Blake Lively Just Shared the ‘Rule’ She Made With Ryan Reynolds When They First Started Dating Listen closely!

Blake Lively may have just unveiled the key to her successful marriage with Ryan Reynolds—and it goes way back to the early days of their relationship.

During a recent appearance on her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-star Amber Tamblyn’s Substack series Further Ado, Lively revealed that she and Reynolds established a “rule” to ensure they never became too engrossed in work to spend time together. “When Ryan and I got together, we made a rule not to work at the same time,” Lively disclosed, according to Entertainment Tonight. “So that we could always prioritize our personal life.”

Lively and Reynolds crossed paths on the set of The Green Lantern in 2010, although they were both involved in other relationships at the time. However, they eventually came together around 2011 after Lively parted ways with Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley in September 2010 and Reynolds finalized his divorce from Scarlett Johansson in December of that same year.

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 02: (L-R) Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attend The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022, in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic) At the time, Blake Lively was still immersed in the popular teen drama, while Ryan Reynolds’ career was flourishing with a string of romantic comedies, comedies, and action films, making this commitment no small feat. “That takes working really hard when we’re not,” Lively shared with Tamblyn. “Just like financial planning and sustaining that—it takes balance.”

Thirteen years and four daughters later, this rule appears to be paying dividends for them. “We don’t split up,” Reynolds shared with Access Hollywood in 2020. “Like, I shoot movies and my wife shoots movies and we go travel all over the place, and we just all go together. I think that’s been the best part of it is that we really don’t spend a lot of time apart. I get to spend a lot of time with my girls.”