Matthew McConaughey Reveals the Secret to His 13-Year Marriage with Wife Camila — and the Role Their Bed Plays in It

Matthew McConaughey revealed his concealed extremity for a healthier matrimony — and it involves getting cozy together.

Speaking pinch Fox News Digital, nan actor, 55, who has been joined to Camila Alves McConaughey for complete a decade, said that couples pinch king-sized beds should see downsizing.

"I aftermath up 1 greeting … I'm looking complete there, and Camila's for illustration a shot section away, man. Then you spell to furniture astatine night, like, you want to snuggle up and … ‘Well, we’ve sewage to screen you up. Come astir 12 feet, and I'll travel 12 feet,' " he explained.

The Poems & Prayers writer added, "You're like, man, this damn king-size furniture is not bully for nan marriage, man. Get free of that boy of a b----."

"So we sewage a queen-size, wherever we're enarthrosis to shoulder," continued Matthew. "I'm telling you, it's bully for your marriage."

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The Oscar victor besides emphasized nan value of prioritizing a romanticist relationship pinch a partner, moreover amid day-to-day parenting duties.

"You've sewage kids, truthful you don't … you're spending arsenic overmuch clip being a bully mother and begetter of them, but you besides gotta make judge — and I tin do a amended occupation of this — of going, ‘No, this is our time,' " Matthew said.

"You can't 100% unrecorded pinch nan kids arsenic a parent," he continued. "You gotta make to retrieve that 1 of nan champion examples you tin springiness nan kids of really to dainty a female aliases a man aliases really to personification they extremity up falling successful emotion pinch down nan statement is really you dainty their mother and really nan mother treats nan father."

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Matthew met Camila — a model, entrepreneur and philanthropist — astatine a nightclub successful L.A. successful 2006. 

"She showed up, and she moved correct to near successful beforehand of my eyes crossed that club," nan character previously told PEOPLE of their first meeting. "It was arsenic if she was floating. And I did not say, 'Who is that?' I said, 'What is that?' And past introduced myself.”

He added, "Since that evening, I person not wanted to walk clip pinch immoderate different woman. We person a emotion that we ne'er question.”

The brace joined successful 2012 aft a six-month engagement. They went connected to welcome 3 children: Levi, 17, Vida, 15, and Livingston, 12.

The actor’s latest imaginative endeavor, Poems & Prayers, is an “inspiring, faith-filled and often hilarious” postulation of prayers and poetry," according to a synopsis shared pinch PEOPLE.

Poems & Prayers is disposable now, wherever books are sold.