{"id":3064,"date":"2026-05-21T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/how-boy-meets-world-star-william-daniels-99-and-wife-bonnie-bartlett-96-went-from-open-marriage-to-75-wonderful-years-together\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:06:08","slug":"how-boy-meets-world-star-william-daniels-99-and-wife-bonnie-bartlett-96-went-from-open-marriage-to-75-wonderful-years-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/how-boy-meets-world-star-william-daniels-99-and-wife-bonnie-bartlett-96-went-from-open-marriage-to-75-wonderful-years-together\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;Boy Meets World&#8217; star William Daniels, 99, and wife Bonnie Bartlett, 96, went from &#8216;open&#8217; marriage to 75 &#8216;wonderful&#8217; years together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128431227.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>William Daniels and his wife, Bonnie Bartlett, are getting ready to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary, and they say their ability to \u201cadjust\u201d has been their secret to marital success.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest living married couple in Hollywood <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/18\/celebrity-news\/william-daniels-99-and-wife-bonnie-bartlett-96-detail-rules-of-open-marriage\/\">admittedly tried to have an \u201copen\u201d marriage<\/a> a few years after tying the knot in June 1951, but they quickly realized that was not for them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Hollywood\u2019s oldest living married couple, William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett, are getting ready to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. They are seen above celebrating the actor\u2019s 95th birthday in 2022. <span class=\"credit\">William Daniels\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>They told Page Six in a joint interview that their ability to \u201cadjust\u201d has been their secret to marital success. <span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cLife is all adjustment. You\u2019re constantly adjusting,\u201d the \u201cLittle House on the Prairie\u201d star continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt suddenly got hot here [in Los Angeles], and it got hard to breathe and to move around. You have to kind of adjust to the heat. And that\u2019s what life\u2019s all about \u2014 is adjusting to whatever your circumstances are and however you move along. And certainly a marriage is full of adjustments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Bartlett, who considers herself the more \u201cintrospective\u201d of the two, there has to be some \u201cwiggle room\u201d in a marriage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cLife is all adjustment. You\u2019re constantly adjusting,\u201d the actress said, adding, \u201cAnd certainly a marriage is full of adjustments.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>According to Bartlett, there has to be some \u201cwiggle room\u201d in a marriage. <span class=\"credit\">Page Six<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We then asked Daniels, who leans into \u201cthe humor and the fun\u201d of life, about the marriage advice he gives the countless couples who undoubtedly ask him for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t!\u201d the \u201cBoy Meets World\u201d star quipped, as his adoring wife insisted he was just \u201cbeing funny\u201d and trying to make us \u201claugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laughter is another cornerstone of the pair\u2019s enviable relationship, as Bartlett told us that her husband makes her laugh \u201call the time, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Bartlett shared that Daniels (pictured here celebrating his 96th birthday in 2023) makes her laugh \u201call the time, every day.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">William Daniels\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Despite having her own impressive IMDb page and multiple awards under her belt, Bartlett spent the majority of our conversation singing Daniels\u2019 praises. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9ABC\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite having her own impressive IMDb page and multiple awards under her belt, the actress spent the majority of our conversation singing the actor\u2019s praises.<\/p>\n<p>While she acknowledged that part of that \u201cautomatic\u201d response might be due to the \u201cold-fashioned way\u201d she was \u201cbrought up,\u201d Bartlett also just adores Daniels \u2014 and knows his fans do, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven now when he\u2019s forgotten so many things, I haven\u2019t forgotten them,\u201d she said sweetly, making sure to note that Daniels \u2014 who has trouble hearing and walking these days \u2014 is \u201chappy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cEven now when he\u2019s forgotten so many things, I haven\u2019t forgotten them,\u201d she said sweetly, making sure to note that Daniels is \u201chappy.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The two played on-screen love interests in three major TV shows throughout their lengthy acting careers, including in \u201cBoy Meets World.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The duo played on-screen love interests in three major TV shows throughout their lengthy acting careers. They now <a href=\"https:\/\/billandbonniedaniels.com\/catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sell signed memorabilia<\/a>, make Cameos for fans and spend quality time with their sons: Michael Daniels, 62, and Robert Daniels, 60. (Their first son, William Daniels Jr., tragically died 24 hours after he was born.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so lucky we have two wonderful, wonderful sons. And one of them \u2014 Michael \u2014 lives right near us, and he helps us a lot. A lot,\u201d Bartlett marveled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he has a family, and we see them. We see him and his wife, and we see all the kids, and it\u2019s wonderful. It\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/21\/celebrity-news\/how-boy-meets-world-star-william-daniels-99-and-wife-bonnie-bartlett-96-went-from-open-marriage-to-75-wonderful-years-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Daniels and his wife, Bonnie Bartlett, are getting ready to celebrate their 75th wedding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128431227.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}