TORONTO — Canadian singer Celine Dion says learning to communicate with her husband of 18 years changed the way they relate to each other.
Dion, 45, has been married to her manager Rene Angelil, 71, since December 1994.
“Up until seven years ago, we weren’t communicating properly,” Dion told Robin Leach. “A very good girlfriend talked to me about the real meaning of communication, the right way to communicate and really properly communicate on an equal and respectful level.”
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Dion, who met Angelil when she was only 12 years old, admitted the couple previously had some “tough times.”
She said: “It wasn’t always easy. We had tension between us. It’s never easy being husband and wife, but add to that we are in business together. It was hard — a lot of hard work.”
Dion said she learned not to simply sweep problems under the rug. “It sits there and gets worse,” she told Leach.
“We want our marriage to last forever. We couldn’t imagine a life without each other.”
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