Happily unmarried celebrities

Time together: 6 years

Why they aren’t married: Because the kids haven’t asked them yet.

“I think it would be hard to say no to the kids,” Jolie said. “They’re not asking. They are very aware that nothing’s missing.”

Time together: 29 years

Why aren’t they married: Because Ricky doesn’t believe in God.

“There’s no point in us having an actual ceremony before the eyes of God because there is no God,” he said.

Time together: 28 years

Why they aren’t married: Because they know they can leave at any time.

“I wake up every day knowing I can walk out at any moment”, she said. “It’s [that knowledge] that keeps things fresh.”

Time together: Three years

Why they aren’t married: He has been there, done that.

“I hate to blow your whole news story, but I was married,” he said in a Piers Morgan interview. “Yeah, so I’ve proven how good i was at it, and I just… I’m allowed one.”

Time together: Five years

Why they aren’t married: He isn’t ready yet.

“I’ve got nothing against marriage. Um, I’m just not getting married right now,” he told Access Hollywood.

Time together: 13 years

Why they aren’t married: He doesn’t want to ruin her last name.

“Marriage is really from soul to soul, heart to heart. You don’t need somebody to say, okay you’re married.” “If Vanessa wanted to get hitched, why not… But the thing is, I’d be so scared of ruining her last name,” he said. “She’s got such a good last name.”

Time together: 6 years

Why they aren’t married: She’s not in a rush.

“My mother married twice and had two divorces. And Liev comes from the same kind of background. Maybe one day we’ll just wake up and go, ‘Hey, let’s do this.’ And maybe not,” she told Parade Magazine.

Time together: 25 years

Why they aren’t married: She is not the marrying kind.

“The reason this relationship has worked as well as it has is because we each got to define ourselves in it and not in a traditional form,” she told Piers Morgan. “… I am a different kind of woman in that I am pretty assured that had I married I wouldn’t have remained married.”

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