Yahoo Lifestyle After COVID Quarantine Brought Their Marriage Back Together, Ben Stiller Reflected On His 4-Year Separation From Christine Taylor
Breakups don’t have to be forever — just ask Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor.
For some context, Ben and Christine had been together for 18 years when they announced their separation in May 2017.
“With tremendous love and respect for each other, and the 18 years we spent together as a couple, we have made the decision to separate. Our priority will continue to be raising our children as devoted parents and the closest of friends. We kindly ask that the media respect our privacy at this time,” the couple said in a statement at the time.
But, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years later, the former couple found themselves under the same roof again as they began quarantining with their children, Ella and Quinlin.
As the story goes, the unexpected living situation wound up bringing the exes closer again, and in 2022, Ben revealed that he and Christine got back together during the pandemic.
Now, in a new interview with the New York Times, Ben has opened up about his and Christine’s unconventional marriage journey — and why the time apart wound up making them stronger.
“When we separated, it was just having space to see what our relationship was, what my life felt like when we weren’t in that relationship, how much I loved our family unit,” he said, recalling their split. “It was like three or four years that we weren’t together but we always were connected.”
Admitting there was never a time that he “didn’t want [them] to be together,” Ben said that being “all together in the same house” during the pandemic was the key to reigniting their romance and ensuring their renewed bond was better than ever.
“It was almost a year of living in the same house before we were actually together,” he explained, adding that he’s “so grateful for it.”
“I think not that many people do come back together when they separate,” he said. “There’s nothing like that, when you come back. You have so much more appreciation for what you have, because we know we could not have it.”
Back in 2023, Christine discussed the separation from her perspective, telling Drew Barrymore that their reunion “just happened organically.”
“Family was always a priority, but I think Ben and I both started to grow in different directions,” she recalled. “And when we made the decision to separate, it was not something we wanted to talk publicly about or took lightly.”
Giving some insight into the break in their marriage, Christine said they “always stayed a family unit” but had the space to learn more about themselves individually.
“So when the pandemic hit and we all had to figure out where to hunker down, we all ended up in our house together with two teenagers and we found this way back,” she went on. “We had so much time to talk, there were no other distractions.”
We love a happy ending!!! You can read Ben’s full interview with the New York Times here.
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