"To both of us, it's like heaven on Earth," Danson tells PEOPLE of his morning routine with his wife of nearly 30 years

Ted Danson expressed how grateful he is for meeting his wife Mary Steenburgen in his 40s. In an exclusive interview with People, The Good Place alum claimed that the couple never would have

Ted Danson is thankful he didn't meet his wife, Mary Steenburgen, until later in life. "I was not really fully emotionally baked until shortly before I met Mary," Danson told People. They met in 1983, reconnected in 1993, and got married in 1995.

Ted Danson, who stars in Netflix's new series 'A Man on the Inside', opens up to PEOPLE in this week's issue about why he's confident he and wife Mary Steenburgen wouldn't have worked out had they met earlier in life.

Ted Danson "wasn't fully emotionally baked" before he met his wife. The 76-year-old actor married actress Mary Steenburgen, 71, in 1995 - two years after they struck up a relationship on the set of 'Pontiac Moon' - but insisted that things would not have developed properly had they met any earlier.