Seth Rogen says he and his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, aren’t the same people they were when they fell in love in their 20s — and yet their relationship still works.
On Saturday’s episode of “The Interview” podcast, Rogen spoke about his latest film, “The Invite,” in which he plays a husband in an unhappy marriage. He said conversations among the cast and crew about what makes a relationship good or bad prompted him to reflect on his own marriage.
“I remember feeling like I could really confidently speak about what a very good relationship was like, and one that had been good for a very long time,” Rogen said.
Rogen and his wife, who first met in 2005 and married in 2011, have also collaborated professionally on multiple projects, including “Superbad.” They do not have children.
He said a healthy relationship involves partners who love each other, treat each other kindly, and “go out of their way to excuse the other person, rather than to find things that they hate about the other person.”
Both partners also have to choose each other actively. “You have to want to love your partner, and you have to want them to love you back, you know?” Rogen said, adding that intimacy and sexual attraction also matter.
Those discussions also made Rogen consider how people grow and change within a long-term relationship.
“It’s this very simple idea that you have many relationships throughout your life as you change, and you age, and your perspective changes,” Rogen said.
“Sometimes your partner changes with you, and you have several relationships with the same person that have new parameters, new boundaries, and new guidelines that are reflective of who you are as you become different people,” he said.
However, there are also times when couples grow in different directions and ultimately become incompatible. Rogen added that he’s seen both outcomes firsthand, including in his own relationship.
“We’re obviously very different people than we were in our early 20s now that we’re in our mid-40s,” he said. “But we grew in a way that we stayed very compatible with one another, you know, and I’ve seen other couples not have that happen.”
This isn’t the first time that Rogen has spoken about his marriage. In 2023, Rogen said he and his wife “thank God” they never had kids.
“The older we get more happy and reaffirmed we are with our choice to not have kids,” he said on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast.
Other celebrities have also shared their own secrets to making a long-term relationship work.
Nick Lachey, who cohosts “Love is Blind” with his wife, Vanessa, said in 2025 that they have a “golden rule” about keeping their professional and private lives separate.
“It’s ‘Don’t bring work home. Don’t bring home to work.’ Try and keep it as separate as you can,” Lachey said.
In 2025, Food Network star Ina Garten said one rule has helped her marriage last almost 60 years: every decision she and her husband, Jeffrey, make has to benefit them both.
“And this is what Jeffrey taught me: Let’s figure out how we can both do what we want to do. It’s not about whether we get to do what you want to do or I want to do,” Garten said.
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