George and Amal Clooney never fight. Like, ever. At least, that’s what George says.
It all started two years ago, when the couple appeared on CBS Mornings and called their marriage “the easiest thing in our lives by far.” They had never, ever, had a fight. In ten years of marriage. Or so they claimed. “It’s maddening to some of our friends,” Amal said. “I have a cousin actually, every time we see him, he’s like, his first question is, ‘So have you had an argument yet?’” George gave an update on his oh-so-perfect, fight-free marriage when he returned to CBS Mornings yesterday. “We still haven’t,” he said. “We’re trying to find something to fight about.”
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Kind of maddening, isn’t it? Him, the debonaire Hollywood silver fox, the Cary Grant of the modern age. Her, the endlessly impressive human rights lawyer and activist. Just when we thought they couldn’t be anymore perfect, it turns out, they don’t even bicker.
George thinks their lack of conflict is down to the wisdom of his years. “There’s a thing about finding the person that you needed to find, particularly at a certain age, and everything from then on is easy,” he told The New York Times of his wife, earlier this year, adding that the pair didn’t experience “friction” because he knew when to let things slide. “We renovated our house. Amal would go, ‘I want to paint this wall yellow,’” he said, using an example. “Well, if I was 27 years old and doing construction work, I would’ve been like, ‘Well, that’s a stupid colour.’ But the truth of the matter is that at 60, you just go, ‘OK.’ There are so many things that would have caused friction that don’t.”
I can see it now: Amal, summoning up her most lawyerly calm voice, suggests a bright, sunshiney shade of yellow. George closes his eyes in horror, then sighs, twinkles his eyes, flashes a megawatt Hollywood smile and nods.
So, just compromise like a Clooney and you’ll never argue again! But is not fighting really something to be quite so proud of in the first place? When the topic was broached in the Glamour offices, the resounding consensus was that all couples argue, and to do so in a constructive way is essential to a healthy relationship.