Twelve Years In, Adam Brody Credits a Well-Checked Ego

Adam Brody has reached the dozen-year mark of marriage, and his verdict on how it is done is refreshingly unglamorous. The star of Nobody Wants This says a lasting union asks a certain amount of ego-lowering of the people inside it. It is the kind of answer that lands better than any anniversary portrait, because it is the part of the picture a camera never catches.

With reporting from Elle.