Jada Pinkett Smith says Will was 'the first monogamous relationship' she had in this resurfaced interview.
"And freedom in the sense of like ... the public wants you to be a certain way, your family needs you in a certain way, your partner needs you to be something. And for me, that just was never ... I'm really a free spirit at heart, I really am. And I always have been. And I just felt like my life had got constricted into this little box and it was strangling me, basically.""It wasn't his fix," she said."And so it was really me having ...
"I literally said to Jada, 'That's it. I retire. I retire from trying to make you happy. I need you to go make yourself happy and just prove to me that it's even possible,'" he said."And after we cracked the hell up, we started talking about how we came into this false romantic concept that somehow when we got married that we would become one.
"We decided that we were going to find our individual, internal private separate joy and then we were going to present ourselves to the relationship and to each other already happy," he added at the time."Not coming to each other begging with our empty cups out, demanding that she fill my cup and demanding that she meet my needs. It's unfair and it's kind of unrealistic and can be destructive to place the responsibility for your happiness on anybody other than yourself.
"It’s the idea of any relationship and trying to get to a deeper understanding of love is going to be forced in fire," she added."There is no way around it and I think that one of the things I am deeply grateful in this whole process between you and I is that we have really gotten to that new place of unconditional love."
Meanwhile, Will noted,"We came together young and we were both broken in our own ways, and to be able to make mistakes without the fear of losing your family is so critical. ... There is a real power in the just knowing someone is riding with you no matter what. And you really can't know that until you’ve been through some stuff. I don't wanna go through this no more."This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors.
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