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Nicole Kidman Explains Why Not Texting Is The Secret To Her Marriage To Keith Urban
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Jun. 26 2018, Updated 4:51 p.m. ET
Nicole Kidman and her country star husband Keith Urban have been married for 12 years. Their secret? "We've never texted," the actress admitted. Read on for more details.
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Nicole credits her and Keith's no-texting rule as the reason they've been together so long. "We've never texted," she recently told Parade magazine.
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The couple married in 2006, one year after meeting at the G'Day LA gala, which celebrates achievements of Australians in the United States.
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Instead of texting, the two find other ways to keep in communication.
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"We talk all the time and we FaceTime but we just don't text because I feel like texting can be misrepresentative at times," she said. "And I've had the thing where I re-read texts and I'm like, 'What does that mean?' and then read it to somebody and go, 'Can you interpret that?'... I don't want that between my lover and I."
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"We just do voice to voice, or skin to skin, as we always say," the Oscar winner added.
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