13 Long-Term Celeb Couples Who Prove You Don’t Need A Marriage Certificate To Define Your Love, And I’m Actually Really Into Them Going Against The Status Quo

Actor Courteney Cox and musician and member of the band Snow Patrol, Johnny McDaid, have been together for over a decade now. They met in 2013 at a party at Courteney’s house. The pair soon got engaged in February 2014, but it wasn’t announced until several months later. However, after reported problems in the relationship, the couple broke off their engagement in December 2015.

After such a whirlwind, the couple was thankfully able to reunite in March 2016, and their relationship was back on track by May. In August, Courteney opened up about her quick split, saying, “We were engaged for over a year, and then we broke up. He’s from Ireland, and the way he regards love is precious. We have to treat it in a different way. It’s more special — you coddle it. So I didn’t know how to regard love the way he does. And I definitely made a lot of mistakes that I see — whether it’s codependency or people-pleasing. I didn’t know how to bring it in. It was always external.” She ended it all by letting us know it was the start of a completely new relationship: “Everything’s new. We have both really worked on ourselves, on the parts that needed the most attention. And it feels really different.”

While the pair have reconciled and seem to be on amazing terms now with their fresh start, it still seems like they’re taking it slow. In 2018, the couple spoke with People, and Cox let them know she was “married in her heart,” while McDaid let them know, “My thoughts are never without Court. She’s my best friend. She’s my partner in everything. When I write her poems, it’s just an extension of how I feel every second anyway, and that’s true for me.” More recently, in 2022, when Courteney was asked if she would ever marry again, she responded, “I don’t know. I’m definitely not opposed to it. I just don’t think about it.”