Actress Melissa McCarthy and her husband, Ben Falcone, shared their secret and what makes their long-term marriage work. The couple let singer Kelly Clarkson in on the secret to their successful marriage during a recent appearance on her show, The Kelly Clarkson Show. The couple has been married for 19 years.

Marriage is, without a doubt, one of the best things in life. However, it’s also one of the most challenging things you’ll ever do. A marriage is a relationship between two flawed individuals who will not always see eye to eye on every topic and subject. This will, of course, lead to arguments and even heated disagreements. But at the end of the day, there is commitment there. These two people love one another and have agreed to remain together through whatever life may throw their way.

Hollywood is typically a place where marriages do not have the best success rate. Actors, actresses and musicians get married and divorced at a shocking frequency. But a handful of couples in Hollywood have beaten those odds, staying together for years, decades even. Melissa McCarthy and her husband, Ben, are one of those couples.

Melissa and Ben recently celebrated 19 years of marriage, and they told Kelly why they have outlasted other couples.

“Yeah, 19 years that is kind of amazing,” Melissa said.

“What’s the secret?” Kelly asked in a clip posted on YouTube.

“I do think, like, he makes me, like, crazy, crazy, crazy belly laugh probably three, four times a day,” Melissa said.

Then, Kelly decides to give the couple a test. She wants to see how well they know one another. She asks Ben and Melissa a series of questions and has them answer simultaneously.

Kelly asked about Melissa’s favorite vacation destination and the one thing that Ben does that really annoys Melissa. Their answers were mostly pretty similar, although there was some slight difference when naming her favorite vacation spot.

Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall join to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”