Bruce Springsteen's wife Patti Scialfa has been his bandmate for decades. Here's what to know about their relationship.

• Bruce Springsteen met Patti Scialfa at a New Jersey rock club, the Stone Pony, in the '80s. • Scialfa joined Springsteen's E Street Band in 1984, and the two got married in 1991. • Here's what we know about their relationship.

The new Bruce Springsteen biopic, "Deliver Me From Nowhere," portrays The Boss as a tortured genius and unreliable lover — and while that may have been true in the early '80s, the real-life Springsteen has been happily married for over three decades.

Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa, both grew up in New Jersey. The pair first spoke on the phone when he was 21 and she was 17, according to Springsteen's 2016 autobiography, "Born to Run." She answered a newspaper ad seeking background singers for Springsteen's band, but he told her there was too much trav