"I do feel like there was history and I think a lot of it was your experience of what that ultimately meant for a relationship; that it could put extra strain when you're eating, sleeping, breathing each other in that way,"
"I also felt like there was a fear from you for me of what that would look like to the outside world. I mean, it was very loaded."
"feeling was like, Oh, I'm failing at this,"
"Us talking about what we were going through, our issues, and looking at what my parents had been through too in a way I hadn't looked at it before."
Ben Stiller examined his parents' long marriage and how it affected his own relationship with Christine Taylor during a separation from 2017 to 2022. Stiller feared becoming as intertwined with a partner as his parents were, worrying he could not live up to their "incredible 50-plus-year marriage." Taylor described how close proximity can add strain when partners are "eating, sleeping, breathing each other" and noted concerns about outside perception. The couple reunited during the pandemic after living together in lockdown, having candid conversations about their issues and family history and ultimately reconnecting.
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