I would like to humbly request both Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s skincare routines, because it feels like those two have been together as long as I’ve been alive—which is actually almost true, given they’ve been married since 1997!—yet pictures of them belie the longevity of their relationship. (Somehow James, their eldest, is 23, while the couple’s twin girls, Marion and Tabitha, are 16?)

Parker and Broderick have been an A-list couple for several decades now, worked together more than once (most recently, doing Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite in New York and London), and seen each other through some major career highlights—yet they also seem blissfully low-key. So, what’s their story? Below, seven key moments from Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s relationship.

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November 1991: They meet

In her mid-20s, a little after exiting her lengthy relationship with Robert Downey Jr., Parker was introduced to Broderick by her brother Pippin. (Broderick’s childhood friend Kenneth Lonergan was also present for the meeting: a trip to the movies.) It would be some time, however, before Broderick asked her out. “My memory is that literally months passed when I didn’t ask her for a date,” he recalled in 1996. “Then he left a very charming, very self-effacing message on the machine. You know, ‘Hi, it’s Matthew Broderick.’ You had to use your last name,” Parker added.

1996: They (briefly) appear together on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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