with Jenna & Friends,” including, “It is that straightforward.”

Gellar is not alone. Different celebrities have additionally embraced having more room at house, together with separate bedrooms.

Carson Daly has known as sleep divorce “the most effective factor” to ever occur to his marriage, whereas Barbara Corcoran stated getting a second bed room prompted her to like her husband “twice as a lot.”