The thing about being stuck in a place with someone for a long time I,s you get to see them differently. Some times it could be for good or for bad.
This lockdown has clearly taken a toll on everyone and superstar couple, Will and Jada Smith are not left out
The 48-year-old actress discussed what she’s learned about her 51-year-old husband amid social distancing on Wednesday’s episode of Red Table Talk.
The subject came up after Jada asked guests Pastor John Gray and his wife Aventer Gray what they’ve learned about each other during this time.
“I have to be honest: I think one of the things that I realize is that I don’t know Will at all,” the Girls Trip star said.
“Let me tell you: I feel like there’s a layer that you get to, right? 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. But that’s not who your partner is. So, [it’s] going through the process of having to dissolve all the stories and all of the ideas of Will that I have built around those stories”
She then said “the thing that Will and I are learning to do is be friends.”
“Because you get into all of these ideas of what intimate relationships are supposed to look like, what marriage is supposed to be,” Jada said.
“So, 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, right, and us building a friendship along the way. So, let me tell you: That’s been somethin’ to be married to somebody for 20-some odd years and then realize, ‘I don’t know you and you don’t know me.’ But also realizing too there’s an aspect of yourself you don’t know either.”
The good thing from all of this is, they are learning to be friends. So being “stuck in a place with a person” might just turn out good for the couple
