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Matthew McConaughey Had some sweet advice for married couples in a new poem called “Less Beds.”
“The best thing you can / do for your / marriage,” wrote the actor in his new poetry book called Poems and prayers and shelfs struck on Tuesday, September 16.
McConaughey must be speaking from experience, as it was married to a wife Camila Alves Since 2012. The couple share three children: Levi, 17, Vida, 15, and Livingston, 12.
“Smaller beds” was not the only piece of work where McConaughey got a personal. In musing without a title, an Oscar winner reflected on balancing his relationship and career.
Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves, coordinated perfectly with all three children on the red carpet. McConaughey, 55, and Alves, 42, brought the sons of Levi, 16, and Livingston, 12, as well as his daughter Vida, 15, to the 13th annual Mack, Jack & McConaughey Gala on Thursday, April 25, in Austin, Texas. The actor (…)
“The measurements of importance in my life are / my health, my family, my wedding, my career, / and my relationship with God. I / always have to re -graduate and adapt the / gauges to maintain balance,” he said. “My career has started and takes all my time? Whoops, / relationship with my family and God begins / slips to the red. My children and I are favorite people / another and my six packs / torn? I guess more time / with my wife.”
McConaughey then compared his connection with Alves to keep his car in good condition to keep him running smoothly.
Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey
Eric Charbonneau/Apple TV+ via Getty Images“And because I don’t want to / let any of those go too far south, I have to take a inventory, and re -rate,” he continued. “Remember / those alpine cars stereo equal in the / 1980s? Life is a balancing act and you / gotta are still re-tuning your equal to stay / out of the red.”
McConaughey also wrote a poem called “Certainly,” where he recounted a moment when he did something selfish.
Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images’s mother, Matthew McConaughey’s mother, Mary Kathleen McCabe, was not always “very, very, very very” when he came to his wife, Camila Alves. “She did all these things when I came in the first picture, right? And she really tested me. I mean, in truly testing me,” said Alves, 41, on the episode on Tuesday, August 22, (…)
“Out to face instead of recovery, / I’ve been confusing selfish for sure. / Locked behind the door of my dictator, / uncertainty of fighting curtain. / Always compete for the victory, / I need more care and consideration,” he wrote. “To make some space for a swimming sin, / we will be fair in correlation. / I know that I rarely be wrong, / but there is more than one way to be right. / Others deserve a chance to belong, / especially my wife.”
Before release Poems and prayersMcConaughey opened for his inspiration to publish another book. (McConaughey released his popular biography, Greenlightin 2020.)
“Full of faith -driven reflections, raw honesty and moments of humor that explores what it means to live, love and believe, poems and prayers are more than a book,” he said in July. “It’s a memory – a place where we can rediscover what we’ve lost, celebrate what’s left and maybe even leave after what is no longer serving us.”
