In 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced that they were consciously uncoupling. The pair had been married for over 10 years at that point, and wanted a way to move on from their relationship that left them able to remain friends. While Paltrow believes they succeeded in this goal, she admitted the period in time was not easy.
This was because of the public reaction to their separation announcement. Gwyneth Paltrow said the way people reacted to her separation from Chris Martin hurt In 2014, Paltrow and Martin announced their decision to consciously uncouple. Paltrow believed this was a good way to ease the pain of divorce for herself, Martin, and their two children.
“The most common wound that I heard from children of divorce was, ‘My parents couldn’t be in the same room and couldn’t be friends. It took three years, it took 18 years, it took — God forbid — the death of a close family member for them to sit at the same table,’” Paltrow said on Armchair Expert , per People . “I just thought, ‘I wonder if there’s a way to circumvent that and go directly to the point where we’re friends and we remember what we loved about each other, and constantly acknowledge that we created these incredible human beings together.
’” Still, Paltrow said the separation was not easy on her. “I think at the time, I was in a lot of pain,” she said. “It felt like such a failure to me.
It was so hard and I was so worried about my kids.” The public reaction.