If you grew up in the 1980s, watching “Family Ties” was likely a weekly highlight – and you can probably still remember Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan, who played Alex P. Keaton and Ellen Reed, embracing at the bus station as the song “At This Moment" played. While the characters didn’t get a happily-ever-after ending, the actors did. They married in 1988 and have four children. What’s the secret to their strong marriage, which has included his ...
more If you grew up in the 1980s, watching “Family Ties” was likely a weekly highlight – and you can probably still remember Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan, who played Alex P. Keaton and Ellen Reed, embracing at the bus station as the song “At This Moment" played. While the characters didn’t get a happily-ever-after ending, the actors did. They married in 1988 and have four children. What’s the secret to their strong marriage, which has included his public battle with Parkinson’s disease? “The capacity to give each other a break,” Fox told
Readers Digest in 2010. “And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.”
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