How Viola Davis Keeps the Magic Alive in Her Marriage: 'Every Day Is Like a Date'
What's the secret to a lasting marriage?
"It's about the everyday," Viola Davis told PEOPLE during a Vaseline Healing Project event. "I think that, that's what people forget when they fall in love with someone and it's exciting."
"You have to get back to the everyday – the taking the garbage out, the cooking, the cleaning – and it's something that I think really works with me and my husband," Davis, 50, who tied the knot with actor Julius Tennon in 2003.
"Every day is like a date," added the actress, who is also mother to daughter Genesis, whom Davis and Tennon adopted in 2011
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The How to Get Away with Murder star also said it's the "simple things that are very, very special" and that "make a marriage."
She shares that her husband "just gave me a book. It says, 'How Do I Love Thee Viola? Confirmations Of Love By Julius.' I have it in my bag, and I bring it with me every day to work, and each day is another love affirmation."
How to Get Away with Murder returns Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.
