\nWhile I do believe in some cases, I find Hollywood relationships difficult to believe. Many people wind up divorced following divorce.\n
However, after hearing Dustin Hoffman and his wife Lisa\u2019s love tale, you might rethink how fate works in Hollywood.\n
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According to the account, Dustin\u2019s mother and Lisa\u2019s grandma were close friends who saw each other frequently because they shared an apartment complex in Los Angeles.\n
Dustin, who originally aspired to be a classical pianist, even performed at Lisa\u2019s parents\u2019 wedding while her mother was pregnant.\n
The couple jokes that Lisa must have heard Dustin play and fallen in love with him at that point.\n
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It wasn\u2019t until several years later, when Dustin, then 27, found himself hanging out with a 10-year-old Lisa and her 8-year-old brother, that she realized he\u2019d be in her life forever.\n
\u201cDustin was telling us jokes, playing the piano and encouraging me to dance around the living room. After we got together, my grandmother reminded me that later that day I had said, \u2018I hope he waits for me because I want to marry him.\u2019\u201d\n
Dustin, who had been residing in New York City, would frequently come to Los Angeles to visit family and Lisa. During a visit, he and Lisa discovered they shared a connection.\n
She was 22 years old, and Dustin was 38.\n
\u201cMy grandfather had recently passed away and Dustin came to pay his condolences,\u201d Lisa said, per the DailyMail. \u201cThat first look and I knew.\u201d\n
During their first date, Dustin asked how many children Lisa wanted.\n
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\u201cI said six, and he said he had two already, so would four be OK. And that\u2019s exactly the way it has played out.\u201d\n
Lisa had recently started law school when the two started dating. Despite the challenges that attending school while Dustin continued his profession would present, she completed her degree.\n
\u201cI knew that having a law career wouldn\u2019t be possible once I started traveling around with Dustin, but I also knew that I needed to complete this one thing for myself,\u201d she said.\n
The couple married on October 12, 1980, and Lisa graduated from law school the next year.\n
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Three weeks after Lisa took her bar exam, the Hoffmans had their first child together.\n
Jake was born a month preterm and extremely ill with Hyaline membrane disease [in which a baby\u2019s lungs require immediate treatment since they are not fully developed], so motherhood became my priority,\u201d she explained.\n
And, as they discussed on their first date, they had three additional children: Rebecca (1983), Maxwell (1984), and Alexandra (1987).\n
As their children became older, they traversed the world, following Dustin as he filmed one film after another.\n
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\u201cIt was important to Dustin that we were together as a family. For both of us, that was the point of being married.\u201d\n
The family\u2019s \u201ctraditional\u201d values shaped their children\u2019s destiny, and they now \u201cpay their way while they pursue their careers.\u201d\n
Although Dustin has had a successful career, Lisa has remained out of the spotlight. She prioritized their children as they grew up, but now that they are all adults, she is focusing on what it means to be Lisa Hoffman.\n
This year marks 42 years since Dustin and Lisa married, and their love for each other is as strong as ever.\n
\u201cWe work hard at it,\u201d Lisa told Closer Weekly in 2017.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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