This Is Intimacy': Everything Celebrities Have Said About Their Relationships in Quarantine

During the April 29 episode of her Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk, which focused on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on relationships, Pinkett Smith opened up about
to Will Smith.
"I gotta be honest. I think one of the things that I’ve realized is that I don’t know Will at all," she said.
She elaborated, "I feel like there’s a layer that you get to, life gets busy and you create these stories in your head and then you hold onto these stories and that is your idea of your partner, that’s not who your partner is."
Pinkett Smith said that she's now "going through the process of having to dissolve all of those stories and all the ideas of Will" that she has built in order to better understand him.
"This is intimacy," the actress said. "Just being able to get to who our loved ones are beyond that which we have perceived."
"The thing that Will and I are learning to do is be friends," she said, adding that for the moment, "Will and I are in the process of him taking the time to learn to love himself, me taking the time to learn to love myself and us building a friendship along the way.”
Hough and the former ice hockey player have been riding out the pandemic separately,
to PEOPLE in mid-April. "They are still together, but just not quarantined in the same place. Their relationship has always been like this, though — they like to do their own thing," the insider added.
The two-time Dancing with the Stars champion told Oprah Magazine’s Arianna Davis that she’s “been on [her] own” in the pair’s Los Angeles home, while Laich is
“doing lots of yard work,” she said. “So we’re kind of doing our separate things right now. But it’s really been a magical time.”
Speaking over FaceTime with Extra on March 20, Hough said that she expected a lot of healing and growth would take place during this time spent at home — and alluded to addressing the ups and downs of her own two-year marriage.
“I think the best part about this … this is gonna be a time for a lot of healing, whether it’s personally, in relationships and friendships and families,” she said. “The universe was just like, ‘Let’s put people at home and figure their s— out.’ … And I’m not just saying Brooks and I, I’m saying life in general and this is the time to do that.”

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