Actor and Hollywood
leading man, Will Smith, says that his 17 year marriage to Jada Pinkett-Smith
has had ”some stormy days” and ”died” multiple times and he is perfectly okay
with that.
Talking to UK tabloid, The Sun, the father of three
said,
”Whatever you have is gonna die
and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride
the waves. ”There’s gonna be some flat days and some stormy days, and that has
to be OK.”
Jada, who is the
mother of his two younger children, 14 year old Willow and 16 year old Jaden,
often shares how much she values her marriage and her family. (Will has an
older son from a previous marriage). According to Mrs. Smith, she sees Will as
so much more than a husband.
She said, much like
many newly wed couples,
”We used to have all these rules,
[but]as you go on in your relationship, you just get into a flow. Will, to me,
encompasses everything. It’s almost as if calling him ‘my husband’ is too small
of a word for what he means in my life… I think I had a very stuck idea of what
a husband looks like, what a wife should be…Once I broke all of that, a whole
new world opened for me and man, oh, man, I got to see him in all his glory.
And so that’s what it’s evolved into. And I’m just ecstatic about it.”
The couple has had
more than their fair share of divorce rumors and knowing what I know about
marriage, they were likely going through a rough patch each time those rumors
surfaced.
People who have not
sustained marriage for a long time and have never really seen people love each
other for a lifetime tend to mistake “stormy days” as Will calls it, for the
end of a marriage. Much like a person who has lived though a storm a
person in an otherwise healthy and functional marriage knows that storms don’t
last forever and after every storm, brighter days are ahead. By Nomalanga
Nomalanga is a Life Balance Expert. Her
speaking and coaching programs help busy women who struggle to balance Marriage,
Motherhood and Money-Making™. She is an avid blogger and a
sought after instructor and speaker.
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