During an interview with MagentaMusik 360 ‘s Sara Kelly-Husain at last month’s Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany, MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine was asked how he has managed to keep his marriage together for more than two and a half decades. He jokingly said (see video below), “I think [my wife’s] friends think she’s desperate,” before adding: “You’ve gotta work on it. Anything worth having is worth keeping and you’ve gotta work at it. It helps that we’re friends first and foremost; it wasn’t just physical.”
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Later in the chat, Mustaine revealed that he would “be divorced right now if it wasn’t for [MEGADETH bassist] David Ellefson challenging me and saying, ‘Have you been the best husband you could possibly be?’ ‘Cause [my wife and I] were separated,” he said. “And I went, ‘You know what? No, I haven’t been the best husband I could be. I could be way better.’ And I went back, and that’s where we had this renaissance and fell in love again. And it’s been really great.”
Mustaine continued: “I think that that’s a great challenge for a lot of men that are married out there: are you the best husband you can possibly be? Who cares if she is the best wife that she is? If you are the best husband you can possibly be, if she don’t hitch her wagon up to your horses, then you know what? You’re gonna eventually pull away anyway.”
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