Kevin Smith's marriage has lasted so long because he and his wife have "no rules". The '4:30 Movie' writer-and-director married Jennifer Schwalbach Smith in April 1999 and he doesn't think there's a set reason why they have stayed together for so long other than enjoying one another's company. Kevin told People magazine: "My first instinct is, well, there've been no rules, and that's probably why it's worked so well for 25 years.
"I can't speak for her, but I just like seeing her. I just like being around her. She's my human.
" The 54-year-old director - who met Jennifer when she was a journalist interviewing him about his 'Clerks' comic book - praised his 53-year-old wife for her support over the years. He said: "I spend a lot of time on the road and doing gigs elsewhere and whatnot, and over the 25 years she's travelled with me a bunch and then lately she stays home to watch the dogs and stuff like that. "She's been there shotgun through 25 years of this, and she's always been gracious about taking a back seat to it.
"When you're married to an artist — an artist who lives with his or her head up their ass thinking about, 'Oh my God, the whole world has to know what I think and feel' — I would imagine that must be irritating to live with. But she's lived with it for a quarter century." Meanwhile, the couple's daughter Harley, 25, has appeared in a number of his movies, including 'Tusk', 'Yoga Hosers' and 'Clerks II and III', and Kevin admitted it is a lot of "fun" working.
