Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Quotes About Each Other
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's Love Story, in Their Own Words
![On how they got through Dax's difficult struggle with substance abuse: "All the things I'd done were terrifying to her, and she had a hard time believing I would ever be able to stay married and monogamous and a father and all those things. For the first year and a half we were together, that was what we battled over almost weekly."
On why their relationship works: "We have such different backgrounds, it's comical. Until I was 32, I thought the world was just wolves, that there was no way anyone was acting with any kind of benevolence. When I met her and her friends, I was suspicious of their unbridled happiness. I thought, 'Something stinks here; they're in a cult.' But slowly I began to see her positive way of looking at the world. She gives people the benefit of the doubt."
On why they went to see a therapist: "There were hurdles, things she didn't trust about me, things I didn't trust about her. I just kept going back to 'This person has the thing I want, and I have to figure out how we can exist peacefully.' So we started [seeing a therapist together] right away."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/b1N3RMCADSZ1pwTFAHiJ1qp4-aI/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2016/04/20/954/n/1922398/e9947a809ac94282_GettyImages-475855441/i/how-got-through-Dax-difficult-struggle-substance.jpg "On how they got through Dax's difficult struggle with substance abuse: \"All the things I'd done were terrifying to her, and she had a hard time believing I would ever be able to stay married and monogamous and a father and all those things. For the first year and a half we were together, that was what we battled over almost weekly.\"
On why their relationship works: \"We have such different backgrounds, it's comical. Until I was 32, I thought the world was just wolves, that there was no way anyone was acting with any kind of benevolence. When I met her and her friends, I was suspicious of their unbridled happiness. I thought, 'Something stinks here; they're in a cult.' But slowly I began to see her positive way of looking at the world. She gives people the benefit of the doubt.\"
On why they went to see a therapist: \"There were hurdles, things she didn't trust about me, things I didn't trust about her. I just kept going back to 'This person has the thing I want, and I have to figure out how we can exist peacefully.' So we started [seeing a therapist together] right away.\"")
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