Even though she had been married before, Melissa Gilbert didn’t find true love until 2012, when she met her husband, Timothy Busfield. The former Little House On The Prairie actress had met the Thirtysomething Alum before. But a chance meeting in Los Angeles changed her life forever.
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She told People that when she saw Timothy that day, she knew he was the one.
“It sounds cliché to say it, but it really was like getting hit with a thunderbolt,” she said. “It just seemed right and inevitable. … The next morning when I woke up, my first thought was, ‘I’m going to marry him,’ and then my next thought was, ‘You’re a crazy person.'”
Timothy Busfield Was Just As Interested In Melissa Gilbert
The pair seemed to reach out to one another at the exact same time.
“Then I thought, ‘Well, why don’t we start with brunch?’ And I grabbed my phone, and I went to text him to ask if he wanted to meet. He texted me [at the same time] and asked if I wanted to meet for brunch,” she continued. “That’s when I thought, ‘Maybe I’m not so crazy. Maybe this is right.’ We met for brunch, and I knew … It just made sense.”
Timothy and Melissa married in 2013 and then moved to New York in 2018 after spending time in Michigan. They were ready to escape Hollywood and live a more slow-paced life. Today, she runs a lifestyle brand called Modern Prairie.
Melissa said the key to their relationship is that they make each other happy because they know what they want. They also share unparalleled respect for each other.
“We have respect for one another’s opinions, respect for one another’s pasts, respect for one another’s abilities, and this tacit agreement that we never really discussed that just happened, that we are partners in everything, in every decision, in every idea, in every move,” she says. “We are one in making those decisions, and neither one of us is better at anything than the other or greater than anything than the other.”
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