Kristen Bell is all about making her marriage work.
In an interview with Good Housekeeping for its May 2015 issue, the 34-year-old actress admitted that the key to her happy marriage with actor husband Dax Shepard is couple's therapy. The pair says they came from very different backgrounds, and Bell revealed that they started seeing a couple's counselor when they began dating in 2007.
"You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe," she said about marriage counseling. "Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about."
Shepard agreed with his wife, saying, "In my previous relationship, we went to couples therapy at the end, and that's often too late. You can't go after nine years and start figuring out what patterns you're in."
The two also described their relationship as the personified version of Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract" video.
"We have such different backgrounds, it's comical," he said about their difference. "Until I was 32, I thought the world was just wolves, that there was no way anyone was acting with any kind of benevolence. When I met her and her friends, I was suspicious of their unbridled happiness. I thought, 'Something stinks here; they're in a cult.'"
"Slowly I began to see her positive way of looking at the world," he added. "She gives people the benefit of the doubt. There were hurdles, things she didn't trust about me, things I didn't trust about her. I just kept going back to 'This person has the thing I want, and I have to figure out how we can exist peacefully.' So we started [seeing a therapist together] right away."
Bell and Shepard are parents to daughters Lincoln, 2, and 3-month-old Delta, and the actress admitted that she couldn't be any happier with her life.
"Our dinner parties have changed," said Bell. "Now they involve guests who are in diapers and are a lot pickier. The other day, Dax said, 'Where did we get all these kids?' It's weird to me that all of a sudden I have a family of four. I own two people! Our life has taken a turn, but not in a bad way."
