Readers of a certain age will remember well the great character Mr. George Feeny on the classic ABC show "Boy Meets World."

Those who were particularly devoted to the show will recall the story arc in which Feeny, played by William Daniels, became romantically involved with and eventually married local college dean Lila Bolander, played by Bonnie Daniels:

What many of us did not know back then was that William and Bonnie Daniels were married.

Or that the two had very nearly lost their marriage in its early year to the squalid vices of Hollywood:

"I guess it was a little bit of an open marriage at first, but that was very painful," Bartlett Daniels told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. "That didn't work well."

"And it was a time when people were doing that," she continued. "It was at a time in New York when there was a lot of sex and a lot of people doing all kinds of things, you know — very free."

People in New York are still doing "all kinds of things" there. Everyone is a little bit more embarrassed to talk about it these days, but sadly it is still happening.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniels fully embraced that lifestyle — but its profound shortcomings quickly became evident:

The "St. Elsewhere" star — who married Daniels in 1951 — went on to reveal she had "an affair that lasted a few months" with an actor who was "slightly boring" sometime around 1959.

"I never felt guilty because I never felt tied to fidelity, and neither did Bill," she wrote.

However, her husband's affair with a producer in the '70s left her "devastated" and completely changed the dynamic of their marriage.

That's unsurprising. Marriage is serious business. You don't enter into a sacred lifelong union with someone and expect it to be meaningless.

To their lasting credit, the Danielses didn't just give up and split up — they decided to fix the precious relationship they had already begun:

By that point, the actress learned she "could no longer tolerate any kind of open marriage" and the twosome moved "forward day-by-day" to repair their broken relationship.

"It was very painful for the both of us," she told the outlet. "But it was something we had to go through because we never went through it."

And it did work out? You tell me:

Daniels has been married to actress and fellow Emmy Award winner Bonnie Bartlett since June 30, 1951; at more than 71 years, it is the longest active Hollywood marriage as of October 2022.

You and I both know there's only one thing we can say right now: